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napkinz

(17,199 posts)
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 05:57 PM Dec 2014

They Ask For Sympathy and Respect, But Showed None For The Victim --->

Last edited Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:13 PM - Edit history (2)














They mock the death of Eric Garner and those demonstrating for justice.

The media are silent. No condemnation from anyone.

edit: there seems to be some question as to whether all those pictured are actually police officers, so I am changing the subject line to be fair. The individuals wearing those shirts are still hypocrites ... demanding respect for the police but showing none for victims of police brutality.





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They Ask For Sympathy and Respect, But Showed None For The Victim ---> (Original Post) napkinz Dec 2014 OP
True. bravenak Dec 2014 #1
I see them as an insecure bunch of bullies. riversedge Dec 2014 #2
those smug expressions napkinz Dec 2014 #6
"Very disturbing" should be nominated for Understatement of the Year, imo - nt KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #15
I'm holding back ... napkinz Dec 2014 #17
+1 Cha Dec 2014 #33
Pat Lynch is the textbook case of a 'bully' radhika Dec 2014 #31
I believe NWA said it best... LordGlenconner Dec 2014 #3
All they want is unconditional submission to their authority. MrScorpio Dec 2014 #4
And a job to fit their IQs LordGlenconner Dec 2014 #5
And a PAID vacation when they murder unarmed citizens nt 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #13
Have any of the officers in these photos been publicly identified yet? - nt KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #7
I don't think they are officers of the NYPD helpmetohelpyou Dec 2014 #14
Yes, they may not be MissDeeds Dec 2014 #40
They don't even give a shit when they kill one of their own BumRushDaShow Dec 2014 #8
Authoritarians don't respect those that they control. You can see it in their words and deeds. Rex Dec 2014 #9
^^^^^^^ BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2014 #24
Yes, notice he could not believe it - therefore meaning his racist mind would not grasp Rex Dec 2014 #26
Yes he did malaise Dec 2014 #45
yep ... napkinz Dec 2014 #47
^^ yes Locrian Dec 2014 #35
No need for censorship of that rant, it's 100% warranted.. mountain grammy Dec 2014 #43
ooooh ... O'Reilly! napkinz Dec 2014 #44
Jackasses. AtomicKitten Dec 2014 #10
Wow Bartlet Dec 2014 #11
Ha ha ha!!! Dead people. Ha ha! Glassunion Dec 2014 #12
ugly and wrong Skittles Dec 2014 #16
Assholes! Enthusiast Dec 2014 #18
Despicable 1monster Dec 2014 #19
Stunning cluelessness. Very narrow definitions. Let's reinvent the wheel, huh? freshwest Dec 2014 #20
if "Black Lives Matter" gets blamed for the deaths of NY officers, why isn't the far-right blamed napkinz Dec 2014 #23
This needs to be posted more often, and I wish there was a way to get Lynch to answer in public! freshwest Dec 2014 #27
edit: problem solved, thanks napkinz Dec 2014 #29
Heartless idiots. BeanMusical Dec 2014 #21
Bad Breath Alert!! What a bunch of heartless creepy dickwads. Fuck the NYPD!! nt 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #22
K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2014 #25
!@#$%^&IO@!@#$%^&*(*&^%$# sheshe2 Dec 2014 #28
I hear you sheshe! napkinz Dec 2014 #30
It's easy to see why one would think they were NYPD with that big ol sign and the NYPD cap.. Cha Dec 2014 #32
that's why I changed the subject line napkinz Dec 2014 #36
showing no respect & sympathy ... and making money off his death napkinz Dec 2014 #49
Stupid cop.. Breaking the law is not a death sentence by killer cop.. a$$hole. Cha Dec 2014 #50
I just want to ... napkinz Dec 2014 #51
.. Cha Dec 2014 #52
MORE headbanging ... napkinz Dec 2014 #68
K~ sheshe2 Dec 2014 #58
the one circled who used the chokehold that killed Eric Garner napkinz Dec 2014 #60
White thuggery. Hulk Dec 2014 #34
Oh My Fucking God! Scruffy Rumbler Dec 2014 #37
+1000 heaven05 Dec 2014 #38
Why shouldn't they? Puglover Dec 2014 #39
the MSM carrying water for the right-wing napkinz Dec 2014 #42
Continue to hit new highes.... daleanime Dec 2014 #41
all I keep thinking is, "where is your humanity!" napkinz Dec 2014 #48
Nyc has its version of white thrash too. nt Lucky Luciano Dec 2014 #46
And on top of everything else, they used Comic Sans. eggplant Dec 2014 #53
The NYPD diserves no respect. blackspade Dec 2014 #54
"respect is earned, not enforced" napkinz Dec 2014 #61
Wow. City Lights Dec 2014 #55
Shame on those cops. Shame, shame, shame. blkmusclmachine Dec 2014 #56
more shame ... napkinz Dec 2014 #62
The wonder is..... DeSwiss Dec 2014 #57
they are smug, arrogant, heartless napkinz Dec 2014 #63
FUCK those pigs. NuclearDem Dec 2014 #59
These Awful "I Can Breathe" T-Shirts Mock The "Black Lives Matter" Movement napkinz Dec 2014 #64
It also makes them wheniwasincongress Dec 2014 #65
they can breathe, and they can give great big smiles napkinz Dec 2014 #67
K&R Number23 Dec 2014 #66

