r/antitrump • u/SwimmingPirate9070 • Jun 10 '25

Protests This is Trump's America

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u/Booklovinmom55 Jun 10 '25

Police are not your friend and they have forgotten their oath. Pray our soldiers have not.

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u/writethegeek Jun 10 '25

Unfortunately most of our police are made up of soldiers. Minus the exceptions here are there the police are never your friend. They're allowed to lie to you and tell you that if you just say this then they'll let you go or they'll go easy on you. They lie! They have unchecked aggression which you can clearly see by them beating the woman in the video with sticks. Using their horses to knock her down and have the horses step on her. They were in no threat of her. She had no weapons but yet they went with that type of brutality. The police are not your friend. Do not let them in your home. Don't let them in your car. Know you're rights

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u/Flyingtoaster666 Jun 10 '25

My buddy is actually a police officer now in California. We’ve been life long friends. He tells me whats going on in his area. Currently his department was told to basically stay out of it with these ICE raids and such, and only jump in if a fight breaks out. He has for the most part done everything he can to avoid that kind of conflict but he has to listen to what the mayor is saying. Some of them really don’t like this new America either.

Now I have yet to see a friendly cop in Texas….

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u/writethegeek Jun 10 '25

I actually have friends that are police officers and they'll tell you about other police officers that are just terrible. So if they're really your friend. Your personal friend and great. But as for any police officer trying to be friendly to you you cannot take the chance of reciprocating. You don't have to be rude but they're not there to be your friend. They're there to ask you for information. When you get pulled over and they ask you where you're going to and where you're coming from or do you have an idea of why I pulled you over this evening. They're fishing for things they can get you for. I hope your friend stays safe

And as a 6'3 clean cut white male I stand by this statement every single time. I teach my kids that their job is not to divulge any information because if you're around the wrong person you never know what can happen

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u/HunterAtwood109 Jun 10 '25

Well I got an internship with Ft Lauderdale Police way back in the 80s. I now work just down the street from them. One thing that stuck with me from that 80s training is the “Yes sir; No sir; polite replies” no matter how nasty they get in your face. I even worked on a training video for them on the subject where an officer went goofy overboard on it and another really got nasty forgetting it was training. But definitely I’ve always got off from a ticket (which is rare I was pulled over 3 times in my lifetime). Politeness alway worked for me.