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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" (www.motherjones.com)
submitted 6 days ago by AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Cool...

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

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[–] Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

I'm an American, but my only experience with LA was traveling through for 2 days about 10 years ago. AKA no experience with LA.

This action appears to be originated from LAPD and therefore the local LA government. I have always considered LA to be deeply blue, and would therefore think that their local LA government would be Democrat, not Republican.

So should this not be the local blue voting populace having a word with their blue elected politicians?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

The police are violent thugs everywhere, not just Republican cities and states.

It's because they have almost complete immunity from being prosecuted for wrongdoing and also, well, they are incredibly well armed and often use their monopoly on violence to threaten blue politicians.

I grew up in a city where cops didn't like their own chief of police because he wanted to drug test the force regularly after several got caught doing drugs on the job. The chiefs own force stalked him, harassed him, made violent threats against him and his family, until he was ran out of town. The police union sued him and said drug testing them violated their rights. The police union won in court. Those drug tests never happened.

[–] Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

That's kinda what I'm getting at. This isn't R vs D, and further perpetuating that is lending into the division of the country that the powers that be want.

This is class war, always has been. Police are the arm wielding power of the rich, used to push down the working class.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Police unions give unions a bad name. Fucking thugs.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

LAPD is not under the control of any government. They have literal warring gang factions within the LAPD. It is an occupying junta force.

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 days ago

LAPD is notoriously corrupt and vile even among other police peers and has been for a long time. Its only competitor is the NYPD

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

LAPD is better than it used to be but it’s still full of assholes.

LASD has been worse and probably still is.