Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill Friday stripping citizen oversight boards of their power to investigate police misconduct.

I keep seeing more and more news that fits here…

  • Rottcodd@lemmy.world
    96·
    9 months ago

    law enforcement officials who support the law say that the boards subject their officers to unwanted scrutiny.

    Exactly. The thugs, thieves, murderers and rapists are uncomfortable with the fact that the public is becoming aware of the fact that they’re thugs, thieves, murderers and rapists, and they want to go back to being able to beat, steal, murder and rape with impunity, and that requires eliminating oversight. So they’re actively moving to eliminate meaningful oversight.

    It really is just that simple.

  • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
    77·
    9 months ago

    This is actually facism. There is no other word that even fits. There is no way to misdirect this. It’s facism

    This isn’t one of those “Everyone I don’t like is a Nazi” type accusations. This is just facism

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 months ago

    This is him moving on from oppressing the racial minorities and moving on to the rich liberals.

    He won’t be able to win if people can vote.

  • REdOG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    I make a motion to restructure the board into a tribunal. We haven’t had the table since the wrestling incident anyway.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    331·
    9 months ago

    As I said in another thread, who the fuck is opposed to extrajudicial killings? Police need to be able to kill to keep us safe. Also, I need a lot of guns.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 months ago

      Nobody is forbidding police to kill. They are making it illegal for anyone else than the police to investigate if the killing they do was justified. And this is wrong. Investigating one self is bad. Making it the only method is even worse

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzOP
      8·
      9 months ago

      Wait wait, maybe they have a point. Since the whole point of civilian oversight was to stop angry mob justice maybe this means they want the stupidly heavily armed general populous to bring back traditional mob justice. I mean whats the worst that can happen when the most armed people in the world distrust the police to this degree?