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In reply to the discussion: On Twitter, Bernie Sanders’s supporters are becoming one of his biggest problems [View all]Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)75. and crickets about the new police chief
in Burlington...
I don't talk about this one too much...del Pozo IS well qualified but that racial profiling...
Brandon del Pozo's remarkable résumé is what convinced a selection committee to choose him as Burlington's next police chief. Outcry over the same CV is also what brought about 130 people to Monday's Burlington City Council meeting to argue whether the panel should affirm the Dartmouth College-educated, New York City Police Department alum as the Queen City's top cop.
Some in the audience linked del Pozo to New York's systematic profiling of Muslims after 9/11, its discredited stop-question-and-frisk arrest tactics and shootings of unarmed minorities. They called on the council to delay voting to give the public more time to examine del Pozo's background.
The vilification that you hear does not match the man," former police chief Michael Schirling countered during the heated discussion about his replacement, which went on for more than three hours.
The councilors agreed with Schirling, who retired last month. Even those who had expressed public concern about the new chief decided to back him. In the end, the council voted 11-0, with one abstention, to stand by "the man."
Those who selected del Pozo never anticipated the wave of criticism that would follow. But in the digital era, anyone can do a Google search. Community members found information online that left them wondering whether the search team had done a sufficiently thorough job.
In particular, they questioned a grad school paper del Pozo published in 2001 that suggested racial profiling had a place in police work. His extensive NYPD résumé drove some to conclude that he was involved in the department's Muslim surveillance tactics, for which the city is about to settle a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Abdullah Sall, a Burlington Muslim who used to live in New York, accused him of anti-Muslim prejudice, directly connecting him to NYPD's post-9/11 profiling of Muslims. "We should not be looking to take expertise from the problematic culture of the NYPD," Sall told city councilors Monday night. "The chief of police should always be an established community member."
I don't talk about this one too much...del Pozo IS well qualified but that racial profiling...
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On Twitter, Bernie Sanders’s supporters are becoming one of his biggest problems [View all]
leftofcool
Sep 2015
OP
if you really wanna stay awake nights, the rightwing attack here at DU And elsewhere
randys1
Sep 2015
#2
They hate me too but when they pass me in the grocery store they cant tell I am a liberal.
onpatrol98
Sep 2015
#97
BS has been as hateful to PBO as many in the GOP, which is why I can/will NEVER support him.
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2015
#7
eh...but is primary-ing a sitting President who chooses to run for re-election
Chitown Kev
Sep 2015
#13
The only time the primary challenger was successful, the challenger won the general election
jfern
Sep 2015
#50
Yes it is, it's political suicide and the wrong thing for Sanders to say. My issue with Sanders is..
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#70
And the hilarious efforts to whistle past the graveyard continue. And continue. And continue
Number23
Sep 2015
#20
Yet it always seems to be they who accuse others of being in an "echo chamber." nt
betsuni
Sep 2015
#62
Yep. That appears to be the latest meme. The same crowd that posted love letters to Ann Coulter
Number23
Sep 2015
#135
Well, then Bernie and his supporters shouldn't get their panties in a knot....
Walk away
Sep 2015
#32
I have alluded to this before. This is not the first time black posters here have had to watch our
Number23
Sep 2015
#31
I know. It's #BLM's fault for making black folks think that we actually fucking MATTER
Number23
Sep 2015
#23
The whole point is that nameless, faceless and mostly uneducated people on the Internet are
Number23
Sep 2015
#45
Heh. Actually I should have said "black people don't owe Sanders or any other candidate anything
Number23
Sep 2015
#47
And accusing him of only caring about "rich" black people. They couldn't high five the poster
Number23
Sep 2015
#131
"But at a time when he’s trying to build a relationship with black voters, his supporters can have
Cha
Sep 2015
#91