Comment on Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoACAB applies even for the nice and genuine cops.
It’s about criticisms of policing as an institution, not individuals
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
No, ACAB literally means “all cops are bastards”. It removes room for ambiguity. It’s not like someone saying “fuck the police”. And then they can say “I mean the institution”.