Expressing disgust and fear on facebook.


I posted this link to facebook a few days ago. I’m trying to remember the feelingThe department’s own records demonstrate that, as with other types of force, canine officers use dogs out of proportion to the threat posed by the people they encounter, leaving serious puncture wounds to nonviolent offenders, some of them children. Furthermore, in every canine bite incident for which racial information is available, the subject was African American. This disparity, in combination with the decision to deploy canines in circumstances with a seemingly low objective threat, suggests that race may play an impermissible role in officers’ decisions to deploy canines.s. What prompted this?

It was text accompanying an article I shared from The Root, Minnesota Corrections Officers File Lawsuit Claiming All Non-White Officers Were Barred From Guarding Derek Chauvin

It’s so blatant. The distrust in black people. The discrimination and prejudice. I wonder how many get ignored on a regular basis?

Not just police. I mention criminal justice system a lot for a reason.
And I mention other bigotry in the criminal justice system officials occasionally to reinforce the fact that it’s a system broken on multiple dimensions (but not so much as to take from antiracist momentum, the sexism and ableism support the fact of bigotry in our criminal justice system).

I when there is no example present I try to use “criminal justice system” at least half of the time when critisizing the country because that includes the police. The current social focus is racism and if people deny it’s systemic it’s useful to point to multiple bigotries in support of the current example.

I just finished the first episode of Behind the Police, by the creators of the Behind the Bastards podcast and they mention that 100% of police dog bites involved black people in the justice department report in the ferguson missouri police department.

The department’s own records demonstrate that, as with other types of force, canine officers use dogs out of proportion to the threat posed by the people they encounter, leaving serious puncture wounds to nonviolent offenders, some of them children. Furthermore, in every canine bite incident for which racial information is available, the subject was African American. This disparity, in combination with the decision to deploy canines in circumstances with a seemingly low objective threat, suggests that race may play an impermissible role in officers’ decisions to deploy canines.

It’s blatant and we didn’t talk about it as a nation.

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  1. StevoR says

    It’s so blatant. The distrust in black people. The discrimination and prejudice. I wonder how many get ignored on a regular basis? .. It’s blatant and we didn’t talk about it as a nation.

    Quoted for truth and applicable to Australia and probly quite a few other nations as well as the USA.

    frex :

    ACTIVIST ARRESTED & CHARGED FOR PASTING MACQUARIE’S OWN WORDS ON HIS STATUE

    At 6.30pm on Thursday 18th June, veteran activist, Stephen Langford stuck an A4 notice with water soluble glue, on a statue of Governor Macquarie, in Hyde Park, Sydney. (photo attached). It simply quoted Macquarie’s orders to kill Aboriginal people in NSW:

    “All Aborigines from Sydney onwards are to be made prisoners of war and if they resist they are to be shot and their bodies to be hung from trees in the most conspicuous places near where they fall so as to strike fear into the hearts of surviving natives.”

    Governor Lachlan Macquarie, was responsible in 1816 for giving orders that led to the Appin Massacre of the Gundungarra and Dharrawal people.

    Stephen was arrested half an hour later after interception by 3 police cars and a paddy-wagon and taken to the police station, Day St., Darling Harbour. There he was charged with defacing/damaging public property. At midnight, he was refused bail by police and held overnight at the Surry Hills police station lock-up a total of 20 hours of detention.

    The following day, he was granted bail by the magistrate, who was dismissive of the ‘weak’ charges.

    Stephen will appear for a plea hearing on Monday 6 July at the Downing Centre Local Court where he will plead not guilty. Supporters are invited to attend the court at 9am to demonstrate their opposition to this attempt to criminalise free speech.</blockquote

    Via the Australian Greens politics, news and discussion facebook group page just today.

    Note the double standard here via another commenter there (not going to give names for privacy / security / permissions reasons) that :

    “..I’m in the music event management industry. And our promoters chuck up illegal A1 posters around Melbourne on a daily basis. With adhesive. My blood is fucking boiling right now.”

  2. says

    These fuckers never acknowledge the actual limits on speech that exist. This speech is incitement and if they get to without cost that social contract is broken.
    Actually it’s probably been broken on a continuous basis like the usa. I’m unfamiliar with a lot of australia’s background here.

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