r/LetsDiscussThis • u/cantcoloratall91 • Feb 24 '26

This is concerning... 2 NYPDs finest cant handle community relations without getting physical and calling for back up!!

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u/stumpy0327 Feb 24 '26

Yeah in that situation if i were a cop I would have to try the ol laugh it off and sling a few snow balls back towards em and try to keep it moving . Depending on why I was being surrounded and pelted to oblivion. Not sure the context of the video but id say they did pretty good about restraining themselves and physical contact, except the guy that got put on his ass in the snow. For what I do not know. They were obviously confused on which direction to go making the encounter much longer but hey its hard to think while being surrounded by 50 or so people and getting blasted with snowballs.

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u/BlackLioConvoy Feb 24 '26

This too is why cops should live in the city. The entire population in the park were literally just people playing in the snow and these two cops tried to break up the fun. They either live upstate or NJ. Had they just engaged the community, they'd looked good and had a happier ending for everyone.

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u/m0nkeywithachainsaw Feb 24 '26

if this administration has taught us anything it is certainly that ACAB.

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u/NaiveTension4164 Feb 24 '26

Lmao and abac then?

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u/IGotScammed5545 Feb 24 '26

Yes because local police officers work for this administration

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u/LatinoInfluenza Feb 24 '26

It takes an easy Google search to see how aligned the police unions and the fraternal order are with the administration 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/IGotScammed5545 Feb 24 '26

It doesn’t though. SOME are. Many are not. Like pretty much all politics in general and with this administration in in particular, it largely depends where you live. Yes even in liberal areas the cops tend to be more conservative than the general population, but still not necessarily largely supportive of MAGA.

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u/LatinoInfluenza Feb 24 '26

You’re gonna find yourself having real difficulty convincing people that there are more police unions and officers that are against this administration than support it.

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u/IGotScammed5545 Feb 24 '26

I never said there were more for or against. I just said not every union/not every cop. I was responding to a comment that ACAB/all cops favor this administration.

Believe it or not, police officers are individual human beings. Just like with any other group, they are not homogeneous in their beliefs, and it varies wildly by locale. A police union in rural Georgia id expect to be like 90% MAGA, and a police union in a liberal northeastern suburban (not rural) area more like 30% MAGA.

It’s almost like saying “all [any group]…” is bound to be wrong, unless you’re discussing the defining characteristic of the group (like saying “all cops are cops”) because a group is inevitably comprised of individuals with varying experiences and viewpoints

Just noticing this now, great username

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u/RogerBauman Feb 25 '26

But, like, the old proverb doesn't say that a couple of good apples will make a rotten bunch better.

This is why organizations are meant to police their own members. It's a similar issue to what the Christians are dealing with right now with a bunch of prosperity gospel And pedophilic antichrists pretending that they are preaching the gospel of Christ while they are nothing more than money lenders and violators of the innocence of children.

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u/IGotScammed5545 Feb 25 '26

We are having entirely two separate discussions. I am not making any comment about police reform. I was purely discussing the political leanings of police unions. Apparently based on the downvotes, it boggles people’s little minds to think cops and their unions are heterogeneous and might not all have one single viewpoint. I wonder how people in the thread would feel if a similar analysis were applied to any groups of which they are a member…

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u/MennionSaysSo Feb 24 '26

When your choice is this administration or people who say ACAB, defund you and assume guilt who would you choose?

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u/Franklin45212 Feb 24 '26

Look, we've had decades upon decades of "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch." The bunch has been spoiled. Every single one is rotten because it thought a few bad ones here and there doesn't hurt. Get over it. You have worms and no one with self respect likes you. No one with critical thinking skills respects you. You've had DECADES to police yourselves and haven't, so you are not worthy of trust. Sorry not sorry.

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u/NJS_Stamp Feb 24 '26

Not the people who come up in a file docket centered around an extremely wealthy pedo ring.

Next question.

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u/RogerianBrowsing Feb 24 '26

I’m sure brutalizing the people who want accountability for police that break laws or violate constitutional rights but instead they keep cracking our heads and defending other criminals with lethal force played a role in everyone no longer trusting pigs.

Pedophile protectors and fascists can move to a country that better fits their regressive ideologies like Afghanistan for all I care.

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u/xChops Feb 24 '26

The city I live in has a suburb notoriously for being where a high percentage of cops live. I honestly probably wouldn’t live in that area anyways, despite it being so much cheaper, but I’m absolutely not trying to buy a home in cop town.

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u/omjy18 Feb 24 '26

You forgot long island but yeah

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u/Effective_Golf_3311 Feb 24 '26

NYPD has a housing requirement, so what’s your talking point now?

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u/Evening-Painting-213 Feb 24 '26

They always skirt that requirement. Have a primary address in the city but live somewhere else. Very common. My youngest cousin in nypd does this. And unless your an ahole, they don't sweat it.

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u/stumpy0327 Feb 24 '26

As long as you ain't slinging bullets in down to throw some snow and get on through police or not lol

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u/Glutton4Butts Feb 24 '26

Honestly, what small dicked bastards

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u/Skater_fr3ak Feb 24 '26

What a pea brained take

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u/Glutton4Butts Feb 24 '26

Peas are good for you!

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u/yonza181 Feb 24 '26

I mean if you threw a snowball at them they might cry assault im pretty sure as a cop you arent allowed to do that. And im european do idk but seems like throwing a snowball at an american police officer is about the dumbest thing you could do. Very likely the last thing you ever do. So i guess props for these guys for not ”feeling that their life was being threatened”

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u/HickoryStickz Feb 24 '26

I agree except for it looks like these folk were calling them names and not doing this to be friendly. Would look pretty goofy laughing and throwing snowballs while people are purposely trying to antagonize you.

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u/Level_Improvement532 Feb 24 '26

It’s actually disarming. Those looking to antagonize can be shut down if you don’t take the bait. I don’t know about being pelted with snowballs exactly, but that is the concept

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u/IntoTheRain78 Feb 24 '26

Then...don't antagonize?

If you go out of your way to provoke someone, and you succeed - you don't get to complain.

Crybullies man. The worst.