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Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling

A very US-brained comment.

I’ve attended multiple pride events/marches and I’ve been very glad of police presence. Every year there’s at least one bigot who tries to start a fight with someone on a march, and the police quickly put an end to it.

Even aside from that, it is extremely stupid to want to drive a wedge between police and LGBT people. That will just make people less likely to seek help from police if they’ve been the victim of something, and further emboldens bigots in attacking LGBT people.

We are not the USA. Our police forces are not US police forces.

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OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Left leaning police is an oxymoron

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- TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It really isn’t.
  
  Police in the UK are generally not right wing. Why would they support people who hate them, slash their numbers, slash their funding, and gave them pay stagnation?
  
  The UK police is not like the US police where Republicans are clearly allied with them.
  
  US brain has hit you hard.
  
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  - OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You are delusional if you think police is anything more than a tool of the status quo to maintain their power and do their dirty work. It doesn’t matter the country. Just a few recent examples: 1 2 3
    
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    TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Your proof of the police being right wing is that they arrest people for supporting terrorist groups? Christ on a bike…
    
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kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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- TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Then your experience is very, very different to mine.
  
  I think you are gravely mistaken if you think you’d be safer with no police. There is no shortage of people that want to attack LGBT people. If you think they’d leave you alone, think again. Knowing that there’s no police to assist would only embolden them.
  
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  - catty@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I think you are gravely mistaken if you think you’d be safer with no police. There is no shortage of people that want to attack LGBT people. If you think they’d leave you alone, think again. Knowing that there’s no police to assist would only embolden them.
    
    bradshawadvisory.com/…/violent-crime-victims-by-g…
    
    There are more male murder victims than females. The above does not distinguish between trans/non-trans. Sadly, around 30% are with no suspect charged.A
    
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