Police Union Uses A Black Woman's Son In P.R. Photo After Attacking Her

[Cicada 5]

CBS News reports that the National Fraternal Order of Police posted a photo to their Facebook page of a police officer holding a Black boy in her arms with a caption that read: “This child was lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness. The only thing this Philadelphia police officer cared about in that moment was protecting this child.”

As you can imagine, that caption was a whole-ass lie, and the union released a statement saying they took down the post due to “conflicting accounts of the circumstances under which the child came to be assisted by the officer.”

If you’re unaware, Philadelphia has been the site of multiple protests following the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr. by Philadelphia police.

The child pictured is the son of 28-year-old Rickia Young. Young was driving in an SUV when she was confronted by Philadelphia police officers. Video of the true circumstances went viral and paints an entirely different picture than the one by the NFOP.


A video of the incident appears to show the boy and his mother being pulled from their vehicle and being separated. The clip then appears to show the woman being assaulted by officers.

Attorneys Riley H. Ross III and Thomas O. Fitzpatrick, who are representing Young in a civil case, both called out the union. Ross tweeted the photo is “a lie.”

Young was detained, released without charges, and reunited with her son that same night. According to Fitzpatrick, both Young and her son suffered physical injuries from the attack, though he said the “emotional trauma of it all” would be “a much longer process.”

After Philadelphia Police Yank Woman Out of Her Car and Attack Her, Police Union Uses Her Son in Propaganda Photo

If the events of the current year haven’t driven the point home, cops are fucking trash. They’re also fucking liars. The latest instance of cops being trash-ass liars occurred in Philadelphia, where cops yanked a Black woman out of her car, attacked her, and then used her son in what was...

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[TheMysteriousGX]

There's no reforming that union. Gotta burn the whole thing down

 

[ObsidianJones]

My number was called. I should have been in Canada by now. But I probably still couldn't have gone, because Trump bungled covid so badly that the border would have been closed.

Damn everything about this country.

 

[Worgen]

Ugh, its crap like this that makes it hard to really say abolish the police is stupid, even though it is stupid. Like it or not we have to have a police force, but damn these people suck.

 

[Revnak]

Cops are an irredeemable institution

 

[Kae]

Ugh, its crap like this that makes it hard to really say abolish the police is stupid, even though it is stupid. Like it or not we have to have a police force, but damn these people suck.

Very wrong!
It's possible not to have police and have a successful society, there are several things that must be done in order to achieve it, such as improving social services, access to food, changing the prison system to genuinely be reformative rather than punitive, legalisation of all drugs (Yes all of them) abolishing capitalism and many other things but it's possible, you're just being brainwashed into thinking they are genuinely needed.

Of course I do realise that the corporations and their state slaves wouldn't allow it and the horrid economic system they utilise encourages crime, so maybe what we clearly need is to get rid of Capitalism worldwide, it'd solve a lot of our problems.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

All this chaos was starting to make me wonder how black people could ever want to be a police officer. Here’s what an ex cop had to say-


“There’s money in black people’s emotions.”

Gotta wonder what’s happening in a country when rationality is seemingly being suppressed by the powers that be. Less and less a place that any kid should have to grow up in. They’ll probably never experience what being truly free feels like.

 

[lil devils x]

Very wrong!
It's possible not to have police and have a successful society, there are several things that must be done in order to achieve it, such as improving social services, access to food, changing the prison system to genuinely be reformative rather than punitive, legalisation of all drugs (Yes all of them) abolishing capitalism and many other things but it's possible, you're just being brainwashed into thinking they are genuinely needed.

Of course I do realise that the corporations and their state slaves wouldn't allow it and the horrid economic system they utilise encourages crime, so maybe what we clearly need is to get rid of Capitalism worldwide, it'd solve a lot of our problems.

If there are no police, there is no one to arrest the rapist or murderers and put them in prison in the first place. How can you have prison reform , if you have no one to arrest them? If I am sleeping and someone is trying to break into my home, who do you call if there is no police? While waiting for the police to arrive, I would try to hide or escape for my protection, but if the police are never going to arrive, I wouldn't be able to return home and they would just either wait for me, come looking for me , or rob and/or destroy my home. or all of the above. None of that makes any sense.

