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Police taking selfies with Donald Trump sparks outrage: "Disgraceful" (www.newsweek.com)

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A video showed a large group of uniformed officers posing for a photo with the former president and shaking his hand at Los Angeles International Airport.

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[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago

Some of those that work forces...

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

are the same that burn crosses.

[-] rbhfd@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Read this as "a large group of uninformed officers" and that also made sense.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I mean, they did fight for their legal right to hire unqualified people.

[-] Spacebar@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Authoritarians love their wanna be dictator.

[-] jetsetdorito@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Why are they so excited? I see Cheetos every time I'm at the store

[-] Tigerfishy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but never on an airplane, airplanes are ALLLLWWAAAYYYSS those nasty little salt-less pretzels

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Like follows like. Bastards love other bastards. ACAB.

[-] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Wow look, it's the LASD, you know, the sheriff's dept that literally has gangs, including one called "the executioners", doing something shitty and most likely illegal.

Why am I not surprised?

[-] Potato_in_my_anus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

They despise the socialist unions, the irony.

[-] Techmaster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe they only appeared to be shaking his hand, but in fact were actually stink palming him. "Hey, Mr President, would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?"

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hatch Act violations across the board. By doing so they are saying the LAPD endorses Trump.

[+] BB69@lemmy.world -28 points 1 year ago

What? Like, I don’t like Trump either, but would this be a complaint if it was Obama? Come on.

[-] Gellis12@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

If Obama had stolen a bunch of top secret documents, bragged about sharing then with people who weren't allowed to see them, and subsequently been on trial for a bunch of pretty serious crimes, then yes.

Police officers posting for selfies with a criminal who's currently on trial is a bad look.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://youtu.be/HFJaoGHz5p4?t=62

[+] Shadywack@lemmy.world -15 points 1 year ago

Top secret documents seem to be an issue for Biden too, granted that's a tiny fraction of the issues one could take up about Trump that aren't even a thing for Biden, but still.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I mean, the situations are completely different. Biden (and other VPs and former presidents, including Mike Pence) have found they had classified information on hand, and immediately turned them over.

Trump kept them “secret”, lied about having them, them, ignored requests to have them returned, showed them to people who didn’t have clearance, lied about having more when the first batch was taken, and apparently lost at least one, or is again lying about having some.

This is like saying a pat on the back is the same thing as being hit with a bolder and almost dying.

[-] Gellis12@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Let me give you two hypothetical scenarios.

I go to a store, buy some stuff, forget to scan something at the self checkout machine, and leave without paying. When I get home, I realize that I didn't pay for something, so I go back to the store, apologize to the clerk, and pay for it.
I go to a store, intentionally hide some stuff in my coat, and leave without paying. When the store realizes that I'm trying to leave without paying. When they confront me, I deny it and accuse them of having "gellis12 derangement syndrome." When they call the cops on me, I refuse to cooperate with the cops. When the cops find the stolen goods on me, I refuse to give them back. When the cops forcibly take them back, I go online to rile up an angry mob and tell them that the stolen goods weren't actually stolen because I thought about paying for them and that should be good enough, before telling the angry mob to attack the cops.

Of these two purely hypothetical scenarios, which one sounds worse?

[-] curious_illusions@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Bruh, there was a national scandal because the man wore tan, the outrage would be worse than a "complaint" come on.

[-] 70ms@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Are you really trying to draw an equivalence between Obama and Trump? Bruh.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You know what the funniest thing will be to come out of the classified document scandal? Trump's German birth certificate.

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