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alp227

(32,025 posts) Mon Mar 3, 2014, 05:19 PM Mar 2014

Miami police chief lays down law to cops: Get unruly again and you will be arrested

A day after dozens of Miami police union members stormed City Hall and interrupted a commission meeting, Police Chief Manuel Orosa laid down the law: Do it again and you’ll be prosecuted.

An investigation has been promised.

Last Thursday, while commissioners were conducting city business, a peaceful rally in Peacock Park just down the street turned into a road trip, with unionized officers marching into nearby City Hall and demanding that the city restore benefits taken away over the years to help balance the budget.

They held up signs that read “Low pay, low morale.” They banged against glass windows. They shouted until commissioners left the dais and put a halt to the meeting.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/03/3971543/miami-police-chief-lays-down-law.html

This is just too funny...a police chief threatening to throw the book at his own officers for once.

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Miami police chief lays down law to cops: Get unruly again and you will be arrested (Original Post) alp227 Mar 2014 OP

Thugs will be thugs. jsr Mar 2014 #1

Treat 'em like you would Occupy: 1000words Mar 2014 #2

+1 jsr Mar 2014 #4

"Don't interrupt the guys who write the checks; go back to beating up the brown people, guys!" Scootaloo Mar 2014 #3

They Should Be Out Shooting Innocent People Dead SoCalMusicLover Mar 2014 #5

This reminds me of that cartoon....... socialist_n_TN Mar 2014 #6

jsr

(7,712 posts)

1. Thugs will be thugs.

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 05:24 PM

Mar 2014

1000words

(7,051 posts)

2. Treat 'em like you would Occupy:

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 05:25 PM

Mar 2014

jsr

(7,712 posts)

4. +1

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 05:48 PM

Mar 2014

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)

3. "Don't interrupt the guys who write the checks; go back to beating up the brown people, guys!"

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 05:47 PM

Mar 2014

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)

5. They Should Be Out Shooting Innocent People Dead

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 06:29 PM

Mar 2014

Not storming City Hall.

Give them all doughnuts, and send the little piggies on their way.

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)

6. This reminds me of that cartoon.......

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 06:48 PM

Mar 2014

I saw it first during the Occupy protests (or maybe it was Wisconsin). Two fatcats are walking behind a barricade of cops who were protecting them from an angry mob. One is saying something like, "I hope this blows over before they realize we stole their pensions too."

I don't expect this to spread very much anyway. For some reason, cops are the very LAST to turn on the owners in a revolutionary situation. The military turns, or turns neutral, before the cops do. In fact usually the cops never turn, they just abandon their jobs.

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