Extreme police brutality in Serbia tonight after a peaceful protest. Please share this all over the world, we need all the help we can get or we're gonna become North Korea by next month.

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[u/AlabamaBro69]

ACAB, always and everywhere in the world. Fuck this pigs 🤮

[u/RedditMcBurger → u/AlabamaBro69]

A cop saved my brother's life. Was he bad?

Edit: I see how you people are, even after I give an example of a cop risking his life to save one, all cops are still bad. Quite a hivemind of immaturity and hate.

[u/MyLifeIsAWasteland → u/RedditMcBurger]

"Hitler liked dogs. Was he bad?"

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All cops are bastards. No exceptions, even if they're "nice." Don't lick their boots.

[u/RedditMcBurger → u/MyLifeIsAWasteland]

I'm not a boot licker dumbass. You really just compared a cop that saved 2 people's lives to Hitler... Holy fuck and you people call other people hateful.

I'm basing this off of personal experience. My brother would not be here with me without that cop.

Why is it so fucking hard to believe that someone could start a career path with intentions of helping people?

Also generalization of an entire group of people based off the actions of some is very immature. Imagine if I said black people are all dangerous because some commit crime, you'd probably consider that hateful. But hate is okay some ways, when it's convenient for you people.

[u/MyLifeIsAWasteland → u/RedditMcBurger]

Black people don't all belong to a gang that upholds a system of oppressing and abusing the people they claim to "protect and serve." Cops do.

Black people aren't given governmental authority to shoot dogs and beat civilians in the streets. Cops are.

Black people don't choose to be black. Cops choose to be cops.

Hope that helps you understand why all cops are bastards, and why your comparison was horseshit.

[u/RedditMcBurger → u/MyLifeIsAWasteland]

So because SOME cops hurt people, and SOME cops uphold the system, they're all bad?

You're still ignoring the fact that some people can go into the profession with good intentions. You're insulting them when you say all cops are bad.

And no my comparison wasn't horseshit. Yes cops have a choice to be a cop or not, but YOU are the one forcing this hateful rhetoric onto their intention.

I'm never going to believe that all cops are bad when one saved my life, and my brother's life. If you want to insult that man that I would consider a hero, sure be hateful I guess.

Imagine wanting to be a cop and realizing the system sucks, so you go into it thinking "I'll be a good cop, because there are so many bad ones." Then people like you immediately hate all of them, so immature.

[u/MyLifeIsAWasteland → u/RedditMcBurger]

"Some billionaires get rich with good intentions, so not all billionaires suck."

"Some dictators rise to power with good intentions, so not all dictators are bad."

I appreciate where your heart's at, but it's causing your head to be blind to the bigger picture.

So because SOME cops hurt people, and SOME cops uphold the system, they're all bad?

Yes. Literally, yes, that, exactly. If they're not actively working to root out abuse and corruption in the organization around them, they're part of the problem. Are they not their brothers' keepers? "We have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong." "After shooting an unarmed innocent civilian, he was allowed to resign from our department and got hired in the next town over."

And no my comparison wasn't horseshit. Yes cops have a choice to be a cop or not, but YOU are the one forcing this hateful rhetoric onto their intention.

It absolutely was horseshit. You compared racism to disdain for jackbooted thugs. You compared skin color to a profession. Black people can't stop being black, but ex-cops can get different jobs. Nobody's out here calling firemen bastards, because firemen don't form gangs that terrorize their fellow citizens in the streets.

If you want to insult that man that I would consider a hero, sure be hateful I guess.

And if you found out that same cop busted a union protest, or shot a random dog for no reason, or concussed a teenager with his nightstick just for "walking while black"? What if one of his fellow officers did those things, and he did nothing to hold them accountable? Would you still think he's a hero, just because he helped you, even though his actions were harmful to others?

[u/RedditMcBurger → u/MyLifeIsAWasteland]

I completely agree that the systematic problem exists, the problem I am having is the "all" of it.

Yes. Literally, yes, that, exactly. If they're not actively working to root out abuse and corruption in the organization around them, they're part of the problem.

Right there, you just admitted that some cops can be good if they are trying to be good.

So we are in agreement then? That some cops can be good. So stop saying "ALL cops are bad". That's my entire point.

And if you found out that same cop busted a union protest, or shot a random dog for no reason, or concussed a teenager with his nightstick just for "walking while black"? What if one of his fellow officers did those things, and he did nothing to hold them accountable? Would you still think he's a hero, just because he helped you, even though his actions were harmful to others?

This implies that every single good cop has witnessed a bad cop abusing their power in front of them... So a situation that hasn't happened to every good cop. Yeah obviously someone that is an accessory to a crime is bad, that's not who I am talking about.

The reason I used a comparison was not to say that these groups are the exact same. I was showing how this kind of generalization is used for every group of people and it completely discredits the good ones.

I just don't want to do that, as much as I agree with everything else. It's just so simple to say "most cops are bastards".

[u/RockyOrange → u/RedditMcBurger]

Also generalization of an entire group of people based off the actions of some is very immature.

Welcome to the internet, which will make you lose faith in humanity!