H/t Michael De Adder
Those who say the police are just doing their job are just not paying attention.
Be warned. Both of these videos are hard to watch:
This is Fucking nuts! How is this even a reasonable thing to do by police. This was murder. https://t.co/HxKHVOhnaB
— Rick Barnes (@queerthoughts) June 15, 2020
And lest we feel smug in thinking that violent, corrupt and racially-biased policing is just an American blight, Clyde McDonald of Bracebridge, Ont. sets us straight:
Heartbroken and conflicted: Canada’s Black police officers open up about George Floyd’s death and anti-racism protests, June 7
Sorry, I am not buying the “Ninety-nine per cent … are good men and women police officers” and the “few bad apples” excuses.
The ninety-nine per cent continually protect the bad apples, so they are accomplices, and just as guilty as the bad apples.
Officer Cartright says he is being pulled in both directions.
Why?
There is only right and wrong.
There is nothing to wrestle with.
The Toronto Police are a disgrace. Phone video showed Consts. Piara Dhaliwal and Akin Gul lied about Abdi Sheik-Qasim’s arrest. Toronto Const. Robert Warrener had “deliberately fabricated” the drug transaction — “inexcusable deceptive conduct” in a case against Pankaj Bedi. The Star has had many, many other articles on corrupt police officers, most of whom are still employed by the force.
Despite all of the scandals and shootings, Toronto Police Association President Mike McCormack has never met a bad officer.
McCormack defends them …, even when there is irrefutable video evidence.
He does not recognize that keeping bad officers on the force tarnishes the reputation of all of the other officers.
If the ninety-nine per cent truly wanted to protect their reputations, they would vote McCormack out of office.
It is their own reputations that are at stake, and they should be proactive in wanting the bad apples removed.
The fact that they actually protect and defend the bad apples speaks volumes about these supposed “good men and women police officers.”
You can criticize the Americans all you want, but when they have bad cops caught on video, they fire them.
