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anal_opera t1_j8m2h5h wrote

That whole article is anti-woke republican propaganda. Police dogs don't have shit to do with slavery. It's ridiculous when cops let the dog keep biting someone who's already handcuffed, but the democrats are not coming for your dogs. Jesus fuckin christ these idiots.

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temporarycreature t1_j8m4yds wrote

The cancerousness of the link aside, that's just not true at all, modern policing is based on the Slave Patrol of yore in America, as well as around the islands and Nations in Latin America, in the earlier days, and they most certainly used dogs to hunt down slaves, and they most certainly use dogs to kill slaves. They called them Slave Hounds.

This article draws upon archival research and the published materials of former slaves, novelists, slave owners, abolitionists, Atlantic travelers, and police reports to link the systems of slave hunting in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and the US South throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Slave hounds were skillfully honed biopower predicated upon scenting, hearing, sighting, outrunning, outlasting, signaling, attacking, and sometimes terminating, black runaways. These animals permeated slave societies throughout the Americas and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion, indigenous extirpation, economic extraction, and social domination in slave societies.

Y'all are disappointing.

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anal_opera t1_j8m5qq1 wrote

And what does that have to do with today's police dogs? Nobody said dogs weren't used to track slaves, you added your own context there and then complained about it.

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neon_trotsky_ t1_j8mg55z wrote

Did you know that slave owners also did this thing called breathing? Stop being racist, stop breathing! /s

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temporarycreature t1_j8m674i wrote

Did you bother reading anything I said, or any of the link I shared?

Had you, you'd not have asked a question like you just asked or made the response you just did. Are you here in bad faith?

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anal_opera t1_j8m6civ wrote

Go away. You're more annoying than the article.

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TheTayzer t1_j8nw9ki wrote

i feel weird agreeing with you when you have that username... lmao
or should i be singing my ass off?

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temporarycreature t1_j8m88mo wrote

Facts get in the way of false beliefs. Guess all that systemic racism appeared overnight in America, huh? Can't be traced back to heinous stuff like this.

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HATECELL t1_j8m2nze wrote

"oh no, the police is ordering domesticated wolves to sink their teeth deep into someone's arm instead of perforating them with lead. How can we make this about race?" - the journalists

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heatlesssun t1_j8qdj0e wrote

>How can we make this about race?

Not much of a journalist if you have to think about this one because it's easy.

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Viandle t1_j8m7012 wrote

How about you ban criminals from committing crimes first?

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sprint6864 t1_j8nowa1 wrote

How about we acknowledge that stopping cruel and unusual punishment is literally in the Constitution

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Butch1X1 t1_j8ntgax wrote

It’s not a punishment, just the way to stop the suspects from being shot..

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sprint6864 t1_j8nto7f wrote

It's cruel and unusual, and is gross that I even have to tell people that being a suspect doesn't mean cops can openly shoot you or sic animals on you

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Butch1X1 t1_j8nxbgq wrote

If You run away from the cop, then I have some bad news for You.. You have to stop, otherwise the police will (have to) use some force.. If You lucky then it is not a deadly force aka. a very well trained police dog. That will only catch You and take to the ground, and until then cop gets there and take it off from You, You will have some time to philosophize about why that running was a bad idea. ( It’s survivable pain, personal experience..)

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sprint6864 t1_j8o0137 wrote

No. Cops do not have the right to use force like that. Please kindly stop promoting Fascist ideology with such gusto

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Butch1X1 t1_j8pbvus wrote

I could tell the philosophical and legal background of it, from the roman law to Hobbes, but I don’t think it is necessary. It’s enough that the police use force at times as part of the social contract in which force is required to ensure peace.

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Angelwingzero t1_j8sj9ap wrote

...they already are...that's what makes behavior a crime. Police are the recourse when a person breaks that ban, or the law as some know it.

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