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Cop Explains How It Feels To Live Every Day In Fear Someone Might Record You Brutalizing A Civilian (Original Post) DetlefK Jun 2020 OP
Solution? ibegurpard Jun 2020 #1
"If I escalate or violate their civil rights soothsayer Jun 2020 #6
Just saw it was the Onion ibegurpard Jun 2020 #10
And it being from 2017 makes it even worse. n/t ms liberty Jun 2020 #13
Is this for real? soothsayer Jun 2020 #2
Its The Onion. DetlefK Jun 2020 #3
Note the picture of the green onion, upper left side Nevilledog Jun 2020 #4
Come on it's satire California_Republic Jun 2020 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author sanatanadharma Jun 2020 #5
Well done. Mike 03 Jun 2020 #7
D'oh! soothsayer Jun 2020 #8
I'm getting to be such a wuss... stillcool Jun 2020 #9
You're not alone. silverweb Jun 2020 #14
you never know what you're going to get... stillcool Jun 2020 #15
Hang in there. silverweb Jun 2020 #18
It is impossible for the Onion to do satire in this day and age. It is all to real and believable. hlthe2b Jun 2020 #11
Onion or not, it's real, elleng Jun 2020 #12
i never saw it before barbtries Jun 2020 #17

ibegurpard

(16,685 posts)
1. Solution?
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 03:20 PM
Jun 2020

Don't do it. And get the cops whose attitude about it is blase or, worse, openly racist out of there. Stop covering for the bad ones or you are a bad one too.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
6. "If I escalate or violate their civil rights
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 03:23 PM
Jun 2020

...and they’re filming me, I could get in trouble.”

Paraphrasing but that’s how I heard it.

Nevilledog

(51,201 posts)
4. Note the picture of the green onion, upper left side
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 03:22 PM
Jun 2020

It's satire, although it's getting harder to tell.

Response to DetlefK (Original post)

silverweb

(16,402 posts)
14. You're not alone.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 03:56 PM
Jun 2020

I can feel my blood pressure rising with some news stories, while tears fall with others. As a result, I just can't watch most news and videos anymore, but have to read about them later.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
15. you never know what you're going to get...
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 04:03 PM
Jun 2020

when you click. I can't watch news either...sends me into another orbit.

silverweb

(16,402 posts)
18. Hang in there.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 04:46 PM
Jun 2020

We're seeing living proof that the good far outnumber the bad. Good will prevail, but we have work to do. November is coming and our nation is deathly ill with infection. We have to lance the infected wound, to expose the rot and the pus, and to scrape out every trace of it. ONLY then can there be any healing. To do anything else would be to stand by and watch her die. We will do this. She will be well and strong again because we are strong now. Racism in all its forms, blatant to subtle, deliberate to subconscious bias, will be excised from the body of this nation.

elleng

(131,129 posts)
12. Onion or not, it's real,
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 03:48 PM
Jun 2020

my son in law and his brother, both in sheriff office, have been attacked by bricks and guns.

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