It is not possible to change current society to function without police. We already have massive gangs that commit crimes here already. On the reservation when they know that the tribe cannot arrest them they just go on crime sprees instead raping, robbing and attacking people at will since ONLY the feds can arrest them. Without local police empowered to be able to arrest people more people are raped, abused and murdered. That w as why they created police in the first place. Vigilante justice is just mob rule and that has been proven to be a horrific way to live in our history. It was mob rule who burned down Black wall Street. It was gangs of white men who came through the reservation and raped women at will ( still do). It was Mob rule when they lynched black people in the south. Mob rule is not the answer here, we actually need police to protect people FROM the mob. Bringing back public lynching's is no way an improvement here. This would give these far right militias free reign to do whatever they wanted. To think otherwise is a fantasy.

I am not being " brainwashed" to think I need it, I HAVE needed the police repeatedly throughout my life. I have had to call the police often, especially when I bartended in college because there are too many violent idiots in this world. We had people trying to come shoot up the bar on multiple occasions. Life is pretty scary as it is would be even worse if you weren't " just waiting for police" to arrive,. If no help was coming, things would not have turned out as well as they did. Hell I likely wouldn't still be here right now.

Let's see SOME of the times I or someone where I was called the cops..

My ex tried to kill me twice, stabbed my neighbor trying to break into my home after I moved twice and had protective orders against him. My neighbor saved my life when he stopped him from breaking in, I saved his by calling the cops they arrived while they were still struggling.
men broke into my neighbors home and were stealing his guns.
Men broke into elderly woman's home and tried to tie her up and rob her.
Man held a kid at gunpoint in the parking lot making them beg for their life
Man was threating to shoot everyone at the bar ( happened multiple)
Woman raped in the bathroom at the bar. ( happened multiple times)
Guy ran people over in the parkinglot on purpose
Man attacked staff at the clinic
Gang fight broke out in the ER
violence in the ER ( all the time)
Men beating women in bar and or parkiglot ( happens all the tme)
Man attacked pastries and was tryin to ejaculate on people in the parkinglot
men attacked me while walking and tried to pull me into their truck and took my jacket ( the man grabbed me and I managed to slip out of my jacket so that was all he had in his hand when I got away)
Men tried to or did attack me at work ( multiple times, one ripped my shirt the other had a knife, others just wouldn't take no for an answer)
And MORE. SO yea, I for one think I need to be able to call police. I think we need to reform police, and the entire justice system, but eliminating them is not an option as far as I am concerned.

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[BrawlMan]

They definitely can't call themselves human. Especially after doing something as sinful as that.

 

[Revnak]

If there are no police, there is no one to arrest the rapist or murderers and put them in prison in the first place. How can you have prison reform , if you have no one to arrest them? If I am sleeping and someone is trying to break into my home, who do you call if there is no police? While waiting for the police to arrive, I would try to hide or escape for my protection, but if the police are never going to arrive, I wouldn't be able to return home and they would just either wait for me, come looking for me , or rob and/or destroy my home. or all of the above. None of that makes any sense.

It is not possible to change current society to function without police. We already have massive gangs that commit crimes here already. On the reservation when they know that the tribe cannot arrest them they just go on crime sprees instead raping, robbing and attacking people at will since ONLY the feds can arrest them. Without local police empowered to be able to arrest people more people are raped, abused and murdered. That w as why they created police in the first place. Vigilante justice is just mob rule and that has been proven to be a horrific way to live in our history. It was mob rule who burned down Black wall Street. It was gangs of white men who came through the reservation and raped women at will ( still do). It was Mob rule when they lynched black people in the south. Mob rule is not the answer here, we actually need police to protect people FROM the mob. Bringing back public lynching's is no way an improvement here. This would give these far right militias free reign to do whatever they wanted. To think otherwise is a fantasy.

