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May 13, 1985 (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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1985 MOVE Bombing

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I remember this craziness. Was insane and of course, it was all considered ok.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I remember this craziness.

I remember that craziness because as a young adult, I was working nearby and saw the smoke clouds.

...and of course, it was all considered ok.

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In the SE USA where I was about to graduate from high school, in the local news it was presented as "inner city terrorists handled with appropriated force"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

a large segment had to admit that it obviously went very, very wrong.

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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 local cops on effective use of Skunk spray

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

fix your shit, america

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How do you police the police?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I dunno... Coast Guard?