Note to Racists: Everybody Has a Camera

in #life6 years ago

The black community in America, in fact many minority groups, have claimed unfair, bigoted and illegal treatment from cops for decades. The white community has pooh poohed these claims as ridiculous and false, since they never experienced such things with the fine, upstanding enforcers of Truth, Justice and Equality.

However, because of phone cameras, we are seeing the evidence with our own eyes, just how true these claims have been.

Case in Point: An England, Arkansas policeman, Mike Moore, tells a group of black residents that they don't belong in his town. In his town, he claims that he "knows who belongs here and who doesn't", despite the fact that not only were the folks he was talking to born in England (the town, not the country), one of the family members of the group worked for the same police department Moore did.

Moore was subsequently fired, although the police department claims it wasn't over his racial bigotry. Apparently, he just wasn't pleasant to be around, so they fired him.

I'm not sure if we are hearing of these types of things more often simply because everyone has a recording device on their phones, and therefore with them at all times, or because the current POTUS has seemed to unleash the kernel of racism that has seemingly long festered dormant in so many people. But I think there can be no doubt, we are seeing an ever increasing examples of this type of thing all across America.

That said, American bigots and racists be ye warned: this is still not tolerated in America, and everybody now has a camera. Act accordingly.

Watch the video HERE

Image and story source: RawStory

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It's funny how the NAACP and civil liberties Union's were screaming for body cameras and nlw that police have them unjustified shootings are down 300% and the people that were once screaming for cameras want to do away with them. Maybe the criminals have always just been criminals.

It's a sad commentary on American society that we would curb our racist behaviors -- not because we have overcome our prejudices, but because we fear that we that our acts might be caught on camera.