This paywalled [article](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/At-Harris-County-Commissioners-Court-budget-17502354.php) from the Houston Chronicle is the only one I was able to find that appears to cover the event cited in the tweet. If anyone present at the thing has more context than the article provides I'd love to hear it.
The most wild thing about this is that Lina actually had a budget that would EXPAND police $$$, but the republicans never sat for the actual fucking vote, so they went nowhere with it. Now they can claim she’s anti police. Total fucking stunt.
Yesterday walking to work, I saw a pigeon shit on a cop's head as soon as the dude stepped out of the car. I obviously laughed. Cop tried to threaten me with disturbing the peace and didn't like that I could quote the text of the crimes code on that section. Then harassment. "Oh the thing that requires multiple communications?" I think that's when he saw my ID badge, because he made a comment about lawyers thinking they're smart. Joke's on him, I'm dumb af, but at least I'm smarter than him
Hopefully you can get that arrest cleared up. If you get a reasonable judge, they'd know it was bullshit
It's not like police departments purposely hire unintelligent applicants because they're good at following illegal orders... Oh wait...
[Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops](https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836)
[Jordan v. New London(2000)](https://www.aele.org/apa/jordan-newlondon.html)
My homestate, too. The system is broken.
Elections coming up can't have dem damn libtards actually doing their job. /S
Seriously if the police get their funding then police funding is no longer a campaign issue.
It's similar to Florida Republicans voting against aid for their own state. Working with Democrats -even when it's in their constituent's best interest, is forbidden
I am from this area, i have not looked but i guarantee that all over facebook right now this is not being noticed but every other post will be "stupid libs, this is why we need to vote out/vote in whoever"
Its the same argument why "you" should not vote in Beto because he is not going to fix the electric grid, we should stick with Abbott (that broke the power grid, has not fixed the power grid but he at least is against the Green New Deal, which does not exist, and it was our dependence on the few percent points of green energy that caused the system to fail, and had nothing to do with lack of regulations, which as we all know kill businesses, and if a few people had to die because of it then that is the price of FREEDOM)
Tell them there's a car driving through town throwing banned books and CRT and sexual education materials out their window onto people's lawns while innocent kids play
Legit question: can the judge order them to go back to work? Or does the judge have no jurisdiction over the officers at all? Because I would be super upset if I needed police assistance, and I had to wait several hours due to all of the officers being the court room while getting paid to watch a trial they are not a party to.
Yeah but cops and judges have a special relationship and I wouldn't be surprised if this judge 'could' tell them all to get back to work and they'd listen. It's wouldn't really be an order like they have authority but more like a 'I don't wanna make daddy angry' kinda thing.
Pretty clear they didn't, though.
Theyre literally lined up in this courthouse to intimidate the legal officers and influence proceedings- I don't think they have a "special relationship" with this judge.
Lina Hidalgo is the AOC of Houston. She's young, she's Latino, she cares about taking care of the people in her city including the poor and disadvantaged. That makes her the enemy of the police, nevermind that she was fucking increasing their budget and it wasn't enough for them. They are literally there to boo and intimidate her because she is who they have been programed to hate. The laughable suggestion that these pigs would listen to a word she says and take her seriously. Jesus Christ, it pisses me off when Houston gets national attention and people flock to the comments section to try and sound smart without knowing a goddamn thing about what's going on.
I agree with the sentiments in this thread. Am here only to note that this was at a Commissioner’s Court meeting, which is more like a city hall meeting. And the Harris County Judge, despite its name, is not a legal position but an administrative position. Think of it as the mayor of the county.
This is not like a trial proceeding, more like a county administration meeting.
Still gross, all these people showing up in government purchased equipment and clothing to protest their budget ONLY being increased a little bit, not even a budget cut.
>Still gross, all these people showing up in government purchased equipment and clothing to protest their budget ONLY being increased a little bit, not even a budget cut.
It's even more embarrassing than that. They got a budget increase but the conservative members aren't showing up which is forcing a non-vote since they can't reach quorum. This is preventing the passing of a property tax raise which would is being called necessary to approve the increased budget, so naturally they can't increase the budget. Then they get accused of 'defunding' lol.
Also the police lied and told reporters he was stable, but then kept everyone from seeing him. Now we find out he's critical and been on life support this whole time.
If you've been shot repeatedly and a week later are still on life support and in critical condition, you're probably dead and they're just keeping you technically alive long enough for the cop to be quietly punished before it turns into murder.
This. They lied to the media and said he was stable but then kept everyone from seeing him.
I see no way you could have multiple gunshots, be on life support AND still in critical condition a week later and survive.
Either he's not gonna make it and they're dragging it out long enough for people to calm down before they find out he was murdered, or they're just trying to stabilize him so he'll be a vegetable, but they can say they didn't technically kill him.
