More Officers Were Fired for Killing Porcupines Than for Killing Breonna Taylor

[sheshe2]

Dark humor, far to close to the truth.



Let me first just say that porcupine lives matter.

Two Maine police officers were fired and criminally charged in connection with the beating and killing of 11 POC. (Porcupines of color...because I’m pretty sure they’re all black and brown although, to be fair, I’ve never actually seen a porcupine. I’ve also never met anyone from Maine but I will reluctantly concede that the state exists.

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It’s unclear what led to the deadly use of force on nearly a dozen members of the porcupine community, but I have a few guesses.

First of all, those piners with the hard R were probably resisting arrest. I’m sure they were asked several times to put down their weapons and those pesky PLM terrorists refused. Never mind that their weapons are attached to their backs, when a cop tells you to put them down, you put them down.

The only thing I’m sure of is that the senseless killings of these poor creatures didn’t happen due to the botched execution of a search warrant obtained through sketchy circumstances—way too many firings and criminal charges came out of this for that to be the case.

I will admit that this was a clear case of species profiling. I mean, I’ve never seen this kind of thing happen to polar bears or albino hedgehogs. (Of course, those damn raccoons stay in the Sunken Place thinking respectability politics will ensure that extrajudicial killings will never happen to their black and brown asses, but they all find out the truth when they become roadkill and their bodies are just left in the streets and shown no respect.)

The Root

[LakeArenal]

1. Really sadly funny. What a country you live in.

So glad we got here just in time to never go back.

46 interminably slow moving days.

Good luck to us all.