The city of Olympia, Washington, will pay $600,000 to the family of a Black man shot and killed by police in a settlement that also stipulates that officers will be banned from personalizing any of their work equipment.
Lawyers on Monday announced the details of the settlement of a wrongful death tort claim filed by the family of Timothy Green, who was shot and killed in 2022.
The settlement stops the display of symbols on city police equipment such as the thin blue line on an American flag. The symbol has become associated with Blue Lives Matter, a term which has been used by some police supporters in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Officers had displayed Blue Lives Matter emblems and a sticker reminiscent of the yellow Gadsden flag, with its rattlesnake and “Don’t Tread on Me” message on items at the time Green was shot.
Good. Police are not the goddamned military. They have no excuse to be creating an “us vs them” mindset.
Symbols are rarely the MOST important thing in a specific incident, but from a broader perspective, they matter, and particularly for police, because they’re the living embodiment of government power and need to send exactly zero political messages (beyond whatever is unavoidable by their mere presence).
maybe we need to mandate a minimum 15 pieces of flair. let’s see who the whackos really are. looking at you, Brian.
Too many get the “us vs them” in their training and daily briefings. It’s a systemic problem.
Military can’t really customize their equipment anyway. No bumper stickers on an MRAP.
Relevant Apocalypse Now quote “They train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won’t allow them to write ‘fuck’ on their airplanes because it is obscene.”
they live in cop ghettos because they don’t want to live around the people they oppress.
and by cop ghetto i mean rich people neighborhoods that keep extra rooms/houses around their houses that they offer for cheap rent to police.
cops in the USA are broken
Remember the killing of Daniel Shaver? The one where the cop carved “You’re fucked” into his rifle’s ejection port cover? Yeah that was already against policy. Didn’t stop him from doing it, or killing an unarmed man.
It wasn’t an issued weapon, iirc that was his personal rifle and it also had a tally under the inscription. One can easily deduce what those marks represented.
The shithead murderer cop was also reinstated for 2 days after being suspended because of his murder to then retire with “PTSD” for an estimated 3k/month pension for life.
He was so “traumatized” by murdering Daniel, he requested the gun that he used to kill him back. They gave it to him.
So his punishment for murdering an unarmed man crawling on his hands and knees in tears was 3k/month for life and the ability to put a new notch on his gun.
Cops need equipment that they’re embarrassed to be seen using. Bright pink guns, highlighter yellow cars
Officers had displayed […] a sticker reminiscent of the yellow Gadsden flag, with its rattlesnake and “Don’t Tread on Me” message
Who the fuck do they think does the treading?
Honestly? THEY think the treading is done by regulators trying to hold them accountable, and jackbooted libs with rainbow hair trying to kick in the door and steal all their guns.
There’s a reason you can be rejected from the force for having too high an IQ.
Officers had displayed Blue Lives Matter emblems and a sticker reminiscent of the yellow Gadsden flag, with its rattlesnake and “Don’t Tread on Me” message on items at the time Green was shot.
Anyone who has this flag displayed is automatically sorted into the pile labeled, “sovcit, militia, crazy-fucking-gop.”
I have a patch of the 4Chan “no step on snek” version because I thought it was hilarious. No idea what the cops would think if they saw it
Ironic a cop had a don’t tread on me flag… who the fuck could possibly tread on a militarized police force?
this feels like a departmental rule to cover their own ass. during the trial of the murder of Daniel Shaver, the jury wasn’t allowed to know that the killing officer had “you’re fucked” laser etched on the ejection port cover of the AR he used. this is a “hiding the symptoms” thing
a sticker reminiscent of the yellow Gadsden flag, with its rattlesnake and “Don’t Tread on Me” message
Who do the police think are doing the treding?
We are trading on thier right to kill people old west style (as in the sherif was judge, jury, and executioner)
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