police violence and copaganda are so ubiquitous that "cop acts like a compassionate human being" is apparently being a Chad
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u/TiredAmerican1917 23h ago
For every one cop helping homeless people there’s twenty terrorizing them
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u/Karl-Farbman 23h ago
Crazy post cause all I recall are police arresting people trying to feed them.
Police are bad
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u/throwaway-aagghh 23h ago
“Make sure to take a picture of me helping this homeless guy so cops look good”
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u/uhhh206 23h ago
Crazy how people are so willing to call YouTubers performative when they do nice things for poor people (I'm not arguing otherwise) but blindly accept these sort of stories as proof cops are good guys. At least if a YouTuber follows it up with murdering someone they aren't going to get a paid vacation out of it.
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u/DiogenesD0g 23h ago
This photo was taken moments before the cop beat the man senseless and arrested him for stealing the boots.
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u/Burn-The-Villages 23h ago
This isn’t “Chad behavior”. This is simple, basic human compassion. The cop gets $100K in salary, he can afford to buy the guy a pair of boots and gloves.
If an employee of the store made enough money they’d do the same thing.
The fact that cops have a rep of violence and murder- but sooooooometimes not killing people- is not reason to praise. Ffs
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u/JustLoveToCook1 12h ago
It is amazing how a regular cop can spend 99 percent of their time making every effort possible to make people's lives harder and try their best to ruin as many lives as possible, but then spend 5 minutes doing something nice for a photo oppurtunity and the public being like "Awwwwwwwww, what a hero!". It is a damn shame.
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u/uhhh206 11h ago
Word. I've had two experiences with cops in the last few years, and both times the cop gave me leeway I definitely didn't deserve. BUT! That doesn't mean they treat everyone that way, and even if they do, they still signed up to support a system that is innately oppressive. Being nice to me doesn't change that ACAB.
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u/BrimstoneMainliner 20h ago
Because Cops are so awful that whenever one of them does something good, it's big news...
"LOOK EVERYONE THIS ONE ISN'T AN ABUSIVE FASCIST DOUCHEBAG!!!... at least not on that day"
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u/lasvegas1979 19h ago
Weren't people being charged by police with the crime of feeding the homeless?
Feeding homeless people = criminals Buying homeless man boots = supercop hero
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/woman-arrested-feeding-homeless-1.6632153
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u/uhhh206 19h ago
Ummm, excuse-moi but cops are never in the wrong, so obviously the ability to pull up multiple articles of independent incidents where cops were cartoon villains is Fake News™ and the one-off incidents of kindness are the standard.
(/s in case that's necessary)
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u/PNW_Forest 18h ago
The sad thing is, enough people believe what you typed unironically that the "/s" is very necessary.
Clearly we are living out the 'bad ending'... ugh....
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u/PNW_Forest 18h ago
"Shortly after the cop could be seen choking a young shoplifter to death screaming 'Stop Resisting'".
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u/Joshua_ABBACAB_1312 14h ago
I call bullshit on the whole thing. "Let's raise money to shelter this man but we can't afford an uber so let's call a trigger-happy ape instead."
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u/IRBaboooon 19h ago
As a homeless person i would be what little I have left that for every one police helped a homeless person meme there's 100 other homeless being beat by an officer just for being homeless
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u/Poo_Canoe 15h ago
I mean praise where praise is due. But also criticism and transparency where it’s due too. Stop covering up bad deeds and require your cops to be compassionate and think before mag dumping people who are innocent. Or he’ll even guilty. Just do better.
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u/liquidreferee 16h ago
Yea they should be celebrated for doing the right thing. It should be expected
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u/ScRuBlOrD95 17h ago
(before you throw me in the slapchop, hear me out) it shouldn't be the duty of individual police officers to buy people in need gloves, it was a kind act and I can respect that officer for helping someone in need. The problem with it is that there needs to be more of this kind of compassion from the police force until the point where it isn't so abnormal / rare that it's newsworthy. I can hope that posts like this will lead to more cops being uplifting in their communities, but I fear that this is just gonna be used as fodder for "wuddaboutism arguments" to defend some piece of garbage beating an unarmed person to death.
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u/zappariah_brannigan 1d ago
Let's see that same cop in 2 years and see if he has any humanity left.