It’s the police who are the scum. They’re the ones who think they’re above the law and can do what they want. They actually pushed an elderly man over and they kept on walking.
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Now that I did see, that was disgusting. Not all police are scum mate. Just the ones that are being exposed at the moment.
Was that the one though where one of the officers went down to check on him but his colleague pushed him away?
Then again US police are scum. Shoot people first, ask questions later.
Apparently it won’t be:
https://twitter.com/danabrams/status/1270519124561735680
That isn’t a surprise considering it’s A&E’s biggest program at the moment
If you want to learn more about what went on behind the scenes of Cops, here’s a great podcast on its effects on television, the people shown, the perceptions of police, and how society changed.
Yes.
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Thanks for that.
The problem I see with a show like Cops is that while it’s pretty entertaining, I am sure they filter out a lot of the boring day to day crap the police actually deal with, and it makes it seem like there are high levels of crime everywhere. The police departments also have a say in which parts need to get edited out if it portrays the police department negatively.
There was an ABC documentary in the 1990s called ‘Cop It Sweet’. For the first few nights of the camera team being embedded at the Redfern police station, the police obviously were pretty uptight about the whole thing.
But as the weeks went by, the officers actually started opening up, openly calling Aboriginal people “coons” and arresting Aboriginal people for using language that the cops themselves used frequently.
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I’ve seen that before and it’s an interesting watch. In addition to calling Indigenous people ‘coons’, other highlights include:
*A policeman muttering “pull over, you cocksucker” to himself while pursuing a car in Redfern
*Eventually pulling over the car, and immediately letting the driver go because he was trying to catch a flight
*Looking at the inner-city slums on Streetview today and realising the dilapidated terrace houses are now worth millions each
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Not sure where to put this, but the AFL is set to show it’s support for Black Lives Matter movement tomorrow evening at the Richmond v Collingwood match.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/richmond-collingwood-players-to-show-support-for-black-lives-matter-movement-before-round-2-clash/news-story/c819ed38d32485b8da9e1708bd560a3b
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Now this is getting out of hand now.
I saw Paw Patrol was trending on Twitter at around 6.30pm AEST and thought “What the”?
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Grim diagnosis for shoved protester:
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I’ve read all the posts. It’s very odd. Why would anyone waste their time hacking Meshel Laurie’s Facebook page? The other odd thing is that Meshel Laurie has a ‘team’, according to a direct message sent to someone on her behalf, just like a Hollywood entourage it seems.
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She gets into a lot of social media arguments with nutbags, so it wouldn’t be surprising if she did.
FYI
The Associated Press changed its writing style guide Friday to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue.
The change conveys “an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa,” John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president of standards, said in a blog post Friday. “The lowercase black is a color, not a person.”
The news organization will also now capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place.
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More segregation of people based on colour. Not a fan. Indigenous is fine because the term does not specifically identify someone by the colour of their skin. Once again a leftie goes too far.
These people do not seem to realise racism is about making judgements solely on someone’s skin colour without prior opportunity to show they are not the negative stereotype. Judge someone on how they act, their actions, not on what they look like.
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It’s just a capital letter.
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You’ve just proven that segregation if a self-fulfilling prophecy. Groups of people don’t have to act any certain way for you or me to start stereotype them. Acknowledging that is what we should be doing before we improve ourselves to fight against our impulse to make aggressions against Black people (or other POC and those of other ethnicities), whether we mean to or not.
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