There's a person with a verified account defending the McMuffin lady on the basis that "her feelings are valid" and "right now she has reason to fear food tampering".
Yeah, and the reason is: other cops keep making up food tampering cases. Cops literally create this environment.
Yeah, and the reason is: other cops keep making up food tampering cases. Cops literally create this environment.
Maaaaaaaaaybe the cop who took a bite out of his own filet-o-fish sandwich and then blamed fast food workers honestly did absent-mindedly do it and forget he'd done so. Maybe he wasn't trying to deliberately create a controversy.
But why'd he make that leap?
But why'd he make that leap?
And the cops who write "Pig" or whatever on their own orders? They're not doing it innocently or absentmindedly. They know what they're doing.
If somebody they trusted were to ask them in all honesty why they would do that, I'm sure they would say: well, because this happens all the time and people need to see that it's a problem.
But it doesn't! The cops make this stuff up all the time.
But it doesn't! The cops make this stuff up all the time.
Officer Stacey is quaking in her jackboots over the grim specter of what unhallowed acts may have been perpetrated upon her very McMuffin as she waited innocently in her cruiser because of a myth her cronies created, and she has now perpetuated.
Despite the possibly all-time unpopularity of policing as an institution right now, there is very much *not* a war on cops happening. The cops themselves are at war, which means they need to imagine that others are at war with them.
When's the last time one of these "people messed with a cop's order" stories panned out? I'm sure it has happened, but the cases that go nationwide, time after time, we find out the cop did it themselves, or it was exaggerated, or it didn't happen.
It's not that I can't see that Officer Stacey is in crisis. But her emotional breakdown was caused by policing, by police culture, and it's being weaponized in ways that are going to get people killed. Normal fast food service treated by Donald Trump Jr. and others as a threat!
There are comments underneath the sharings of that video going "This is an act of war." and "They want us dead." Over an "incident" in which... absolutely nothing happened. Literally anything or nothing can now be an act of anti-police violence.
This QT on another one of my threads today accurately sums up what's going on. The paranoia cops cultivate within themselves and each other is dysfunctional. It destroys their ability to function within society.
And you know what? I've been sleep-deprived. I can easily believe that I could myself have a day bad enough where I am tired and hungry and on-edge enough to become this fearful and tearful over an unexpected delay in my food.
I shouldn't be a cop, either.
No one should.
I shouldn't be a cop, either.
No one should.
I see people responding to "She shouldn't carry a weapon." and "She shouldn't be a cop." with "We shouldn't be drawing conclusions about her based on this one bad day. She's only human. Everybody has bad days".
Absolutely!
So no one should have a gun and the powers of police.
Absolutely!
So no one should have a gun and the powers of police.
No one should be given the power of dispensing instant death in response to even the faintest perceived threat against themselves. No one should be given a gun and drenched in a sea of fearmongering propaganda that posits they are at war with countless invisible enemies.
McDonald's didn't make Officer Stacey fear for her life. Antifa didn't make Officer Stacey fear for her life. Black Lives Matters didn't make Officer Stacey fear for her life.
Policing did. Dave Grossman's Killology did. The Thin Blue Line did. She herself did.
Policing did. Dave Grossman's Killology did. The Thin Blue Line did. She herself did.
