British cops try to break up an anti-lockdown protest. Key word: TRY.
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This is pathetic. Why did they do this? Whoever gave the order for them to move in is completely and utterly incompetent. Putting aside the fact that they never should've been there in the first place since these people were doing nothing wrong, they obviously weren't properly equipped and had no idea what they actually wanted to achieve. They made themselves sitting ducks and can consider themselves very lucky that none of them were injured beyond a few cuts.
See, the police are used to people like this just relenting and giving up their shit. The problem is that when they are already explicitly anti-you, you're not going to be able to use your authority to convince them to be compliant. This is because they don't respect yo authoritah.
I'm just passing out some basic-bitch counter insurgency lessons here.
The day the Right takes up the ACAB slogan, is the day the praetorian guard lose all their authority. They have the options of enjoying their power while it lasts, or going on a unified front to say to their political overlords "fuck off".
Even Ontario, as shit as it is to its citizens sometimes, had its police forces unified in saying "fuck off, we're not enforcing your new law" to its leader, which I'm sure bought a lot of public approval for them, and will allow them to keep their authority and power for a while longer in that area.
Enforcement is a negotiation. It doesn't look like one, but it is one. And right now, the police have less bargaining power than ever. They need to bring something to the table that the public wants.
I think the issue in trying to make the Right say ACAB is that a lot of our police arent like that. For instance, my governor says masks are required. My sheriff doesnt give a damn. I have seen him walk into the local gas station to get his morning coffee, and he just waves at everyone and saying "Morning" and doesnt even give them a second look if they arent wearing mask. And that is the attitude of most police in Right-leaning areas. And on the riot front, my local cities have not spared the rod and mercilessly beat BLM and Antifa until they got the hint that they should leave, and so we have seen only minor crime spikes, especially compared to other cities who are seeing double, or even triple, digit percent increases in crime.
So is it any wonder that around here we still fly the Thin Blue Line flags and say "We love our cops!"? And yet, a lot of the people who fly those flags, when you bring up departments like the LAPD or NYPD, the response is "Screw'em, until they learn who they should be serving."
A lot of the Staties seem to be pretty squared away. Portland's police, when just left to do their job also seem to be pretty good too.
The New Orleans Police Department? Holy shit, no. Those guys have been shady as fuck for decades.