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    eoghan01Breanna Edwards
    7/04/18 10:29am

    If the cops want better relationships with the community, it’s on them to do something about it. Complaining about books that discuss police brutality is not the path forward, especially since I would bet that most of these kids are already aware of police violence against people of color. These books will not be their first introduction to the concept of racist policing.

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      skeffleseoghan01
      7/04/18 10:32am

      Cops don’t want the police brutality to stop, they just want people to stop complaining about the brutality.

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      Black and Proudskeffles
      7/04/18 11:19am

      Exactly!

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    PaulMooneysTongueBreanna Edwards
    7/04/18 10:22am

    You’d think that getting kids to read would be a good thing. Occupies their time to do something, gasp, productive.

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      Mr.DuckSaucePaulMooneysTongue
      7/04/18 10:29am

      These dumb fuck podunk morons don’t understand logic or critical thinking, that is why they are cops.

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      crouching tigerPaulMooneysTongue
      7/04/18 11:27am

      But that would cut down on the pool of future cops.

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    skefflesBreanna Edwards
    7/04/18 10:28am

    Incidentally, for people who are counting, this is a first amendment issue.

    Government sanctioned enforcers are trying to suppress a book because it offends them. That is a textbook version of a first amendment issue. I assume the second amendment gun nuts and the freeze peach youtube libertarians will be round to protest it any day now? Any day, now?

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      Eustache Daugerskeffles
      7/04/18 11:08am

      Would a police union be considered to be part of the government? I mean, police unions are corrupt, bigoted, and actively harmful to society, and that all points to “yes”. But they aren’t taxpayer funded. Maybe, despite their membership, they’re more of an independent “NRA” kind of evil.

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      skefflesEustache Dauger
      7/04/18 11:29am

      They represent the people who represent the government. That is not independent, that is pretty much a direct link.

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    Gameface doesn`t play nice with othersBreanna Edwards
    7/04/18 12:05pm

    “Freshmen, they’re at the age where their interactions with law enforcement have been very minimal. They’re not driving yet, they haven’t been stopped for speeding, they don’t have these type of interactions. This is putting in their minds, it’s almost an indoctrination of distrust of police and we’ve got to put a stop to that,” Blackmon added.

    Yep. Sure. I mean, Tamir Rice was only 12 when he had his limited reaction to police. Unfortunately, for him, he, too will never get a chance to learn to trust police officers either. It’s not like any of the kids might have some distrust due to a gun pointed at them at 3 and traumatized for life by the police during an unnecessary raid on their home; or attended a party and been assaulted by a police officer for no reason; or been in the car’s backseat when an officer shot her father-figure, let’s name him Philando Castile (totally made-up name) because he was retrieving the i.d. that the officer asked him to show; or that a date-rape drug was being used without consent or permission by the police on unsuspecting victims. Yep, no reason to breed any mistrust of the police. As the son of a US Marshall and grandson of the one of the first Black officers in Washington DC, I just had a wild thought. Perhaps, if you “good apples” did the following things, it might help to engender trust in the communities you police:

    • Snitch on your fellow officers instead of allowing the cover-ups for the dirt that they do
    • Enhance and assist the investigation of bad cops so that they can be quickly FIRED, indicted and prosecuted
    • Train your personnel to de-escalate a situation instead of enforce
    • Direct these nosey Becky bitches to a non-threatening complaint line for those “Black and Brown people aren’t listening to me phone” and “#______ while Black” calls
    • (most importantly) Stop assaulting, tasing and shooting unarmed Black and Brown people - and fire, indict and prosecute those who do.

    These brief points may go a long way to Black and Brown people trusting the sons-of-bitches police that are hired to protect and serve them.

    Oh yeah, I almost forgot my last point: Go fuck yourself Officer Blackmon.

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    Raineyb1013Breanna Edwards
    7/04/18 10:33am

    American pigs; always quick to demonize others but quick to squeal at the slightest hint of truth about themselves. 

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      KinjamanRaineyb1013
      7/04/18 12:34pm

      It’s worse than that: they have a union to do the squealing for them.

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      Raineyb1013Kinjaman
      7/04/18 12:49pm

      Even worse, their union lobbies government to further entrench their prejudices against certain members of the public and eliminating consequences for themselves. 

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    usedtobehereBreanna Edwards
    7/04/18 10:37am

    they’re at the age where their interactions with law enforcement have been very minimal

    Yeah, no. That’s bullshit. 

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      Old white guyusedtobehere
      7/04/18 12:14pm

      Rather than say “most people have very limited interaction with police”, he just kind of more laid it down as “we’d rather that the black kids reading this book wouldn’t so tgeir view of the police won’t be colored when we start harassing their asses for standing around or talking loud or just being black. They might not trust us and start running away when we want to discuss their nefariousness, causing us to shoot them in the back rather than looking us in the eyes when we take their lives away.”

      Oh well I guess he made it shorter for the twitter generation. 

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      ThirdAmendmentManusedtobehere
      7/04/18 1:14pm

      It’s true for white kids. By the time I had hit high school I’d been stopped numerous times for things like walking in the neighborhood, shooting hoops on the park court, etc. 

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    Vaginafication NationBreanna Edwards
    7/04/18 12:44pm

    “Freshmen, they’re at the age where their interactions with law enforcement have been very minimal. They’re not driving yet, they haven’t been stopped for speeding, they don’t have these type of interactions. This is putting in their minds, it’s almost an indoctrination of distrust of police and we’ve got to put a stop to that,” Blackmon added.

    There is not one truth in this entire statement.

    This is a statement from.......someone that believes the performative brutality inflicted on black/brown bodies is a Calling and you’re a crazy, immoral person for thinking otherwise.

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      ElusiveCupcakeVaginafication Nation
      7/04/18 2:38pm

      Whoa, Nellie! We got an unhinged, lying grey troll replying to this post.

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      AuntBeetsyreduxElusiveCupcake
      7/04/18 2:54pm

      They’re all over this thread - let’s just hope nobody lets them loose!

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    Cali4lifeBreanna Edwards
    7/04/18 11:17am

    So, every school needs this book, right?

    Add books to the list of things cops are scared of.

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    millaterryBreanna Edwards
    7/04/18 10:44am

    As a school librarian I’m excited to see these books on a summer reading list and I hope the teacher who made the list prevails. When The Hate U Give was removed from school libraries in Katy, Texas, 15yo Ny’Shira Lundy successfully petitioned to get it put back on:

    https://www.change.org/p/support-intellectual-freedom-keep-the-hate-u-give-on-katy-isd-book-shelves

    Also, what a bullshit, weak-ass argument to say that freshmen have no experience with law enforcement yet. Or did he only mean the white students.

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      Black and Proudmillaterry
      7/04/18 11:59am

      This argument against the books are not meant for people of color. All black paremts have “the talk” with their sons as young as 7 years old about how they will be perceived and treated by the police throughout their lives. This argument is ignorant, dismissive of the real issue and those responsible, and reckless in its disregard for the constant pain and agony the parents suffer when their lived ones are killed. Tamir Rice was not a damn “FRESHMAN”. So tell me why was “his minimal interaction with law enforcement” deadly? “We’ve got to put a stop to that” is what you need to be focusing on instead of trying to conceal and control circulation of books that depict the truth and can save our lives from others that could care less if we die. Words from these books and police actions tell the truth. Thats why the attempts to remove them from the summer reading list is on the agenda.

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    SharonBreanna Edwards
    7/04/18 10:59am

    they can go fuck themselves. oh, that’s right...their dicks are too short.

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