Just came across this case where a California Highway Patrol officer tried to arrest a firefighter in the midst of treating people injured in a traffic incident, simply because he refused to move a fire engine that was blocking a lane of traffic on the highway to protect first responders and the patients they were attending to.
And then there are patrol cars who block lanes to write tickets. Smh
That fire vs police softball game is gonna be awkward this year
as a firefighter myself, I would have reminded the cop we outrank them (at least in my state) when it comes to this kind of scene safety. Would have prob been arrested because indeed ACAB.
that cop is a power tripping bastard. all of them are.
What kind of recourse would you have in that situation, if the world were still sane? Would your supervisors hash it out, would the judge to look at the case and throw it out, would you even expect it to get all the way to court, etc?
I imagine what would happen is that the fire chief would go ballistic on the police chief until that officer was fired. That’s probably the best outcome that’s within the realm of possibility
My favorite firefighter fact is that they will straight up use their trucks to shove cop cars out of the way, and if they get smashed to shot, oh well.
That’s less fuck cars and more ACAB if you ask me
Por que no los dos.
i would even argue that by necessity both movements must be connected. the reason at the core of the fuck cars movement is that cars are an unnatural status quo. our cities are designed for cars instead of people because the petrochemical industry makes more money if our cities require us to exist in isolated rolling boxes.
meanwhile the reason at the core of the acab movement is that cops exist to unnaturally enforce status quos. we could move on and create new ways of existing, but the cops need us to all stay as things are because that’s what serves their masters
And that’s without mentioning that the majority of police departments time is spent policing traffic violations instead of doing actual work to prevent harm to persons or property. Getting rid of cars is the first thing people should be looking towards in order to defund police departments. Once traffic enforcement is no longer needed the entire department starts looking like a big joke.
Guess who’s not going to that cops house when the 911 fire call comes in?
Have to be better than the shit ones, otherwise the shit spreads.
This should not be on !fuckcars, rather on !acab
The underlying ideology doesn’t depend on state actors. When there were road blockings (because of climate protests) in Germany, motorists sometimes became violent against the cause of the blockade (protesters in this case). Sure, climate protest and emergency response don’t compare, but the motorist ideology is the same.