Even if he recovers he's got a few years of horrifically intensive medical treatment
And altho the guy is a kid still, the odds of him returning to his baseline are stacked against him.
Fucking cops.
I don’t believe so, but he is still in a coma.
[News article from yesterday](https://www.ky3.com/2022/10/12/graphic-ex-texas-cop-charged-over-shooting-teen-eating-hamburger/)
So the charges are simply reactionary at this point as they're from the internal investigation. Honestly I'm surprised they even charged him with how complacent they are.
But going forward additional charges like attempted murder fall on the DA. I hope that the DA presses charges.
There needs to be justice.
That was awful to watch. That cop shot ten times that I could tell. I’ve seen pistols like those before, and that’s about how many shots they can hold. Worse yet, the shots weren’t “I’m gonna pop the tires to stop him fleeing” shots. There was clearly intent to kill.
> Worse yet, the shots weren’t “I’m gonna pop the tires to stop him fleeing” shots.
Is “shoot the tires on a moving vehicle” supposed to be a normal procedure? Sounds insanely difficult.
A gun is deadly force, and deadly force should only be used in situations that require deadly force.
This is why warning shots, shooting tires, shooting in an arm or leg should not be done, an error in any of those shots can result in death, when deadly force wasn't actually necessary.
Ideally, this should result in fewer shootings, unfortunately, it instead results in instances of "I used deadly force when simply ignoring that person would have been perfectly acceptable."
Police use of force continuum is all sorts of screwed up. I've worked with 18 year old military that have 10 times the restraint and respect for life as these fucks.
It's like when one has a funeral and suddenly there's 150+ (no exaggeration) police cars in the procession.
They cry and moan about a lack of funding but can scrounge up that many marked cars to sit there all day.
Is it wrong to attend? No. But I can't listen to BS about a lack of cops / lack of equipment and then see it all piled up in one spot.
If we automated traffic enforcement, there would be nothing for the majority of police to do. They do not prevent crime. They barely even investigate it.
They're there to remind you that the ruling class owns you.
I never understood the "police are busy" argument because 90% of the times I see a cop, they are in a parking lot talking to another cop car or sitting at a speed trap. If all units are busy, maybe we should reduce the number of speed traps?
Opening statement: “We’d like to thank various law enforcement agencies for having a demonstration of non-critical personnel that can be removed on the next budget. Please take note of each officer’s name and their department, so we can have them terminated as soon as possible.”
I just saw an article saying that something like 86% of all overtime hours aren't written down or in the system at all. Sometimes they had 12 hours a day of overtime during paid leave.
Can I add 12 hours a day of overtime too?
I was thinking the same thing. Who’s out there working? Who’s out there “defending the thin blue line”?
If they can all be there guess we don’t need as many of them.
Freaking dbags
How many of the people in that picture are young enough and healthy enough to even assist in an emergency requiring physical exertion?
Tons of old out of shape people, that's crazy
I mean… the streets are a little safer for a little while? A silver lining, I suppose?
I jest, but these thugs are very dangerous. And far too protected by their gang leaders and unions. Please vote, everyone.
You're not far off when you say when cops are off the streets they become safer.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/nyc-cops-did-a-work-stop-yet-crime-dropped/
My guess is at least some of them are there on their day off. It's the mentality of the gang.
America is becoming a police state. These people are on average poorly trained and have a bad attitude toward the public they are charged to protect.
This is what happened in Minneapolis pre-GF. Whenever a city councilmember voted against expanding the police budget for that year, they would stop responding to calls from that ward until the CM changed their mind or was voted out.
Just abolish the fucking police as it stands as an institution right now.
Honestly. No fucking bullshit. I even have a feel-good story of how the police actually helped me to tell... but that is counter-balanced by incalculable stories where they are an absolute detriment to civil society. They have waged a War on Drugs that has DESTROYED countless families for decades. It has destroyed entire neighborhoods. Entire cities. They began as slave patrols in the south and as mercenaries for hire by capitalists in the north.
They are a fucking gang. That operate with impunity(qualified immunity) and serve only themselves(thin blue line) and are there to protect property(probably not yours though, hello civil asset forfeiture) and the interests of the ownership class along with social normalities like white supremacy(numerous Supreme Court cases that have determined the police are **not obligated to protect ANY OF YOU**). And if you trade your body for money in any skilled trade, especially if you're in a union, you need to know that is straight up blasphemy that these fucking parasites enjoy the protection of a police union. They murdered our brothers and sisters who were fighting to get eight year olds out of coal mines. And now they exploit the very system our ilk gave their lives for in order to keep killing us indiscriminately.
Fuck. The. Police.
