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SmokeyBare t1_jbgqjtw wrote

School employees aren't paid enough and are ridiculed by parents and media when they try to intervene. Parents are overworked and can hardly afford groceries and rent these days. So, we have a generation that basically nobody cares about, empowered with technology we can hardly grasp. It's all a recipe for kids who don't respect teachers, parents, or society. Our priorities are shit, so we get shitty kids.

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pegothejerk t1_jbgnupz wrote

Someone’s failed the students many times before it got to this. Likely multiple someone’s, at school and at home. Yes, stuff is complex, yes, everyone is so busy it’s hard to be there to parent, yes we use schools as baby sitting, and yes, teachers have their hands tied by ridiculous rules and fears. Those things don’t mean we aren’t failing them, and it doesn’t mean we stop trying to figure out how to make it better. I’d personally like to start by paying teachers more to attract better trained teachers, I’d appreciate it if extremists would stop using schools to shape the communities in their image, and I’d appreciate it if we had higher standards for administrators along with holding them accountable in ways other than how much they spend and what test scores look like.

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The_Amazing_Shaggy t1_jbfxt89 wrote

CNN updated the headline:

> Court orders delay in release of additional Tyre Nichols footage as DOJ announces review of Memphis Police Department

> Sink and Allison Fouche, a spokesperson for the city, both confirmed the delay to CNN on Wednesday. In a statement, Fouche said the court’s order dictated “that no video, audio, or records related to the City’s administrative investigation may be released until further order by the court.”

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The_Amazing_Shaggy t1_jbfg5w3 wrote

Video evidence can get unwieldy with a quickness. Each police car should have a dash cam. Each police officer should have a body cam.

13 officers have been administratively (not criminally) charged. That's 26 different camera perspectives alone.

There may also be private owned security cameras that recorded portions of the crimes being committed by LEOs. Some ambulances and fire trucks are cammed up now as well.

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photon45 t1_jbfa6eo wrote

Oh Mephis police are trying to do the Tucker Carlson Jan 6th treatment to this huh?

"As you can see, these guys weren't at all violent when there wasn't a black kid on a skateboard."

"As you can see, Mohamed Atta was just flying a plane to New York, he had no intentions of hitting that tower."

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Englishgrinn t1_jbf9jg4 wrote

There have been numerous deaths at the hands of police that received national attention, and countless other that didn't. Every one was, at minimum, a tragedy; At the very least a tremendous shortcoming of modern policing. Others were straight up atrocities, all too common abuse, racism and cruelty masquerading as law enforcement.

But the ones with recordings always hit harder. It did with Eric Garner. It did with George Floyd. It absolutely did wity Tyre Nichols. Thats why efforts to stop or outlaw the filming of police is bullshit. Their actions either stand up to public scrutiny or they don't. These are murders and they shouldnt be able to hide by misleading reports or straight up lies.

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