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This breaks my heart. I feel for the poor guy and am absolutely appalled cops like this exist. I apologize in advance if this is a duplicate. I didn't see it.
NewsOne previously reported, several police officers from the Grosse Pointe Park Police Department in Michigan are being accused of filming Blacks in humiliating situations and sharing the videos for their own twisted amusement.
Now one of the men, Scipio (pictured), who is mentally challenged and allegedly made to sing and dance like a chimp in one of the videos, spoke to My Fox Detroit about the scandal.
The 55-year-old man, who lives in a boarding house, told the news outlet that he has no recollection as to when the video was filmed. He makes his living collecting cans in the ritzy Detroit suburb and claims he runs into police frequently. Scipio, whose speech is affected and has some cognitive issues as well, told Fox 2 Detroit that he was unaware he was the subject of the officers amusement and actually thought they were his friends.
They made me look like a fool, humiliated me, he said.
http://newsone.com/2786984/grosse-pointe-park-police-racist-videos-scipio/
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Knowing that area. What's being done? Probably nothing, and they'll do just as little as they can to quiet things down.
But the US is the least racist place on earth, and we're all post-racial and everything, right? /sarcasm.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Those cops probably listen to both Ted Nugent and Rush Limbaugh.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)feel empowered to be assholes. Not all are this way, but a good many I imagine.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)At least that's what the Republican, former police commander that I work with tells me.
Do the math.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)at various hotel/motels, and almost everyone had Fox News turned on in the dinning area for morning breakfast ... and I swear, the people in there were in a trance watching it, like they were getting their mental infusion and marching orders for the day. It was like a Star Trek Mind Meld.
You don't have to make a scene or raise hell. But many of us will politely tell whoever appears to be in charge that we are offended by that station. Most times we are told to suck an egg that is what management wants us to broadcast. Or something along those lines but, on occasion the channel will be changed. We in Saginaw, Mi are beginning to see some success from our efforts, many public places now carry HLN or some other less offensive station. One voice at a time can make a difference.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)uponit7771
(90,346 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Not understanding that Right Wing economic doctrine calls for privatizing their jobs at $10:00 an hr. But yet probably 75% of them vote straight right wing. I put the blame on Union leadership...
I know several cops...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)and not just on cops. Fascists always need a scapegoat.
eqfan592
(5,963 posts)That, to me, is one of the most disgusting "big lies" going around right now.