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user-inactivated  ·  3716 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Video of a South Carolina cop shooting an unarmed man essentially for no reason

I gotta say, hubski loves its anti-cop stories just as much as reddit.





vmass20  ·  3715 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How is it anti-cop? Is it anti-citizen when it's a non-police shooting story that is popular? Not trying to be a jerk, I've clicked your links forever. Maybe i took your comment wrong... Context can be tough online.

user-inactivated  ·  3715 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Let me rephrase anti-cop into cop anti-. Anything where the police are the antagonists is jumped on. This does not excuse them being the antagonists, but that happens all the time and it's not clear to me why people share stuff like this over a long historical read on Iran, or a new Nature study. It smacks of groupthink, or maybe just laziness.

At some point it's just voyeurism if we're all vividly aware that many police departments in this country have huge issues and keep watching the videos and shaking our fists and nothing concrete happens. So I don't usually post this kind of thing. I actually shared this video for a specific reason: it shows that "good" cops can definitely still be affected by the subconscious racism I mention in my above post. This is a decorated veteran of a lot of police work, who doesn't have any sort of history of racism like so many of the perpetrators of these acts, and who still panics when a black guy reaches into a car. That's an important lesson.