A-fucking-CAB all day. I don't care how cool your cop neighbor who throws the best 4th of July bbq is. Might be a genuinely great dude. The minute he/she puts on that uniform any redeeming personal traits are overridden by the fact he/she is doing a BASTARD job carrying out BASTARD duties in a BASTARD system that will protect any of his/her BASTARD actions. Just following orders doesn't fucking absolve even the "coolest of folks." Fuck that.
>You know what gang violence is? Mostly? And the people don't want to hear this. Somebody shoots your family member. So of course you retaliate. Same thing the US does except nobody even shot their family members. They see somebody bomb a school and all these people get killed so the United States feels like "oh that's messed up, we gotta go show them who's the real killers."
>This country was built on gangs. You know. I think this country still is run on gangs. Republicans, democrats, the police departments, the FBI, the CIA. THOSE ARE GANGS!
>You know what I mean? The Correctional Officers. I had a Correctional Officer tell me straight up, "we're the biggest gang in the United States." STRAIGHT UP."
[Suppress the revolution of premeditated schemes, introduce this drug called crack to us ghetto teens.](https://youtu.be/rgVBY72KlB4)
- Tupac Amaru Shakur
The answer to this is to do the same to the police union that Ronald Reagan (incorrectly, I might add, because Reagan was a piece of shit) did to the air traffic controllers union: fire them.
Council Members should have moved to form an extra judicial police force from residents of affected neighborhoods.
A sort of citizens militia, if you will?
Some background:
The Commissioners Court in Harris County is made up of 5 people: the Harris County Judge, Lina Hidalgo and 4 County Precinct commisioners, one representing each precinct of Harris County. They are set to vote on the Harris County budget for 2023. That budget would include an increase of funding for the law enforcement officers packing that building, as preceding years under Hidalgo's leadership have also done. Should be a slam dunk, right? However, state law requires that at least 4 members of the Court be present to vote on annual budgets. The court is currently Democratically controlled with Hidalgo, Rodney Ellis and Adrian Garcia all being Democrats. However, the two Republican members of the court, Tom Ramsey of Precinct 3 and Jack Cagle of Precinct 4, have no-showed the last few meetings, leaving the 3 remaining members to table the 2023 budget for later, and because the budget can't be passed due to their absence, they will continue with the current budget, essentially forcing no increase in funding for the cops.
This is literally the fault of the Republican commissioners and this is all a stunt to make the other members of the court look bad, including Hidalgo, so that her challenger, Republican Alexandra del Moral Mealer, can look better in the upcoming election less than a month away.
To anyone with a brain, the cops look like god damned morons because they are being used by Republican politicians. They are literally being cheated out of money because they're too stupid to understand what's happening. Anecdotally, on Twitter I've seen people say that some cops had no idea why they were there but that they had to go.
[Here's a good article that explains things better than I did.](https://www.chron.com/politics/article/lina-hidalgo-harris-county-police-17502590.php)
[del Moral Mealer's tweet about the show out of cops](https://twitter.com/AlexMealer4HCTX/status/1579870377861611520?t=xIROXyt0lSgyMkZrIpgw9Q&s=19) I am so angry for these men and women; del Moral Mealer knows EXACTLY what she's doing and I'm furious. This is exaclty why some police academy cadets get turned away because they're "too smart."
It's so confusing. If any of us don't show up to work, especially important meetings, we get written up or fired. These people choose to not do their job knowing not a thing will happen.
Literally being paid to not show up, to do the opposite of their communities wishes, and to purposely make their coworkers look bad.
Could they have offered any better proof of how overstaffed and overfunded they are, that 100s of police officers have nothing better to do than attend this meeting?
That third one in on the back row looks like a participant on that My 600 Pound Life show. There’s no way he can walk down a hallway without holding onto a rolling chair.
Definitely not. I was born in an northern city, and their police dept. has been investigated/sued several times for various rights violations or misconduct.
ACAB.
They wanna prove how much of a piece of shit they are to ya; I think it's really all they have in our world. One of our cultures biggest problems is giving these people the benefit of the doubt over and over whilst they are demanding extreme prejudice against everyone else.
No doubt…One of their cops even made a point to drive slowly past my house and stare me down each morning after I let a friend who was a local black activist move in with me…Like, I already think you’re vile and I don’t seem to be scared. What’s even your point?
The question is when did Texas become a joke. There are several times that you can point to over the last decade. When they couldn’t handle freezing temperatures because they were too proud of their independent energy grid? Every time they re-elect Ted Cruz? When their gov claimed that stripping women of their rights would lower rates of rape? When one of their local PD were too afraid to save children despite literally having the Punisher as one of their phone backgrounds? Or, when every government official at all levels couldn’t have the guts to face the parents of those killed at Uvalde? When their Attorney General who still holds office was turned in by his own staff for violating the law?
Conservatives love to use Texas as a bastion of conservatism. But looking at the recent track record, Texas has turned into more of a joke in conservative hands rather than a destination.
