At least five high school students in Quakertown, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, have now been held in police custody for more than 72 hours following last Friday’s anti-ICE protest. As of this writing, authorities have not publicly clarified how many students remain detained, what specific charges they face, or why juveniles are being held for this length of time.
Their alleged offense: defending themselves after a police chief, not in uniform, physically assaulted students. The police assault has provoked mass outrage in the community and throughout the country. A Change.org petition demanding the resignation of Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree, who was captured on video choking a young female student, has exceeded 7,800 signatures as of this writing.
What is it with the US and so many people being perfectly okay with your woman being strangled by police just and only because she spoke out and protested?
If in Europe an not uniformed police officer were to pull this shit, strangling a young girl whilst not even being on duty, it would be his last day on the job and his first day in jail. In the US though, all the witnesses (all children) are abducted and threatened and somehow people support this?
And the community? This psychopath just strangled a young girl for not liking her opinion. He’s a police chief. Not a police officer, he is a police chief. If I were a police officer I would have arrested the fucker myself, because he’s a low life thug criminal.
But this is the USA, so they make psychopaths police chiefs because of course they do. Om just flabbergasted that any of this is even remotely possible, and then trump tells other countries that this, THIS, is what everyone wants?
Get fucked by an umbrella, pigs
Yeah so the issue is that our police have been militarizing and their unions have been persistently dismantling accountability laws since the 80’s, using racist propaganda as cover for their actions. Now that it’s fully mask-off, it’s less, “what’s the community going to think about this” and more “what can the community even do about it?”
The white population of this country has not only allowed, but quietly encouraged, the stripping away of every safeguard we have against our police because they never thought it would be used against them. They were told that racial minorities were going to pillage and rape their uncanny white picket suburbs and remote podunk towns any day now, and that the only law enforcement could save them. But only if it was unchained from any sort of safeguards previously installed on it and given the proper tools of pillage.
So, like, we’re fucked I think. We have a VERY long and painful road ahead of us if we’re going to dismantle all these violent gangs we’ve embedded in our government.
dude got beat up by high school students
doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult to get him into a guillotine
Individually, they’re dumb, out of shape, and, if you’ve been paying much attention, pretty cowardly. So yes, a single cop is fucking joke. But as a group they’re better-armed than many militaries, are legally protected from the VAST majority of their own crimes, and have an insane culture of solidarity not only internally, but with the moneyed class.
You fuck with that loser once and you’re inviting a team of violent idiots and a judge to legally fuck with you the rest of your life. You actively defend yourself from that team of violent idiots and a judge in turn, and I am not exaggerating when I say you’re inviting a militarized response. There’s a reason that so many of our cops can get away with being so mean, dumb, and weak.
true
however, you get those things the way things are going anyways, so…