NY Police Union President: "Stop treating us like animals and thugs"

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

New York Police Benevolent Association Mike O'Meara railed against the way the New York Police Department had been treated by the media and lawmakers in a Tuesday news conference.

Protests against the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police officers have occurred in New York City. Demonstrators looted businesses, set fires and blocked thoroughfares. NYPD officers were caught on video acting violently towards protesters. Incidents allegedly provoked by NYPD officers include shoving protesters, using pepper spray on peaceful protesters and driving a police vehicle into a crowd of Brooklyn protesters.

O'Meara said police officers had "been left out of the discussion" during his Tuesday remarks. "Stop treating us like animals and thugs and start treating us with some respect."

"Our legislators abandoned us," O'Meara continued. "The press is vilifying us."

"Nobody talks about all the police officers that were killed in the last week in the United States of America and there were a number of them," O'Meara added. O'Meara also cited 375 million interactions between officers and the public which were "overwhelmingly positive."

Police departments across the U.S. have come under criticism by both members of the public and lawmakers in the wake of the Floyd protests. House Democrats introduced the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 on Monday, a piece of police reform legislation designed to hold police officers more accountable for their behavior while on duty.

Included in the proposal would be a ban on both chokeholds and no-knock warrants. Body and dashboard camera usage would be made mandatory. Local police departments that choose not to make reforms could lose federal funding.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a Monday news conference that the "martyrdom of George Floyd gave the American experience a moment of national anguish as we grieve for the black Americans killed by police brutality today."

In Minneapolis, the site of George Floyd's death, city council members said on Sunday they would disband the city's police force and replace it with efforts within the community to keep the peace. Some cities have discussed shifting monies that would have gone to fund police activity directly to communities.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/ny-police-union-president-says-media-vilifying-cops-stop-treating-us-like-animals-thugs-1509775

[Brecht 7]

[calmar 22,766]

Then stop acting like them

[MJHolland 12,725]

then literally just stop abusing your monopoly on the legal use of violence. end of discussion. 

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

1 minute ago, calmar said:

Then stop acting like them

[Morphine Prince 109,645]

Always playing the victim. 

Police all over the country have shown how barbaric they are during the past two weeks. 

 

[StarstruckIllusion 53,562]

Didn’t 57 of his officers just resign in support of those two officers sending that old man to the hospital after pushing him??

just....  

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

Now they have a very small experience of how black americans have felt for almost 500 years.

[calmar 22,766]

Just now, StarstruckIllusion said:

Didn’t 57 of his officers just resign in support of those two officers sending that old man to the hospital after pushing him??

just....  

That's in buffalo, in the state of new york. This is in new york city, 6 hours away by car.

[likeitrough 5,889]

hol up bitch

[alsemanche 97,796]

[Doot 2]

2 minutes ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

Didn’t 57 of his officers just resign in support of those two officers sending that old man to the hospital after pushing him??

just....  

Ooo I didn't know about this. Do you have a link?

[calmar 22,766]

2 minutes ago, Doot said:

Ooo I didn't know about this. Do you have a link?

https://www.ksby.com/news/america-in-crisis/2-buffalo-cops-say-mass-resignations-werent-show-of-support-but-due-to-lack-of-support-from-union

[stevana229 1,916]

4 minutes ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

Didn’t 57 of his officers just resign in support of those two officers sending that old man to the hospital after pushing him??

just....  

yup. the old man that Trump is accusing of trying to "aim a scanner" to "black out" police equipment 

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

Playing the victim just as they always do.

Disgusting.