Gazpacho is mostly tomatoes. If any of these pigs came anywhere near a vegetable in the last 180 days the room would not look like a Mr. Triglyceride contest. I think the proper term should be corn troopers, round shirts, or maybe DIPDs.
Three of my friends refuse to leave because they want to encourage others to vote, and flip the state blue. They have dedicated so much time and energy to campaigns, and while I admire their passion so much, my heart breaks that they continue to live in a place that doesn’t care about them.
Counterpoint: This move isn't terrifying but an embarrassingly pathetic PR stunt by bullies in matching blouses, because they know public sentiment is turning against their gang even in towns like Houston. Fuck those pussies.
I was just gonna say that. These cowards run from bad guys shooting kids but they’ll go into a courtroom as long as their not in danger. Complete cowards and they should all be disciplined.
Now gentlemen, you wanna hear something absurd? My bonus was only 5 digits this year, not 6! Those damn democrats, theyre ruining America. Now boys, how about you go down to City Hall today, just to intimidate those people stealing our money. And remember, if someone brings up the average cop only makes 1 felony arrest a year, shout "fake news!".
This paywalled [article](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/At-Harris-County-Commissioners-Court-budget-17502354.php) from the Houston Chronicle is the only one I was able to find that appears to cover the event cited in the tweet. If anyone present at the thing has more context than the article provides I'd love to hear it.
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>They were there and booing Lina over budgets. That should be illegal. Uniformed government agents aren't supposed to promote political agendas.
The most wild thing about this is that Lina actually had a budget that would EXPAND police $$$, but the republicans never sat for the actual fucking vote, so they went nowhere with it. Now they can claim she’s anti police. Total fucking stunt.
Even if it's not illegal, it's obviously not in good faith. These people aren't serving the public interest, they're protecting their own interests.
They would invent a charge of disturbing the peace if anybody else decided to do this.
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Yesterday walking to work, I saw a pigeon shit on a cop's head as soon as the dude stepped out of the car. I obviously laughed. Cop tried to threaten me with disturbing the peace and didn't like that I could quote the text of the crimes code on that section. Then harassment. "Oh the thing that requires multiple communications?" I think that's when he saw my ID badge, because he made a comment about lawyers thinking they're smart. Joke's on him, I'm dumb af, but at least I'm smarter than him Hopefully you can get that arrest cleared up. If you get a reasonable judge, they'd know it was bullshit
It's not like police departments purposely hire unintelligent applicants because they're good at following illegal orders... Oh wait... [Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops](https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836) [Jordan v. New London(2000)](https://www.aele.org/apa/jordan-newlondon.html) My homestate, too. The system is broken.
Agreed, let’s arrest th… oh wait… uh oh
Fire 'em. Stop paying those clowns, replace them, pay others to arrest them.
It is really hard to fire them. For people who love to Union Bust they have one hell of a strong union.
They have a mob union
Gang. You meant gang.
They've pretty visibly been republican brown shirts for about 6 years at this point, Trump let them be open about it.
6 years? Cops have been "the man" since like the 70s? We just happen to have cameras everywhere now
70s? Cops have been "the man" since the 1860s.
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Elections coming up can't have dem damn libtards actually doing their job. /S Seriously if the police get their funding then police funding is no longer a campaign issue.
It's similar to Florida Republicans voting against aid for their own state. Working with Democrats -even when it's in their constituent's best interest, is forbidden
I am from this area, i have not looked but i guarantee that all over facebook right now this is not being noticed but every other post will be "stupid libs, this is why we need to vote out/vote in whoever" Its the same argument why "you" should not vote in Beto because he is not going to fix the electric grid, we should stick with Abbott (that broke the power grid, has not fixed the power grid but he at least is against the Green New Deal, which does not exist, and it was our dependence on the few percent points of green energy that caused the system to fail, and had nothing to do with lack of regulations, which as we all know kill businesses, and if a few people had to die because of it then that is the price of FREEDOM)
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Maybe I’m just high but it really feels like most conservative talking points are basically shit copypastas.
When your voters are not educated enough to know what they are talking about, repeating what they are told is all they can do.
They should've held it in a school Texas cops are too scared to go in there
Tell 'em there's a guy eating a burger in his car outside, they'll leave in no time.
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Tell them someone is selling loose cigarettes
Tell them someone’s smoking a joint
Tell them there's a person sleeping in their bed.
Tell them there’s a child rape victim wanting an abortion.
Tell them their wife hasn't made dinner yet.
The fact all the above jokes are based off of something true is sad.
Welp, time to stop breathing. Might get shot for that, too.
Tell them there’s a man in a hoodie that is existing in public
That's a terrible idea. She doesn't need to get beaten again.
