James Finn
2 min readApr 23, 2021

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Brutal cops are already circling the wagons. Did you see the New York Times report that talks about how many cops in Minnesota disagree with the Chauvin verdict? It seems leadership are making all the right noises, but rank and file cops wanted Chauvin found innocent.

Those rank and five cops are brutal thugs.

Police culture in the United States is all about brutal thuggery. Cops are taught to be violent, they’re pressured into being violent, and like my ex-state-trooper friend once told me, most of them come to like it. His words are that “they get off on it.”

I was watching CNN yesterday, listening to a cop with a police union try to explain that the problem of police violence is more complicated than Americans understand.

He actually said in defense of police violence that it’s important to understand that cops also often kill white people too. My jaw dropped as the CNN anchor just kind of blinked and looked astonished.

Then the cop went on to explain that a big part of the problem of unjustified killings is that people don’t comply with cops' commands.

The anchor blinked again, looking like he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

A cop went on national television and cited the unjustified killings of white people to defend the unjustified murders of Black people. Then he said in as many words that not following the orders of a cop is justification for murder.

This is so indicative of the problem we face. That cop who was on CNN yesterday is a pig. He is an immoral, disgusting piece of shit. And he doesn’t even understand how fucked up he is.

The fact that he is so representative of police around the country is a huge part of the problem.

The anchor called him out mildly and then just continued to question him and treat him like a normal person.

That’s another huge part of the problem. When cops are pigs, we have to call them pigs. We have to let them know how disgusted we are and how we will not accept their depraved ways of thinking.

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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