https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-officer-released-police-dog-black-man-hands-raised-fired-authorit-rcna96509
Circleville Police Officer Ryan Speakman "did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers," the police department said.
A few days ago when this popped up, I saw a bunch of comments saying how everyone bets he gets a paid suspension at worst. I'm aware that officers are practically immune from the terrible things they do on the clock. I am at least glad all the commenters that thought no justice at all would happen were wrong.
That is the union’s job. Just like defense attorneys fight against guilty verdicts for even blatant murderers, the union is representing a union member.
Annnnd that's why cops shouldn't have unions.
The police dept is already loathe to hold officers accountable, we don't need a whole ass union protecting cops from people who already don't want to hurt them.
So you’ve never been in a union that fights for workers to get better pay, reasonable hours, and decent healthcare? I’ve had unions at two jobs and they fought hard to make sure workers were treated fairly. Football players have a union. Many service workers have a union. Unions are not a bad thing.
Unions are not a bad thing, rightwing unions however betray all other unions and undermine the entire system.
I love unions, unions are great, more people should be in them. Just not cops. If all they were doing was fighting for better hours and pay I'd have no problem (acab aside), but police unions go to bat for violent cops who hurt people. Police unions fight to keep those violent cops in those positions of authority, paid by our tax dollars, with a gun, on the streets where their next potential victim waits.
That's a problem for me.
A union doesn't always fight for a union members job. The union will have a contract and if the union member violates the contract or puts the union in a bad light or weakens it's position to fight for it's members as a whole it can absolutely not support them.
A union should be prouder than this. They should want to have better member and other union members shouldnt want to be in an organization with someone who gives them a bad name.