{"id":651,"date":"2012-05-16T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2012-05-16T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T22:59:04","slug":"support-police-beat-yourself-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/support-police-beat-yourself-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Support the Police, Beat Yourself Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Support the Police Beat Yourself Up &#8211; FUNNY POLITICAL BUTTON<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Support-the-Police-Beat-Yourself-Up-FUNNY-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Political\/Support-the-Police-Beat-Yourself-Up.gif\" alt=\"Support the Police Beat Yourself Up - FUNNY POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Support-the-Police-Beat-Yourself-Up-FUNNY-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\">Support the Police Beat Yourself Up &#8211; FUNNY POLITICAL BUTTON<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, and sticker sheets can be accessed by scrolling down the product page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" align=\"center\"><strong>View more <a title=\"Political Buttons\" href=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/BUTTONS-Political-Buttons-Pins.html\">Political Buttons<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This design goes out to all those Occupy Wall Street protesters everywhere!\u00a0 I like this cool design because of the obvious incongruity of juxtaposing supporting the police and beating oneself up.\u00a0 While the police are part of the 99%, they are also tools for the 1% to enforce, typically selectively enforce, laws that will protect the power of the 1%.\u00a0 Dealing with nonviolent protesters is not something for which the police are typically well-trained. Police routinely rely on militaristic methods for crowd control and social control.\u00a0 Police brutality and abuse is a natural outgrowth of this approach.\u00a0 Presumptively having the law on their side, as the enforcers of laws, police can shield themselves from accountability and overreact to peaceful demonstrators.\u00a0 Fortunately, one of the purposes of nonviolent demonstrators is to expose the inherent violence in the system, and the front lines of this is often law enforcement and the military.\u00a0 Of course, when police overreact and use violence to quell peaceful demonstrations, denial of doing anything wrong, a refusal to be accountable for one&#8217;s actions is typically the first response.\u00a0 This only highlights the gap between the immense responsibility that police have to behave well and the reality that the socially sanctioned possessors of violence can get away with violence much easier.\u00a0 Suggesting that a protester beat themselves up preemptively is a way to highlight the farcical notion of the purity of law enforcement and violence to control other people.\u00a0 Rather than law enforcement officers receiving harsher punishments for &#8220;unnecessary&#8221; violence, it is rare to see police prosecuted successfully for such misbehavior.\u00a0 Maybe we should expect that such misbehaving police should regulate themselves, and that they should beat themselves up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support the Police Beat Yourself Up &#8211; FUNNY POLITICAL BUTTON Support the Police Beat Yourself Up &#8211; FUNNY POLITICAL BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/support-police-beat-yourself-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[251,341,91,99,363,172,10,157,162,187,560,23,21,95,97,17,110,298,601,409,22,723,163,4],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-pun-design-commentaries","tag-accountability","tag-control","tag-cool-design","tag-demonstrators","tag-denial","tag-farce","tag-funny","tag-law","tag-law-enforcement","tag-military","tag-nonviolent","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-parodies","tag-police","tag-police-brutality","tag-political","tag-power","tag-protesters","tag-reality","tag-responsibility","tag-satire","tag-top-pun","tag-violence","tag-wall-street"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Support the Police, Beat Yourself Up | Top Pun Design Commentaries | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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