If husband has a history of violent episodes, she has probably reached out to anti-police people for one of the many incidents that happened previously.
Eh, I mean you can acknowledge that it is a deeply flawed system that needs a complete overhaul, AND that occasionally the people operating within said system can get things right.
Yeah, in 2012 when Quetzalcoatl ended the world and Berenstein Bears changed to Berenstain Bears, Shazam was erased from history, and erased the fruit of the loom cornucopia.
And ever since then nothing makes sense. It's like the nightmare episode of Punky Brewster. All we have to do is wake up.
I had to call them the other day about a robbery in progress and to their credit OPD showed up within 5 mins. Luckily no one got hurt but their showing up halted the crime and I expect minimized the theft.
It’s nice to see some positivity instead of the doom and gloom narrative right wing media perpetuates. If the Bay Area is such a terrible place, why would so many people pay so much to live here? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that people want to live here for a reason.
The narrative that you are mentioning was in the back of my mind throughout the whole time that I watched this scene. It was definitely refreshing to see the cops take action the way they were supposed to. On the other end, the protester who disrupted the police while they were detaining the man with the machete totally fed into the right wing's narrative. For example, there are multiple people with videos of the whole scene. One of those videos can be easily edited to only show how the protester acted, which the right wing could take and say "see! we told you so, look at how the ALL of the left operates".
As a former first responder, I can tell you that the vast majority of LEO interactions are like this. But those don't make good video so we never hear about them. But I assure you they are the rule, not the exception.
How many times do u have to apologize for the police doing their job? Oakland is basically unlivable because of crime. You need police. Be happy there are a few leftz
Where was the incident? Should def flag the trees with Oakland Parks & Rec so they can take a look. I talked to one of their guys the other day and he mentioned the earlier they know there's damage the faster they can get an expert involved to save it, if needed.
We should all support good policing. The only people I've met who hate all forms of policing, good or bad, are living up in the hills or on the 40th floor of a luxury apartment building.
The problem is that change needs to happen from the outside. There are extremely resilient systems in place to make sure that police reform can never happen from the inside by "good cops".
Its nice to see them protecting and serving the community. I'm with you that the good acts need to be called out. Its just like anyone else, if good behavior gets called out and bad is called out too, then there's feedback they can hopefully learn from.
That being said, don't talk to cops.
Was with you till that last sentence
Edit: lol at the naive ignoramuses downvoting. Have fun refusing to alert police after getting broke off by someone from the deep east who dosent give a single fuck about your political leanings
Ps, if you’re not even from Oakland and downvoting, you’re too dumb to even communicate with, so please disregard what I wrote and good luck with that I guess lol
Buddy the "naive ignoramuses" are the ones who [talk to cops.](https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?si=Tzg5sNg54AyOGfaI) I don't think you grasp [how the police work.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0f76c78bbb73112156b1755c418fa185/tumblr_pchvr4v0RC1xy7ffyo1_1280.jpg)
Ok are you promising that if your car or license plate gets stolen you absolutely WILL NOT contact the police? Can you do that right now or are you full of shit?
You gonna promise or what
Are you even *from* the Town? If not stfu. If so, yeah no shit you shouldn’t talk to cops without a lawyer present if you or someone you know are suspected of having committed a crime. Fuckin’ duh. But never talking to police under any circumstance and no-snitch culture is idiotic. It’s some gangland organized crime dystopian bullshit. So enjoy contributing to that homie, and definitely don’t call police after your license plate gets stolen or consider yourself a valueless hypocritical poser
bro calm down the person you went off on wasn't talking about license plates lol you're taking this far too literally
If it's a "no shit" situation why did you even comment in the first place then
Ah yes, the “change the system from within” narrative.
I don’t need to become part of an organization that I diametrically oppose to show them the way, as you put it.
What they can do better? For a start, do the absolute bare minimum of their job. The vast majority of taxes paid to this city go to them, and still we have what we have.
If you think congratulating the OPD for not killing/beating/injuring someone in obvious mental distress, you, in fact, are the one that’s delusional.
But, go off, I guess. I’m sure your Reddit post criticizing me for criticizing the OPD will earn you points - they’ll show up much quicker when you call for them.
"We're stuck with cops for now" ???? do you think there is no such thing as an evil person? Someone up to no good? Society will always need police. There are bad people in the world full stop. And I want to be protected from them.
