it shouldn’t surprise me anymore, but it’s so wild to me that you don’t ever see a cop have a moral crisis on the riot line. there’s not a moment where they realize, i do not have to be here beating these people. they can set their baton down and walk away. but they never do.
god knows, i know better than to wonder about the moral clarity of a person who signed up to carry out violence against the oppressed. they’re there knowing they might have to do it. plenty of them are there because they hoped they’d get to. but not one crisis of conscience?
@socialistdogmom A police chief on Democracy Now! said officers are given psychological tests to make sure they are not people who question orders, identify with others, have compassion, have empathy, or are uncomfortable with committing violence.
@socialistdogmom They train that instinct out of them.
@socialistdogmom All they care about is making it to their retirement package
@socialistdogmom A fantastic tactic to force them to deal with this is to go to the front lines with mirrors
@socialistdogmom That’s not true. Here’s one Just kidding! This is in Belarus.