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cabot

(724 posts)
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 12:49 PM Nov 2013

Disgusting racial incident in Grosse Point, Michigan

This breaks my heart. I feel for the poor guy and am absolutely appalled cops like this exist. I apologize in advance if this is a duplicate. I didn't see it.



NewsOne previously reported, several police officers from the Grosse Pointe Park Police Department in Michigan are being accused of filming Blacks in humiliating situations and sharing the videos for their own twisted amusement.

Now one of the men, Scipio (pictured), who is mentally challenged and allegedly made to sing and dance like a chimp in one of the videos, spoke to My Fox Detroit about the scandal.

The 55-year-old man, who lives in a boarding house, told the news outlet that he has no recollection as to when the video was filmed. He makes his living collecting cans in the ritzy Detroit suburb and claims he runs into police frequently. Scipio, whose speech is affected and has some cognitive issues as well, told Fox 2 Detroit that he was unaware he was the subject of the officers’ amusement and actually thought they were his friends.

“They made me look like a fool, humiliated me,” he said.


http://newsone.com/2786984/grosse-pointe-park-police-racist-videos-scipio/

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gollygee

(22,336 posts)
1. This doesn't surprise me
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 12:57 PM
Nov 2013

Knowing that area. What's being done? Probably nothing, and they'll do just as little as they can to quiet things down.

But the US is the least racist place on earth, and we're all post-racial and everything, right? /sarcasm.

RKP5637

(67,110 posts)
2. A lot of cops are absolute assholes, I don't trust them at all. ... and they
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 01:00 PM
Nov 2013

feel empowered to be assholes. Not all are this way, but a good many I imagine.

 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
6. Almost all cops are FOX 'news' watching, Limbaugh listening Republicans
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 03:45 PM
Nov 2013

At least that's what the Republican, former police commander that I work with tells me.

Do the math.

RKP5637

(67,110 posts)
9. Not surprised at all. Fox news is gross. I was recently traveling in more RW states, staying
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 04:25 PM
Nov 2013

at various hotel/motels, and almost everyone had Fox News turned on in the dinning area for morning breakfast ... and I swear, the people in there were in a trance watching it, like they were getting their mental infusion and marching orders for the day. It was like a Star Trek Mind Meld.

tiredtoo

(2,949 posts)
13. Speak up
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 09:08 AM
Nov 2013

You don't have to make a scene or raise hell. But many of us will politely tell whoever appears to be in charge that we are offended by that station. Most times we are told to suck an egg that is what management wants us to broadcast. Or something along those lines but, on occasion the channel will be changed. We in Saginaw, Mi are beginning to see some success from our efforts, many public places now carry HLN or some other less offensive station. One voice at a time can make a difference.

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
5. Even Unionized Cops have become terrible...
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 03:33 PM
Nov 2013

Not understanding that Right Wing economic doctrine calls for privatizing their jobs at $10:00 an hr. But yet probably 75% of them vote straight right wing. I put the blame on Union leadership...

I know several cops...

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