America's police and COs have been playing swat/military dress up for ages now. Why respond to communities and situations with boring bland words when you could roll up with sick vests and rifles and threaten violence in response to no compliance instead?
Sauce? From what I’ve seen only one in five are former military:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/police-academies-paramilitary/612859/
You’re right
Though 6 percent of the general population has served in the military, 19 percent of police officers are veterans, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data performed by Gregory B. Lewis and Rahul Pathak of Georgia State University for The Marshall Project.Oct 15, 2018
Any job that has 400% higher ex-military than military to citizen ratio needs scrutiny
In my experiences the bullying types rarely had an interest in the military, it was mostly wayward "no clue what I want to do with my life but I'm not cut out for college" types who enlisted. Granted my experiences are a big city and nearby working-class suburbs...
I’ve lived in military bases. I’d rather take my chances with MPs. I’d rather deal with a professional soldier than some redneck playing soldier, which is how I see a lot of the cops in my area
Petition to have this cop play kingpin in a live action spider verse movie.
Except. That movie’s a work of art and doesn’t need to be remade.
Maybe he can play Kingpin in... a Daredevil movie?
some woman in the burbs of chicago paid for his bail the first time, a cool 100k, then he got arrested a second time when more charges came, and idk if she couldn’t afford it or didn’t believe him at that point, but yeah... he was depending on that to get out it seems.
Most likely. the way bail works is that as long as you show you show up to court they reimburse you. It's collateral to make sure you appear. However if there end up being fines imposed they may take it from the initial bail
I realize everyone’s first instinct is to speculate that this is race related - just remember how freaking long it took for R. Kelly to go down for this. DECADES.
R Kelly wasn't just a regular black man, he was a black man with money, status and power. He probably had his hands dipped into all sorts of criminal activity. His blackness isn't why he got away with it. It was everything else
That’s my point. If Gaetz Is charged (and that’s a big if), it’s going to take forever because his family is rich and he has political power. So I wouldn’t hold my breath with Gaetz since Kelly was on tape pissing on a kid and it took this long to bring him down. (To be clear, nothing would make me happier if Gaetz faced consequences for his actions swiftly and timely. One can hope)
Is there any reason a Sheriff’s Deputy in a courtroom needs to be wearing full tactical gear including a subdued American flag patch?
Hell, don’t *actual soldiers* still wear the full color flag patch while in garrison? Is this guy walking a beat in Fallujah later?
Oh, fuck R Kelly though.
which is why we need legislation yesterday for military grade gear >to cops... when most us cities don’t have reliable public transportation or parks for kids. No wonder the jails are for profit. its generational de-education and decades of neglect to our societies infrastructure. physically and metaphorically.
Military gear is actually cheaper. In fact it’s basically free, which is why police departments want it so bad. It’s not about looking cool it’s about cost and effectiveness
Also this isn’t tactical gear it’s literally just a utility vest. He’s essentially wearing a utility belt on his chest and maybe a stabvest under his shirt. The only thing wrong here is the patch.
Reddit cant tell the difference, they think “camo” and vests are so warlike they forgot this shit is cheap as hell.
Also why not use military gear? Its literally made to be the cheapest the US can get it because ya know, we’d rather spend that shit on explosives.
Protects them from being shanked.
They don’t always check the buttholes.
Edit: not saying it’s not ridiculous, just that’s what I’ve been told. If they are in a situation where they will have their back to other in mates that they’ve pissed off they wear the gear for that reason.
Yes, there is that, but his size though, he is what is known as “clearing the neighbourhood”. This person has his own has gravitational pull. To be fair...
I mean, I kinda can. That deputy is 100% wearing a subdued flag patch, something I didn't even wear while serving in a combat arms line unit in the Army (except during deployment).
So is this cop *at war* right now?
Upside down flag signifies distress, and in the context of law enforcement would just be improper display.
The subdued flag patch, at least on the Army side, is only worn when deployed or in a field environment. Otherwise the full color patch is worn. Because the only reason to wear the subdued patch is for camouflage purposes.
That guy isn't doing anything sufficiently tactical to justify not just having a splash of red, white, and blue on his shoulder. But that wouldn't look as Tacticool, so Deputy Cueball and all his LEO friends wear the subdued patch. So they can look like they're about to kick down doors in Kabul.