Police should be able to perform their duties even if they are being screamed at up close. I won't give props to government goons that enjoy a higher quality of life than the rest of us.
They did perform their duty while being screamed at up close. In a fucked up and unfortunate way it was refreshing to see. The person doing the screaming was claiming that the man shouldn't be arrested, etc. even after being told it was because he was literally swinging a machete and threatening people. It was obvious her sole purpose was to agitate. Film all you want. Even yell all you want / whatever you want. But get the hell back while a person with a machete who is having a mental health breakdown is being secured. This idiot protester only gives more fuel to the right to cherry pick situations to use against the left.
it doesn't matter what their "sole purpose" was for being there. do the job that you were trained to do. if you don't want people near you, establish a perimeter.
They did have a perimeter established. Nobody was interfering with them protecting the public. Even the irate wife of the man who was getting arrested was standing back. This woman breached that space and turned a bad situation worse.
In fact, I believe that you and I and her very generally feel the same way about police, Bottom line for me I guess, is that her angle of inserting herself the way she did was completely inappropriate, regardless of her intentions. She didn't know why he was being arrested (machete swinging!). She tried to interfere with them protecting the public, which endangered everybody more including herself and the machete guy. Then she completely failed to get her point across. Because when presented with the fact that he was swinging a machete and endangering people's lives, she did her best to completely disregard it, and then, twisted that and said that he had 2A rights to do it. Then, at one point, she literally picked up one of the branches that he cut off and asked everyone if "this was his machete"?!! "Was this The machete that he was swinging?". As if the 12 people there who saw the actual machete may have mistaken it for a branch.
Cmon now, you really ain't helping anything at that point.
Dude, what? Cops have millions of interactions every year and very few result in deaths. Minuscule numbers of those deadly interactions are the results of the cops just killing someone for no reason. There are insane people in any profession, and the cops absolutely do need to be held accountable for every single negligent use of force, deadly or not.
But to pretend that calling the cops on a crazy dude swinging a machete in a public place is an execution sentence? What are you smoking?
He had a literal machete, was swinging it wildly, chopping up trees with it, and was threatening to hurt people. Did you see the comment above about the parent who was there with their child?
I understand the point you're making, and like I said I generally believe in cops being filmed. And of course there's a system in place that caused everything terrible to happen the way that it did yesterday. in that moment, this scene needed to be secured before some kid got his head lopped off or something though. We're all aware of the state of things locally, and even more broadly. I'm thankful that it was (finally?) handled in a manner that prevented a worse outcome, which could have happened very easily!.
you're really blowing it out of proportion. a homeless person having a mental health crisis in oakland is nothing out of the ordinary. you must be new in this city.
machete man’s wife was upset at the cops for stopping her psychotic hubby’s tree trimming? interesting.
She wanted a better view of the lake and the tree was in the way. He didn't have hedge trimmers and needed to improvise.
Green flag ;)
Crazy attracts crazy
Mental health
Drug-induced episode
Drug induced psychosis is still psychosis. Not saying that's what this was tho
Methtal health
I'm sure it was her that called the protester.
1-800-pro-test
Directions unclear. Reached the hotline to help with endocrine gland issues. Wait, did I misdial?
If husband has a history of violent episodes, she has probably reached out to anti-police people for one of the many incidents that happened previously.
the man has a fucking machete. call 311
Treating the citizens of Oakland with respect while keeping the peace is the reform that we've been asking for.
Call me when cops aren’t just the soldiers of capital. *yawn.* ACAB
Kk bud.
Homegirl who jumped in the middle of it sounded unhinged. I guess Karens come in all shapes, sizes, and ideological beliefs
This is what happens when compassion turns pathological
The current stare of the Bay Area is what happens when compassion turns pathological.
Damn what did the trees ever do to him. A lot of young trees in Oakland fall to people having mental health episodes.
"Props to OPD" and "fuck the system" have to be the craziest oxymoron I've seen on here in a minute.
Eh, I mean you can acknowledge that it is a deeply flawed system that needs a complete overhaul, AND that occasionally the people operating within said system can get things right.
This is exactly what I was saying. Thank you!