I am not being " brainwashed" to think I need it, I HAVE needed the police repeatedly throughout my life. I have had to call the police often, especially when I bartended in college because there are too many violent idiots in this world. We had people trying to come shoot up the bar on multiple occasions. Life is pretty scary as it is would be even worse if you weren't " just waiting for police" to arrive,. If no help was coming, things would not have turned out as well as they did. Hell I likely wouldn't still be here right now.

Let's see SOME of the times I or someone where I was called the cops..

My ex tried to kill me twice, stabbed my neighbor trying to break into my home after I moved twice and had protective orders against him. My neighbor saved my life when he stopped him from breaking in, I saved his by calling the cops they arrived while they were still struggling.
men broke into my neighbors home and were stealing his guns.
Men broke into elderly woman's home and tried to tie her up and rob her.
Man held a kid at gunpoint in the parking lot making them beg for their life
Man was threating to shoot everyone at the bar ( happened multiple)
Woman raped in the bathroom at the bar. ( happened multiple times)
Guy ran people over in the parkinglot on purpose
Man attacked staff at the clinic
Gang fight broke out in the ER
violence in the ER ( all the time)
Men beating women in bar and or parkiglot ( happens all the tme)
Man attacked pastries and was tryin to ejaculate on people in the parkinglot
men attacked me while walking and tried to pull me into their truck and took my jacket ( the man grabbed me and I managed to slip out of my jacket so that was all he had in his hand when I got away)
Men tried to or did attack me at work ( multiple times, one ripped my shirt the other had a knife, others just wouldn't take no for an answer)
And MORE. SO yea, I for one think I need to be able to call police. I think we need to reform police, and the entire justice system, but eliminating them is not an option as far as I am concerned.

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All of this could be resolved without cops.

 

[Cicada 5]

Very wrong!
It's possible not to have police and have a successful society

Care to point out an example?

All of this could be resolved without cops.

How? Everyone who says this either has no answer or only offers hypotheticals that simply cannot apply to reality. Cops are always going to be needed. What should be fought against is their racism and corruption and those exist in just about any echelon of society. No one's saying we should abolish education because teachers can be racist as well.

 

[Cicada 5]

All of this could be resolved without cops.

How? Everyone who says this either has no answer or only offers hypotheticals that simply cannot apply to reality. Cops are always going to be needed. What should be fought against is their racism and corruption and those exist in just about any echelon of society. No one's saying we should abolish education because teachers can be racist as well.

 

[Revnak]

Care to point out an example?

Well, an easy one would be the squats in Greece, or various other existing anarchist communities. Also, I grew up in some truly middle of nowhere places where cops were not easy to get to show up, so most of those kinds of issues just got dealt with by the neighbors who’d show up.
Finally, can you really argue cops resolve those problems? Most cops abuse their spouses, cops have a horrific record with spousal abuse, sex crimes, and murders, and generally perform quite miserably at resolving those problems due to various structural and cultural issues. It seems pretty easy to imagine a world with a better system than cops. Like extremely fucking easy. Because cops suck.

 

[Revnak]

No one's saying we should abolish education because teachers can be racist as well.

I don’t think most would argue that teachers are instrumental to the perpetuation of structural racism in our society, nor that they serve as enforcers of capital, nor that they are near universally class traitors. But cops, you can absolutely say that about cops.

 

[Revnak]

And ultimately, consider this. There are broad sections of America that already live without “police” and it is a necessity of their structure that some people exist in this situation. For example, prisoners, for whom guards are not enforcers of good behavior but of their imprisonment almost exclusively, and who regularly abuse their captives. The homeless, for whom the protection of the police is largely non-existent. The undocumented as well. Finally and perhaps most obviously, minorities throughout this country in particular neighborhoods where cops serve as an occupying force, where their primary purpose it the oppression of the community. Ultimately, much of America already exists without these “benefits” of cops so the rest of us can have them. I side with them.

 

[Hawki]

All of this could be resolved without cops.

You're going to have to back that up.

I haven't had to call the police as many times as Lil Devils, but I have had to. In a world without the police, we'd either have to employ our own security or pretty much arm ourselves (not necessarily with firearms mind you).