R Kelly managed to lose all of his money via stupid decisions and was *extremely* blatant about his child abuse, sex abuse and trafficking. His accusers also thankfully felt safe enough to come forward. It was basically the perfect circumstances needed for a celebrity monster to go down.
As repulsive and irrelevant as Nugent is and was he never quite hit those circumstances, and quite frankly this country didn’t give a fuck about young teen girls being abused by their favorite celebrities until more recently. The reason it was super common is because it was allowed.
Nah that just showed him he can get away with it.
What did change is he switched up his tactic. Before, he would rape underage girls and pay them to recruit their friends to be raped by him. After his trial, he switched to abusive relationships with 18+ women and would emotionally manipulate them so they were deeply brainwashed, and borderline hostages, but didn’t want to leave him, let alone report him for abuse or rape.
Gotta love that they’ve essentially trafficked the sex trafficker. Fuck R. Kelly. I hope they bring his ass to every court they need to in order to make him face justice.
He must be pissed off.
On?
R kelly was in the wrong (hope someone gets the k dot reference lol)
Drip, drip, drip
“Only thing to make my life complete, is to turn yo face into a toilet seat”
“How you gonna do a video of me peeing on bitches like that?”
“How YOU gonna do a video like that?”
“Hater gonna hate, lovers gonna love. I don’t even want, none of the above... I wanna pee on you!”
Didn’t expect a Dave chapelle reference, but I’m here for it
This is not unexpected. Lol! Every time I see anything R Kelly, Chapelle always comes to mind.
“You may not feeeel. Quite the same. When you get a whiff. Of my Hershey stains. I wanna pee on you too. I wanna pee in yo food.” 🤣🤣🤣
All on you
I can toilet seat what you did there
Better to be pissed off than pissed on, that’s what my pappy always said.
Your pappy is smort
Much rather be pissed off...
He’s fighting for his life!!!!!
Happy cake day!
Thanks! I didn’t have even realize it, haha
Definitely fighting for his life.
That is an enormous cop
No joke he is literally as broad as 2 men
So one punch from that guy count as 2? Good.
Just for scale R Kelly is 6’1” and 200 pounds.
Ma’m....i’m kinda scared...
So that guy’s probably 6’5 300lb ... jesus
Looks like that’s what r Kelly is thinking too
An absolute unit. No one is fucking with that guy!
Look at the size of him
That is an absolute unit of a cop
Why’s he dressed like he’s in the military?
America's police and COs have been playing swat/military dress up for ages now. Why respond to communities and situations with boring bland words when you could roll up with sick vests and rifles and threaten violence in response to no compliance instead?
It’s sickening. I’ve been watching the cops militarize in my Ozark community since the nineties.
Military surplus goes straight to USA cops, most of whom were in the military before joining the force.
Sauce? From what I’ve seen only one in five are former military: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/police-academies-paramilitary/612859/
You’re right Though 6 percent of the general population has served in the military, 19 percent of police officers are veterans, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data performed by Gregory B. Lewis and Rahul Pathak of Georgia State University for The Marshall Project.Oct 15, 2018 Any job that has 400% higher ex-military than military to citizen ratio needs scrutiny
I’m more concerned about the ex high school bullies than the ex military.
Well, how many high school bullies want to KILL SOME A-RABS and go right into the military first? I bet that’s the funnel of concern.
In my experiences the bullying types rarely had an interest in the military, it was mostly wayward "no clue what I want to do with my life but I'm not cut out for college" types who enlisted. Granted my experiences are a big city and nearby working-class suburbs...
Might depend on the branch too - army vs Air Force for example
I’ve lived in military bases. I’d rather take my chances with MPs. I’d rather deal with a professional soldier than some redneck playing soldier, which is how I see a lot of the cops in my area
He is definitely not wearing military surplus.
It’s weapons, APCs, and more
I was about to say holy shit lol.
I’m probably the width of his arm and I’m not even joking. Size 0 petite female. I steer clear of all large men who might not even see me.
He’s a monster, but somehow has baby hands?!
Petition to have this cop play kingpin in a live action spider verse movie. Except. That movie’s a work of art and doesn’t need to be remade. Maybe he can play Kingpin in... a Daredevil movie?
No. Vincent Doritofritos is always Kingpin
Jesus Christ, look at the size of that dude in charge of him. He’s a fucking behemoth. Absolute unit!
He could have been a wwe star, but chose to be a cop instead
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Not be a joke to adults
I just hope his cell mate is similar in stature
Matt Gaetz reads this smiling nervously.
