> ACAB
This is ambitiously wrong to the point of parody.
One, fire chiefs are not cops. Two, the cops in the story were coördinating with the pilot. Three, the fucking pilot is a “a Class 1 certified law enforcement officer.”
This is ambitiously wrong to the point of parody.
One, fire chiefs are not cops. Two, the cops in the story were coördinating with the pilot. Three, the fucking pilot is a “a Class 1 certified law enforcement officer.”
It's obvious that the previous pointer did not use such a strict interpretation of ACAB and applying such an interpretation here only serves to poison the discussion.
This is an unconventional take. ACAB may be meant by some to mean anarchy. But it’s fundamentally an anti-police sentiment. (Anarchy is also an odd philosophy to reach for in the wake of a natural disaster.)
b) The fire chief apparently has the authority to have individual citizens arrested, and was abusing that power to stop those humanitarian efforts. Thus, functionally a “cop” and—doubly demonstrated—a bastard.
Why? I thought the "ACAB" crowd are well educated (or at least like to think they are), and generally like European-adjacent things like adding diaeresis in English? If anything, on the "ACAB <-> thin blue line" spectrum, I'd expect the latter to be inflamed by the "I read the New Yorker diaeresis" more.