radhika

(1,008 posts)
31. Pat Lynch is the textbook case of a 'bully'
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:42 PM
Dec 2014

Big mouth, aggressive demeanor and open disrespect for anyone that can't fight back at his level. In the case of a mayor, that means the responsibilities of the post require a more mature persona.

But here's a sad truth: Like many rage-filled high school bullies, Lynch has followers. He's a smirking center of discord and mob action. He's the equivalent of a HS jock, the rich kid, the brat with a cool car - an old school thug-style union boss in a big east coast metropolis that loves that crap.

BumRushDaShow

(128,844 posts)
8. They don't even give a shit when they kill one of their own
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 06:22 PM
Dec 2014

when the officer was black or Hispanic -

<...>

“If you speak with nine out of 10 officers of color they would tell you that when they hear sirens, in their head they are thinking: ‘I hope these cops know that I’m one of the good guys.’ ”

<...>

It “is naïve to assume that our department is driven by racism,” Dr. Haberfeld says. “Your experience will be based on what you encounter, and it’s natural to build up a profile.”

But some black officers and academics counter that this is too easy. “If it was just a mistake, we would see more of these mistakes with officers of different colors,” said Prof. Delores Jones-Brown, director of John Jay’s Center on Race, Crime and Justice.

Instinctual judgments about race and crime are woven into the culture of the streets. “We tend to pretend in the police force that we don’t see race, we don’t see ethnicity, but we do,” said Senator Adams, the former police captain. “One of my cops once said that if he sees a non-uniformed black man with a gun, he takes precautions for himself; if he sees a white guy with a gun, he takes precautions for both because he knows it could be a fellow cop.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/nyregion/31friendly.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
9. Authoritarians don't respect those that they control. You can see it in their words and deeds.
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 06:29 PM
Dec 2014

That is why you are so confused from their lack of shame and empathy - there is none. As far as the cop unions/leaders are concerned, questioning authority is equivalent to overthrowing authority. There you have it.

This is exactly what some talk about when the say America is a police state. And that authoritarian view is shared by the power structure which sometimes issues immunity for obvious negligent homicide by officers. Which seems to be SOP for some of the militarized PDs, if for no other reason - simply because they know they can get away with it. Sad but true.

Just because you know you can murder someone, doesn't mean you should. It means you have to wield that power with great responsibility and convictions. Which some do, but the ones that don't (rotten apples) - get away with it. Mostly.

I don't buy this 'police are perfect and never cause any harm' bullshit meme and nobody should either. Accountability and transparency...looks like cops don't like those things just like politicians and big wig executives.

Okay we don't live in a police state, we live in an 'authoritarian-vulture capitalist system run by plutocrats that own the public works.'

Happy now?



This next part will probably get a hide, but I just don't care anymore;



And the white cops that hee haw at the rabble...guess what fella...you are just insignificant minions, you see how vets get treated after they come back from Iraq missing two legs...you really think the same group give a fuck about you too? I hope they realize that some day. They look at themselves as modern day Robin Hood, when in fact they are behaving like the Sheriff of Nottingham. They let the RWing white hate machine charge their battery up so much that a few end up killing those scary black men. Opps...that society...thugs...never was a good one...looked dangerous...acted funny...etc..

Racist cops make this entire country suck hard. They represent the RWing ideology of busting skulls and segregation of race. Of course there is no way to prove RWing asshole cops are the only ones on the take...but I would bet an old wheat penny on the proportion of them LOVING Rush and Glenn and Hannity and instantly fearing the black man and feeling safer aiming a gun at his chest.

The way Bill O' Reilly fears the black man.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/09/21/oreilly-surprised-there-was-no-difference-betwe/139893

"Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "

Stand out there and picket you dumb fuck white assholes, keep that dumb fuck grin on your face and wear your hatred on your clothes and on your wrist.







 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
26. Yes, notice he could not believe it - therefore meaning his racist mind would not grasp
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:10 PM
Dec 2014

that people of a different shade than he (since isn't that what it is all about - shades of color) could behave like HE did in HIS circle of society. Impossible, unbelievable.