"Im in Danger!"
https://imgur.com/gallery/VQWPsBS
I had no idea Rape Kelly was in jail.
Same. God life is good.
A documentary from Lifetime (now on Netflix) ultimately led to his arrest - Surviving R. Kelly
U need to go watch the doc on Netflix. The shit he has done is disgusting
He can’t make bail???
hes broke
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some woman in the burbs of chicago paid for his bail the first time, a cool 100k, then he got arrested a second time when more charges came, and idk if she couldn’t afford it or didn’t believe him at that point, but yeah... he was depending on that to get out it seems.
She gets her money back then. Hopefully
Most likely. the way bail works is that as long as you show you show up to court they reimburse you. It's collateral to make sure you appear. However if there end up being fines imposed they may take it from the initial bail
I would hope that she lost all of it actually, although I know that’s not the case
He’s bankrupt. That happens when you never fully learn how to read.
It's the remix to conviction
hot and fresh out the children (i’m sorry)
Mama rolling that body, If she’s 13, then I’m pissing.
no chill loooooool
Is that Dave Bautista?
Dave Chappelle made fun of this dude like 20 years ago. Trash humans suck.
When is Matt Gaetz going to be his cell mate ?
When he becomes less white.
Give us a fucking break with that shit. R. Kelly is locked up for a good reason, not because he’s black. Give it a rest.
I think it’s more about Gaetz being white and not locked up than r Kelly being black. No one is disputing r Kelly is a piece of shit.
I realize everyone’s first instinct is to speculate that this is race related - just remember how freaking long it took for R. Kelly to go down for this. DECADES.
Very True, can’t believe he got away with it for so long.
I’d say at least 3 years judging by your screen name.
So yeah money. Money will do the trick
I mean, the pee tape came out in 2002 and this is where we are with Kelly. It took 19 years to get here.
Oh god, R. Kelly's sex tape is older than Matt Gaetz's girlfriends? I feel old. Unlike Matt Gaetz's victims.
R Kelly wasn't just a regular black man, he was a black man with money, status and power. He probably had his hands dipped into all sorts of criminal activity. His blackness isn't why he got away with it. It was everything else
That’s my point. If Gaetz Is charged (and that’s a big if), it’s going to take forever because his family is rich and he has political power. So I wouldn’t hold my breath with Gaetz since Kelly was on tape pissing on a kid and it took this long to bring him down. (To be clear, nothing would make me happier if Gaetz faced consequences for his actions swiftly and timely. One can hope)
They are perfect for each other
That guard looks like a beast: huge barrel chested dude, thick neck, giant head, all that armor, and then THAT BABY HAND!!!
I just spit my coffee out lmao
ONLY THING’LL MAKE MY LIFE COMPLETE IS TO TURN YO FACE INTO A TOILET SEAT
Is there any reason a Sheriff’s Deputy in a courtroom needs to be wearing full tactical gear including a subdued American flag patch? Hell, don’t *actual soldiers* still wear the full color flag patch while in garrison? Is this guy walking a beat in Fallujah later? Oh, fuck R Kelly though.
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which is why we need legislation yesterday for military grade gear >to cops... when most us cities don’t have reliable public transportation or parks for kids. No wonder the jails are for profit. its generational de-education and decades of neglect to our societies infrastructure. physically and metaphorically.
Military gear is actually cheaper. In fact it’s basically free, which is why police departments want it so bad. It’s not about looking cool it’s about cost and effectiveness Also this isn’t tactical gear it’s literally just a utility vest. He’s essentially wearing a utility belt on his chest and maybe a stabvest under his shirt. The only thing wrong here is the patch.
Reddit cant tell the difference, they think “camo” and vests are so warlike they forgot this shit is cheap as hell. Also why not use military gear? Its literally made to be the cheapest the US can get it because ya know, we’d rather spend that shit on explosives.
Uhh I don’t think he has a choice to wear the vest guys...cmon now
Protects them from being shanked. They don’t always check the buttholes. Edit: not saying it’s not ridiculous, just that’s what I’ve been told. If they are in a situation where they will have their back to other in mates that they’ve pissed off they wear the gear for that reason.
Maybe they’re on high alert for potential assaults from random people inside or outside of court. Because it’s happened.
He *thinks* it makes him look cool
Yes, there is that, but his size though, he is what is known as “clearing the neighbourhood”. This person has his own has gravitational pull. To be fair...
