> The response: "The AFL-CIO believes that all workers, including police officers, have the right to organize and bargain collectively. While we differ on the exact approach, we respect WGAE and share their goal of eradicating systemic racism and adopting substantial police reform"
The AFL-CIO supports the organization efforts by Pinkerton Workers United,
Glad my union has never allowed law enforcement and has never been an afl-cio affiliate
To be fair I think it's against the rules to be an anarcho-syndicalist union in the AFL-CIO
@Jolenealaska turkey fucked up with it too. They're getting donations from people (text X with Y to donate 20TRY, or send money to our IBANs at Z), but aren't giving the money away, simply loaning it.
Petraeus sitting around hoping people remember him for this instead of the part where he had an affair with his biographer and leaked her classified information and hid evidence in his attic
So that 75 year old shoved to the ground, who was bleeding from the head, has just been named by the President and suggested to be "an ANTIFA provocateur"
Someone in a reply shared "evidence" which basically boils down to "the blood is coming out of the front of his ear", which, you know, is where the earhole is?
@Wipqozn He was a major character in the 4th season onwards. A former cop fired for perjury turned washed up private detective specialized in infidelity who got superpowers from a Flash-induced encounter with Dark Matter orchestrated by the seasonal villain.
@TimStone It's so loaded. Yes I believe fake news should be held accountable for whatever lies they've said against Trump... But there's no way that what Trump is referring to here as 'fake news' is anything other than actually true
I don't think the radical democrats should take guns away from people, that's the polices' job
'democrat leaders who are letting their communities be destroyed' - sure, they should crack down in exactly the opposite way that is being implicitly referred to
> Alice Cutter, a former Miss Hitler beauty pageant contestant, and her former partner Mark Jones were convicted of membership of a terrorist group after a trial in March, alongside co-accused Garry Jack and Connor Scothern.
Miss Hitler...jfc
> Jurors were also shown messages in which the waitress joked about gassing synagogues, using a Jew’s head as a football, and exclaiming “Rot in hell, bitch”, after hearing of Cox’s murder.
> The officials said Mr. Trump was furious with Mr. Esper for not supporting his inclination to use active-duty troops to quell protests in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis and elsewhere following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday advanced an unfounded conspiracy theory about a 75-year-old protester in Buffalo, N.Y., who was pushed down by police officers, tweeting without evidence that the confrontation may have been a "set up." cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tweet-buffalo-gugino-1.5604326
@Wipqozn you know what the reasoning is? They couldn't believe a 73 year old man would be wearing a fanny pack voluntarily, so they assumed that contained fake blood and a tube, conveniently hidden by his face mask and the shoulder strap, so they could make the blood come from his ear
This is something I've been thinking about for a while; that we've so often seen the initial police reports turn out to be directly contradicted by video that eventually comes out, so why should we believe the reports in cases where no video comes out?
@BradC We don't. If the police spokesman isn't lying (that isn't even a sentence that should ever have had to be said), then it's clearly a higher-up that's doing the manipulation
There's actually a really good UK drama about police corruption (not a documentary, really a drama in every sense) called Line of Duty and while the plot's all fabricated, it makes several good points about how all it takes is one corrupt officer to get through to upper ranks to corrupt entire departments. It also makes the point that Anti-corruption departments are good things to have (looks pointedly at the US)
> The 21-year-old protester needed several staples and stitches to close his wound. He was in custody for almost 40 hours on allegations that he assaulted and injured an officer, according to his attorney. The student was released after prosecutors saw the video and decided to pursue the officer who hit him instead.
