• @stonerboner
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    1716 days ago

    Does anyone actually consider a prosecutor a cop?

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        416 days ago

        I call myself Robocop. Does that make me a police officer, too?

          • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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            1316 days ago

            “You need to know the difference between cop and prosecutor, stupid progressives.”

            She literally calls herself a cop personally and branding

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              I’m progressive, so your weird quote is even weirder.

              I never think lawyer when I hear ACAB. I do think “fuck lawyers” all the time, but rarely towards public servants (I mostly dislike corporate and greedy defense attorneys)

              Are ya’ll just lumping them together out of convenience of disliking both, or do ya’ll really not understand the difference between a lawyer and a cop?

              • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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                216 days ago

                If she calls herself a cop, despite not being a cop, I can call her a cop.

                Is she one? No. But it’s weird that when she uses it in her branding, and people use that branding at critcism, we’re the naive idealists for saying “Cops aren’t going to solve fascism.”

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              I don’t get the down votes. The article say it’s a label. She didn’t hold a position of a cop. I feel it’s a valid question. Is a DA (District Attorney) a cop?

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              • @stonerboner
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                116 days ago

                Absolutely not. They are a legal officer, which is very different from law enforcement. They work at separate parts of the legal process with very different goals.

                DA’s get stuck trying to clean up the trampling of rights by actual cops.

                • @RedditRefugee69
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                  110 days ago

                  Hitler never personally gassed any jews, so he wasn’t a nazi?

                  • @stonerboner
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                    116 days ago

                    Exactly. A lot of people just love circlejerking that literally everyone in the justice system is a cop

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        Easily more influential. Broader scope, that’s for sure, and in a strong position to either amplify or counteract the typical “cop bullshit”, depending on their choices.

        ETA: don’t think many of them work very hard at the “counteracting” side. To put it mildly.

      • @stonerboner
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        -416 days ago

        I guess you consider court clerks cops, too. And the reception workers. And the maintenance workers, right?

        Lawyers are not cops. Lawyers have their own issues, but different from cops and not at all the same thing lmao

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      No, police requires minimal education and training. Prosecutor is a lawyer, doesn’t carry a gun or shoot innocent people.

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        They only lie, hide evidence, and cover for the cops to put people in jail. But yeah you’re right, the education makes all the difference! (Let’s forget that cops in other countries get a metric fuckton more education and they aren’t all that different). Both serve mostly to protect the state and ruling class’s interests.

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        116 days ago

        They arent an officer though. They are basically an attorney that represents the government in a criminal case. They are the ones that decide rather or not to persue criminal charges to present to the court.