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Good day for a choke hold

2019-06-10 17:12:04.827546+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

North Texas Cops Caught Being Racist Online:

The Plain View Project, in conjunction with Injustice Watch, a Chicago-based watchdog group that focuses on criminal justice issues, investigated social media accounts of more than 2,900 officers, plus 600 retired officers, from eight departments across the country, including Dallas (1,048 total posts) and Denison (seven total posts), extending as far back as 2011. Many of the posts included in the database, available here, are disturbingly violent, and often target African Americans, activists, Hispanics, immigrants, Muslims, LGBT people, and women.

“Good Day for a Choke Hold”:

A review of the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers around the US — the largest database of its kind — found officers endorsing violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants.

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