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Related: About this forumOmaha police association labels video of diapered black toddler ‘The Thug Cycle’
The Omaha Police Officers Association drew criticism this week after it posted a video of a black child in a diaper and titled it The Thug Cycle.
A post on the associations blog explained that the video is bad and will make you angry.
The video shows an African-American toddler in a diaper and several adults can be heard uttering profanities from off camera.
The association asserted that it had an obligation to share it to continue to educate the law abiding public about the terrible cycle of violence and thuggery that some young innocent children find themselves helplessly trapped in.
Now while we didnt see anything in this video that is blatantly illegal, we sure did see a lot that is flat out immoral and completely unhealthy for this little child from a healthy upbringing standpoint, the association wrote, noting that someone in the room asked the child, What hood you from?
Folks
soak this in, the post said.
While KMTV picked up the police associations post as a warning for everyone, Black Men United in Omaha Executive Director Willie Hamilton told the Omaha World-Herald that it was unprofessional to call out a child and draw conclusions based on a short Facebook video.
The police actually have a website that is perpetuating mistrust and anger, and I think that is what it is meant to do, Hamilton pointed out. I thought posting the video was crossing the line. To use that incident to say that our kids are going to grow up and be thugs is far-reaching and insensitive. We are talking about a child that hasnt even gone to school yet.
If the police chief is trying to amend the broken relationship with our community, he needs to say, On my watch, I will not allow this kind of behavior, he added. Maybe we should look at how much control the police union has. They shouldnt be able to use the website as a shield to post these nasty things.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/07/omaha-police-association-labels-video-of-diapered-black-toddler-the-thug-cycle/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535021/Police-union-fire-using-video-swearing-toddler-shed-light-cycle-violence-thugs-Nebraska.html
rafeh1
(385 posts)The video shows abuse of an innocent African american child. social services should check out this family.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I'm interested to know where they got the freedom to all of a sudden make sweeping generalizations about a "thug cycle"...What? Are they sociologists all of a sudden? And for the sake of balance, did they post a counterpart video of a similar white family?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Because everyone knows ONLY Black children are victims of the "Thug Cycle"! The white kids that they pull out of meth labs are unaffected by their environment ... And when they start exhibiting anti-social behaviors, they are merely "disturbed individuals" acting out.
JustAnotherGen
(31,798 posts)*sigh*