[FRIAM] Thoughts on the Floyd protests

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We have evidence of it, here: 

Olympia police unions respond to photo of officer posing with armed men
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article243401061.html

FWIW, I think our mayor is wrong. The 3% sign isn't the OK sign, regardless of whether any supremacists actually use the OK sign or not. But like any tone deaf marketing message, if the symbol you adopt is *thought* to be a racist symbol, then you should go ahead and change it. Just stop flying the confederate flag even if it's been on your state flag for your whole life ... just stop using the swastika even if you're (East) Indian or Native American.

But what does lend truth to the accusations leveled against the 3% is the lack of a public statement condemning Trump for violating the constitution in clearing St John's. If they exist to use their piddly little guns to protect us from the government, where were they then? Perhaps they are only interested in protecting a particular class of people? ... or only people with whom they agree politically?

As for the cop in the photo, she should at least be suspended for her stupid mistake. Don't pose with with a bunch of dudes standing in a parking lot with guns. That's simply a stupid thing for a cop (or any professional) to do. And if you must do it, take off your uniform first.


On 6/10/20 9:51 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I think the point is that are already not accountable.   Protected by unions and colleagues who will look the other way, and a culture that accepts that certain people must consent to miserable lives. 
> 
>> On 6/10/20, 9:48 AM, "Friam on behalf of Prof David West" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> 
>>     downside is the private militias that Jon mentioned. just like the military that replaces soldiers with private contractors - to whom are the latter accountable?
>> On 6/9/20 4:28 PM, Jon Zingale wrote:
>>> 1. Will the efforts to defund the police eventually meet with efforts
>>> to build private militias? Will the future of policing in this country
>>> follow a path similar to the shift from public to private postal service?
>>> If so, what will accountability be?





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