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cops posed for photo standing over black man dressed in antlers
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:52 am
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:52 am
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Why release this picture now 12 years later?
Because the public should see it, or to fuel more racial tension?
Why release this picture now 12 years later?
Because the public should see it, or to fuel more racial tension?
quote:
It’s a racially charged photo the Chicago Police Department didn’t want the public to see: two white cops posing with rifles as they stand over a black man lying on his belly with deer antlers on his head.
But a Cook County judge has refused to keep secret the shocking image of former Officers Timothy McDermott and Jerome Finnigan kneeling with what the police department says is an unidentified African-American drug suspect.
quote:
Believed to have been taken in a West Side police station between 1999 and 2003, the Polaroid photo was given to the city by the feds in 2013 and resulted in McDermott, a clout-heavy cop, being fired last year by the police board in a 5-to-4 vote. The four dissenters said McDermott should only have been suspended. But a majority of the board wrote that “appearing to treat an African-American man not as a human being but as a hunted animal is disgraceful and shocks the conscience.”
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Even though police Supt. Garry McCarthy moved to fire McDermott, attorneys for the police department and McDermott both asked Judge Thomas Allen to keep the photo under seal earlier this year.
They said they wanted to protect the privacy of the unidentified African-American man. Allen denied their request in March. The Sun-Times recently obtained a copy of the photo in the court file.
Federal prosecutors gave the photo to police investigators in 2013 about two years after Finnigan — the notorious other cop in the picture — was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading a crew of rogue cops in robberies, home invasions and other crimes.
The photo comes to light as conflicts in recent months between white police officers and black suspects have gained national attention and sparked national protests, and as McCarthy himself has started a listening tour throughout Chicago to improve the frayed relations between police and the black and Hispanic communities.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:53 am to JOJO Hammer
buck needed another year.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:54 am to JOJO Hammer
cops look mexican/hispanic.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:54 am to JOJO Hammer
The black dude is even playing along with his tongue out and all
quote:to fuel more racial tension
Why release this picture now 12 years later?
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:55 am to JOJO Hammer
The black guy seems to be playing along in this pic.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:56 am to mylsuhat
that guy is about to hit the jackpot.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:57 am to mylsuhat
why does the fact that a person is black make everything racist
are antlers a symbol of racism now?
are antlers a symbol of racism now?
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:58 am to JOJO Hammer
All they have to do is say they imagined him as a white-tailed deer and this story goes away.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 11:58 am to JOJO Hammer
With all the hoopla I thought the black guy was gonna be dead.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:07 pm to JOJO Hammer
Unless the story that this is a suspect that they used force as a police officer to get them to pose, this isn't a story.
This looks like it is just three friends posing for a funny picture, and 2 of them happened to be cops and one happened to be black.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
This looks like it is just three friends posing for a funny picture, and 2 of them happened to be cops and one happened to be black.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
This post was edited on 5/27/15 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:08 pm to JOJO Hammer
Is the cop on the left wearing acid wash jeans? That would be the least tasteful part of that picture.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:09 pm to mylsuhat
quote:
The black dude is even playing along with his tongue out and all
The cops obviously threatened to lynch him if he didn't play along.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:12 pm to Black n Gold
Has decent mass for a young buck but needed to be taken out of the gene pool. Those jeans need to be taken out of the gene pool too.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:16 pm to Fearthehat0307
quote:
why does the fact that a person is black make everything racist
This.
Nothing racist about this other than one of the guys happens to be black.
If anything, it's deer-ist
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:36 pm to JOJO Hammer
quote:
Why release this picture now 12 years later?
Because the public should see it, or to fuel more racial tension?
^^^
What's the statute of limitations in IL?
Also, if that's a suspect, why isn't he in handcuffs?
This post was edited on 5/27/15 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:40 pm to JOJO Hammer
I don't see why this is an issue if the black dude was playing along and it was a joke.
(I'm assuming he was based on the pic)
(I'm assuming he was based on the pic)
Posted on 5/27/15 at 12:55 pm to Volvagia
quote:
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 1:02 pm to Mohican
Moral of the story, don't make blacks the butt of any jokes or your racist. Oh and your also racist if you don't include them in your joke.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 1:11 pm to JOJO Hammer
They wouldn't let poor Rudolph Play in any reindeer games.
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