WTF Bad boys, Bad boys, whatcha gonna do

what happens if i’m a citizen in trouble and need police assistance that has absolutely nothing to do with these riots and protests ?

just curious


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well, if you need EMS, the protesters let you through but the cops won't

 
again, the second tweet (352) is the pertinent one - idk why i don't know how to link tweets right anymore
 
For @august and @Dory

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In a 4–3 decision, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed the trial courts' dismissal of the complaints against the District of Columbia and individual members of the Metropolitan Police Department based on the public duty doctrine ruling that "the duty to provide public services is owed to the public at large, and, absent a special relationship between the police and an individual, no specific legal duty exists". The Court thus adopted the trial court's determination that no special relationship existed between the police and appellants, and therefore no specific legal duty existed between the police and the appellants.



The Supreme Court reversed the Tenth Circuit's decision, reinstating the District Court's order of dismissal. The Court's majority opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia held that enforcement of the restraining order was not mandatory under Colorado law; were a mandate for enforcement to exist, it would not create an individual right to enforcement that could be considered a protected entitlement under the precedent of Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth; and even if there were a protected individual entitlement to enforcement of a restraining order, such entitlement would have no monetary value and hence would not count as property for the Due Process Clause.

Justice David Souter wrote a concurring opinion, using the reasoning that enforcement of a restraining order is a process, not the interest protected by the process, and that there is not due process protection for processes.


The affirmative duty to protect arises not from the State's knowledge of the individual's predicament or from its expressions of intent to help him, but from the limitation which it has imposed on his freedom to act on his own behalf... it is the State's affirmative act of restraining the individual's freedom to act on his own behalf – through incarceration, institutionalization, or other similar restraint of personal liberty – which is the "deprivation of liberty" triggering the protections of the Due Process Clause, not its failure to act to protect his liberty interests against harms inflicted by other means.


In the spring of 2012, Joseph Lozito, who was brutally stabbed and "grievously wounded, deeply slashed around the head and neck", sued police for negligence in failing to render assistance to him as he was being attacked by Gelman.[21][22][23] Lozito told reporters that he decided to file the lawsuit after allegedly learning from "a grand-jury member" that NYPD officer Terrance Howell testified that he hid from Gelman before and while Lozito was being attacked because Howell thought Gelman had a gun.[24][25] In response to the suit, attorneys for the City of New York argued that police had no duty to protect Lozito or any other person from Gelman.[24]

On July 25, 2013, Judge Margaret Chan dismissed Lozito's suit, stating that while Lozito's account of the attack rang true and appeared "highly credible", Chan agreed that police had "no special duty" to protect Lozito.
 
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and who made this rule that they are not obligated ? the cops themselves ? the government? who


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Cops are agents of the state and as such are obligated to enforce the laws of the state. They are under no obligation to protect you from anything, for you are not the state.

Maybe it's better in Canada.
 
On another note, shit's been pretty good here since last Monday. After last weekend the paid agitators and out of town rioters and local idiots who thought they could take advantage of the situation all left or figured out they better sit the hell down and it's been vast, vast majority legit protest, peaceable assembly and redress of grievances since then. It's a beautiful thing.
 
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