Does anyone else find the implications of this tweet sad and disturbing? I don’t mean the image, which I actually find inspiring; but rather the sentiment expressed by the tweeter.
I remember on the history channel they had a history of the us marshalls and they had one of the black kids that were escorted back and forth to school by a particular marshall and she actually thanked him for his assistance and his alleged reply was :
"miss I don’t know about that because if it wasn’t for this badge id probably be on the other side with everyone else "
That is one of the most depressing things I’ve heard all year, and I visit gore websites. A cop saying that to a child is depressing.
I like the photo of the black police officer, because that officer has more power and authority than any of the KKK or neo-nazi confederates he is protecting. If the Klansmen were all cops and the black guy was just standing there, that’d be bothersome.
That’s sort of encouraging in its own way. The system worked–the whole is better than the sum of its parts.
Well said, WC.
If the black cop shot at the white power people in the background and later said he did it because he feared for his life, do you think he’d be found not guilty in a trial?
I find the picture about as inspiring as I would feel if I learned that there was a surgeon who saved the lives of hundreds of toddlers who found unsecured guns in their parents bedrooms and shot themselves. Ok, great, the guy did his job well, but he should never have been in that position.
I love the imagery of a POC authority figure with cavorting dingbats behind him. It speaks volumes.
I hate that he had to stand there. Charlottesville really took some hits today.
The police officer did his job just like the cops were there providing security during the black lives matter riots in Ferguson and Baltimore. The police were expected to stand there passively while businesses were set on fire. They were trying to avoid escalating a tense situation
The police were protecting the black lives matter Marchers in Dallas when they were picked off by a sniper.
The police protect our cities every day. No matter who is breaking the law.
It doesn’t change the meaning of the picture but that is not from the protests today. It is a previously published photo from a different rally.
In 1895 Theodore Roosevelt (who was then the Police Commissioner in New York) famously used an all-Jewish group of police officers to protect a German anti-Semite when he spoke in New York.
I was going to say that the police chief would have been smart to send black officer to guard the KKK marchers. Glad to learn that Teddy Roosevelt did it a century ago.
[See, there once were good Republicans.]