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[–]loveSloaneDebate King 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can I ask, if a police officer has social media, and their bios say “death to n***ers” or something with that sentiment, you have no problem with him/her being a police officer? He/she doesn’t get to choose what cases they work or what calls they respond to, so what happens when someone who thinks “death to black people” is sent to the home of a black person? What do you think would happen if the black person called, and the perpetrator was white? You really think that someone who has disregarded the lives of black people would come to their defense? We already have seen what covert racist cops have done to poc, now you’re saying they should be free to be open about it, as long as they don’t get caught causing harm? It used to be acceptable to be openly racist- there’s a reason that’s not the case anymore. The KKK didn’t always wear hoods.

The “if it gets out that they are racist” was put there because we can’t and shouldn’t just assume someone is racist, we can only know it when we’re shown it.