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ACAB

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I mean, I wouldn’t have stopped him either.

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Lazy cops being lazy cops. Politically I don’t think there is any world where Trump is a net positive, even if you’re an accelerationist. However, if you’re a cop, you’re supposedly a steward of public safety. Any interdiction before that kid grabbed his backpack could’ve saved lives. Including the shooter’s if there had been any de-escalation success.

ACAB

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Wish there had been this much scrutiny of the police’s behavior on Jan. 6.

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I meant to add, “from Republicans”.

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The texts showed that an officer spotted Crooks occupying a suspicious area more than an hour-and-a-half before the July 13 rally commenced at 6 p.m. Previously, Secret Service officials said Crooks was first spotted an hour before the rally—an amount of time many lawmakers already considered to be egregious at a presidential candidate’s rally.

Other texts obtained by the Times revealed that an officer spotted Crooks using a range finder about 20 minutes before the rally began and snapped photos of him—but didn’t approach him.

The strangest part of this is people expecting cops to do something that might plausibly put them in harms way

Modern cops are almost exclusively all lazy cowards at this point.

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Cops aren’t trained in operational security. When you have a large event with multiple agencies and groups of people doing different things, then it’s easy to blend in if you act like you know what you’re doing. You can walk into almost any building if you throw on a high vis vest and carry a ladder. People will hold the door open for you and even let you into high security areas if you are smooth enough.

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A button-down shirt/khakis and lanyard with a name badge often works, too, especially if you’re talking while using a Bluetooth headset and typing on a phone. People just assume you’re some low-level exec or IT support personnel, esp if your phone is on one of those tacky belt clips.

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This kid obviously didn’t blend in if the cops were talking about him and taking photos.

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Then why didn’t they just go talk to him?

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Crazy person open carrying an AR 15 would probably blend in fine at a Trump rally…

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It has also been ruled repeatedly that police do not have a duty to protect you. There is no requirement that they risk their lives to keep you or anyone else from harm unless they have a “special relationship” with you, meaning you are in their custody. The cops were there to work the metal detectors and direct traffic. There’s no way in hell they were going to take a bullet for Trump. That’s the Secret Service’s job.

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Thanks SCOTUS, you ruled cops don’t have to protect and this is the result.

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Hey, it’s nice to see that once in a while, we are all equal in the eyes of the law.

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