So what that means is that as soon as he left, he chose not to believe it and went right on his way happy as a clam.

I think a lot of RWing cops do this daily.

Locrian

(4,522 posts)
35. ^^ yes
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:50 PM
Dec 2014

>>And the white cops that hee haw at the rabble...guess what fella...you are just insignificant minions, you see how vets get treated after they come back from Iraq missing two legs...you really think the same group give a fuck about you too? I hope they realize that some day.

Power (real power) has always given a select few just an inch more that the masses in order to get them to do the dirty work.

And that "inch" of power is what these thugs cling to as it's the only thing that separates them from falling into the thing they hate most "the lower class". Any ANY threat to that is seen as a challenge to that structure - they FEAR it and HATE it because it shows how weak and how much of a slave to the rich/elite/power they really are.

They seem themselves as 'good guys' when in reality they're really the stormtroopers and thugs.

mountain grammy

(26,619 posts)
43. No need for censorship of that rant, it's 100% warranted..
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 08:57 PM
Dec 2014

for that lowlife racist Bill O'Rielly and the rest.

Bartlet

(172 posts)
11. Wow
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 06:37 PM
Dec 2014

A whole bunch of asshole white cops acting like stupid racist scumbags, how pathetic they are. Fuck them, they are a disgrace and an insult.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
20. Stunning cluelessness. Very narrow definitions. Let's reinvent the wheel, huh?
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 06:53 PM
Dec 2014

In a moment of emotional turmoil for officers, victims and the public, they act as if it's a sporting competition.

Was this a game, too?

Remember when conservatives CONDONED threats against law enforcement officers?






Leading to Infowars and Libertarian Adam Kokesh calling for the death of police as a pre-emptive measure, then continued to applaud the murders of these police men?



They complain about de Blasio, Obama, and the media milieu that they claim caused the killing of the two police officers in question.

Did they agree with this?



Or did they agree with this?



to you, napkinz:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025989740

How many of them denounced this?



"Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests." ... "They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches."

~ G. Gordon Liddy on his radio show, August 26, 1994

to JHB:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025989740#post12

They do have my sympathy for those killed in the line of duty and I expect them to support each other. But not in the case of the man sodomized with a broom handle, which is an obvious CRIME, and nothing to do with maintaining the 'thin blue line.'

They crossed the 'blue line' way too often, treating minorities as POWs, and some officers have stampeded across it. So much more to say, of how they are destroying what they've sworn to protect.

Unless, like 'Bloomberg's Army' they are an occupying force at the top, and those who join up not knowing are going to be victims of that. This stuff is not that hard to understand. Not to me, anyway. This pic doesn't help anyone who is self-aware.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
23. if "Black Lives Matter" gets blamed for the deaths of NY officers, why isn't the far-right blamed
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:06 PM
Dec 2014

for deaths of the Las Vegas officers ...






No one said the far-right had blood on its hands.









freshwest

(53,661 posts)
27. This needs to be posted more often, and I wish there was a way to get Lynch to answer in public!
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:18 PM
Dec 2014

Carry On, Napkinz!!!

Cha

(297,154 posts)
32. It's easy to see why one would think they were NYPD with that big ol sign and the NYPD cap..
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:48 PM
Dec 2014

They want respect for the killer cop but absolutely none for the victim.

thanks napkinz

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
36. that's why I changed the subject line
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:52 PM
Dec 2014

But still, it's sickening to see them mock the death of Eric Garner.



napkinz

(17,199 posts)
49. showing no respect & sympathy ... and making money off his death
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 09:45 PM
Dec 2014
Insensitive cop mocks Eric Garner with T-shirt line

Dec 19, 2014
by Mo Barnes

The last words of Eric Garner were “I can’t breathe,” and these three words have been a rallying cry for protesters around the country. But Corporal Jason Barthel of Mishawaka, Indiana, police department takes offense to Garner’s dying words and he is protesting with a new line of clothing. His line of clothing reads “Breathe Easy, Don’t Break the Law” and sales are going well.

Barthel is the owner of South Bend Uniform shop and his clients are police, firemen and EMS workers. He stated, “The problem is we have a lot of people who are trying to create problems between the citizens and the people who try to protect them. When you break the law, unfortunately there’s going to be consequences, and some of them aren’t going to be pretty. Unfortunately that’s the reality.”

http://rollingout.com/shame-on-you/insensitive-cop-mocks-eric-garner-t-shirt-line/

sheshe2

(83,746 posts)
58. K~
Sun Dec 28, 2014, 02:15 AM
Dec 2014
“The problem is we have a lot of people who are trying to create problems between the citizens and the people who try to protect them. When you break the law, unfortunately there’s going to be consequences, and some of them aren’t going to be pretty. Unfortunately that’s the reality.”


