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comment by thenewgreen

I have admittedly been largely absent from mainstream media for the past… Oh, I don't know five years or so. I don't catch a lot of these types of things, so I'm glad this was posted. Why? Because this is a big deal. This is a police organization asking that public protest be squashed, be something that needs apology for. This is horseshit! Those guys can come out and make any sort of protest they see fit, so long as the NFL doesn't find fault with it but it's certainly not the place of the police to say what they can and cannot have a public opinion about. In fact, it's even more so not the place of the police when that opinion is about them. Do your job, do it well and none of this happens.





Meriadoc  ·  3679 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It continues to show their complete lack of understanding of the situation: yes, this is about a black boy being killed yet again, but it's about a black boy being killed because the police have no oversight and constantly far overstep their bounds and believe they're exempt from the American law system. So their response to someone angered by their lying, cover-up, and militarization is to demand an apology for exercising the most central American right.