Note: Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
That's a wildly optimistic take. ICE will kill you, whether you're obeying them or not.
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You gotta obey while being maced and beaten by 5 cops. And you have less than 30 seconds to do so.
And they might just ask "does he have a gun?" "Wait - does he have a gun?!" "DOES HE HAVE A GUN?!" until they shoot you 10 times just to be able to look and say "nope."
They gave you a whole 30 seconds to comply. You’re basically asking to get shot.
Hey, they may also shout conflicting orders so they have justification for murdering you, because you didn't stand with your hands on your head while getting on the ground
That's how clean shoots happen
Simon didn't say put your hands up.....BANG
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Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
Idk man, given recent events this might not be true anymore.
Daniel Shaver was a decade ago.
It remains that people of colour are more likely to be profiled and prejudiced into a confrontation with police-
But once in a confrontation with police, it's "Us vs. Them".
Renée Good and Alex Pretty were this month.
My argument is not that now suddenly white people in the US experience as much police brutality and arbitrariness as PoC in the US. It just seems the chances of white people surviving such encounters are dropping.
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Everyone in America can name the last two people shot by ICE/BP. How many can name any of the ten people who were before them without looking it up?
The BP shoots Mexican kids across the border for fun, and they have been doing that constantly since they were formed. They don't even bother making up his reasons for doing it because American courts don't consider it to be a crime.
Bovino made ONE mistake: acting like those rules also applied to white people. And that's why he got fired.
My 3yo got a coloring book from a visiting cop at preschool the other day.
First off, he's 3. Starting that young just shows how much they've considered it. A full half of the kids there are black, we're in a city famous for historical racism.
His moms have established words they don't want him using yet, like "shoot." OK, they're his parents I can understand and respect that. We play with nerf darts and stomp rockets, and never "launch" them at people.
So the coloring book teaches him vocabulary like "suspect," "pepper spray," and "stun device." They're answers to puzzles.
I made an offhand joke that next year's coloring book will explain how a "suspect" was "incorrectly adjudicated" by an officer's "bullet device."
His moms wisely threw the book away explaining they don't want to teach about racist, rapist pigs yet. I was so happy. He'll never know his biological grandmother is a cop-worshipper because she'll never meet him.
My 3yo
His moms
they're his parents
I'm confused. Is that now your kid? What's going on?
I remember being a kid and "Officer Friendly" visiting our school, then later, Officer Dickens running the D.A.R.E. program we were all forced to go through.
The propaganda is so pervasive that most people never question how wrong it is that cops are authoritarian. Good on you for doing what you can to teach your child the reality of the world.
I'm seeing lots of reports on this for rule #2, and while I think this sort of commentary is obviously the basis of a lot of political bickering, I'm not sure if the framing in the meme itself is wholly political.
I might be way off base making a judgement call here, but I'm going to leave this one be.
Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
IDK man, there might be a slight brownish hue...
Anything not blue is brown
Might have to? It's "might get to."
Going past single-panel rhetoric, does anyone know any great media to showcase this dichotomy of feeling between what police should be, and what they are?
Something like: Highlighting the life and pride of a police officer that loves the force and sees himself as a hero protecting people - then slowly getting sickened by all the protestors insisting police are horrible - before eventually being exposed to the terrible actions of other police before breaking down and doubting their own life’s mission.
The Departed is a great movie in general and it's about two men, one is an undercover cop in the Irish Mafia and the other is a Mafia member working for the cops. They are both trying to figure out who the rat is in their organizations without being found out themselves. May not be exactly what you want, but there's a TON of police corruption in the movie
Edit: I know I've seen End of Watch and I thought it was a good movie, but I don't remember much of it. Apparently that's about two LAPD cops who get tangled up in some cartel corruption of their department, so maybe that one too?
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Not exactly the same, but Serpico shows what happens to good cops who reguse to turn a blind eye to corruption, and it's based on a true story.
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This is the mindset I've adapted about the US in the last 10 years. This is the mindset I'll pass on about the US until I see it change. Police reaching for the gun the second they get a response they don't like is not good. This is not a society I'd wish to be a part of. Good luck Americans. And godspeed.
Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.
That depends. Does Billy have an accent?
I remember when this would have been funny.
Who's the artist? Please include the source
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