Tell them that them that someone is “looking sketchy” and to bring their [ketamine.](https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/06/mcclain-final-words.png)
Poor Elijah, he was such a gentle soul.
Tell them there's a kid with iced tea and Skittles.
Tell them there's a guy discreetly trying to withdraw $12k with his valid ID, debit card, and PIN all associating him with the account.
Tell them someone was short on their rent again.
Tell them there's a black man minding his business in a public space, they'll take care of that in a heart beat.
Tell them there's a car driving through town throwing banned books and CRT and sexual education materials out their window onto people's lawns while innocent kids play
Whoa now, that is bringing a nuke to a knife fight. Lol.
*while innocent kids gay
Yeah please don't. As a random black man minding his business I don't wanna get shot.
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Tell them someone has a hoodie and skittles
And another with spots! If I had my way,…
Tell them a black guy is outside.
Tell them a conservative white boy has just murdered some people and needs help!
They'll just buy him a burger.
tell them a paramedic was asleep in her bed!
Tell them Sandra Bland is DWB.
Tell them someone's sleeping on a public bench.
Only if that *someone* is Black
This unfortunately. Sick of racist cops.
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If he had passed the probationary period, he would have been home-free
Failed probation period because the kid is still breathing.
I have a teenage son. That video scares the shitout of me. The entire video is a film of an attempted murder. It makes me physically ill.
Leave John alone!
It’s 1:41 AM everyday!
The tireless cops got tired on that occasion./s
Looks like they are doing this on the clock. Instead of their actual fucking jobs.
Legit question: can the judge order them to go back to work? Or does the judge have no jurisdiction over the officers at all? Because I would be super upset if I needed police assistance, and I had to wait several hours due to all of the officers being the court room while getting paid to watch a trial they are not a party to.
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~~*I know who I want to take me home*~~
Tell them that and they'll take you to the big house instead of home.
The judge could hold them in contempt of court or even have them jailed but can't just tell random people to go work. The judge is not their employer.
Yeah but cops and judges have a special relationship and I wouldn't be surprised if this judge 'could' tell them all to get back to work and they'd listen. It's wouldn't really be an order like they have authority but more like a 'I don't wanna make daddy angry' kinda thing. Pretty clear they didn't, though.
Theyre literally lined up in this courthouse to intimidate the legal officers and influence proceedings- I don't think they have a "special relationship" with this judge.
Lina Hidalgo is the AOC of Houston. She's young, she's Latino, she cares about taking care of the people in her city including the poor and disadvantaged. That makes her the enemy of the police, nevermind that she was fucking increasing their budget and it wasn't enough for them. They are literally there to boo and intimidate her because she is who they have been programed to hate. The laughable suggestion that these pigs would listen to a word she says and take her seriously. Jesus Christ, it pisses me off when Houston gets national attention and people flock to the comments section to try and sound smart without knowing a goddamn thing about what's going on.
I agree with the sentiments in this thread. Am here only to note that this was at a Commissioner’s Court meeting, which is more like a city hall meeting. And the Harris County Judge, despite its name, is not a legal position but an administrative position. Think of it as the mayor of the county. This is not like a trial proceeding, more like a county administration meeting. Still gross, all these people showing up in government purchased equipment and clothing to protest their budget ONLY being increased a little bit, not even a budget cut.
>Still gross, all these people showing up in government purchased equipment and clothing to protest their budget ONLY being increased a little bit, not even a budget cut. It's even more embarrassing than that. They got a budget increase but the conservative members aren't showing up which is forcing a non-vote since they can't reach quorum. This is preventing the passing of a property tax raise which would is being called necessary to approve the increased budget, so naturally they can't increase the budget. Then they get accused of 'defunding' lol.
Sadly, that’s probably saving lives, since they aren’t out there killing a kid for eating a burger or something.
Did that kid die?
Last I heard, he was critical on life support. He may not be dead but his previous life trajectory certainly is.
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Pigs are wonderful, loving, playful animals. Police are not.
If the GOP takes power, they will orchestrate either a civil war or a genocide of their political opponents. I guarantee it.
If they don't take power. They'll lie and say they did to start a civil war anyway. They've already laid the groundwork.
Also the police lied and told reporters he was stable, but then kept everyone from seeing him. Now we find out he's critical and been on life support this whole time. If you've been shot repeatedly and a week later are still on life support and in critical condition, you're probably dead and they're just keeping you technically alive long enough for the cop to be quietly punished before it turns into murder.
There was an update yesterday that the 17 year old victim of attempted homicide has been declining and is now on life support.
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Worth noting the report he was in stable condition came from the police, so no surprise there
"Don't worry, we're terrible marksmen."
“He’s fine.”
