Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin Found Guilty Of All Charges" video.

  1.  @igvc1876  That's not the right answer. Thanks for trying.
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  2. Protect and serve whom?
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  3. As much as 40, but likely much less.
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  4. Been hearing them gloat for months about how the prosecutors overcharged and Chauvin would walk free. Oops.
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  5.  @igvc1876  Uh, no. Take your bullshit somewhere else kid. Police protect and serve power, capital, and white supremacy. Always have; still do.
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  6.  @igvc1876  The assumption that police would only be concentrated in areas of capital is unfortunately for you not borne out by history in the slightest. One of the functions of modern policing is to manage the externalities of capitalism, like the poverty and the crime it generates, crime being a socially, culturally, and historically mediated-phenomenon. Police occupation of poor and racial minority neighbors is absolutely in service of the interests of power, in more diffuse, systemic ways, but also in glaringly obvious ones, like the intersection between criminalization, incarceration, racism, and private companies profiting from prison labor, or how the police took over from private security the task of monitoring and quelling strikes or other forms of protest. Maybe you should educate yourself on this topic before pretending to lecture others based merely on a few naive assumptions.
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  7.  @igvc1876  You conveniently completely ignored my point, and no, I'm not ignoring statistics. I'm explaining what those statistics mean. Statistics can lie. Facts don't make sense by themselves. They need a theory to tie them together with greater or lesser degrees of probability. You've chosen to accept a very naive, very superficial, and heavily propagandized version of policing. I reiterate that you should try to educate yourself on the history of police in America and their role in present society first.
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