This is seriously troubling

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I think there are probably too many guys punching officers and getting off with a slap on the wrist.

I think if you punch an officer in the face, it probably should be a felony, regardless of whether the officer has any broken bones from the assault.

Anyway, if it was up to me to decide whether to pass this new law, I would need more information. I would need to know why Bratton feels that they need this law (I suspect it is for the reason I just mentioned)

Again, complete and total fantasyland. You really need to stop speculating on things you know absolutely nothing about.

Bratton is trying to satisfy his incredibly sensitive union heads and rank-and-file, who went on an embarrassing petulance tour when our mayor didn't sufficiently kiss their asses after two cops were killed. That's all this is. More buttressing of the cops' rights to whatever they want and report only to themselves.

Too many people are assaulting cops and getting away with it! Yeah, the cops are the victims, not the perpetrators of too much unpunished violence. That's rich.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Bratton is trying to satisfy his incredibly sensitive union heads and rank-and-file, who went on an embarrassing petulance tour when our mayor didn't sufficiently kiss their asses after two cops were killed. That's all this is. More buttressing of the cops' rights to whatever they want and report only to themselves.

This is completely untrue. They went on their petulance tour because the mayor told his son, "“With Dante, very early on, we said, ‘Look, if a police officer stops you, do everything he tells you to do. Don’t move suddenly. Don’t reach for your cellphone...because we knew, sadly, there’s a greater chance it might be misinterpreted if it was a young man of color.”

Yes, they got mad because the mayor said publicly he told his son if the cops stop him to do everything they tell him to.

They just seized the opportunity to use the funerals as a chance to continue their tantrum, rather than honoring two of their own who died on the job. Horrible, horrible, horrible behavior.

And I don't even like de Blasio! Ugh. This is what the police reduce me to- supporting a politician I dislike. Heckofajob there, NYPD.

I was hit once by a NYPD police car (I was rollerblading in the bike lane on 6th Avenue, exactly where I was supposed to be and cars are not supposed to be). The officers got out and tried to get me to blame the man driving a van making a turn on the other side of me. Three guesses as to what race the poor schlub driving the van was not.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Again, complete and total fantasyland. You really need to stop speculating on things you know absolutely nothing about.

Bratton is trying to satisfy his incredibly sensitive union heads and rank-and-file, who went on an embarrassing petulance tour when our mayor didn't sufficiently kiss their asses after two cops were killed. That's all this is. More buttressing of the cops' rights to whatever they want and report only to themselves.

Too many people are assaulting cops and getting away with it! Yeah, the cops are the victims, not the perpetrators of too much unpunished violence. That's rich.

No, I actually don't make this stuff up as the article below proves. Do you even read the papers or watch any news? Maybe you have become the new Riot and are only getting your news from the Daily Kos. I can guarantee you the push for this new law is a direct result of all the recent assaults in New York on officers. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/ny...idge.html?_r=0