Comment on May 13, 1985
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I remember this craziness. Was insane and of course, it was all considered ok.
Militarization of the police has been a wild fucking ride over the last 40 years.
Acorn drops and some pimple-faced teenager with a badge goes on a shooting rampage. Then we’re told he needs better training, so we spend another couple million dollars bringing in IDF officers to train on effective use of Skunk spray
by “wild fucking ride” i assume you mean criminal matter, since that’s the only reasonable expectation for bullshit like this - that it’s illegal
to be fair, they “extra training” seems to be learning Hitler quotes and killology(the idea that police killing people is a good thing)
JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I remember that craziness because as a young adult, I was working nearby and saw the smoke clouds.
I’m unaware of anyone at all those days who considered it ‘all okay.’ On the contrary, it put a kind of national spotlight on Philly police’ brutality going back to the Rizzo days, and doubtless contributed to Rizzo never being mayor again. And I think even amongst the folks who believed the bombing was justified, a large segment had to admit that it obviously went very, very wrong.
All that said-- yeah, as a nation I’m not sure we learned a damn thing out of all that. The police certainly didn’t appear to.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In the SE USA where I was about to graduate from high school, it was in the local news it was presented as “inner city terrorists handled with appropriated force”
JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m not surprised there was a deal of confusion about it. It was a complicated affair that doesn’t have much analogue in contemporary history AFAIK.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It wasn’t until I went to university in the fall of that same year in a large metropolitan city with a diverse collection of dazzling urbanites that I was exposed to other points of view.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m just imagining the conversation it took for such a chuckle fucker to knock off that racket. Like ok imagine it’s your baby in the building. walking a person through each scenario as a painful exercise.