Posts Tagged ‘Racist’
Black people organized and got the Facebook cops fired. That story must be told
I’ve long known that some of the Philadelphia police officers who were fired after their racist or bigoted Facebook comments were exposed by the 2019 Plainview Project were trying to get their jobs back through arbitration. That’s why reading about it in The Inquirer was no surprise. I was, however, taken aback that the full story of…
Read More Police officers’ ‘restraint’ on Capitol Hill is no victory for a racist America
When I saw the CNN headline about the heroism of police during the Capitol insurrection, I did a double-take because I wasn’t sure I’d read it correctly. “New radio and video footage from Capitol riot shows a coordinated attack and officers’ restraint,” it said. In that moment, the anger I felt was visceral. While I…
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