The suspect in the Florida State University shooter, who faces first degree murder charges for killing two and injuring five on Thursday was a member of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a fascist youth group around the Republican Party, and is a registered Republican voter in Florida. The 20-year-old suspect, Phoenix Ikner, is the stepson of Leon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jessica Ikner, who has been with the department for 18 years.
Just had to get that in there, you fucking donkeys.
I saw some of these guys at the protest on Saturday. Someone had a microphone and spent, no lie, about 2/3rds of the time they had the mic aiming vicious criticism at the Democrats. Not “both sides,” not the whole system (that was the remaining 1/3rd), but the Democrats specifically. I thought about making a bigger post about it but I’m not even sure what to say about it. I think there was 0 criticism at all leveled at the Trump administration or anything that they were doing.
Great job guys
Disarming the police does sound like an excellent idea. Police cause more problems than they solve with firearms.
I work in 911 dispatch, a lot of my coworkers are predictably bootlickers.
I can’t even tell you how many calls we get all day everyday where we’re all just left scratching our head going “Why did you call 911,about this? This isn’t a police issue.” But since usually the only tool we have in our toolbox is police, that’s what we end up having to send.
But they’ll balk at any suggestion that maybe our police don’t need a new armored truck and a new police station, and whatever other stupid shit they’re spending tax dollars on, and instead maybe we should spend that money to beef up our mental health services, public works, homeless outreach, animal control, code enforcement, and other services that we could be providing instead of just sending police out to deal with non-police issues.
Luckily, my local police are pretty good as far as police go, not too trigger happy, generally make a decent effort to handle mental health issues carefully, they usually manage to not make things significantly worse, though they often don’t do much to improve the situation either.
I think even with the best of intentions, if two people with guns show up to some sort of crisis, it’s easy to see how that might be, like, the right vibe at the moment.
As the saying goes, if you have a problem and you call the police you now have 2 problems.
as always, “no way to prevent this” says only country that this happens.
Are Australia and UK cops as corrupt as USA cops seem to be?
not yet
I hate how the narrative now is:
Yeah the republicans are bad, but the democrats didn’t stop them from doing the bad in the most perfect way so who’s the real bad guy?
But he used his parents guns. Guns owned by police…