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Dear @CNN
Please start referring to the 6 MURDEROUS police officers as"THUGS"
and delve deeply into their pasts. Thanks.
#BaltimoreUprising
https://twitter.com/ChocnessMonsta/status/594173685252128769
SamKnause
(13,091 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)ZX86
(1,428 posts)Images of Black people with items are looting. Images of White people with items are finding.
While in Baltimore Black people throwing rocks are referred as thugs. White cops murdering a man who shouldn't have been arrested in the first place are given the full benefit of the doubt and never be referred to in derogatory terms.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)to them as murderous thugs.
As for the "white cops" comment, three of them are white and three of them are black.
ZX86
(1,428 posts)that immunize the Black cops from "thug" comments. If it was just Black cops they would be referred to as gangsters participating in Black on Black crime. One need look no further than the character assassination of U.S. top cop Eric Holder to see that simply belonging to law enforcement will prevent a person of color from being referred to as a thug.