Not surprising at all. These are the same folks who want less policing and when they are in danger and there is no police they will sue the police for not protecting them, the same police they didn't want to be there in the first place.

If they were suing to have their throats knelt on, or to get tear gassed, your thread would make senses

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I like the passive voice there in what appears, by the description, to be intentional assault with a vehicle.

Edit: Oh, not appears. Charged with vehicular manslaughter.

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One of the people hit can’t sue them because they are dead.

Here’s the video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0jtXAP06qzA

To me the sign of the apocalypse is more how fucking terrifying that video is than anything else.

You realize that their goal is to destroy police departments, and one of the ways to do that is to financially strain them until they have to shrink before they ultimately break, right? That’s what’s going on in Portland: That shit show is no longer mainly about BLM or George Floyd or Breonna Taylor; it’s been hijacked by antigovernment movements who are grinding away at the PPB night after night, putting the PPB on an untenable political island while straining officer morale and budgets all in an effort to break the PPB and it’s looking like it’s working.

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I’m absolutely sickened by that video.

Whatever political opinion people hold, to deliberately drive at people at those speeds... I think manslaughter would be a generous term.

Notably, in the past, Republican lawmakers in 6 states have introduced legislation that would shield people who plow through crowds of protestors (https://apnews.com/...4a4cb1e65afc079f6292)... and... if you want to take a deep and messy dive into the political right wing of the US, you can spend some time poking around the "run them over" memes that spread across twitter when the BLM protests were in full swing (https://twitter.com/...s/755132030493556736)... but I wouldn't stay there for too long if you want to go on imagining that the country you're living in is filled with the type of people you'd want to be living near... An example:



With regards to the original post... My thinking on this has evolved a bit... There are certain things that police have proven themselves to be capable of doing... Are the police good at solving crimes? I'd say that it's extraordinarily rare for them to solve actual crimes... They certainly gather lots of evidence, and perform lots of "security theater" for people who have had crimes committed against them, but... if you have something stolen from you, or you're assaulted by someone you don't know, or if your house is foreclosed on illegally... There's a very low chance that a police officer is ever going to help you with those problems. My experience has been that their solution for most problems is to follow some procedure about moving people where they want them to go, or following other procedures about the type of violence they can enact against people who refuse to move where they want them to go. I think we can all acknowledge that cars don't belong in the middle of protests, so this was one of the few areas where they could've done one of the shrinking number of things that they still seem to do reasonably well... I think the people who want to defund the police are aiming to narrow down the scope of a police officer's work to things they've proven themselves capable of doing well... that seems pretty reasonable to me, but... That gets tricky when they selectively decide when they're going to do those too.