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Am I the only one who is bothered by the fact that these police probably suffer as much as the people they are oppressing?
And journalist and Democrats still wonder why we fucking hate the police.
If there was ever any question about who the police truly protect, this should clarify it.
Really shows the degree to which cop unions ARE NOT labor unions.
That’s how solidarity works (Cops and private property)
Now its your turn
Where’s that campus cop with the pepper spray when you need him
Remember when Police Officers watched a bunch of Children Die in Uvalde? LoL!
This is why All Cops Are Bastards: their primary purpose is to protect private property, AKA the means of production.
I was having a think about that and realized it needs to be AACAB because in my country cops are definitely not bastards.
Why is everyone surprised … this what the police have always done against striking workers.
By design they are meant to maintain law and order … not to serve and protect people … the whole ‘serve and protect’ phrase was marketing campaign by the LAPD created by police propaganda in the 1960s and it didn’t have any actual obligation for the police to serve or to protect people … it was just a catchy phrase that made the police sound good when they in fact could do the opposite or nothing at all. But no matter how they treated people, they always throughout history have always consistently protected wealth, property and those with power.
Why is everyone surprised …
Nice to have a bit of physical imagery to wave around when you’re dealing with a liberal who insists police are these neutral non-partisan agents.
Not that it’ll necessarily work, of course. I can already hear some pensioner with a Harris sticker insisting that “um, aktuly, its the union that’s being violent and the police who are being civil and restrained”. But for the younger and more clear-eyed, its a damning current indictment of a system you mostly just read about in history books.
Nicely summarized in Robocop.
Okay, what are they actually specifically doing though? Making a wall so that…?
Looks like they’re making a corridor so that scabs can get in and warehouse supplies can get out. Cops put themselves in between the business and the strikers so that they can treat any conflict with the business as an attack on the “neutral” police.
Israeli settlers employ similar tactics in Gaza. You’ll have civilians go into Palestinian homes and onto Palestinian worksites, set up makeshift structures, and declare the property there’s. Then the IDF hover over their shoulders, ready to open fire on any Palestinian who confronts the settler.
In this case, the cops on the line aren’t the ones you need to worry about. It’s the cops waiting at the APC ready to charge in, crack heads, grab picketers, and drag them to jail if any of the first group cries foul that you have to worry about.
