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They mock the death of Eric Garner and those demonstrating for justice.
The media are silent. No condemnation from anyone.
edit: there seems to be some question as to whether all those pictured are actually police officers, so I am changing the subject line to be fair. The individuals wearing those shirts are still hypocrites ... demanding respect for the police but showing none for victims of police brutality.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)riversedge
(70,197 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)very disturbing to say the least
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Showing restraint (I don't want to engage in "Pat Lynch" rhetoric.)
radhika
(1,008 posts)Big mouth, aggressive demeanor and open disrespect for anyone that can't fight back at his level. In the case of a mayor, that means the responsibilities of the post require a more mature persona.
But here's a sad truth: Like many rage-filled high school bullies, Lynch has followers. He's a smirking center of discord and mob action. He's the equivalent of a HS jock, the rich kid, the brat with a cool car - an old school thug-style union boss in a big east coast metropolis that loves that crap.
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)I'd rather give them defiant silence.
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)and the shirts certainly look photo shopped.
BumRushDaShow
(128,884 posts)when the officer was black or Hispanic -
If you speak with nine out of 10 officers of color they would tell you that when they hear sirens, in their head they are thinking: I hope these cops know that Im one of the good guys.
<...>
It is naïve to assume that our department is driven by racism, Dr. Haberfeld says. Your experience will be based on what you encounter, and its natural to build up a profile.
But some black officers and academics counter that this is too easy. If it was just a mistake, we would see more of these mistakes with officers of different colors, said Prof. Delores Jones-Brown, director of John Jays Center on Race, Crime and Justice.
Instinctual judgments about race and crime are woven into the culture of the streets. We tend to pretend in the police force that we dont see race, we dont see ethnicity, but we do, said Senator Adams, the former police captain. One of my cops once said that if he sees a non-uniformed black man with a gun, he takes precautions for himself; if he sees a white guy with a gun, he takes precautions for both because he knows it could be a fellow cop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/nyregion/31friendly.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Rex
(65,616 posts)That is why you are so confused from their lack of shame and empathy - there is none. As far as the cop unions/leaders are concerned, questioning authority is equivalent to overthrowing authority. There you have it.
This is exactly what some talk about when the say America is a police state. And that authoritarian view is shared by the power structure which sometimes issues immunity for obvious negligent homicide by officers. Which seems to be SOP for some of the militarized PDs, if for no other reason - simply because they know they can get away with it. Sad but true.
Just because you know you can murder someone, doesn't mean you should. It means you have to wield that power with great responsibility and convictions. Which some do, but the ones that don't (rotten apples) - get away with it. Mostly.
I don't buy this 'police are perfect and never cause any harm' bullshit meme and nobody should either. Accountability and transparency...looks like cops don't like those things just like politicians and big wig executives.
Okay we don't live in a police state, we live in an 'authoritarian-vulture capitalist system run by plutocrats that own the public works.'
Happy now?
This next part will probably get a hide, but I just don't care anymore;
And the white cops that hee haw at the rabble...guess what fella...you are just insignificant minions, you see how vets get treated after they come back from Iraq missing two legs...you really think the same group give a fuck about you too? I hope they realize that some day. They look at themselves as modern day Robin Hood, when in fact they are behaving like the Sheriff of Nottingham. They let the RWing white hate machine charge their battery up so much that a few end up killing those scary black men. Opps...that society...thugs...never was a good one...looked dangerous...acted funny...etc..
Racist cops make this entire country suck hard. They represent the RWing ideology of busting skulls and segregation of race. Of course there is no way to prove RWing asshole cops are the only ones on the take...but I would bet an old wheat penny on the proportion of them LOVING Rush and Glenn and Hannity and instantly fearing the black man and feeling safer aiming a gun at his chest.
The way Bill O' Reilly fears the black man.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/09/21/oreilly-surprised-there-was-no-difference-betwe/139893
"Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "
Stand out there and picket you dumb fuck white assholes, keep that dumb fuck grin on your face and wear your hatred on your clothes and on your wrist.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)And....wow, oLIEly really said that? Good lord.
