Historically the role of the police was to catch escaped slaves, and to violently break strikes when unionised workers were fighting for their rights.
Their foundation was white supremacist violence and violence against the working class in order to keep wage slaves creating profit for the ruling class.
And that function continues today. The role of the police is literally to use violence to protect the private property of the ruling class and serve their interests.
Are you a working class person who defends the people keeping you enslaved? Then yes, you’re a bootlicker.
scottywh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The “on Lemmy” part of that sentence was completely unnecessary.
Zippy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A cop was ambushed and murdered in a post about a month back. It had quite a few comments and absolutely everyone if them was praising it. The down votes I got were a point of pride in telling people how scummy they were. This is a Lemmy problem. Other then some pretty far right websites, few social platforms have this kind of response. Is embarrassing.