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Comment by TNT666 on December 27, 2011 at 1:56pm

I'm so sorry, my mind sometimes places Denmark, though on European soil... more with Scandinavian culture!

I was really only referring to those French/Italian/Spanish cops. :)

I recently called 911 to save a man on a ski trail from hypothermia at 3am... they insisted I was a crank call... I had to insist back, with hefty words, in order for them to get out there, find the guy, bring him to hospital... saved his life... but it was so 'hard' for them. :(

Comment by Ian Mason on December 27, 2011 at 7:53am

Don't you believe it, TNT. The police in Denmark is composed of society's stupid and lazy but when they get the chance they go wild. Plus the force is used as a political instrument. When the climate summit COP15 was held in Copenhagen any demonstrators were detained "preventatively" as they assembled. Perhaps someone was afraid that a bunch of lettuce-munching tree-huggers would raise their voices where politicians might hear them. Those who suffered the worst were 3 Greenpeace members who were able to walk straight past high-level police security into the official banquet and raise a banner. These "terrorists" recieved prison sentences.

You can't get a copper to come out if you're in the process of being burgled though. I know that from personal experience. That happened at my place of work, a nursing home, and the duty officer said: "you don't expect us to come, do you? Don't you think we've got other things to do?"

Comment by TNT666 on December 27, 2011 at 3:55am

It's been on for the longest time in Canada, USA police are really only starting down the path of absolute power. It's one preference I have for European cultures, their police are so weak!

I like weak police, it's how they should be. Strong police is a sign of a miserable society.

Comment by Chris G on December 27, 2011 at 3:33am

Here's an article from the NYT's When the Police Go Military

RIOT police officers tear-gassing protesters at the Occupy movement in Oakland, Calif. The surprising nighttime invasion of Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, carried out with D-Day-like secrecy by officers deploying klieg lights and a military-style sound machine. And campus police officers in helmets and face shields dousing demonstrators at the University of California, Davis with pepper spray. 

Is this the militarization of the American police?

Read the rest here

That article also referenced Riot Gear Evolution this article contains the following diagram

Comment by Steph S. on December 26, 2011 at 11:23am

I think we must have many things in common Wanderer! I hope you are doing well too!

Comment by Wanderer on December 26, 2011 at 11:21am

Yeah Steph, that is pretty cool! Are you following me? :-P JK, hope you are well.

Comment by Steph S. on December 25, 2011 at 9:57pm

Sendero I will go to your page and read your blog. I am interested in what you have to say. Thanks.

Comment by Sendero Rojo on December 25, 2011 at 9:20pm

No, the police have been just as brutal as usual, it’s just that the publicized incidents of police brutality against White people has raised some awareness in the White community. People of color have been well aware of police terrorism and brutality for centuries now. If anything it has lightened up some, it’s been over 25 years now since they’ve actually bombed a house full of Black people (see 1985 MOVE house wiki) and a couple of years since they’ve murdered any 7 year olds (see case of Aiyana Stanley-Jones).

On a personal level I’ve been the victim of police terrorism and brutality on several occasions. Most recently in Portland, Oregon where I was in a protest against police terrorism and brutality in the middle of a killing spree carried out by the PPD. Me and a group of people were trying to avoid getting backed over/trampled on by a police horse that pushed us into the pig line. I was viciously attacked by a pig who used his bicycle as a battering ram, pushing me into the path of the horse (luckily no one was trampled on this occasion), leaving me bloody and bruised. Later in the same protest I took a couple of baton strikes to the ribs. I have been maced by the pigs for breaking up a fight in jail. I had my nuts very tightly squeezed in a malicious manner on nearly a daily basis by a pig who was in charge of seeing to it that none of us brought any food or anything back from the kitchen where we worked (for free). I have been slammed to the ground on two occasions by the pigs, both in cases where I had not committed any crime at all and was simply in the “wrong place” at the wrong time. I have been denied my glasses ( I‘m all but blind without them), during the booking process in jail and made to think that I was not going to have them the whole time I was in jail.. My mother, a European woman (or White as they say) all of 110 pounds, was slammed to the pavement face first, after having been pulled out of the window of a vehicle by her hair, then the car almost rolled over her.

The role of the police is not to serve and protect the people, but to serve and protect the system that rules over the people. Those in the Okkupy movement that call on us to show solidarity to the police are every bit as racist as someone who would call on Black people to show solidarity to the KKK. They are White people completely blinded by their privilege. See my severely under-read blog post on top of my page where I get into this deeper.

Comment by Steph S. on December 25, 2011 at 7:48pm

Wow that is scary! We keep "meeting up" in these groups here Wanderer -- how cool is that? Hope you are having a good day!

Comment by Wanderer on December 25, 2011 at 7:44pm

Well I did have a cop pull his gun out and point it at me for getting out of my car when he pulled up behind me at a park. Scary as hell.

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