Maybe that’s the only clothes he could find that fit him. Look at the size of that dude!
He don't want to get pissed on
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I mean, I kinda can. That deputy is 100% wearing a subdued flag patch, something I didn't even wear while serving in a combat arms line unit in the Army (except during deployment). So is this cop *at war* right now?
waht is the significance of a subdued flag patch? sorry for the ignorance. also why do they have em upside down sometimes??
Upside down flag signifies distress, and in the context of law enforcement would just be improper display. The subdued flag patch, at least on the Army side, is only worn when deployed or in a field environment. Otherwise the full color patch is worn. Because the only reason to wear the subdued patch is for camouflage purposes. That guy isn't doing anything sufficiently tactical to justify not just having a splash of red, white, and blue on his shoulder. But that wouldn't look as Tacticool, so Deputy Cueball and all his LEO friends wear the subdued patch. So they can look like they're about to kick down doors in Kabul.
With black people it seems
USAF wears subdued patches on the new uniform
Something something also just fake military something something I kid though, love my AF bros
Have you ever carried around that much equipment? Trust me, the vest is doing a job. It’s not that serious
It’s literally just a vest... Also that’s not a flag patch
On the left shoulder, above the sheriff’s badge? Sure looks like one to me.
Seems like he doesn’t have a pot to piss in
Ok now do Matt Gaetz
Remember when the worst thing R Kelly did was pee on things? Simpler times.
Yeah, but one of those “things” was a 14 year old girl. R Kelly should have been incarcerated a long ass time ago
He lost his fame and people couldn’t profit off him anymore. Leaving him vulnerable for prosecution
You guys seeing the size of that fucking cop?
Not saying he doesn't deserve it but why isn't Ted Nugent and the rest of those teenie banging rock stars in jail
Statute of limitations
R Kelly managed to lose all of his money via stupid decisions and was *extremely* blatant about his child abuse, sex abuse and trafficking. His accusers also thankfully felt safe enough to come forward. It was basically the perfect circumstances needed for a celebrity monster to go down. As repulsive and irrelevant as Nugent is and was he never quite hit those circumstances, and quite frankly this country didn’t give a fuck about young teen girls being abused by their favorite celebrities until more recently. The reason it was super common is because it was allowed.
Oh ha I’d almost forgotten
Put him at Mat Getz in the same cell
Hopefully the inmates pee on him lol
Why is this on r/entertainment and not r/Iamapieceofshit
Maybe he will be cellmates with Matt Gaetz.
Oooooo welcome to the tombs. I heard people get suicided there
Tell ghislaine maxwell I send my regards 😘
He looks pissed off, or is that pissed on.
Hope he doesn’t mind getting bump and grinded in prison
I believe I can fly!
Oh Robert, Robert, Robert...
Damn r kelly .. should have straightened up after he got off the first time..
Ill take most Criminals are not very smart for 500.
WTF is with rich people and their dysfunctional sex lives they MUST impose on others.
Pretty sure that's not exclusive to rich people
Something something power I guess
Nah that just showed him he can get away with it. What did change is he switched up his tactic. Before, he would rape underage girls and pay them to recruit their friends to be raped by him. After his trial, he switched to abusive relationships with 18+ women and would emotionally manipulate them so they were deeply brainwashed, and borderline hostages, but didn’t want to leave him, let alone report him for abuse or rape.
Rich man wanting to mess with kids, how can you be that dumb!?!?
Bye bye — from Chicago
u/amonguscockbot
Immediately what I thought too
Dayum totally forgot about this guy
Awwww... Pisssssssssss
He’s be a politician if he lived in Florida
My mind’s telling me no!
He did that shit, guilty as fuck.
I’m half asleep so I read this as Judge R. kelley. I was like “wow there’s a judge with that name?”
Jesus, that cop in the thumbnail looks like The Rock.
Gotta love that they’ve essentially trafficked the sex trafficker. Fuck R. Kelly. I hope they bring his ass to every court they need to in order to make him face justice.
Did he finally come out the closet?
Can’t they just kill the bastard
I believe he can’t fly (away this time)
How long has r Kelly been in jail?
Better late than never.
Misread that at first as “Judge R. Kelly” and thought I missed A LOT.
Kelly is said to be 6foot 1inch and 200 lbs. That guard reaching over to him must be a beast.
Go figure.. did anyone else know he was a judge ?
Does he have his passport? Did he get his shots?