Twitter Savages #Ask a Cop
December 27, 2014 in Racism | Tags: ask a cop, Police, Racism, shots fired | by The Arbourist
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4 comments
December 28, 2014 at 2:57 pm
VR Kaine
The first comment about Wilson washing his hands and bagging his gun appears to be the only intelligent question on that entire list.
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December 28, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Nicholas Breakspear
VR Kaine wrote: The first comment about Wilson washing his hands and bagging his gun appears to be the only intelligent question on that entire list.
Are you a cop? Is that why you’re presuming to answer? If not, your musings are clearly irrelevant. And if you are a cop, your rank dismissal of the other GREAT QUESTIONS reveals the reason for the questions. But then you don’t care to start with, so the reason was wasted on you (if you’re a cop).
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December 30, 2014 at 11:01 am
VR Kaine
Are YOU a cop? Then if not, what makes you yapping any more relevant? Got a “boo hoo I got abused by a cop” story to post here? Would love to hear it.
The questions themselves are ridiculous, as are yours, but let me play along – Mr. Breakspear, do you smile when you’re being racist or do you frown? And why is sensationalized, liberal “boo hoo” rhetoric supposed to stand unchallenged? Is it really that weak and fragile, as apparently your sensitivities are?
There’s an easy and appropriate answer to any one of those ridiculous and loaded questions above for anyone who is a cop or has any clue as to what goes on in law enforcement. If you weren’t so busy looking for commiseration or apparently the next liberal bandwagon to jump on with a whole bunch of new friends, then perhaps that would be more clear.
Here’s my problem with all this: this “savagery” (haha!) is yet another example of fair share liberals piling on to an issue in their usual bleedheart, overblown, “this has nothing to do with me but I’ll still make myself a victim of it anyways” fashion, which invariably causes “whiner fatigue” with those who actually COULD change things, gives them ammo to call the real problem “overblown”, and consequently draws away from the legitimate and actual individual cases where a cop or group of cops might have, or actually have, abused their powers. You might as well have had Al Sharpton pose all those questions and then I don’t know, nail himself to a cross as he’s posing each one of them?
The blogger posted this as people “savaging” #AskACop – if that’s what they or you call savage, I pity any and all causes you and these Twitter idiots happen to get behind. Btw – congrats on the “savagery” you all did towards Stephen Colbert, and the “savagery” you all rained down on crony capitalism and profiteering through #Occupy as well. Well done.
If you’re automatically behind these Twidiots just because their rhetorical questions happen to stir some emotion in you, then by all means grab a towel and start crying but I promise you you’ll do nothing to affect either law enforcement racism or police brutality.
This is what you and your kind think “Savagery’ is, and what “action” is, and it’s why you and your causes always lose. With this issue, sadly you’re just one ridiculous tweet or Al Sharpton comment away from this becoming a joke at the hands of people like you as well.
Fine – my “musings” are irrelevant. Well so’s reality to you, it seems. You can’t be a cop – so perhaps have the balls to walk up to any cop on the street (especially in NY) and ask him/her each and every one of these questions if you’re so proud of them, and so bent on letting them stand unchallenged as banner slogans of your cause. If you have the guts to be critical of cops and call them racist, power abusers, etc. then have the guts to say it to a cop’s face. If not, and you prefer to hide behind Twitter “Savagery” and fight your battles there, then perhaps you are the problem far more than any cop has ever been.
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December 30, 2014 at 11:38 am
The Arbourist
@Vern
But also necessary Vern. The police and other systems that we are supposed to defer to and respect hold that power only because we, as a society, give it to them.
When ordinary citizens have the courage to break the silence and call to light questionable actions of persons with authority – society changes.
This is one of the new realities of social media, one of the few that isn’t a complete waste of time as it allows marginalized groups access to other people that does not have to overcome the status-quo filters of the media. Awareness, as always is the first step in promoting change in society.
I think I’d need to see evidence of this in action Vern – specifically how calling attention to and spreading the word on unacceptable police behaviour is harming the cause of reforming incidences of unacceptable police violence.
Vern, you act as if Occupy was the be all and end all in movements for societal change. Historically speaking, uprisings come in fits and starts – if the underlying problems are not addressed then further mobilization of the citizenry is inevitable. On what time line – your guess is as good as mine.
One does not simply walking into the police department and start flipping desks over and demanding justice (at least not yet). In the current state of society, that would likely involve some serious negative consequences to the individual who attempts such an action. Being aware and knowledgeable or what police are capable though – being an informed citizen – is the cornerstone of responsible citizenship in a democratic society.
Such animosity on display Vern. Where does that come from? Is it social media or is that you just have to endure more progressive ideas that you’re comfortable with and these hippies need to get off your lawn?
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