I don’t know if this is exclusively a white person thing being as I’m one myself, but other people need to realize that it’s not necessarily a personal attack against you when someone engages in some form of protest in your presence. I’m also used to getting blamed for shit I had no idea was happening or had any…
Kids shouldn’t have to deal with that faux patriotic bullshit. Presumably it’s intended to help prepare the next generation of canon fodder, ready for another war to make the corporations richer.
I would be so damn proud of any of my students if they took a knee during the anthem or the pledge. My students are first and second graders so most of them just stand and zone out during the pledge every day or talk to their neighbors. I could definitely name a few teachers in my school who would probably act like…
Is your son’s school public or private? Because from a legality standpoint it makes a big difference. A private school can force participation, a public school cannot. But since they already apologized, and promised it wouldn’t happen again, it probably doesn’t matter unless you’re looking for money.
GREAT article.
The pledge is some fascist shit in its own right. It has no place outside of a tiki torch rally.
an indoctrination pledge
To be fair—greater transparency will be great. But the level of tranparency here is actually a civil liberties and privacy nightmare. How the police department is justifying releasing that footage to these people without the authorization of the other people recorded is boggling my mind.
There are civil liberties problems with that, though.
Given how bad my mom screwed up, leading to me being raised by my grandparents, you don’t want to know my answer to that. I did, however, giggle for two minutes straight at that image though.
Won’t ever be like that and shouldn’t be. Do you want your mother who died on a toilet with her pants around her ankles live streamed to world as the police find her? Do you want your sister who’s just been raped, crying to a cop, telling her story, livestreamed to the world?
As much the intent for transparency in this statement is laudable, it’s not feasible, and not just for officers (who may be doing legitimate investigative work) but specifically for victims who have a right to not have every accusation or police encounter they have exposed to the world. Being able to livestream every…
We really need bodycams that are continually livestreaming and which we, as part of the general public, can log onto at will and see what they are doing in real time. The panopticon effect is the only thing that will keep cops honest. That is why they fight it.
Ok.............Imma let you rant for a second or two.....
It’s a step in the right direction - but kind of useless when they can turn them on and off mid-encounter, and if they constantly refuse to release footage unless it makes the cops look good. The footage should be considered public property.
The fact that we’re getting bodycams at all is a step in the right direction towards law enforcement transparency, which is going to be the key to cleaning up problems and restoring public trust. At the end of the day, we need law enforcement, we just need it to be transparent and accountable.
And even if he WAS stopped because he was black (ie a white dude wouldn’t have been pulled over there), that still doesn’t give him carte blanche to lie about questions that were never asked - all that does is actively hurt the cause he’s supposed to be working for.
No, he wasn’t.
> I’m just saying I understand why he did it.