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Some closeups of the best graffiti I've ever seen

the nypd doing a mass shooting over a $2.90 fare evasion truly is the inevitable endpoint of the police as an institution and also just the encapsulation of how everything we're fighting is all the same fucking thing at its core. nypd kkk idf you're all the same.

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Four people were struck in the subway shooting, including a bystander who was hit in the head and an officer.

a lot going on in this article and the fact that they didn't let anyone in his family know except by leaving a fucking business card at his mom's door is fucked but i keep thinking about this part:

they handcuffed a BYSTANDER that they shot????? they shot a random guy by accident because they were so incompetent at trying to execute someone over a $3 fare and handcuffed that bystander while he was lying on the ground with a gunshot wound??? and the other bystander who they shot in the HEAD is still in critical condition? $5.8 billion annual budget for this shit

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thinking about lozito v new york city, where a person was brutally stabbed in the face head and neck on a subway car by someone on a killing spree while nypd officers were literally on the subway with them hiding in the next car the whole time and waited until the stabbing victim had disarmed the guy himself before they came in. the cops were literally there to find this killer, they'd been searching for him in a citywide manhunt for like 24 hours and flooded the subway with cops to do that, and the pigs who were there knew it was this guy and even while a random commuter was actively being stabbed in the fucking head they stayed behind a closed door to watch. and when lozito sued, the judge dismissed the suit saying that the police have "no special duty" to protect anyone. radiolab ep on the case:

A look at what happens when the police don’t do the one thing you expect them to.

anyways. "no special duty" to protect the people and yet they're fucking everywhere on the subway all day playing fucking candy crush on their phones. literally all they are there for is to protect the city from $2.90 fare evasions and that's fucking it. i know this is very obvious and not a novel observation that the police don't protect people but the fact that it's the fucking nypd on the subway… just can't stop thinking about these two events together

(more on how The Police Legally Have No Duty To Protect You: fivefourpod ep on castle rock v gonzales, which is also covered in the radiolab ep)