Holy.....S**T! Really? Yes there are a lot of people trying to create problems between the people and the those 'trying to protect them" see it here..









?1418149700




Tears napkinz. Tears.

The police, they are indeed the problem. They have created it and they are damn well bloated with pride to continue it. They feel the power and they are using it with out any accountability to the law they supposedly are bound to uphold.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
60. the one circled who used the chokehold that killed Eric Garner
Sun Dec 28, 2014, 05:10 AM
Dec 2014

Why haven't Pat Lynch and Rudy and Pataki and all those at FOX said HE has blood on his hands?????

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
34. White thuggery.
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:49 PM
Dec 2014

They could be cops, they might not be. This is the sort of thinking that has this country stuck in the cave ages. Sick, twisted humor, even at the expense of something as tragic as this man's unnecessary death. How sad.

These thugs need to be exposed, and IF they are police, they need to be disciplined or terminated. Freedom of speech is fine. But freedom of speech can also have consequences resulting from over-the-top, insensitive and damaging speech. These pigs are enjoying themselves. I hope their anonymity is vaporized and they get the recognition they deserve.

Scruffy Rumbler

(961 posts)
37. Oh My Fucking God!
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:53 PM
Dec 2014

I am seeing every fucking bully I have had to deal with, every abusive male in my life in those faces, in their smug ass attitudes and the blatant, BLATANT mocking of a dead man one of their members KILLED. Fuck them and their families that allow them to get away with that bullshit.

Puglover

(16,380 posts)
39. Why shouldn't they?
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 08:10 PM
Dec 2014

How many politicians showed up at Eric Gardeners funeral? He was murdered. He didn't deserve to die any more then the two cops that were shot. And yet all of the main stream news can babble about are the cops.

This country makes me sick.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
42. the MSM carrying water for the right-wing
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 08:48 PM
Dec 2014

all you hear is the president, the mayor, the "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations, liberalism, Democrats are to blame for these horrific murders ... yet when Jerad Miller killed the two Las Vegas officers seven months ago, no one blamed all the radical right-wing groups he associated himself with.

eggplant

(3,911 posts)
53. And on top of everything else, they used Comic Sans.
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 10:46 PM
Dec 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans

Film producer and New York Times essayist Errol Morris wrote in an August 2012 posting, "The conscious awareness of Comic Sans promotes — at least among some people — contempt and summary dismissal." With the help of a professor, he conducted an online experiment and found that Comic Sans, in comparison to five other fonts (Baskerville, Helvetica, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, and Computer Modern), makes readers slightly less likely to believe that a statement they are reading is true.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
64. These Awful "I Can Breathe" T-Shirts Mock The "Black Lives Matter" Movement
Sun Dec 28, 2014, 06:24 PM
Dec 2014

Lauren Barbato
December 22, 2014

The rise of #BlackLivesMatter protests in New York City over the last several weeks has given way to a deep schism between New York City police officers and, well, everyone else. Following Saturday’s heinous slaying of two NYPD officers who were out on patrol in Brooklyn, to say that divide has escalated would be an understatement. Now, it seems like the NYPD and their supporters have adopted the #BlackLivesMatter protest chant “I Can’t Breathe” and, in a stunning display of tone deafness, turned it into their own. On Friday night — just hours before Saturday’s tragic shooting — New York City police officers and their supporters arrived at a rally at City Hall in black “I Can Breathe” T-shirts.

The shirts take the last words Eric Garner, a Staten Island resident who was killed by a chokehold administered by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in July, and alter them to prove… what, exactly? That they’re on the other side of the law? That they have privilege other New Yorkers aren’t afforded?

As you can see, the T-shirts of the pro-NYPD protesters bear the same design — right down to the Comic Sans font — of the “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts worn by NBA players Derrick Rose and LeBron James. Although the T-shirts may have been well-intentioned, the obvious mimicry makes the pro-NYPD protesters look like they’re mocking New York’s people of color communities. According to social media reports, the (mostly white) pro-NYPD protesters were also chanting, “Hands Up, Don’t Loot” as a response to the Ferguson chant, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.”

read more: http://www.bustle.com/articles/55200-these-awful-i-can-breathe-t-shirts-mock-the-black-lives-matter-movement

wheniwasincongress

(1,307 posts)
65. It also makes them
Sun Dec 28, 2014, 06:50 PM
Dec 2014

look like hugely self unaware morons. Of course they can "breathe," they're white and aren't crushed by racism. It's beautiful, the irony and obliviousness.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
67. they can breathe, and they can give great big smiles
Mon Dec 29, 2014, 05:08 AM
Dec 2014

for one day, they should have to walk in the shoes of those they oppress and to whose plight they are oblivious

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