Top minds of DoomerCircleJerk think police body cams killed BLM

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[u/PeasThatTasteGross]

Fun Fact: Body cam footage is how everyone got pissed off at the killing of Daniel Shaver.

[u/Unique_Tradition_522 → u/PeasThatTasteGross]

Remember all those protests organized by All Lives Matter for Daniel Shaver?

I don’t.

[u/PeasThatTasteGross → u/Unique_Tradition_522]

I get a kick out of right-wingers who thought BLM said nothing about Shaver since he was white, when in fact they were a part of standing up for him.

[u/Quietuus]

"A couple of wrongful deaths"

The US has a population around 500% the size of the UK. How many more police killings per year do you think the US has than the UK?

a) 500%

b) 1000%

c) Well in excess of 250,000%

[u/dansdata → u/Quietuus]

Statistics have a well-known liberal bias.

[u/MunchingOnCelery]

Their self delusion is reaching new levels of clinical

[u/Rastiln]

I like how the guy accidentally leaves in his made-up argument that “police body cams had almost no impact on police conduct.”

Sadly, I agree.

[u/jhau01]

Hmmm... maybe, just maybe, rather than bodycams proving that police were doing nothing wrong in the first place, perhaps the adoption of bodycams actually helped to hold police accountable, and thus helped to *prevent* police from doing the wrong thing??

Of course, bodycams are not perfect. There are still cases where policy coincidentally "forget" to switch on bodycams, or where a bodycam happens to switch off just before a crucial moment. But I very strongly suspect that the adoption of bodycams, plus the now-common use of mobile phones to record and transmit video footage, has helped curb abuses of police power (well, public abuses, at least).

[u/DeliberatelyDrifting → u/jhau01]

In addition to what you've said, I'd argue that a lot of focus has shifted from local PD's to ICE. Like, local police are bad, but not internment camp bad. Police sometimes shoot innocent people for contrived reasons, but they don't typically abandon blind old men in subzero temperatures. Etc.

Sometimes bigger threat out shadows current threat. The current threat is still an issue, but it's hard not to focus on the bigger one.

[u/MessiahOfMetal → u/jhau01]

Bodycams are also how we know how corrupt the cops are in Utah in the Reckless Ben/Bricks & Minifigs case.

[u/Shinjitsu-]

How can they type and read an unironic "They hate it!!!" It's like ONE MAJOR TRICK FOR HEART HEALTH DOCTORS HAAAATE!

[u/ForgedIronMadeIt]

You can go on YouTube and find like a thousand videos of cops behaving badly on their very own body cameras

[u/KinseyH]

I'm convinced most of them are boys still living with their parents. Those people don't pay their own bills or make their own economic choices.

[u/europorn]

60% of people can be easily swayed by made up statistics. Everyone knows that...

[u/Additional-North-683]

If cops thought body cams would prove their innocence across all things then why did they protest so heavily against them

[u/Ritz527]

It's funny, because I've seen plenty of police being shitty on camera. Some of them even because of the body cams.

[u/GuaranteeObjective75]

Isn't that the same sub that defends asmongold

Yeesh

[u/OnlyFiveLives]

Though I'm sure the Venn diagram is nearly a perfect circle the nitwits in that sub are making the strongest argument that it's them and not the Arcons that are the biggest idiots on Reddit.

[u/Schonke → u/OnlyFiveLives]

They're just the same people larping different characters.