Nonsense.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-police-are-still-out-of-control-112160/
The Police Are Still Out of Control
I should know.
By FRANK SERPICO
In the opening scene of the 1973 movie “Serpico,” I am shot in the face—or to be more accurate, the character of Frank Serpico, played by Al Pacino, is shot in the face. Even today it’s very difficult for me to watch those scenes, which depict in a very realistic and terrifying way what actually happened to me on Feb. 3, 1971. I had recently been transferred to the Narcotics division of the New York City Police Department, and we were moving in on a drug dealer on the fourth floor of a walk-up tenement in a Hispanic section of Brooklyn. The police officer backing me up instructed me (since I spoke Spanish) to just get the apartment door open “and leave the rest to us.”
One officer was standing to my left on the landing no more than eight feet away, with his gun drawn; the other officer was to my right rear on the stairwell, also with his gun drawn. When the door opened, I pushed my way in and snapped the chain. The suspect slammed the door closed on me, wedging in my head and right shoulder and arm. I couldn’t move, but I aimed my snub-nose Smith & Wesson revolver at the perp (the movie version unfortunately goes a little Hollywood here, and has Pacino struggling and failing to raise a much-larger 9-millimeter automatic). From behind me no help came. At that moment my anger got the better of me. I made the almost fatal mistake of taking my eye off the perp and screaming to the officer on my left: “What the hell you waiting for? Give me a hand!” I turned back to face a gun blast in my face. I had cocked my weapon and fired back at him almost in the same instant, probably as reflex action, striking him. (He was later captured.)
When I regained consciousness, I was on my back in a pool of blood trying to assess the damage from the gunshot wound in my cheek. Was this a case of small entry, big exi
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Corbell (8819)
3 years ago
NYC, from 1971. Like I said, any police reform you lefties wanted, you could have done decades ago.
You want DEFUND? Go crazy. We will see if the problem WAS the police, once you get them off the streets.
Of your dem cities.
Less talking online, more action lefty. Get to work. Be the change you wish to see in the world.
I wish you luck. You will need it.
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TriumphReq (1857)
3 years ago
Democratic cities and states are those which drive our country forward. California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Michigan is the country's leading medical technology powerhouse. NY is the financial capital of the world. Keep struggling righty, we'll keep bailing you out and paving your roads and building your cars as you constantly stumble and wallow around in your redneck mudpits.
How does that saying about the levels the truth goes through?
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860)
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Corbell (8819)
3 years ago
So, all those previous points you raised, and I addressed, you're just dropping those right? You're admitting you were wrong then, but you are insisting that your side still has SOME value?
Considering that you didn't challenge any of my counter points, that seems to be what you are doing. Was that your intent?
What line do you have, to know when lefties go too far?
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TriumphReq (1857)
3 years ago
You're just talking to yourself now. You haven't addressed nor been able to counter one point. You're totally clueless and tow the mainstream line. All you do is deflect, change the subject, fail to follow along the conversation and avoid. True marks of a liar.
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Corbell (8819)
3 years ago
You are a troll and now you are gas lighting.
Why do you want to pretend this nation is wacist? What does that do for you?
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