BTW, the ‘white shirts’ don’t know how to use a baton, and, in fact, violated written rules on use. You never go for a head shot because it doesn’t work and will only results in a bloody scalp wound that rarely stops the person hit. It is much more effective used to jab soft tissue or against the lower arms if someone is armed.
I would love to sit in on a roll call for the street cops, because I’ll bet that the complaints about the conduct of the ‘white shirts’ are flowing. The regular cops have to live on the streets when this is over, and they aren’t going to be happy about all of the animosity being created by the ‘bosses’.
]]>That said, you’re right, this is exceedingly strange, because at the Toronto protests the Toronto equivalent of a white shirt simply issued the order, he didn’t wade into the crowd himself. On the other hand, there’s also another explanation: That the white shirts are concerned that the street cops might not follow orders if they order the street cops to start beating peaceful protestors. Remember, the street cops are union. And they’re protected by both the union and by civil service as long as they follow written policy. Beating protestors for no real reason is contrary to written policy. I don’t know about New York, but in Texas I was indemnified against personal lawsuit only insofar as I followed district policy, if I violated district policy I was toast, so if someone had ordered me to violate district policy I would have immediately demanded that they put it in writing and not done a thing until they did so, and only after filing a protest for my personnel file. So the white shirts wade into the crowd and try to provoke a violent response that would justify them giving the order to the blue shirts to wade in and start busting heads. Which doesn’t seem to be happening. Hmm. Think the protestors have out-thought the white shirts?
And a final alternative is, of course, that the NYPD is padded by a huge layer of political appointees above the street cop level and that’s why we see so many white shirts at these incidents, sort of like the stereotype of four Streets Department supervisors watching one Streets Department worker digging a ditch. Naw, NYPD *couldn’t* be padded by such a huge layer of useless political appointees, something like that *never* happens :twisted:.
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