Wilshire@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agoA teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000.apnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkA teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000.apnews.comWilshire@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months ago…which gets paid to the teen by the taxpayers rather than the police union, which should be paying.
minus-squareNeon 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️🌈@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoWhy should the police union be held responsible? if a steel-worker breaks a machine, do you also wanna hold the union responsible? no, this was this single specific person. He should be held reliable, noone else. Collective punishment is not a good thing, you know?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoBecause the unions shield the cops and fund their legal defenses and because that single person is almost never held responsible. Also, I don’t know what you think corporal punishment is, but it isn’t that.
minus-squareNeon 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️🌈@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·5 months ago*collective Punishment. Speech to text does funny things sometimes. So if a worker somewhere breaks something, every single employee should be held responsible for that?
…which gets paid to the teen by the taxpayers rather than the police union, which should be paying.
Why should the police union be held responsible?
if a steel-worker breaks a machine, do you also wanna hold the union responsible?
no, this was this single specific person. He should be held reliable, noone else. Collective punishment is not a good thing, you know?
Because the unions shield the cops and fund their legal defenses and because that single person is almost never held responsible.
Also, I don’t know what you think corporal punishment is, but it isn’t that.
*collective Punishment. Speech to text does funny things sometimes.
So if a worker somewhere breaks something, every single employee should be held responsible for that?