When Did These Guys Become "THESE GUYS"?

[kpete]

… Gazans Tweet Tips to Help AMERICANS On How to Handle Tear Gas

For real. "People in #Gaza tweeting info on how to handle tear gas to help #Ferguson citizens" #MikeBrown @ggreenwald pic.twitter.com/NGae38aszHhttps://twitter.com/tparsi/status/499913213417635840

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/08/police-violence-ferguson-missouri-big-picture.html

[malthaussen]

1. They always look like they are just *aching* to use those nightsticks.

One of the quaint things about watching film of the '68 Chicago police riot is how underequipped the police were. Imagine if they'd all had that armor and stuff then.

-- Mal

[seveneyes]

2. When law enforcement started taking too many injuries trying to control riots

It's a natural evolution.

[bobduca]

3. totally natural said the apologist for militarism

[hobbit709]

5. Have you ever not supported the power structure?

And if the cops didn't shoot people for no good reason, maybe there wouldn't be a riot in the first place.

[bobduca]

13. Reflexively (and shamelessly) outing themselves

It's what authoritarian personality types do...

[Warren Stupidity]

8. When exactly did law enforce "take too many injuries" from riots?

[bobduca]

12. When Protesters Attack!

What is Officer Friendly supposed to do?

[hootinholler]

14. I think I missed that part

Surely you can refresh my understanding with links documenting the thousands of policemen seriously injured in riots? Or maybe you can simply list the hundreds of riots they were trying to put down?

[Cal Carpenter]

4. They always were

It's just that for much of the last century very few people noticed/cared when the victims were people of color or poor people in general.

The whole idea that there was some wholesome past and we need to get it back is a dangerous road to go down. Because it wasn't as wholesome as that image implies, not unless you were white and middle/upper class. Without looking at the truth of how we got here, we'll never be able to get out of this situation.

Cops exist to enforce and protect private property rights, not to protect and serve the community as a whole.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Those cops of the past look sweet in your photo, but later they went out and arrested all the gay

people they could find, beat them, booked them and then went to do the same in the Black neighborhood.

[Cal Carpenter]

9. Don't forget those pesky union strikes too n/t

[sarge43]

18. Don't forget the 'crime' of being Hispanic in Los Angeles

Re Sleepy Lagoon murder 1942 for starters.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. They've always been THESE GUYS, they just have been given bigger weapons.

And that started with the federal militarization funding via SWAT subsidies in the 80's.

[Michigander_Life]

10. I'll tell you when

When this guy:

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Became these guys:

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[Cooley Hurd]

11. The two people at the bottom of your post have always been around...

...just as Otis is still around.

[L0oniX]

16. Someone voted that first guy into office.

[L0oniX]

15. This is what you get when you are dependent on wars for your economy.

[rock]

17. All the time by inches

In politics it's nearly always by tiny degrees. Compare the state of the US before and after bush*.