Rex
(65,616 posts)that people of a different shade than he (since isn't that what it is all about - shades of color) could behave like HE did in HIS circle of society. Impossible, unbelievable.
So what that means is that as soon as he left, he chose not to believe it and went right on his way happy as a clam.
I think a lot of RWing cops do this daily.
malaise
(268,949 posts)I remember that
napkinz
(17,199 posts)>>And the white cops that hee haw at the rabble...guess what fella...you are just insignificant minions, you see how vets get treated after they come back from Iraq missing two legs...you really think the same group give a fuck about you too? I hope they realize that some day.
Power (real power) has always given a select few just an inch more that the masses in order to get them to do the dirty work.
And that "inch" of power is what these thugs cling to as it's the only thing that separates them from falling into the thing they hate most "the lower class". Any ANY threat to that is seen as a challenge to that structure - they FEAR it and HATE it because it shows how weak and how much of a slave to the rich/elite/power they really are.
They seem themselves as 'good guys' when in reality they're really the stormtroopers and thugs.
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)for that lowlife racist Bill O'Rielly and the rest.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)k and r
A whole bunch of asshole white cops acting like stupid racist scumbags, how pathetic they are. Fuck them, they are a disgrace and an insult.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Yeah funny!!!
I love dead people!!!
Fuck those idiots.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)In a moment of emotional turmoil for officers, victims and the public, they act as if it's a sporting competition.
Was this a game, too?
Remember when conservatives CONDONED threats against law enforcement officers?
Leading to Infowars and Libertarian Adam Kokesh calling for the death of police as a pre-emptive measure, then continued to applaud the murders of these police men?
They complain about de Blasio, Obama, and the media milieu that they claim caused the killing of the two police officers in question.
Did they agree with this?
Or did they agree with this?
to you, napkinz:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025989740
How many of them denounced this?
"Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests." ... "They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches."
~ G. Gordon Liddy on his radio show, August 26, 1994
to JHB:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025989740#post12
They do have my sympathy for those killed in the line of duty and I expect them to support each other. But not in the case of the man sodomized with a broom handle, which is an obvious CRIME, and nothing to do with maintaining the 'thin blue line.'
They crossed the 'blue line' way too often, treating minorities as POWs, and some officers have stampeded across it. So much more to say, of how they are destroying what they've sworn to protect.
Unless, like 'Bloomberg's Army' they are an occupying force at the top, and those who join up not knowing are going to be victims of that. This stuff is not that hard to understand. Not to me, anyway. This pic doesn't help anyone who is self-aware.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)for deaths of the Las Vegas officers ...
No one said the far-right had blood on its hands.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Carry On, Napkinz!!!
napkinz
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BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Assholes.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)If I said any other way I would get banned napkinz.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)(We don't want to see you getting banned ... )
Cha
(297,154 posts)They want respect for the killer cop but absolutely none for the victim.
thanks napkinz
napkinz
(17,199 posts)But still, it's sickening to see them mock the death of Eric Garner.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Dec 19, 2014
by Mo Barnes
The last words of Eric Garner were I cant breathe, and these three words have been a rallying cry for protesters around the country. But Corporal Jason Barthel of Mishawaka, Indiana, police department takes offense to Garners dying words and he is protesting with a new line of clothing. His line of clothing reads Breathe Easy, Dont Break the Law and sales are going well.
Barthel is the owner of South Bend Uniform shop and his clients are police, firemen and EMS workers. He stated, The problem is we have a lot of people who are trying to create problems between the citizens and the people who try to protect them. When you break the law, unfortunately theres going to be consequences, and some of them arent going to be pretty. Unfortunately thats the reality.
http://rollingout.com/shame-on-you/insensitive-cop-mocks-eric-garner-t-shirt-line/
Cha
(297,154 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026015959
Holy.....S**T! Really? Yes there are a lot of people trying to create problems between the people and the those 'trying to protect them" see it here..
