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Charlottesville Police Chief Resigns

posted by martyb on Friday December 22 2017, @08:06PM   
from the planned-to-fail-or-failed-to-plan dept.

aristarchus writes:

So it seems that the Chief of Police in Charlottesville is going to resign.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Alfred Thomas, the police chief in Charlottesville, Virginia, has announced his retirement on Monday after 27 years of law enforcement service. The decision comes just weeks after the release of a critical review of his department's reaction to a violent white nationalist rally over the summer.

[...] Earlier this month, former U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy released findings from a monthslong investigation into law enforcement's response to the violent rally in August. The report criticized Thomas' "slow-footed response" and found that police failed on multiple fronts, leading to "deep distrust of government" in the local community. It also found a lack of preparation and coordination between state and city police and a passive response by officers to the chaos.

State police and Charlottesville police were unable to communicate by radio the day of the rally because they were on different channels, the report said, and commanders "instructed their officers not to intervene in all but the most serious physical confrontations."

All I can say, is that it was a good thing the antifa were there to do the job of the police, defending people from violent attack.

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• Re:IRC on this one Re:IRC on this one (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Spamalope on Saturday December 23 2017, @03:47PM (1 child)

  by Spamalope (5233) on Saturday December 23 2017, @03:47PM (#613628) Homepage

  Socrates? Far fewer Athenians would have been murdered/died through betrayal if the Athenians has executed him the first time he was caught at treason. Which of his teachings to combat stupidity is your favorite?

  • When he taught the sons of the wealthy (.01%ers) that they're better than other Athenians, that they should rule them and that democracy and individual freedom are a crime against the natural order
  • When he encouraged them to form secret societies (death squads) to establish the natural order (murder their opposition) - pro-democracy Athenians kept an armed guard or died when Socrates class was in.
  • When he encouraged them to hire mercenaries to take the city by force, paid for through the estates of the murdered
  • When he encouraged his students to betray Athens to the Spartans that time no mercenaries could be hired

  Frankly the rhetoric has more in common with the fascists, but the practice is so incredibly similar to what marxist/collectivist movements always actually do (some sociopath and his clique are always more equal in 'equality for everyone' movements, eh? And anyone who says different is never heard from again... odd how that always happens - except this time will be different that wasn't true )

  I'd be in the 'let the fight it out' then clean up whoever makes it camp, but they're annoying and I don't see a reason to give the political grifters more distractions to hide behind. And some of those kids will grow out of it and be people worth keeping around once they've seen enough personally for disillusionment to break the wrote ideological spell.

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• Re:IRC on this one (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday December 24 2017, @12:58AM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday December 24 2017, @12:58AM (#613754) Journal

  That is some pretty whacked revisionist history you got there, Spammy. Tell me again about the death squads! Wait, wasn't that under Spartan occupation? What about the damn Romans? And the Turks? And Alcibiades? Not to mention the Sicilian Expedition. Socrates was just a infantryman in the Peloponesian War, you know. And he was a Stonecutter by trade. Working class. Maybe you are thinking of someone else?

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