If there's any evidence that the police forces in America have been tone deaf to the anger towards them it's the much maligned, ill-conceived and ill-advised decision to try and make friends with citizens on social media.
Wow, wow, wow, WOW.
Instead of the lovey-dovey pictures with cops, social media was flooded with endless steams of police brutality. And it wasn't just NYPD. LAPD was getting some push back as well.
Love the one where NYPD roughed up an 84 year-old Chinese man who couldn't speak English for...jaywalking.
For me, the murder of Kelly Thomas perpetuated by the Fullerton police force remains one of the most heinous acts I've seen.
I can't even put up a picture of what they did to that guy.
Wow, wow, wow, WOW.
Instead of the lovey-dovey pictures with cops, social media was flooded with endless steams of police brutality. And it wasn't just NYPD. LAPD was getting some push back as well.
Love the one where NYPD roughed up an 84 year-old Chinese man who couldn't speak English for...jaywalking.
For me, the murder of Kelly Thomas perpetuated by the Fullerton police force remains one of the most heinous acts I've seen.
I can't even put up a picture of what they did to that guy.
The "problem" is that few rational adults mess around with phones and pics; mostly just the under 25 set who do not view the police favorably... most of what the NYPD got were from the OWS demonstrations and they were rehashes of what I saw in the late 60's.
ReplyDeleteThat's probably true but you have to look at the comments left among various sites and there were some valid pictures posted. I'm not that sympathetic to the OWS ones though.
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