That’s the thing, they have. However, turns out the tweet is from February 2018 and the earliest example I could find (not looking very hard) is March 2018, funnily enough.

I didn’t read it as *disagreement and wasn’t arguing with them. I was just prickling at the ‘defending pigs’ bit and reiterating.

It was hyperbolic, but I wanted to explicitly call people out for rejecting reality when it doesn’t line up with the most convenient possible narrative. Something which feels like a growing problem on lemmy.

It’s not defending the police to defend the truth unless you think the truth makes the police look good. Knowingly spreading lies is just bad from every angle. Tactically, rhetorically, intellectually, etc.

It’s doing the right’s job for them if stuff that is easily disproven is being presented as a reason that cops suck.

It’s literally impossible to know how many shootings were prevented because the shooter knew there was an armed cop present.

And they actually have stopped active shooters, several times.

Like, real cops are bad enough. You don’t have to just lie about them. Lies can be effective propaganda but if you don’t need to lie then you’re just undercutting your message for no reason.

*The only reason to downvote this comment is if you care about vibes above truth and vibes above effective messaging. Or are pro-cop and want to make lefties look dumb. Self reflect.

**not sure if some replies are missing my point or just talking past it. I’m not saying school cops are a good thing I’m saying the tweet is blatantly factually wrong and should not be promoted.

***Oh the tweet is from February 2018, it might have actually been true at the time. For about one month until the Great Mills shooting.