Man f*ck Grossman and his "learn to love the kill" bullsh*t. Look I'm sure if you and I met in-person, we'd probably get along just fine. As a Boxing instructor I've trained a few LE officers, CO's, etc., but you get your back up a little too easily on this issue over and over again when there is an OBVIOUS problem in Police culture that there is tons of video evidence of, and plenty of court cases which are costing taxpayers millions of dollars. If someone criticizes sh*tty Boxing Coaches on their practices I'm not gonna fly in and defend it, nor would I disagree that there are too laxed of standards for Coaches (there are and I'd actually like licensing to be more difficult). Also I'm actually for policing being better-incentivized to attract better candidates. Even here in Vegas recently I've been hearing guys who dont know what else to do with themselves say "I'm thinking of becoming a Cop." When asked usually the reasoning is it's easy to do and the pay is "pretty good." That's disturbing to me, I'd rather have it highly incentivized and very difficult to do.
As for the Court case, I thought it was the Parkland one because I do remember that Sheriff being acquitted of all "failure to act" charges, which seems to have had a wider effect that led to what we saw in Uvalde. So I appreciate the clarification on that, though it seems that declaration goes back even to Warren v District of Colombia in 1981, where the Appellate Court ruling was: "that the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to specific citizens based on the
public duty doctrine." So it seems this process has been a progression.
I know the History of the "blue line" of courage and sacrifice, however even Police Chiefs have spoken out now about how the symbology has been co-opted by political extremists who espouse the idea of a Police State so long as its directed at their opposition. And this is a private f*cking organization of people no longer even in law enforcement who are being paid with taxpayer dollars and have no specific allegiance. Not to mention that the content of the video is absurd and unprofessional. In film school, much to my surprise, we studied the symbology of imagery (this was where I first learned about what actually makes something propaganda, subliminal messaging, suggestive imagery, how media is used to invoke specific feelings), and I seriously doubt that whoever had the idea of having these bozos prance around in front of that flag, the eagle, etc., did so incidentally.
Here are some tidbits from a review of this Clown Car training organization:
"One featured speaker, a sergeant, likened a Black man to a monkey. The presenters joked about anal cavity searches, an action banned in many departments and that fits the FBI definition of rape. The report observes that Street Cop promoted among police an “us-against-them” warrior mentality toward the civilians they are charged with protecting."
"A CBS
investigation, meanwhile, found that Benigno had been disciplined three times in five years while working as an officer in New Jersey, once for using a racial slur about a Black person."
That's the founder, Dennis Benigno.
"On March 18, an unknown number of officers in Albany, New York, paid $299 to hear Benigno lecture further on “Pro-Active Police Tactics.” The ad for the class was edited like an action-movie trailer, with dramatic music and video of explosions. It’s stamped at the end with the Street Cop logo of an eagle draped in the “thin blue line” flag and the Latin phrase
Situs Vincere (“win, conquer, defeat.”)"
Look at this dumb sh*t:
Guy making totally innocuous gestures reasons for Cops to be on-edge. I got pulled over once with my cell phone in my hand, that's WHY I was pulled over lol. I was lost and was going slow to look at Google Maps and got popped for it. Nothing at all to do with drugs or messaging someone that I'm going to jail. This guy is an idiot and so is any Cop who pays him for this crap. This is just designed to cater to bully mentality, people who like having power over others and will find any reason to assert it.
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