to be fair though, i've read the same things over and over about your rights when dealing with cops. i just understand that what is legal is not always what's going to serve your best interests.
my friends and i were approached by cops at a park once about 5 minutes before it closed. we had all been drinking and were packing up after our weekly card game meeting when they showed up. luckily, all the bottles were disposed of, but one friend had some cocaine in his pocket and i had my little pot pouch. my third friend started giving the cop so much lip about his rights, how the park was still open, blah, blah... we were terrified at this, since he had successfully included us in his righteousness against cops movement. me and chivo apologized profusely for his behavior, gave up our ids immediately and told him to shut the fuck up.
i think the cops liked our response because they let us go without a search but gave mr. know-it-all a ticket for smoking in the park.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/P...h/-/index.html
(CNN) -
The diapered child is bombarded with obscenities and racial slurs by the adults around him.
The African-American toddler knocks down a chair and gives nearly as good as he gets, responding to some of the comments with an upraised middle finger and telling one of the adults at one point, "Shut up, bitch." The adults laugh and prompt him to repeat other crudities.
Just another day on the Internet -- until the police union in Omaha, Nebraska, posted the clip on its website to highlight what it called the "cycle of violence and thuggery" the community faces.
Now, the Omaha Police Officers' Association is under fire from the city's police chief, the ACLU and at least one community leader. They say the move needlessly antagonizes the city's minority communities, who make up about a quarter of Omaha's 409,000 residents.
>>>more at link<<<<
Nothing like that. But I can get behind someone mentioning the "cycle of violence and thuggery"
A lot different than a bunch of bigots making fun of a toddler though.
This kid gives the finger and spits foul language at people it's all fun. But if he wanted to know about the tides, or what keeps planes in the air, then they would mock him. And if he understood basic rules of grammar they would mock him for "talking white."
Education isn't just mocked, it's discouraged. Ugh.
I'm not giving the cops a pass, I'm just saying I HATE that no one is seeing the problem with the video and/or raising a child in gang culture.
How are the cops mocking the child? They just took the video from a public fb. Funny how people are all pissed at the cops but they forget to be pissed at the assholes who made the video, who are actually being nasty to a kid just to get it to curse and be nasty back. They made a choice to upload that thing to a public fb page.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Yeah, shame on the cops for pointing out how this is fucked up behaviour.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Originally that's what I thought I read?
Thank you Morbid for posting the video, which was not on the original article. I think the police are under fire on this for blatantly coining:
Sure, it's to the point. But it's not particularly professional terminology.On the website where the video is hosted, the union said the clip came from "a local thug's public Facebook page."
You get that it was the adults in the video, spefically the boy's uncle, spouting off racial slurs and repeatedly encouraging the toddler to repeat thing like "fuck you nigga" - right?
The cops posted the video And pointed out it was perpetuating a bad cycle. I agree.
If there was a white toddler being encouraged to say things like "fuck those niggers" and it was posted as an example of perpetuating the cycle of racism I'd agree there too. There have been photos and videos of parents giving kids alcohol and drugs, those white parents were highlighted and the behavior condemned. I agree with that condemnation too.
The toddler was talking like a little thug, and being praised and encouraged. I don't find the description wrong.
Also, the uncle replied to the fb post BG the union with a lovely array of language. His reply and manner of responding go the post just proved he's a "thug." One with a level head and (likely better education) would very probably responded differently.
This is the actual message:
http://www.omahapoa.com/2014/01/07/h...le-continuing/
Maybe it's not very professional to refer to him as a thug but I think the things going on in that video are far worse than the things people are angry about. They are teaching this kid how to be an asshole by verbally abusing him but people are angry because the cops call the guy a thug, and say that if you raise your kid to be an idiot, I mean thug, then chances are he'll become one.
Let's be angry about that and not about the fact that a 2 year old is being abused. 0 points to logic.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
I admitted that I read the original article wrong, since they did not have the actual video attached. I did think the cops were mocking the baby, who was taught to act like a thug.
I agree that the bigger issue is the child abuse. But you can't teach ignorant people that they're being thugs by calling them thugs. They'll immediately go the "name calling" route.
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