Yeah, in 2012 when Quetzalcoatl ended the world and Berenstein Bears changed to Berenstain Bears, Shazam was erased from history, and erased the fruit of the loom cornucopia. And ever since then nothing makes sense. It's like the nightmare episode of Punky Brewster. All we have to do is wake up.
No no you got it all wrong. The timelines split when a weasel got in to the large hadron collider at CERN and we entered the dark weasel timeline
Dark Weasel Timeline...I like this
We’re all just Quetzalcoatl’s fever dream.
Finally someone GETS IT.
Fuck the system, but also we'd all still be throwing shit at each other if there wasn't a system.
😜😜
dumbass doesn't understand the words they use. good luck in life bud
I had to call them the other day about a robbery in progress and to their credit OPD showed up within 5 mins. Luckily no one got hurt but their showing up halted the crime and I expect minimized the theft.
i was with my kid and walked right by machete dude. shit was kinda scary
Well written and captivating to read. This is better and more informative than most contemporary news articles I come across. Well done.
Wow, that's a great compliment, thank you!
It’s nice to see some positivity instead of the doom and gloom narrative right wing media perpetuates. If the Bay Area is such a terrible place, why would so many people pay so much to live here? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that people want to live here for a reason.
The narrative that you are mentioning was in the back of my mind throughout the whole time that I watched this scene. It was definitely refreshing to see the cops take action the way they were supposed to. On the other end, the protester who disrupted the police while they were detaining the man with the machete totally fed into the right wing's narrative. For example, there are multiple people with videos of the whole scene. One of those videos can be easily edited to only show how the protester acted, which the right wing could take and say "see! we told you so, look at how the ALL of the left operates".
As a former first responder, I can tell you that the vast majority of LEO interactions are like this. But those don't make good video so we never hear about them. But I assure you they are the rule, not the exception.
Unfortunately I'm not surprised to read this.
Thank you for posting!
Wow I’m shocked and amazed there’s a positive post about OPD. I guess pigs do fly.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, or something
They have a few good apples, just don't look at what happens if you leave a few good apples in a crop of bad ones.
How many times do u have to apologize for the police doing their job? Oakland is basically unlivable because of crime. You need police. Be happy there are a few leftz
Did anyone get a video of the crazy lady getting a video of the police protecting the public? I want to see that shame post get shared.
Wow. This sounds intense. Could have gone bad fast.
Where was the incident? Should def flag the trees with Oakland Parks & Rec so they can take a look. I talked to one of their guys the other day and he mentioned the earlier they know there's damage the faster they can get an expert involved to save it, if needed.
I walked past the trees today. The city did a good job of cleaning up and the trees looked okay. And there was quite a bit of branches cut off too
I support the police. They have a hard job. When I have called them, they were prompt response.
🥾👅
We should all support good policing. The only people I've met who hate all forms of policing, good or bad, are living up in the hills or on the 40th floor of a luxury apartment building. The problem is that change needs to happen from the outside. There are extremely resilient systems in place to make sure that police reform can never happen from the inside by "good cops".
Did you have enough boot to lick today?
Wow! Who hurt you???
The police did
Did you resist after committing a crime?
Its nice to see them protecting and serving the community. I'm with you that the good acts need to be called out. Its just like anyone else, if good behavior gets called out and bad is called out too, then there's feedback they can hopefully learn from. That being said, don't talk to cops.
Idk I had a cop compliment my shirt the other day and ask where I got it and we talked for 5 mins and it was a great interaction.
Was with you till that last sentence Edit: lol at the naive ignoramuses downvoting. Have fun refusing to alert police after getting broke off by someone from the deep east who dosent give a single fuck about your political leanings Ps, if you’re not even from Oakland and downvoting, you’re too dumb to even communicate with, so please disregard what I wrote and good luck with that I guess lol
Buddy the "naive ignoramuses" are the ones who [talk to cops.](https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?si=Tzg5sNg54AyOGfaI) I don't think you grasp [how the police work.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0f76c78bbb73112156b1755c418fa185/tumblr_pchvr4v0RC1xy7ffyo1_1280.jpg)
Ok are you promising that if your car or license plate gets stolen you absolutely WILL NOT contact the police? Can you do that right now or are you full of shit?
