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Nevilledog

(51,209 posts)
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 07:25 PM Oct 2022

Walker: Instead of reforming the police we should "reform the citizens."



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Herschel Walker complained iPhones are being used to record police brutality and instead of reforming the police we should “reform the citizens.”


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Walker: Instead of reforming the police we should "reform the citizens." (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2022 OP
Just how does this brain dead fucker think citizens should be reformed? Autumn Oct 2022 #1
HAHAHAHA!!!! Mike_in_LA Oct 2022 #2
Q: What does one call a large number of 'woke' voters? sanatanadharma Oct 2022 #3
Walker is still campaigning after the bombshell abortion revelations? . Bless his heart. brush Oct 2022 #4
Bombshell to who though? BlueTsunami2018 Oct 2022 #8
It's hopeless to try to change magat's minds. brush Oct 2022 #10
ok, let's start with you, Bozo vlyons Oct 2022 #5
Thank you. nt crickets Oct 2022 #20
And that is the crux of the problem. The police are taught from day one rsdsharp Oct 2022 #6
You hit the nail in the head maxrandb Oct 2022 #23
To self serve and self protect Generic Brad Oct 2022 #24
How about psychological testing of candidates? OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2022 #7
So, lobotomies all around? Midnight Writer Oct 2022 #9
At this point in the seamy Herschel Walker spectacle, it should be journalistic malpractice sop Oct 2022 #11
Starting with him Joinfortmill Oct 2022 #12
Yes, let's send all Turbineguy Oct 2022 #13
He should be disqualified on the basis of his stupidity! kimbutgar Oct 2022 #14
Pull the ring on the back of Walker's neck GenThePerservering Oct 2022 #15
Fascists love citizen reform. GoodRaisin Oct 2022 #16
You fricking FIRST, Hersh Genki Hikari Oct 2022 #17
He's dangerously stupid spanone Oct 2022 #18
Exactly why he was chosen. nt crickets Oct 2022 #21
Agreed spanone Oct 2022 #22
There are 2 kinds of idiots: the ones who know they're confused lindysalsagal Oct 2022 #19

sanatanadharma

(3,739 posts)
3. Q: What does one call a large number of 'woke' voters?
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 07:30 PM
Oct 2022

Q: What does one call a large number of 'woke' voters?
A: Citizen Reform

brush

(53,918 posts)
4. Walker is still campaigning after the bombshell abortion revelations? . Bless his heart.
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 07:31 PM
Oct 2022

Bless his heart.

BlueTsunami2018

(3,504 posts)
8. Bombshell to who though?
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 07:39 PM
Oct 2022

The right doesn’t see it that way. They’ve brushed it off completely. I bang my head up against the wall in a right wing Facebook group every once in a while with people I’ve known for years and they just don’t believe it’s true. There’s no real proof, it’s an October Surprise that fizzled and it doesn’t mean a damn thing to them. Even if there was a video of him performing the abortion himself, they would not care. It’s not going to have any effect.

This absolute dunce may very well win.

brush

(53,918 posts)
10. It's hopeless to try to change magat's minds.
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 07:48 PM
Oct 2022

Last edited Fri Oct 7, 2022, 08:25 PM - Edit history (1)

They're not changing, but it's not enough them by themselves to win the election. IMO they've lost some Indy votes from Walker's abortion hot mess and they need Indy votes to win as this is a close election and we know Dems aren't going to vote for the republican candidate and his hypocrisy.

rsdsharp

(9,208 posts)
6. And that is the crux of the problem. The police are taught from day one
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 07:37 PM
Oct 2022

in THE ACADEMY (cough. . . trade school) that absolutely nothing is more important than that the police go home safely at the end of their shift. Not the Constitution, not civil rights, not procedure, and certainly not citizen safety.

maxrandb

(15,362 posts)
23. You hit the nail in the head
Sat Oct 8, 2022, 09:08 AM
Oct 2022

I posted this a couple years ago after some National Guard helicopter pilots dangerously buzzed some DC protesters at an unsafe altitude.

As a 30 year Navy man, I was appalled at the DC Guards response.
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While speaking on behalf of the Major General in charge of the DC National Guard regarding using a helicopter to intimidate peaceful protester, the spokesperson said;

"Our highest priority is the safety of our Citizen Soldiers and Airmen who support civil authorities as they perform their duties,”

NO MAJOR GENERAL! Your "highest priority" should be the "safety of AMERICAN CITIZENS and our Constitution"!

The safety of our citizen "Soldiers and Airmen" is definitely a "high" priority, but it should not be your "highest" priority.

That mentality puts your Soldiers and Airmen above the Citizens they are pledged to protect.

It's the same mentality that has infected our police forces around the country. We've placed a higher priority on "their" safety than we have on the safety of the citizens they serve.

You join the military, or the police force to "serve". That service comes with inherent risk. You freely accept that risk...at least I did when I took my Oath.

Of course we want to do all we can to ensure the safety of the military and law enforcement, but that safety should never be our "highest" priority

Words have impact. Making their safety our "highest priority", might explain why some of them think it's OK to beat and murder unarmed civilians.

It might explain why police officers feel that they can shoot a 10 year old boy with a toy gun within 2 seconds of arriving on the scene... before their squad car had even come to a stop.

It might explain why police officers feel they can choke the life out of a handcuffed man.

It might explain why a couple of your flyboys decided to put American Citizens at risk.

After all, by your own words, the safety of American Citizens is NOT your "highest priority"

sop

(10,274 posts)
11. At this point in the seamy Herschel Walker spectacle, it should be journalistic malpractice
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 07:58 PM
Oct 2022

to continue covering this man's campaign.

GenThePerservering

(1,840 posts)
15. Pull the ring on the back of Walker's neck
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 08:14 PM
Oct 2022

and out comes GOP gabble - just like the old Chatty Cathy. They just upload new talking points once a week and send him out.

 

Genki Hikari

(1,766 posts)
17. You fricking FIRST, Hersh
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 11:00 PM
Oct 2022

I've never beaten up a spouse.

Or pulled a gun on one (thought about it--didn't follow through).

Or stalked one..

I don't have multiple kids with multiple baby daddies.

I'll go sit over here and wait for the line of bad behavior from rwnjs to die down before I bother getting up for the line to train liberals behaving badly.

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