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Tears napkinz. Tears.
The police, they are indeed the problem. They have created it and they are damn well bloated with pride to continue it. They feel the power and they are using it with out any accountability to the law they supposedly are bound to uphold.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Why haven't Pat Lynch and Rudy and Pataki and all those at FOX said HE has blood on his hands?????
Hulk
(6,699 posts)They could be cops, they might not be. This is the sort of thinking that has this country stuck in the cave ages. Sick, twisted humor, even at the expense of something as tragic as this man's unnecessary death. How sad.
These thugs need to be exposed, and IF they are police, they need to be disciplined or terminated. Freedom of speech is fine. But freedom of speech can also have consequences resulting from over-the-top, insensitive and damaging speech. These pigs are enjoying themselves. I hope their anonymity is vaporized and they get the recognition they deserve.
Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)I am seeing every fucking bully I have had to deal with, every abusive male in my life in those faces, in their smug ass attitudes and the blatant, BLATANT mocking of a dead man one of their members KILLED. Fuck them and their families that allow them to get away with that bullshit.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Puglover
(16,380 posts)How many politicians showed up at Eric Gardeners funeral? He was murdered. He didn't deserve to die any more then the two cops that were shot. And yet all of the main stream news can babble about are the cops.
This country makes me sick.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)all you hear is the president, the mayor, the "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations, liberalism, Democrats are to blame for these horrific murders ... yet when Jerad Miller killed the two Las Vegas officers seven months ago, no one blamed all the radical right-wing groups he associated himself with.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)in being low.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)and "have you no shame!"
Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)eggplant
(3,911 posts)Film producer and New York Times essayist Errol Morris wrote in an August 2012 posting, "The conscious awareness of Comic Sans promotes at least among some people contempt and summary dismissal." With the help of a professor, he conducted an online experiment and found that Comic Sans, in comparison to five other fonts (Baskerville, Helvetica, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, and Computer Modern), makes readers slightly less likely to believe that a statement they are reading is true.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Respect is earned, not enforced.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)something they fail to understand, as their antics keep proving
City Lights
(25,171 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...is that they can stand their own stench.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)and without shame
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Lauren Barbato
December 22, 2014
The rise of #BlackLivesMatter protests in New York City over the last several weeks has given way to a deep schism between New York City police officers and, well, everyone else. Following Saturdays heinous slaying of two NYPD officers who were out on patrol in Brooklyn, to say that divide has escalated would be an understatement. Now, it seems like the NYPD and their supporters have adopted the #BlackLivesMatter protest chant I Cant Breathe and, in a stunning display of tone deafness, turned it into their own. On Friday night just hours before Saturdays tragic shooting New York City police officers and their supporters arrived at a rally at City Hall in black I Can Breathe T-shirts.
The shirts take the last words Eric Garner, a Staten Island resident who was killed by a chokehold administered by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in July, and alter them to prove
what, exactly? That theyre on the other side of the law? That they have privilege other New Yorkers arent afforded?
As you can see, the T-shirts of the pro-NYPD protesters bear the same design right down to the Comic Sans font of the I Cant Breathe T-shirts worn by NBA players Derrick Rose and LeBron James. Although the T-shirts may have been well-intentioned, the obvious mimicry makes the pro-NYPD protesters look like theyre mocking New Yorks people of color communities. According to social media reports, the (mostly white) pro-NYPD protesters were also chanting, Hands Up, Dont Loot as a response to the Ferguson chant, Hands Up, Dont Shoot.
read more: http://www.bustle.com/articles/55200-these-awful-i-can-breathe-t-shirts-mock-the-black-lives-matter-movement
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)look like hugely self unaware morons. Of course they can "breathe," they're white and aren't crushed by racism. It's beautiful, the irony and obliviousness.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)for one day, they should have to walk in the shoes of those they oppress and to whose plight they are oblivious