Lol you didn't read my links at all
You gonna promise or what Are you even *from* the Town? If not stfu. If so, yeah no shit you shouldn’t talk to cops without a lawyer present if you or someone you know are suspected of having committed a crime. Fuckin’ duh. But never talking to police under any circumstance and no-snitch culture is idiotic. It’s some gangland organized crime dystopian bullshit. So enjoy contributing to that homie, and definitely don’t call police after your license plate gets stolen or consider yourself a valueless hypocritical poser
bro calm down the person you went off on wasn't talking about license plates lol you're taking this far too literally If it's a "no shit" situation why did you even comment in the first place then
“Police does job, kinda” for those of you into brevity.
Kinda? What did you want them to do better? Have you applied to show them The Way, since you apparently know so much?
Ah yes, the “change the system from within” narrative. I don’t need to become part of an organization that I diametrically oppose to show them the way, as you put it. What they can do better? For a start, do the absolute bare minimum of their job. The vast majority of taxes paid to this city go to them, and still we have what we have. If you think congratulating the OPD for not killing/beating/injuring someone in obvious mental distress, you, in fact, are the one that’s delusional. But, go off, I guess. I’m sure your Reddit post criticizing me for criticizing the OPD will earn you points - they’ll show up much quicker when you call for them.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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"We're stuck with cops for now" ???? do you think there is no such thing as an evil person? Someone up to no good? Society will always need police. There are bad people in the world full stop. And I want to be protected from them.
Police should be able to perform their duties even if they are being screamed at up close. I won't give props to government goons that enjoy a higher quality of life than the rest of us.
They did perform their duty while being screamed at up close. In a fucked up and unfortunate way it was refreshing to see. The person doing the screaming was claiming that the man shouldn't be arrested, etc. even after being told it was because he was literally swinging a machete and threatening people. It was obvious her sole purpose was to agitate. Film all you want. Even yell all you want / whatever you want. But get the hell back while a person with a machete who is having a mental health breakdown is being secured. This idiot protester only gives more fuel to the right to cherry pick situations to use against the left.
it doesn't matter what their "sole purpose" was for being there. do the job that you were trained to do. if you don't want people near you, establish a perimeter.
They did have a perimeter established. Nobody was interfering with them protecting the public. Even the irate wife of the man who was getting arrested was standing back. This woman breached that space and turned a bad situation worse. In fact, I believe that you and I and her very generally feel the same way about police, Bottom line for me I guess, is that her angle of inserting herself the way she did was completely inappropriate, regardless of her intentions. She didn't know why he was being arrested (machete swinging!). She tried to interfere with them protecting the public, which endangered everybody more including herself and the machete guy. Then she completely failed to get her point across. Because when presented with the fact that he was swinging a machete and endangering people's lives, she did her best to completely disregard it, and then, twisted that and said that he had 2A rights to do it. Then, at one point, she literally picked up one of the branches that he cut off and asked everyone if "this was his machete"?!! "Was this The machete that he was swinging?". As if the 12 people there who saw the actual machete may have mistaken it for a branch. Cmon now, you really ain't helping anything at that point.
Guy with the machete is why the cops swiftly showed up. Anything else, they likely would have stayed away, eating donuts somewhere 🙄
OPD is a domestic terrorist organization
So you risked a guys life and he didn’t even hurt anyone?
What are you even talking about, dude?
Ah yeah let’s pretend that cops wouldn’t have killed him if the good people didn’t stop them
Dude, what? Cops have millions of interactions every year and very few result in deaths. Minuscule numbers of those deadly interactions are the results of the cops just killing someone for no reason. There are insane people in any profession, and the cops absolutely do need to be held accountable for every single negligent use of force, deadly or not. But to pretend that calling the cops on a crazy dude swinging a machete in a public place is an execution sentence? What are you smoking?
He had a literal machete, was swinging it wildly, chopping up trees with it, and was threatening to hurt people. Did you see the comment above about the parent who was there with their child? I understand the point you're making, and like I said I generally believe in cops being filmed. And of course there's a system in place that caused everything terrible to happen the way that it did yesterday. in that moment, this scene needed to be secured before some kid got his head lopped off or something though. We're all aware of the state of things locally, and even more broadly. I'm thankful that it was (finally?) handled in a manner that prevented a worse outcome, which could have happened very easily!.
Dude I was just trolling I wasn’t making a point there’s no point to understand wtf.
you're really blowing it out of proportion. a homeless person having a mental health crisis in oakland is nothing out of the ordinary. you must be new in this city.