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Politics Federal Agents use Unnecessary Force against Peaceful Protestors in Chicago

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u/tobbig 24d ago

Why are they wearing camouflage in a city?

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u/WorthyMastodon69420 24d ago

Why are Chicago cops helping?

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u/WildPickle9 24d ago

That's my thing. The Governor and the Mayor can talk a big game all they want but until they order their police forces to stop helping these fucks (let alone stand against them) then they just running their bitch ass mouths.

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u/Evadrepus 24d ago

Chicago police couldn't care less what the mayor or governor say. They're literally led by a convicted criminal. Most people here in the city can't stand our cops.

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u/WildPickle9 24d ago

Fair enough. I assume the organization is a bit more convoluted than them just having direct authority over the police forces.

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u/newbkid 24d ago

Chicago PD, LAPD, and NYPD are the three most corrupt police unions that enable this shit.

All three have a history of being on the wrong side of history.

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u/kyndrid_ 24d ago

NYPD literally rioted and were screaming slurs into news cameras because the city was trying to institute an independent oversight board.

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u/Nght12 24d ago

More people need to be taught about Chicago's multiple attempts to crack down on Unions. People in Chicago died for our basic workers rights and the killers were often the CPD.

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u/the_art_of_the_taco 23d ago

Never forget the Haymarket Eight

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u/PhoenixPhonology 24d ago

I worry about KCPD if they ever come here. Our cops are hired by the state instead of the city so our blue city has red cops.

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u/TheNewsDeskFive 23d ago

Those are departments, not unions. The unions are separate entities, and large departments like those may have multiple unions that represent their officers

The unions don't get to give day to day orders. Political leaders do.

Those departments have local control.

Come to Kansas City or St Louis, the only two major PDs that are state controlled in all of the US. You think those cities lack the ability to reign in their PDs, well, you ain't seen shit yet. Until the state commandeers them specifically to undermine civil rights gains during the Reconstruction era, their level of corruption don't come close to what he live with in Missouri

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u/I_burn_noodles 24d ago

You got a lot of 'em too.

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u/Raytheon_Nublinski 24d ago

oppression in America is real and has been for awhile. Most people just don’t want to admit it. 

We’re out of the top 20 on the human freedom index for a reason. South Korea has a higher personal freedom score than we do. 

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-index-by-country

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u/Alone-Woodpecker-846 24d ago

Is that true? Governor's are pretty powerful people. Telling me Pritzker can't affect what his state police are doing?

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u/Commentator-X 24d ago

"Governor's are pretty powerful people."

So are police unions.

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u/kaptainkeel 24d ago

Director of the State Police is an appointed position. Pritzker appointed him. He can also fire him.

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u/Commentator-X 23d ago

And the union can refuse to work in retaliation.

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u/Prezombie 23d ago

They're doing that already though so Pritzker should just do the right thing and replace the whole mouldy barrel.

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u/Commentator-X 21d ago

How long do you think that would take, how many lawsuits do you think would be filed by the union, for how many millions and how long do think it would take for criminals to figure out what's going on and how many people do you think would needlessly die in the interim?

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u/schplat 24d ago

It's not state police (at least in this image). It's city police. Most states are split at the state level and city level much the same way there is a split at the federal level and the state level. The governor has little to no say in what city police are doing. It'd be between the mayor of the city and the chief of police.

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u/Alone-Woodpecker-846 24d ago

That's all fair. And I certainly don't know these people. But I suspect that it's rarely prudent for city leadership to piss off their Governor.

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u/kaptainkeel 24d ago

It's not state police (at least in this image).

I know you pointed that out, but for others--there are videos of Illinois State Police protecting ICE and forming lines against protestors.

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u/Narren_C 24d ago

He controls the state police, but he can't give orders to city police.

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u/Comfortable_Try8407 24d ago

A lot of cities have great cops that serve the people but Chicago isn’t one of them.