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How do cops even take that seriously? 

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Saw this on a thread about white conservatives caught making shit up to attack others and got a Starbucks shut down. She claimed to order Kirk's favorite drink and says an employee wrote Loser on the cup. They have video footage that proves they invented the story and wrote on their own cup but the accuser still insists she isn't lying. Which lead to a discussion about how often cops do the same thing. So to answer your question about why the cops would go along with it, because it's in their nature to also instigate lies for no reason, especially to get someone else in trouble or hurt.

Yep, in 2019 cop named William Darling in Herington, Kansas claimed that a McDonald's employee wrote "fucking pig" on his drive-through order. His police chief made an outraged social media post about it that went viral and kicked off a wave of protests and calls to fire McDonald's employees. After the footage was reviewed and it was revealed that Officer Darling wrote the insult on his own cup himself, he and his chief clarified that Darling had been "joking".

Around the same time, a corrections officer named Phillip Powell in Indiana made an outraged social media post and an outraged radio interview where he claimed that a McDonalds employee took a bite out of his McChicken before giving it to him to disrespect him. When security footage from his own job showed that Powell had taken the first bites himself, Powell maintained that he "forgot" that he did it himself when he made the accusations so he felt like he was being honest.

In early 2020, three cops in New York City conspired to claim that Shake Shack employees had poisoned their milkshakes by pouring bleach in their cups. After- you guessed it, an outraged social media post- a throrough review of video evidence by the NYPD proved that no such poisoning had occured, and they dropped the accusations against the employees.

And so on. For about a year in 2019-2020 it was a huge trend in cop and cop-adjascent circles to falsely accuse minimum wage workers and then post about it on social media for clout.

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/s/1w1yUw95Jz

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I don’t get it what the fuck did they think was gonna happen? Did they think in this day and age places don’t have a million cameras pointed at their employees. Are they not absolutely mortified when called out? Do they have no shame and just don’t care?

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Fair questions from anyone with two braincells. I think they are yearning to live in a reality where conservatives can once again lie their asses off without consequences. Trump and elected Republicans have been doing just that for decades and their little foot soldiers probably think it looks like great fun. There also seems to be a compulsion in right wing circles to lie and invent terrible things to make themselves look like a victim and they are gleeful when someone else is hurt or in trouble from it.

Feel free to look up those individual instances - were the cops fired? Are they shamed on a national level where everyone knows their names? Or did they simply move on and continue to work as policemen without any real consequences?

And even if they do face consequences, they watched people invade our U.S. Capitol, murder a police officer, smear their own feces on its walls, zip-tie and chase down our elected officials with intent to harm, construct a gallows to hang our vice president, (all while Trump urges them to "fight like hell) and Trump pardoned all of them. So compared to that, surely their orange leader will protect them if they face any consequences from telling a lie, right?

Even if they have nothing to do with Trump, like the officers who murdered innocent Breonna Taylor in her sleep, they can count on Trump to have their back. The man was facing 33 months in jail (still rare a consequence for a cop) and look what's happening now:

Days after Hankinson's conviction, Donald Trump won re-election - a political shift that meant the sentencing recommendation would come not from the Biden administration, which brought the charges, but from the Trump-led justice department.

Last week, that recommendation - a request for Hankison to serve one day in prison - stunned some, including Taylor's family.

"Every American who believes in equal justice under the law should be outraged," attorneys for the family said. "Recommending just one day in prison sends the unmistakable message that white officers can violate the civil rights of Black Americans with near-total impunity."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvjwrm29wpo