[The Poppy] Sheriffs Cancel Event After Protest Warning

[HaveADream]

Sheriffs Cancel Event After Protest Warning
Elizabeth Rankin

"...It would be negligence on our behalf to continue due to how past protests at the Davis Sheriff’s Station have turned."

An LSSD Community Conversation in the city of Davis has been cancelled indefinitely after a threat of protest brought the already-delayed event to a halt. 

 

A post on FaceBrowser, ran by burner account 'Google LSSD Gangs', brought one of the largest organisations in Davis to cancel their event, after deeming public safety to be insufficient to continue as planned. The post, which received 0 likes, 0 shares and 0 comments at the time cancellation, called for citizens to bring placards bearing the name of the protest group and "not my sheriff!" to the event, but received very little attention outside of the LSSD, calling into question the actual risk behind the post. While it is true that past violence at protests have impacted the risk assessments of the Los Santos Sheriff's Department, critics may think that the judgement appeared perhaps a little too cautious.

 

 

 

To get the full picture, we spoke to Captain Damian Suarez, the deputy-in-charge at the Los Santos Sheriff's Department's Davis Station.

 

CAPTAIN Damian Suarez

Davis Station

 

You've cancelled an event aiming to bridge the gap between yourselves and the community because of the risk of a protest, would you say you're letting the protesters win?

 

No, I don't think there is any winning in this scenario for either party, and I'd also watch the term used, the event has not been cancelled, it has simply been delayed indefinitely. We intend on having it at a later date, just not right now. I'm not going to sit here and play cat and mouse with protesters whom I have full reason to believe are organizing said protests for acts of violence. This theory has been proven time, and time again from the previous 'protests' we've had at this station.

The post received 0 likes, 0 shares, 0 comments, prior to the cancellation, what made you think this was a risk?

Now, my paramount gripe is that they are organizing this protest during a community event where civilians will be present, business owners, citizens of the city I serve. I cannot risk them being hurt or injured no matter what. Do you not think the same measures would be taken if say a child had posted on social media that they were bringing a gun into school tomorrow or an anonymous source had posted that there's a bomb at Mirror Park? I apologize for being drastic, however, civilians are at danger. I will not allow them to be put forward in that danger, therefore, I will do whatever is necessary to protect them from said danger. If that means delaying a community event, so be it.

What stops them just threatening a protest every time you try and reschedule this?

 

What stops people from calling in a bomb threat to a major event, like say when the Dodger's are playing? You can't control people with mal-intent. You can only deter them.

 

We have a dedicated team of Public Information Officers who ensure that the voices of our citizens are heard, quality of life concerns are met, and they are as satisfied as they can be with our efforts in their communities. Furthermore, each sheriff's station has a Service Area Lieutenant or Sergeant assigned to them. Their primary objective in that role is to meet the communities needs and wants. For example, the one assigned to the Davis Sheriff's Station is Lieutenant Sarah Adragna. She's out there oftentimes meeting with people and making this community the best it possibly can be. Us delaying an event like this isn't stopping community members voices being heard. Community conversations are just one of the many avenues that are utilized to gain that information.

As I said, it's not a cancellation, it's a delay. There will be one somewhere in the near future.

 

 

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Analysis

 

The situation is tricky, regardless of how you look at it politically. Some may claim that it's the peoples' right to protest, and by cancelling this event, they are not only letting down their community, but those that wish to speak out against them too. Some may claim that it's the sole duty of the LSSD to ensure that those that attend these events are kept safe from those that may actually turn it violent. Whatever side you're on, Captain Suarez is right about one thing - nobody is a winner. Driving around Davis makes one thing clear, police presence is definitely felt here - to expand on this, I passed more police cars leaving Davis than I did on the the rest of my trip. The community, protestors and media should have these events run on schedule and hold government to account, but the thinking of the department makes sense, when there may be violence shrouded by claims of peaceful protest, is the risk worth it? 

 

With a burner FaceBrowser account with zero engagement, was there any risk? Or was this just an attempt of an internet troll to get the event cancelled as easily as possible? 

