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Police Coverups, Conspiracies, and Cost to Taxpayers

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by ValdostaGatorFan, May 17, 2023.

  1. ValdostaGatorFan

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    We get it, man. You act like a child. I figured you'd be tougher after walking those mean streets, I mean public school hallways, but I guess not.
     
  2. G8trGr8t

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    do you think corruption and criminal activity by police agencies should be discussed or ignored?
     
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  3. Orange_and_Bluke

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    You ever played ball in the projects with its inhabitants?
     
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  4. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Yep. I used to play for money. Met one of friends that way. His name was Sidney. I hustled him for some bread one day and then he realized that we could team up and hustle other people for their bread. Not many people thought could ball, much less jump, because I'm white. He was quite the smack talker, but we worked well together as a team.
     
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  5. wgbgator

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    Actually I ran a successful hustle with my friend Sidney based off racial assumptions about me being bad at basketball

    [​IMG]
     
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  6. wgbgator

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    How did we make this same joke lol, I thought I was coming from left field
     
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  7. tampagtr

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    What is a "quince"?
     
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  8. ValdostaGatorFan

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    :emoji_right_facing_fist::emoji_left_facing_fist:
     
  9. Orange_and_Bluke

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    It was a great joke but you make my point. Most of you guys have bleeding hearts. That’s great.
    But I doubt you have any real idea what it’s like to be on the streets near these neighborhoods.
     
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  10. wgbgator

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    I would say progressives and people in the "projects" as you say it are largely on the same page on police reform - if they werent, electing reform DAs wouldn't be possible and the mayor candidates who made crime a campaign issue in Jax, Chicago and LA would have won. Black people are a big voting block, and if they had the same views as Republicans on "law and order" urban politics would look a lot different. Also, lol at you trying to play streetwise because you used to work at a public school.
     
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  11. Orange_and_Bluke

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    You just can’t wrap your head around it. I was raised in a rough area. I definitely heard gun shots in the background while playing ball.
    The public school I worked at was rough but not scary.
    You guys have fun in your ivory towers.
     
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  12. wgbgator

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    Who cares where you were raised? Did you have conversations about police reform when you were in grade school or something? People are making fun of you for pretending that gives you some kind of authority in the present. You would rightly laugh at me if I claimed to know something about black people or crime because I walk through Paramore all the time because I go to soccer games.
     
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  13. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Just goes to show you, Valdosta and most of the libbies here can only imagine through movies what it’s like in the real world.
    You have no idea what police see and why they have to react the way they do.
    You are completely out of touch.
     
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  15. wgbgator

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    Since you dont know either, wouldn't that mean you are out of touch too?
     
  16. ValdostaGatorFan

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    I'm wondering what playing b-ball in the hood or strolling down public school hallways has to do with putting cameras in the women's locker rooms and then having other officers destroy the evidence or tracking down an officer the day before he was set to testify against corruption in the department.

    I get that it's stressful and some interactions happen in the blink of an eye, but this has nothing to do with that. This is a pattern of cover-ups and conspiracies from the top brass in a state's highest law enforcement agency. It has nothing to do with shooting 3 pointers off of MLK blvd or getting gum on the bottom of your loafers.
     
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  17. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Out of touch.
    You can’t even guess what police see before breakfast.
     
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    the Dunkin’ donut sign?
     
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  19. wgbgator

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    It’s definitely not their feet, based on the physiques I’ve seen
     
  20. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Even before that…
     
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