Here's how smart these celebrities are.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZOYHNvMO3M

It's perfectly safe, chickenshit virtue-signaling, because they know such an outrageous thing is not going to be done. So, these attention-seeking drooling imbeciles can do all of this meaningless public posturing with their "demands" and they know that all of it is nothing more than a bunch of play-acting which makes them appear how they wish to appear.

Reminds me of the scene in Get Shorty where Chili and Karen are meeting Martin at the restaurant,

Chili:
What kinda food they serve at this Ivy place anyway?

Karen:
Continental, but it doesn't matter. Martin won't order from the menu.

Chili:
Why not?

Karen:
Because a movie star can never order straight from the menu. They have to think of something they have to have that isn't on the menu.

Back in the 1970s I was part of a protection detail for Hanoi Jane. She was giving an anti-Vietnam speech at ASU and we had very credible intel of a local nutjob who said he planned to do her harm. He had the means to do it.

Our political chief did the one thing that I was always proud of him for saying: "I want you so close to her that when she farts, you'll know what she had for her last meal." We never got burned...and we never smelled her last meal.

For days we followed her and the nutjob. Nutjob got arrested when he tried to enter the ASU auditorium. I doubt she ever knew.

^^^^^ I'm not in a position or had the training to do that, but, had I, I'd probably have turned down that assignment.

flashguy

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I'd probably have turned down that assignment.

Sometimes you just have to take an assignment.
I know the Air Force pilot who was tasked with flying Hillary around back in the day. He didn't like her, but he did his duty.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Can’t seem to care

I have been really, really trying for the last 3 hours. Do not GAS what these knotheads think, do, or say.

Best advice I have seen on this was that the LEOs in that jurisdiction should not respond to calls from those idiots!

Link

Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police:

If you’ve been tuned into the Minneapolis public safety scene, you know that for years, Reclaim the Block and other grassroots community groups have been asking the city to do one thing: stop investing in policing.


Budget meeting after budget meeting, they’d turn out with their petitions and signs, demanding the city put less money into its police department and more money into programs that stop crimes from happening in the first place – affordable housing, addiction counseling, violence prevention programs.

The council's been listening.

“I think we’ve had a vision for a while of wanting to see another kind of city response to those [911] calls,” says Council Member Steve Fletcher, whose Ward 3 covers parts of downtown.

Calls about mental health crises could be answered by mental health professionals. Calls about opioid abuse could be answered by addiction experts. Instead, both get cops, usually armed.

But it’s one thing to think that’s a good idea and another to get it done. The city has “struggled” to put any of these reforms in place in a substantial way, Fletcher says.

Then George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police.

Now the council members are listening to a city that is wounded, angry, fed up with decades of violence disproportionately visited upon black and brown residents. Various private and public bodies – from First Avenue to Minneapolis Public Schools – have essentially cut ties with the police department. Council members are trying to figure out what their next move is.

Their discussion is starting to sound a little more like what groups like Reclaim the Block and the Black Visions Collective have been saying for years. On Tuesday, Fletcher published a lengthy Twitter thread saying the police department was “irredeemably beyond reform,” and a “protection racket” that slows down responses as political payback.

“Several of us on the council are working on finding out what it would take to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and start fresh with a community-oriented, nonviolent public safety and outreach capacity,” he wrote.

I would agree to defunding the police if we also defund:

-obamacare
-US department of education
-ATF
-EPA
-food stamps/EBT
-federally backed student loans

I'll wait...

A city or state could actually do it if they wanted too right? Have at it. Be the first to reap the rewards. Any takers???

Who will implement their gun control wet dream if the police are defunded and/or disarmed? I don't think they have really considered how much the left relies on force to pursue their own agenda.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
A city or state could actually do it if they wanted too right? Have at it. Be the first to reap the rewards. Any takers???

Hell, as a test run, just pull the Oakland cops into the precinct house for a week and see what ensues. People will be begging for the cops to patrol again.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
A city or state could actually do it if they wanted too right? Have at it. Be the first to reap the rewards. Any takers???

If you sign that you should automatically be put on the opt out list. So if you need the police, so sorry.

This is the president of the Minneapolis City Council and another council member on Twitter. These fools are actually going to try to do this. Can't wait to see what this new model of public safety looks like...

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Originally posted by Edmond:
I would agree to defunding the police if we also defund:

-obamacare
-US department of education
-ATF
-EPA
-food stamps/EBT
-federally backed student loans

I'll wait...

I'm all for defunding government.
I think left and right should agree that we have way more government than we want to pay for.

I actually hope they do this in a few cities. I'm honestly not sure what will happen. I don't think it would be good, but who knows. If they figure out a better way, I'm all for it. If they all get killed and their city burns, I think the others will learn something. For science!

Sometimes you don't appreciate something until you lose it. I honesty want to see the experiment if they want to try it.

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Originally posted by esdunbar:
I actually hope they do this in a few cities. I'm honestly not sure what will happen. I don't think it would be good, but who knows. If they figure out a better way, I'm all for it. If they all get killed and their city burns, I think the others will learn something. For science!

Sometimes you don't appreciate something until you lose it. I honesty want to see the experiment if they want to try it.

Let the animals kill each other, that's what Denzel said in Training Day.

I just read where the Mayor of LA cut the police budget by $150 million

thinking the police should cut his protective detail

Perhaps one of the best examples of the proverbial 'Careful what you wish for.'

Are any of them going to suspend their personal security details? That's a rhetorical question of course.

They'll have to update the 'Oldie but goodie' Thanks famous actors!




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYjfbSZku5Y

Boss

9-1-1. What is the nature of your emergency? Will that be Visa or MasterCard? No, we don't take cash or checks.....