Police taking selfies with Donald Trump sparks outrage: "Disgraceful"

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Police taking selfies with Donald Trump sparks outrage: "Disgraceful" - LemmyWorld

A video showed a large group of uniformed officers posing for a photo with the former president and shaking his hand at Los Angeles International Airport.

What? Like, I don’t like Trump either, but would this be a complaint if it was Obama? Come on.

If Obama had stolen a bunch of top secret documents, bragged about sharing then with people who weren’t allowed to see them, and subsequently been on trial for a bunch of pretty serious crimes, then yes.

Police officers posting for selfies with a criminal who’s currently on trial is a bad look.

Top secret documents seem to be an issue for Biden too, granted that’s a tiny fraction of the issues one could take up about Trump that aren’t even a thing for Biden, but still.

Let me give you two hypothetical scenarios.

  • I go to a store, buy some stuff, forget to scan something at the self checkout machine, and leave without paying. When I get home, I realize that I didn’t pay for something, so I go back to the store, apologize to the clerk, and pay for it.

  • I go to a store, intentionally hide some stuff in my coat, and leave without paying. When the store realizes that I’m trying to leave without paying. When they confront me, I deny it and accuse them of having “gellis12 derangement syndrome.” When they call the cops on me, I refuse to cooperate with the cops. When the cops find the stolen goods on me, I refuse to give them back. When the cops forcibly take them back, I go online to rile up an angry mob and tell them that the stolen goods weren’t actually stolen because I thought about paying for them and that should be good enough, before telling the angry mob to attack the cops.

  • Of these two purely hypothetical scenarios, which one sounds worse?