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Fun Media to address Police Brutality response to chalk

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published by Eva on Sun, 2012-07-15 13:19
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Hey, I was thinking we get some kids in a regular residential neighborhood playing with chalk doing hopscotch & the like. Then all of the sudden, 3 cop cars come up, cops come running out shoot them with rubber bullets, slam them against the ground, cuff them, and throw them in the police cars & drive away!

 

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"Talk to your kids about chalk." text on screen

Submitted by cpinneker on Tue, 2012-07-17 13:01.

Most cops are decent people who have a job that requires them to follow orders, just as a soldier sometimes has orders that require him to kill someone.  Better to aim your anger at the people who give the orders than to make an otherwise decent cop look like a monster or a fool.

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Submitted by egolayer13 on Wed, 2012-07-18 13:37.

Yes, I call bullshit.  There is no conceivable way in the modern day for a would-be cop not to know what he or she is getting into when joining up.  Period.

To have somehow decided to join the force without any knowledge that you may well be firehosing blacks, pepper-spraying college students, shooting the next batch at Kent State, or tazing hippies for sidewalk chalk violations would take a staggering level of ignorance.  This grants as options for a police force 1) legally-sanctioned, unaccountable sadists, 2) the mentally deficient, or 3) the wayward Good Apple.

Indeed our problems with police do not boil down to a case of a bad apple here and there.  The bad apples run the institution itself.  Some are bad by malevolence;  some by a weakness of will in the face of malevolence;  some join with the best of intentions and spoil with the spread of the apple rot.  Just doing one's job within an institution run by such rot is not decency.  Attaining decency in the Bad Apple Factory takes more courage and character and will than is permitted at recruitment.

If you want to discuss the rarities of the police force, praise one of the odd-found good apples.  Until they aren't so few, I think Eva's idea is spot on.

-- EL13

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