Frank Figliuzzi: "One incompetent cop is a concern; 57 is a culture"

[Dennis Donovan]

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Frank Figliuzzi ✔@FrankFigliuzzi1

One incompetent cop is a concern; 57 is a culture: 57 Buffalo officers resign from Emergency Response Team after two cops suspended #BuffaloPD

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/501378-57-buffalo-officers-resign-from-emergency-response-team-in-response-to …
57 Buffalo officers resign from Emergency Response Team in response
The entire Buffalo Police Department Emergency Response Team has resigned after the department suspended two officers without pay when a video surfaced showing them pushing over a 75-year-old

9:23 AM - Jun 6, 2020

The Blue Wall needs to come down before more people are injured or killed.

[The Magistrate]

1. The Gentleman Is Quite Right, Sir

Not one of these people is fit to enforce the law.

[Lokee11]

2. The Nazi's were just following orders too!

Those 57 can take their Nuremberg defense and shove it straight up their asses. Bye Bitches!

FDT

[2naSalit]

3. They only quit the team, not the police force...

they still have their jobs.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. They should be fired for this act

...and fuck the police union. As much as I am loathe to union-busting of ANY sort, the ones associated with the police have become criminal enterprises.

And Frank Serpico. Never forget Frank Serpico.

[2naSalit]

5. Good reminder.

[paleotn]

7. For now.

[2naSalit]

8. Hopefully not for long. ...nt

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Trump tries to install his own Deep State but exposes both flanks of the power behind the throne

"a skiff made of paper" I think is a quote attributed to John Hancock. Rule of law requires enforcement and physical power. It also becomes over time subservient to institutions, norms, organizations. America needs re-schooling on many levels.

[demmiblue]

9. Yep, a culture of toxic masculinity. n/t

[PatrickforO]

10. Just following orders doesn't hack it. We've got to get common sense back

into law enforcement.

[dewsgirl]

11. K and R

[oasis]

12. Figliuzzi hit the nail on the head. nt

[c-rational]

13. K&R. They should all be fired and outed, and while we are at it all Police Unions and Police

Benevolent Societies should be disbanded.

[3Hotdogs]

17. Unconstitutional.

-- but I hope their resignation from the special unit comes with a reduction in pay.

[The Magistrate]

19. They Can Be Fired And Their Union De-Certified, Sir

Nothing in the Constitution bars either action.

[jrthin]

21. Unconstitutional? Really? What section?

[3Hotdogs]

22. I think its called the First Amendment,

somethin' about the right to assemble.

[jrthin]

23. No one is doubting or arguing their rights to assemble.

What I am arguing is, the cops who resigned from the task force are public servants. When public servants are condoning inhuman behavior, then they have forfeit their rights to serve the public. They can say anything they want. But in condoning their fellow police officers egregious behavior, they have lost the public trust. They have communicated that they, too, see nothing wrong with the two officers conduct. THAT! makes them unfit to serve as public servant. It has to do with their conduct not their Constitutional right.

[jrthin]

20. +100000. The police union is a

very large problem! Many of the union presidents are the orange turd supporters. And, nothing in the Constitution says these 57 police officers shouldn't be fired. Further, for those 57 officers to view the video of the elderly gentleman being shoved and left bleeding, feeling that's that okays says we don't need officers like that serving the public. They are a danger to the public.

[Boomerproud]

14. He was on Real Time last night.

Good man.

[Dukkha]

15. This required a page from the Reagan playbook

"If they do not report for work they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated."

[plimsoll]

18. Yep.

I hate the union busting, but the GOP is always willing to exempt the Prison Guards and Police unions.

Maybe one of these things is not like the other.

[cayugafalls]

16. Ripped out by the roots. Time to rebuild.

There is no way to discern good from bad at this point.

They are all complicit. Time to erase the thin blue line.

[Hekate]

24. Frank Figluzzi is absolutely right