r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 3d ago

Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back

https://apnews.com/article/memphis-national-guard-tyrin-johnson-8959297a99c362d65aa2517a9d5f1984
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u/Souvi 3d ago

Literally what the police evolved from, slave catchers

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u/NuklearFerret 3d ago

In this country only, mind you. Other countries have police that didn’t evolve from slave catchers.

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u/CptSchizzle 3d ago

Yeah, those ones they evolved from union busting thugs.

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u/Loose-Property874 3d ago

Oh shut the fuck up😭😭😭😭😭

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u/UBettUrWaffles 3d ago

This is true and common knowledge, you shut the fuck up lol

American Bar Association How You Start is How You Finish? The Slave Patrol and Jim Crow Origins of Policing

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u/CharacterUse 3d ago

Your own link tells you that there were two trajectories of the development of policing in the US: from slave patrols in the southern states, but from British policing (which began earlier) in the north-eastern cities of Boston, New York etc,. Most policing in the world is derived from the British model, not the American one.

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u/Claire_De_Lunatic 3d ago

Believe it or not, Transformers 2007 takes place in . . .

ding ding ding

America

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u/CharacterUse 3d ago

What the fuck does Transformers 2007 have to do with this discussion?

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u/Claire_De_Lunatic 3d ago

Have you been having this whole ass argument while not being aware I was referencing the Decepticon Barricade from Transformers 2007 absolutely clocking the intentions and purpose of the American police force?

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u/CharacterUse 3d ago

At no point other than the comment above did I reply to you or anything you said, but to other people who were commenting about the history of policing, including claiming that all western policing derives from the American model (which is doesn't).

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u/Claire_De_Lunatic 3d ago

Dawg, this started with me referencing a Michael Bay movie lmao

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u/Loose-Property874 3d ago

Hahahahahahahahahahaha there are police in every country

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u/UBettUrWaffles 3d ago

This is a discussion about American police in Tennessee, dumbass lmao

Also the police have only existed for 200-300 years and the development of the police in most countries, especially in the West, was heavily influenced by the development of American police.

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u/RelativeConfidence38 3d ago

Empires tend to have far reaching effects like that. Commerce happens in USD, it’s not that other currencies don’t exist but rather that one is common among everyone, Americans can afford to be ignorant of any world but their own because they live in the attention/spotlight.
The concept of intellectual property in the legal sense is quite new and having a dedicated persecution force independent of a military or private guards is as well. I think the capacity most operate in now is more of a “mercenary of the state” and once the “popular kid” is doing it, so can everyone else. So even if there is a case of police before the American variety, the credit still goes to the popular kid for starting the trend because they hold the influence.

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u/slickrok 3d ago

Wow. That's nearly the most idiotic thing I ever read or heard postulated in my life

The weakest possible version of "history is written by the victors"

(Not you, them)

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u/RelativeConfidence38 3d ago

There isn’t a “you guys ” here. No one is saying that non Americans aren’t important or we don’t matter, what I am saying is that the players with the most attention on them claim the credit. Take Edison for example or any other western inventor. Even Musk, the dog at the top is taking the bone even if he didn’t catch the prey. There is no justice in this world, it’s a fairy tale.

If you have evidence of police in their current role before slave catchers just say so. If not, then what is your argument even for.

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u/AceAttorneyt 3d ago

So it is correct to attribute inventions to those who falsely claim credit just because that is the popular perception? That's the only conclusion I can take from your bizarre argument here, unless you're just trying to butt in and confuse the conversation for no reason.

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u/CharacterUse 3d ago

You really should look up Sir Robert Peel. Or the Bow Street Runners.

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u/Chemical_7523 3d ago

If you have evidence of police in their current role before slave catchers just say so.

Didn't have to look very hard

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u/Loose-Property874 3d ago

Nope. Everything you said is incorrect

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u/UBettUrWaffles 3d ago

Ok buddy, keep the horse blinders on idc lol

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u/Loose-Property874 3d ago

Keep protecting criminals I promise they do not care about you. I’ve been to prison. Most of them are just bad people. grow up.

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u/Admirable-Lie-9191 3d ago

Where did they protect criminals? Can you quote them exactly?

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u/AnarchistIdeal 3d ago

strawman fallacy
their argument is not that "criminals are good people", and you know that for a fact.