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Malraiders

(444 posts)
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 11:45 AM Sep 2015

Police Academy teaches "War on Cops" because OBAMA

This is according to an article written by a police academy recruit who is also an Iraq war veteran.

I'm sure he will end up ostracized for his liberal view of the lying instructors if his identity is ever revealed.

From the article:

What are they telling us in a post-Michael Brown academy? The culture of police brutality is infrequently addressed, but what is continually mentioned is the notion that there is a War on Police. By whom? Depends on whom you ask.

Some instructors blame the Obama administration, which has provided extra funding to police departments to hire Iraq War veterans such as myself. Others, citing news organizations and politicians, try to pin it on the Black Lives Matter movement.

How are they attempting to substantiate this? By highlighting a few high-profile police killings in the past few months, especially the tragic, execution-style death of a Texas sheriff at a gas station. Many activists tried to tie the accused murderer, Shannon Miles, to the Black Lives Matter movement in the immediate aftermath as a motive. He had no ties to the movement..

“The Obama Administration and Eric Holder are undermining the police. We have officers dying left and right and he’s dicking off in Alaska,” says one of my instructors, referring to the president’s trip to Alaska last week.

More here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/14/how-i-m-taught-about-the-war-on-cops-at-my-police-academy.html

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Police Academy teaches "War on Cops" because OBAMA (Original Post) Malraiders Sep 2015 OP
Police are whiny babies and paranoid thugs all at once... Human101948 Sep 2015 #1
I'm Surprised To See Flight Crews Listed So High ProfessorGAC Sep 2015 #2
 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
1. Police are whiny babies and paranoid thugs all at once...
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 11:53 AM
Sep 2015

But the fact is that it is much more dangerous to be a garbage collector than a cop.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

ProfessorGAC

(65,010 posts)
2. I'm Surprised To See Flight Crews Listed So High
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 12:06 PM
Sep 2015

Maybe because the overall population is low and accidents usually result in death, not minor injury.

The rest makes a lot of sense.

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