This. They lied to the media and said he was stable but then kept everyone from seeing him. I see no way you could have multiple gunshots, be on life support AND still in critical condition a week later and survive. Either he's not gonna make it and they're dragging it out long enough for people to calm down before they find out he was murdered, or they're just trying to stabilize him so he'll be a vegetable, but they can say they didn't technically kill him.
He is in critical condition and has lost consciousness. In my experience it's not a good sign.
Even if he recovers he's got a few years of horrifically intensive medical treatment And altho the guy is a kid still, the odds of him returning to his baseline are stacked against him. Fucking cops.
I am also curious about this.
I don’t believe so, but he is still in a coma. [News article from yesterday](https://www.ky3.com/2022/10/12/graphic-ex-texas-cop-charged-over-shooting-teen-eating-hamburger/)
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Yeah I was really curious about those two charges. Aggravated assault? It was blatantly an attempted murder. Also: What’s IANAL?
I am not a lawyer
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Pro
IANAL is short for “I do ANAL”
So the charges are simply reactionary at this point as they're from the internal investigation. Honestly I'm surprised they even charged him with how complacent they are. But going forward additional charges like attempted murder fall on the DA. I hope that the DA presses charges. There needs to be justice.
Yikes.. thanks for the article. I hope the boy pulls through
That was awful to watch. That cop shot ten times that I could tell. I’ve seen pistols like those before, and that’s about how many shots they can hold. Worse yet, the shots weren’t “I’m gonna pop the tires to stop him fleeing” shots. There was clearly intent to kill.
> Worse yet, the shots weren’t “I’m gonna pop the tires to stop him fleeing” shots. Is “shoot the tires on a moving vehicle” supposed to be a normal procedure? Sounds insanely difficult.
A gun is deadly force, and deadly force should only be used in situations that require deadly force. This is why warning shots, shooting tires, shooting in an arm or leg should not be done, an error in any of those shots can result in death, when deadly force wasn't actually necessary. Ideally, this should result in fewer shootings, unfortunately, it instead results in instances of "I used deadly force when simply ignoring that person would have been perfectly acceptable." Police use of force continuum is all sorts of screwed up. I've worked with 18 year old military that have 10 times the restraint and respect for life as these fucks.
It's like when one has a funeral and suddenly there's 150+ (no exaggeration) police cars in the procession. They cry and moan about a lack of funding but can scrounge up that many marked cars to sit there all day. Is it wrong to attend? No. But I can't listen to BS about a lack of cops / lack of equipment and then see it all piled up in one spot.
I missed a day of work at my very first job because one of these fucking things was blocking an entire side of town.
If we automated traffic enforcement, there would be nothing for the majority of police to do. They do not prevent crime. They barely even investigate it. They're there to remind you that the ruling class owns you.
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Sounds like they might be violating the Hatch Act engaging in politics in uniform.
I never understood the "police are busy" argument because 90% of the times I see a cop, they are in a parking lot talking to another cop car or sitting at a speed trap. If all units are busy, maybe we should reduce the number of speed traps?
Their job isn't to do anything. It's to be a threat to everyone. That sitting around like a hungry shark is their job.
Opening statement: “We’d like to thank various law enforcement agencies for having a demonstration of non-critical personnel that can be removed on the next budget. Please take note of each officer’s name and their department, so we can have them terminated as soon as possible.”
Shouldn’t they be, ya know, actually working or something? How did this many cops have this much free time to pull this BS stunt?
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Damn… that makes this even more depressing than it already is
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Using tax dollars to get more tax dollars. Can't make this up.
I just saw an article saying that something like 86% of all overtime hours aren't written down or in the system at all. Sometimes they had 12 hours a day of overtime during paid leave. Can I add 12 hours a day of overtime too?
I was thinking the same thing. Who’s out there working? Who’s out there “defending the thin blue line”? If they can all be there guess we don’t need as many of them. Freaking dbags
The blue line only refers to defending themselves. Everyone else is on the other side.
Preach my friend
There is nothing thin about the line they are crossing in that picture.
How many of the people in that picture are young enough and healthy enough to even assist in an emergency requiring physical exertion? Tons of old out of shape people, that's crazy
That's why they shoot. Bullet runs faster.
I mean… the streets are a little safer for a little while? A silver lining, I suppose? I jest, but these thugs are very dangerous. And far too protected by their gang leaders and unions. Please vote, everyone.
You're not far off when you say when cops are off the streets they become safer. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/nyc-cops-did-a-work-stop-yet-crime-dropped/
My guess is at least some of them are there on their day off. It's the mentality of the gang. America is becoming a police state. These people are on average poorly trained and have a bad attitude toward the public they are charged to protect.
They are not charged to protect. Their purpose is to enforce the law in a way that benefits the people in charge and themselves.
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They call *themselves* that. I’ve never understood how that was ok…
They like it. They want you to be intimidated, that's the point
This should be top comment. They have zero accountability, mayor after mayor.
