• BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world
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    The RPD pointed out that an attorney for the Abbouds had released home security footage of the raid online, which the police said made releasing the body camera footage redundant. At the same time, the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might expose confidential information about search warrant execution or damage officers’ reputations.

    You busted in a door and pointed an AR-15 at a baby. Your reputation should be fucking damaged.

    Raleigh police “wrongfully executed a ‘Quick Knock’ warrant”—meaning they kicked in the door before the Abbouds had a chance to open it[…]

    This is just a no-knock raid. Let’s not pretend knocking on a door a half second before pulling out the battering ram is some magical third category of warrant: no-knock raids should be banned, and whatever the fuck these cops did should be considered a no-knock.

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      Man, the world has gotten to the point where obvious logical inconsistencies don’t even register as surprising anymore. Somewhere in my brain I still know that they should but I’m so desensitized to them that I can’t even laugh about how absurd they are.

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        Hate to break it to you, but the world has always been full of logical inconsistencies and you are just more aware of them as more information has become available.

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          I’m well aware of that. That doesn’t change the fact that I was raised to expect them to be dealt with rationally once recognized. Most of us were.

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            Being told that anything will be dealt with rationally is actually one of the logical inconsistencies.

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              OK Mr. Contrarian. You’re right and I’m wrong. Now that we’ve established that please find something interesting to contribute to the discussion or move on.

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                I didn’t spend 7 years on my doctorate in contrarian studies to be called mister!

                My response was supposed to be agreement. Maybe it needed to be phrased differently, but I was agreeing that it was yet another thing that we are told that doesn’t match reality to anyone paying attention.

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                  lol fair enough. This response was funny either way so all is forgiven. Apologies if I misunderstood your intent.

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    “We can’t release the footage, it would be dangerous.”
    But the family agreed to release it.
    “Not dangerous for them, dangerous for me!”

    Whole thing seems like a poorly written SNL skit.

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      And how the fuck can this judge decide “it has no public interest?” That shouldn’t be something one person gets to decide.

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    Nobody has written a hit song called “Fuck the Fire Department!”

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    It’s very dangerous for them to expose their complete and repeated incompetence to the public. One of these days the public might even think that cops might be capable of doing something wrong.

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    the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might damage officers’ reputations.

    RPD attorney Sherita Walton said that the raid was “valid on its face” and insisted that none of the officers did anything wrong.

    State Bureau of Investigation agents confused Abboud with a neighbor who is also of Arab descent—the police refused to pay for the damage

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    abolish the police. We don’t need these gangsters breaking down our doors like that in our community

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    If enough “dangerous” body camera footage got out, someone might finally do something about it.

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      I don’t know anything about this, so forgive me if I’m being ignorant, but is there some way to hack the footage and post it online?

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        There’s always a way. It’d likely be through social engineering rather than technical means. All comes down to having a Snowden-like person willing to put themselves at risk of prosecution to pull it off.

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    Man, these cameras sure sound dangerous.

    I mean, what are the poor police supposed to do? Not be a bunch of cunts? That’s not why they got into this job!

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    “Releasing the footage might harm their reputations.”

    Don’t you just station your troops in a different district and call it a day?

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    it will be fucking dangerous, yes. Professional suicide, even! And I like being the law, cuz it means you ain’t.