Very wrong!
It's possible not to have police and have a successful society, there are several things that must be done in order to achieve it, such as improving social services, access to food, changing the prison system to genuinely be reformative rather than punitive, legalisation of all drugs (Yes all of them) abolishing capitalism and many other things but it's possible, you're just being brainwashed into thinking they are genuinely needed.

Even if you did all those things, even if we agree all of them are good, that wouldn't remove the need for police officers. You'd still have people who commit crimes. You'd still have to deal with terrorism. You'd still have to deal with all the shit that humans still produce.

It's why I can buy the idea of defunding the police, but can't buy the idea of disbanding.

There's also the inconvenient truth for disbanders that the loudest calls to defund/disband the police are those who tend to have the least interaction with them.

Of course I do realise that the corporations and their state slaves wouldn't allow it and the horrid economic system they utilise encourages crime, so maybe what we clearly need is to get rid of Capitalism worldwide, it'd solve a lot of our problems.

That's spurious. Over the last few centuries, the crime rate has fallen, not gone up. That's not to say there's a correlation between the two, but the idea that police are a "capitalist institution" is nonsense. Socialist countries have, and continue to use police. How do you think they're deployed?

And ultimately, consider this. There are broad sections of America that already live without “police” and it is a necessity of their structure that some people exist in this situation. For example, prisoners, for whom guards are not enforcers of good behavior but of their imprisonment almost exclusively, and who regularly abuse their captives. The homeless, for whom the protection of the police is largely non-existent. The undocumented as well. Finally and perhaps most obviously, minorities throughout this country in particular neighborhoods where cops serve as an occupying force, where their primary purpose it the oppression of the community. Ultimately, much of America already exists without these “benefits” of cops so the rest of us can have them. I side with them.

We live in different countries, but fine, serious questions:

1) Have you ever had to call the police to prevent bodily harm?

2) Do you know people who have suffered crime?

3) Have you been in proximity to a terrorist attack where the police were called in?

4) Do you know/have known any police officers on the personal level?

For me, the answer is "yes" for all four. And if we're talking about police violence in the United States, here's a statistic - about 40,000 people are killed by firearms in the country per year. Police shootings account for about 1,000 of those deaths. In other words, about 2.5%. So if you abolished the police, and got rid of those 1000 deaths, would the remaining 39,000 go up, or go down?

You could say that what happens in the US doesn't affect me, but trust me, it does. Even taking an entirely selfish point of view, there weren't rumblings of police abolition here until it began in the US. And again, having said "yes" to the above four questions...well, again, not fo

 

[Revnak]

Really, this is like answering the question of whether slavery should be abolished with “but who will pick the cotton?”

 

[Revnak]

1) Have you ever had to call the police to prevent bodily harm?

2) Do you know people who have suffered crime?

3) Have you been in proximity to a terrorist attack where the police were called in?

4) Do you know/have known any police officers on the personal level?

No, yes, yes, yes. Changes fuck all for me. Fuck. Cops.

 

[Hawki]

Really, this is like answering the question of whether slavery should be abolished with “but who will pick the cotton?”

No, yes, yes, yes. Changes fuck all for me. Fuck. Cops.

Then when the first answer becomes "yes," and you've got rid of all the cops, I hope you remember this moment.

 

[Worgen]

Very wrong!
It's possible not to have police and have a successful society, there are several things that must be done in order to achieve it, such as improving social services, access to food, changing the prison system to genuinely be reformative rather than punitive, legalisation of all drugs (Yes all of them) abolishing capitalism and many other things but it's possible, you're just being brainwashed into thinking they are genuinely needed.

Of course I do realise that the corporations and their state slaves wouldn't allow it and the horrid economic system they utilise encourages crime, so maybe what we clearly need is to get rid of Capitalism worldwide, it'd solve a lot of our problems.

Wouldn't work and certainly wouldn't be as rosy as you paint it. Plus for any of it to happen you would pretty much have to do a hard reset of human progress and hardcore making sure things stayed exactly the same so you're just talking about a fantasy land here.