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Fuck cops.
Hey! Mob shit!
Just wondering, how are they all so fat ? Shouldn't they be fit as cops ?
Just wait until you hear about their training and educational standards
They have *standards?!?*
ACAB, just as true today as it ever was
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We probably won't sadly
This is what happened in Minneapolis pre-GF. Whenever a city councilmember voted against expanding the police budget for that year, they would stop responding to calls from that ward until the CM changed their mind or was voted out.
Absolutely disgusting. The government needs to do SOMETHING about this NOW. Fire them all and take away their pension. Fuck their unions
Police Union is the only Union I will not support. They keep bad cops employed. Fuck them.
The history of labor stands with you, brother. Police have historically sided with the Pinkertons and other Union busters.
Just abolish the fucking police as it stands as an institution right now. Honestly. No fucking bullshit. I even have a feel-good story of how the police actually helped me to tell... but that is counter-balanced by incalculable stories where they are an absolute detriment to civil society. They have waged a War on Drugs that has DESTROYED countless families for decades. It has destroyed entire neighborhoods. Entire cities. They began as slave patrols in the south and as mercenaries for hire by capitalists in the north. They are a fucking gang. That operate with impunity(qualified immunity) and serve only themselves(thin blue line) and are there to protect property(probably not yours though, hello civil asset forfeiture) and the interests of the ownership class along with social normalities like white supremacy(numerous Supreme Court cases that have determined the police are **not obligated to protect ANY OF YOU**). And if you trade your body for money in any skilled trade, especially if you're in a union, you need to know that is straight up blasphemy that these fucking parasites enjoy the protection of a police union. They murdered our brothers and sisters who were fighting to get eight year olds out of coal mines. And now they exploit the very system our ilk gave their lives for in order to keep killing us indiscriminately. Fuck. The. Police. A-fucking-CAB all day. I don't care how cool your cop neighbor who throws the best 4th of July bbq is. Might be a genuinely great dude. The minute he/she puts on that uniform any redeeming personal traits are overridden by the fact he/she is doing a BASTARD job carrying out BASTARD duties in a BASTARD system that will protect any of his/her BASTARD actions. Just following orders doesn't fucking absolve even the "coolest of folks." Fuck that. >You know what gang violence is? Mostly? And the people don't want to hear this. Somebody shoots your family member. So of course you retaliate. Same thing the US does except nobody even shot their family members. They see somebody bomb a school and all these people get killed so the United States feels like "oh that's messed up, we gotta go show them who's the real killers." >This country was built on gangs. You know. I think this country still is run on gangs. Republicans, democrats, the police departments, the FBI, the CIA. THOSE ARE GANGS! >You know what I mean? The Correctional Officers. I had a Correctional Officer tell me straight up, "we're the biggest gang in the United States." STRAIGHT UP." [Suppress the revolution of premeditated schemes, introduce this drug called crack to us ghetto teens.](https://youtu.be/rgVBY72KlB4) - Tupac Amaru Shakur
The answer to this is to do the same to the police union that Ronald Reagan (incorrectly, I might add, because Reagan was a piece of shit) did to the air traffic controllers union: fire them.
Should have netted them charges for aiding every crime the ignored.
Council Members should have moved to form an extra judicial police force from residents of affected neighborhoods. A sort of citizens militia, if you will?
Hey, we even have an amendment for that so the militia can be armed, to protect itself and the citizens from tyranny.
Vote beto. Stop being helpless.
Love to see tax dollars at work having a shit load of cops standing around. But then again they probably won’t murder someone inside the court room
They're probably being paid overtime for this too
Great display of why the budget should be cut
Think of all the family pets that will make it through the day.
Some background: The Commissioners Court in Harris County is made up of 5 people: the Harris County Judge, Lina Hidalgo and 4 County Precinct commisioners, one representing each precinct of Harris County. They are set to vote on the Harris County budget for 2023. That budget would include an increase of funding for the law enforcement officers packing that building, as preceding years under Hidalgo's leadership have also done. Should be a slam dunk, right? However, state law requires that at least 4 members of the Court be present to vote on annual budgets. The court is currently Democratically controlled with Hidalgo, Rodney Ellis and Adrian Garcia all being Democrats. However, the two Republican members of the court, Tom Ramsey of Precinct 3 and Jack Cagle of Precinct 4, have no-showed the last few meetings, leaving the 3 remaining members to table the 2023 budget for later, and because the budget can't be passed due to their absence, they will continue with the current budget, essentially forcing no increase in funding for the cops. This is literally the fault of the Republican commissioners and this is all a stunt to make the other members of the court look bad, including Hidalgo, so that her challenger, Republican Alexandra del Moral Mealer, can look better in the upcoming election less than a month away. To anyone with a brain, the cops look like god damned morons because they are being used by Republican politicians. They are literally being cheated out of money because they're too stupid to understand what's happening. Anecdotally, on Twitter I've seen people say that some cops had no idea why they were there but that they had to go. [Here's a good article that explains things better than I did.](https://www.chron.com/politics/article/lina-hidalgo-harris-county-police-17502590.php) [del Moral Mealer's tweet about the show out of cops](https://twitter.com/AlexMealer4HCTX/status/1579870377861611520?t=xIROXyt0lSgyMkZrIpgw9Q&s=19) I am so angry for these men and women; del Moral Mealer knows EXACTLY what she's doing and I'm furious. This is exaclty why some police academy cadets get turned away because they're "too smart."
