police racism
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Massachusetts State Trooper Fired After Using Racial Slurs During an Off-Duty Confrontation
While everything may be in flux today, there is one thing that will always be a constant: cops being mad racist/dumb as hell. The latest instance of a cop being a dumb racist takes us to Massachusetts, where a rookie state trooper was fired after using a racial slur during a confrontation. According to NBC…
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Kentucky Police Commissioner Resigns After Use of Hitler Quotes in Police Training Program Revealed
The commissioner for the Kentucky State police has resigned after it was revealed that a training program used by the force included quotes from Adolf Hitler and Gen. Robert E. Lee. Honestly, I feel like that should just be the story. Like, it’s fucking Hitler, y’all. Hitler. CBS News reports that Commissioner Rodney Brewer’s resignation…
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Police Department Costs Ohio City $475,000 Because They Couldn’t Stop Being Racist
For some reason, white people haven’t made the correlation that racism often comes at a hefty price these days. Columbus, Ohio, learned this lesson the hard way after the city voted to settle a former officer’s discrimination suit against the Columbus Division of Police for nearly half a million dollars. CNN reports that the Columbus…
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Arbitrator Orders New Hampshire Officer Fired for Racist Texts Be Reinstated, Police Chief Refuses
One of the biggest issues facing meaningful police reform is the arbitration process. An officer could be fired for being a piece of shit but an arbitrator could say, “well, he wasn’t that shitty,” and order the officer to be re-hired. In New Hampshire, that exact situation is playing out but surprisingly, the local police…
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Yes, the Police Are Racist
Why does everyone think the Nazis were racist? Sure, Hitler was definitely racist. He ordered the extermination of the Jews from Germany and later from all over Europe once he became chancellor of Germany. Sure, He built the Third Reich—a political, social and economic regime based on the idea of Aryan supremacy. Sure Nazi soldiers…
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New Video Shows Ahmaud Arbery Being Harassed by Police in 2017; Family Wants Man Who Recorded Arbery's Death Arrested
Another video has been released in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, and unfortunately, it depicts a cycle of harassment known all too well by black men and women in this country. According to the Associated Press, a video from 2017 shows Arbery being harassed by Glynn County Police officers. An officer repeatedly asks Arbery if…
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Report: California Police Protected White Nationalists Who Helped Them Hunt Anti-Racism Activists
When anyone insinuates that cops are racist, they’re said to be willfully painting with too broad a brush. Sure, there might be a few bad apples, but the fact that police officers stop, arrest and kill black people in disproportionate numbers doesn’t mean that all police officers target black people. If you’re going to say…
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Ga. Sheriff’s Deputy Fired for Racist Facebook Messages Targeting Black Motorists
Two former McIntosh County, Ga., sheriff’s deputies were caught in a social media scandal in which an internal-affairs investigation uncovered racist and sexist messages they exchanged on Facebook, including one message that appeared to show an effort to target black motorists, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. One officer was terminated, while the other officer abruptly resigned…