 

The protest will continue as scheduled on Wednesday, August 24.

 

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Edited August 21, 2022 by HaveADream

[Midwest]

Username: PatrioticDuck

Comment: LOL! What a weak "Sheriffs Department". This is What Happens when Communism takes over the state! This one strong department now scared by internet posts with no interaction! Next they ARE going to DEFUND the police! 

[i dont wanna od in LA]

Username: 123

Comment:  Chapter I. Bourgeois and Proletarians(1)

The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master(3) and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.

From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.

The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.

The feudal system of industry, in which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. The manufacturing system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop.

Meantime the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising. Even manufacturer no longer sufficed. Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production. The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry; the place of the industrial middle class by industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.

Modern industry has established the world market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. This market has given an immense development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land. This development has, in its turn, reacted on the extension of industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages.

We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange.

Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association in the medieval commune(4): here independent urban republic (as in Italy and Germany); there taxable “third estate” of the monarchy (as in France); afterwards, in the period of manufacturing proper, serving either the semi-feudal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact, cornerstone of the great monarchies in general, the bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which reactionaries so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what man’s activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.

The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.

The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.

The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralised the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this was political centralisation. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments, and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class-interest, one frontier, and one customs-tariff.

The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?

We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built itself up, were generated in feudal society. At a certain stage in the development of these means of production and of exchange, the conditions under which feudal society produced and exchanged, the feudal organisation of agriculture and manufacturing industry, in one word, the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder. And with that in mind, I conclude that Joseph Cline is a commie pig and deserves to die. 

Edited August 21, 2022 by i dont wanna od in LA

[county vida]

Username: SELS 
Comment: Sheriff Cline and his gang of jackbooted communist thugs should count their blessings that they cancelled this event. I suggest that Joseph Cline step down immediately if he does not want him and his family to be sent directly to hell by two rocket propelled 80mm explosive rounds fired from the RPG-7 I have purchased on the dark web without paying an NFA tax required by the ATF.

[Bubonic]

Username: Patriotic1995

Comment: Department looks out for the community, gets met with hammers and bats and when these thugs get dealt with, they cry victim? These kids need a harder smacking from their parents! Cline is doing a great job.

[bonk]

Username: Sheputy28Dheriff

Comment: This is the smartest move Captain Damian Suarez could have done! He truly does care for the community. Rather than swinging his metaphorical dick to combat against these BLM looters he puts HIS people FIRST and takes them out of HARMS way! This man is the personification of superb leadership skills, people, get to know!

 

Good luck on the 24th looters, you'll need it. The finest men and women of the Los Santos County Sheriff's Department will be waiting for you!

 

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Edited August 22, 2022 by bonk

[pateuvasiliu]

11 hours ago, Bubonic said:

Username: Patriotic1995

Comment: Department looks out for the community, gets met with hammers and bats and when these thugs get dealt with, they cry victim? These kids need a harder smacking from their parents! Cline is doing a great job.

Username: AddMeOnQD
Comment: yeah they sure were looking out for the community when a Detective was beating the piss out of an innocent protester, and the Department only did something about it once one of the few good people they have snitched to the fucking news with video proof

Trust in SD = 🤡

Edited August 22, 2022 by pateuvasiliu

[Valkyria]

7 minutes ago, pateuvasiliu said:

Username: AddMeOnQD
Comment: yeah they sure were looking out for the community when a Detective was beating the piss out of an innocent protester, and the Department only did something about it once one of the few good people they have snitched to the fucking news with video proof

Trust in SD = 🤡

 

Username: JonathanVideos1968

Comment: whats your qd

[Rhelli]

Username: spicypho

Comment: i was looking forward to someone decking carry saunders in the nose while she reports live from the scene. someone should break that ugly fat bitch's nose anyway.

Edited August 22, 2022 by Rhelli

[pateuvasiliu]

5 hours ago, Valkyria said:

 

Username: JonathanVideos1968

Comment: whats your qd

Username: AddMeOnQD

Comment: Nunya