The blue line separates a criminal gang from the public at large, including law-abiding members of the police force. It’s a threat to the public that the user will lie, cheat, and kill to protect someone on his side of the line from the law. The blue line sticker is a tacit admission that the user knows that he is in a gang, rather than a protector of public safety.
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Divide and conquer has been a ruling class’ tactic since the earliest days of the American colonies. Servants, slaves, natives were all victims of this and a large fear I have now is that we will all fall for that tactic again.
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Please explain your joke. I don’t think things are funny until someone explains them.
( Also… I look forward to attacking you on the off chance that you were actually being serious. )
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“Police brutality is now a formality
They’re kickin our ass and we’re payin their salary” Willy D of the Geto Boys
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Honestly, it’s an ugly thing even without the overwhelming racial angle. “Cops Against Everyone!”
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Not everyone.
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No, but it will be. First it starts with the most vulnerable and then it creeps to the rest, each excess oozing across over blood of the people. The enemy combatants, and then the prisoners of war, and then the plain prisoners, and then the migrants and the homeless, and then the disabled, and then the students and the elderly, and then the working poor, and then the enclaves of the middles classes. And all along the way women and those with darker skin meet the sharp end of fascism before their less privileged neighbors, but the fascists will not and cannot stop. Evil survives only as long as it remains in motion. If the privileged understood this they would understand their shared fate.
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Deliberately giving contradictory instructions as an excuse for police brutality is, like everything else that’s come out in the last few years, nothing new. The only difference is someone was there to record video that provides objective evidence instead of leaving the arrestee to “prove” that the cop went out of his way to justify abuse.
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well, from the picture, he looks to have a low enough melanin count to warrant the shocky shocky instead of the bangy bangy…
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“Tase” is not a verb, so let me fix the title for you:
“Cop shot man with a taser”
Or, if you don’t want to use the word shot, this is also correct:
“Cop electrocutes man”
The reason I am nitpicking the language is that I think your choice of verbs downplays what happened here. You understated the situation, and I think you should use words with greater emotional impact.
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Ding! And minorities are (still, to this day) held to be of lower status automatically.
Incidentally, I have read that once in police custody people of color are no more or less likely than whites to be shot. However, people of color are HUGELY disproportionately detained.
What to do about it? I wish I had a clue.
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