Austin police fistbumping Nazis

[dalton99a]

[Crunchy Frog]

1. Austin Nazis fistbumping each other. FIFY.

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[Solly Mack]

3. Damn

[RobertDevereaux]

4. Austin Police, you need to...

Fire these cops NOW!

No room for that in the USA.

[dalton99a]

10. Unlikely. Austin police posing with Proud Boys in front of city hall on Nov. 1, 2020:

[SergeStorms]

22. "WE SUPPORT TRUMP AND OUR POLICE".

"Well, until those police stand in our way while we're being lawless thugs. Then we'll beat them to death with American flags and Trump signs, 'cause hey, that's the way we roll".

[Celerity]

5. pigs openly showing their colours

[Wingus Dingus]

6. What the fuckity fuck is this.

[stillcool]

7. guess I should get used to seeing

this shit. So much hate.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Quick, increase the police budget and get those cops MoRe TrAiNiNg!!!!!!

[blm]

9. Trump gave Nazis the most momentum they've had since WWII.

[mountain grammy]

15. That is so true..

[Hortensis]

16. For sure, but tRump was also a symptom of growing RW extremism.

He campaigned to be their leader by feeding them what they were looking for in a leader.

[blm]

17. 2016 RightWing extremists saw Putin as their leader.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/world/americas/alt-right-vladimir-putin.html

Extremists Turn to a Leader to Protect Western Values: Vladimir Putin

[RussBLib]

11. cop looks like a skinhead Nazi himself

if that is indeed a real cop

[Kid Berwyn]

12. During WW2, NAZI POWs treated better than African Americans in Texas

https://timeline.com/nazi-prisoners-war-texas-f4a0794458ea

One might think things would have changed by now.

[malaise]

13. This is sick

Time to get serious and clean up this fucking mess

[TreasonousBastard]

14. The one place in the world where you can't have a NAZI monument...

is in Germany.

There are a lot of problems with collective guilt, but few with collective responsibilty. It was a fight, but Germans came around to dealing with Hitler.

But not here. During Reconstruction we said that they are misguided but still Americans, and that was bullshit. Still is.

Over 150 years late, but it's about time we just said "STOP". Cut the bullshit and get to work.

[SergeStorms]

25. Probably too late.

They're positioned in high places in the federal government, and they're positioned throughout state and local governments. The military and police are saturated with them, and they have abundant monetary support from the country's billionaires.

I'm starting to think the coup is over, and all that remains is the messy mopping up.

I hope to every deity ever imagined that I'm wrong, but the more I see and hear, the more I worry that I'm not.

[Cozmo]

18. This disgusting gesture should not surprise any of us, secede already ya'll!

[DallasNE]

19. This Is Why We Need Black Lives Matter

Even in very liberal locations like Austin the police are extremists. It gets down to using the wrong model for police recruitment so it will take decades to fix. Is also shows why there is a need for critical race theory. It all goes hand in hand. We thought the 1960's was the beginning of the end of racism in America. It wasn't even the end of the beginning.

[momta]

27. Thoughtful comments.

This OP makes me so sad. I was born in Austin, and a bunch of my very liberal family live there. I always think of it as a safe haven for liberals in Texas, but this post exposes the creepy underbelly.

I guess no place is safe from Nazi cowards.

[paleotn]

20. Why? Because some of them are Nazis too.

[NurseJackie]

21. So, previously we were told that the White-Power "OK" hand-sign didn't mean anything...

... that they were just trying to troll-the-libs. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them now.

[twodogsbarking]

23. Is this unusual in this area?

[llmart]

24. This just disgusts me to no end,

I can't even write what I'm feeling when I see this.

This glorification of the "first responders" needs to stop right fucking now! The news media likes to throw in one feel good story each day about a wonderful thing a police officer did that day. You want fair and balanced? How about showing some of this crap on the local news?

My parents' generation fought a war to end this and here we are now in America.

[Takket]

26. that cop would have been on the bridge if he wasn't on duty........

[Joinfortmill]

28. Horrible. They're embedded everywhere.

[Shellback Squid]

29. Link? this imagery is out of context, the Police supervisor need to be fired