Top Florida Cop instructed officer to act like a "white supremacist" when engaging Black suspect

[Shuck]

@Bernel

If you read the article it makes somewhat more sense

And it becomes damning in a whole other way…

@Scientist

She didn’t get in trouble for encouraging racism (that probably got her promoted), it was for acknowledging how rampant the racism of police is.

Yep. It was an acknowledgement that the expectation among black citizens is that cops will be white supremacists, to the point where one “acting like” that works as a sort of camouflage that normalizes their interaction.

Although the other aspect of this is that in all likelihood she wasn’t telling him to do something he wasn’t otherwise normally going to do - she was making sure he would play it up.

[vrplumber]

Good point, I had not considered infiltration of these groups for disruptive purposes.

[Wanderfound]

@Brainspore

Law enforcement officers going undercover to take down white supremacist organizations a-la “BlacKkKlansman” get a provisional pass.

Extremely provisional.

Boots Riley Pens Essay on Problems With 'BlacKkKlansman'

“It’s a made up story in which the false parts of it to try to make a cop the protagonist in the fight against racist oppression. It’s being put while Black Lives Matter is a discussion, and this is not coincidental. There is a viewpoint behind it. The real Ron Stallworth infiltrated a Black radical organization for 3 years (not for one event like the movie portrays) where he did what all papers from the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program (Cointelpro) that were found through the freedom of information act tell us he did- sabotage a Black radical organization whose intent had to do with the very least fighting racist oppression. For Spike to come out with a movie where story points are fabricated in order to make Black cop and his counterparts look like allies in the fight against racism is really disappointing, to put it very mildly."

[anon29537550]

“Maybe it’s the dancer,
Or maybe it’s the dance, the dancer dances.”

[PatrickD]

“act like”?

Maybe the problem isn’t just that individual cops are white supremacists, but that the entire goddamned system was built by and for white supremacists to maintain white supremacy. Every single white supremacist cop could be fired tomorrow, and once we hired new cops to replace half of the police force, we’d still have a white supremacist system.

[vrplumber]

First time hearing this song, very groovy