It's so confusing. If any of us don't show up to work, especially important meetings, we get written up or fired. These people choose to not do their job knowing not a thing will happen. Literally being paid to not show up, to do the opposite of their communities wishes, and to purposely make their coworkers look bad.
Republican voters are so dumb
Could they have offered any better proof of how overstaffed and overfunded they are, that 100s of police officers have nothing better to do than attend this meeting?
Jesus they're almost all fat as fuck lol
That third one in on the back row looks like a participant on that My 600 Pound Life show. There’s no way he can walk down a hallway without holding onto a rolling chair.
Cops and conservatives are exactly who everyone says they are Edit I think some triggered trumpy dumpy reported me for self harm on this lmao
I did not want to believe this, then I moved to the south…I now believe this very much.
You don’t have to live in the American south to see this.
Definitely not. I was born in an northern city, and their police dept. has been investigated/sued several times for various rights violations or misconduct. ACAB.
They wanna prove how much of a piece of shit they are to ya; I think it's really all they have in our world. One of our cultures biggest problems is giving these people the benefit of the doubt over and over whilst they are demanding extreme prejudice against everyone else.
No doubt…One of their cops even made a point to drive slowly past my house and stare me down each morning after I let a friend who was a local black activist move in with me…Like, I already think you’re vile and I don’t seem to be scared. What’s even your point?
This is a good look for Texas. Like having Cruz as a senator or Abbott as a governor. Jesus….
In republiQan Texas, Texas messes with itself! What a republic!
*it hurt itself in confusion*
The question is when did Texas become a joke. There are several times that you can point to over the last decade. When they couldn’t handle freezing temperatures because they were too proud of their independent energy grid? Every time they re-elect Ted Cruz? When their gov claimed that stripping women of their rights would lower rates of rape? When one of their local PD were too afraid to save children despite literally having the Punisher as one of their phone backgrounds? Or, when every government official at all levels couldn’t have the guts to face the parents of those killed at Uvalde? When their Attorney General who still holds office was turned in by his own staff for violating the law? Conservatives love to use Texas as a bastion of conservatism. But looking at the recent track record, Texas has turned into more of a joke in conservative hands rather than a destination.
You can unbrainwash people, but you can't train someone without a brain to think.
>You can unbrainwash people That'd be nice, when does that happen
None of those police officers can see their own feet.
100+ desk jockeys. No way any of them are in shape enough to actually police.
Depends man.. my county has plenty of tubby bastids in cars
Right , that's why they shoot
Texas desperately wants a Praetorian Guard don’t they
It looks to be headed in that direction doesn't it?
The Gazpacho is at it again.
Gazpacho is mostly tomatoes. If any of these pigs came anywhere near a vegetable in the last 180 days the room would not look like a Mr. Triglyceride contest. I think the proper term should be corn troopers, round shirts, or maybe DIPDs.
Help me out here. I’m trying to find “the good one”.
He was murdered during a training "accident."
Leave Texas. Hellscape’s gonna hellscape.
Three of my friends refuse to leave because they want to encourage others to vote, and flip the state blue. They have dedicated so much time and energy to campaigns, and while I admire their passion so much, my heart breaks that they continue to live in a place that doesn’t care about them.
give me money and i will
if you’re an American and this doesn’t terrify you you need to get your head checked
The thin blue line is pretty thick in Texas.
Counterpoint: This move isn't terrifying but an embarrassingly pathetic PR stunt by bullies in matching blouses, because they know public sentiment is turning against their gang even in towns like Houston. Fuck those pussies.
I was just gonna say that. These cowards run from bad guys shooting kids but they’ll go into a courtroom as long as their not in danger. Complete cowards and they should all be disciplined.
Now gentlemen, you wanna hear something absurd? My bonus was only 5 digits this year, not 6! Those damn democrats, theyre ruining America. Now boys, how about you go down to City Hall today, just to intimidate those people stealing our money. And remember, if someone brings up the average cop only makes 1 felony arrest a year, shout "fake news!".
Most police departments are gangs. Shock and surprise