Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
This is so stupid IMO, police is an authority, and you should be able to trust them.
But they are allowed to set traps for you, and then they act surprised when people don’t trust them. 🙄
bottom line: never trust any authority. there may be authorities that help you resist worse authorities, but that doesn’t make them good, that makes them a temporary expedient on the path to freedom. sideeye them the entire time you’re working with them
Any authority that is legitimately good and has your interests at heart doesn’t need you to give it trust. It will earn your respect and support, and trust should be unnecessary because transparency would make the “…but verify” part effortless.
When I was a kid in the 60s, I remember hearing calls to “Question Authority,” and I took it to heart, and it became a part of my personality. It’s natural for me to be skeptical of anything I hear from any authority.
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My doctor is an authority. Can I trust her?
trust her expertise, but not her authority. authority is power over another person and there is a history of doctors abusing their power over patients (in particular against LGBTQIA+ and indigenous people)
There’s a reason many of our police are dressed like spec-ops soldiers and drill-sargeants unlike the approachable civil peace-officers of western Europe.
That’s where it all started to break down. You’ve all been asking for this shit to happen by not holding your leadership accountable, who in turn are supposed to hold those who enforce their laws accountable. You don’t ha e either of those things in the USA and now you’ve got this. It’s been waiting on the wings for decades, but the erosion of democracy started long long ago.
I agree, but you make false assumptions about my nationality, honey traps and baiting people into criminal acts are not legal police methods in my country, and police is way more trusted here than in USA.
Although the trust has declined for the past half century, incidentally also a period where police powers have been increased, and police budgets have decreased.
In the 70’s the view of police was overwhelmingly positive here, now it’s more like average.
USA however is a dystopia of legal hypocrisy and systemic injustice, and police overreaction due to incompetence.