{"id":200624,"date":"2021-02-15T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/15\/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-lapd-valentine\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T00:00:00","slug":"have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-lapd-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/15\/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-lapd-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Heard the One About the LAPD Valentine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Celebrating the murder of a Black man at the hands of police demonstrates a profound absence of humanity.<\/p>\n

The mock valentine underscores problematic & racist perceptions of law enforcement culture regarding the communities we are sworn to protect & serve.https:\/\/t.co\/w52m2mEK9U<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u2014 George Gasc\u00f3n (@GeorgeGascon) February 15, 2021<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It has a picture of George Floyd with the caption, “You take my breath away.” <\/p>\n

If you think that this is a sick and disgusting joke, you are not alone, though it appears that many in the LAPD found the image hilarious and passed the image around<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Yes, the folks who nearly beat Rodney King to death think that slowly suffocating a black man to death is all fun and games. <\/p>\n

And they wonder why some people make allusions to police officers being members of the genus sus: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles district attorney and the police department are investigating after a police officer reported that an image of George Floyd had been made into a mock-Valentine meme featuring the words \u201cYou take my breath away\u201d and circulated among officers.<\/p>\n

The district attorney, George Gasc\u00f3n, decried the reported meme of Floyd, who was Black and killed by police in Minneapolis last spring.<\/p>\n

Gasc\u00f3n posted on Twitter: \u201cCelebrating the murder of a Black man at the hands of police demonstrates a profound absence of humanity. The mock valentine underscores problematic and racist perceptions of law enforcement culture regarding the communities we are sworn to protect and serve.\u201dGasc\u00f3n hailed<\/a> LAPD leadership for swiftly investigating and also tweeted<\/a> that his office \u201cwill be looking into this matter to determine if the integrity of any of our cases may have been compromised by biased police work\u201d.<\/p>\n

The LAPD police chief, Michel Moore<\/a>, earlier announced an internal examination of the situation and said investigators would try to determine how the image may have come into the workplace and who may have been involved, the Los Angeles Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moore said the officer who made the complaint would be interviewed on Monday and added: \u201cOur investigation is to determine the accuracy of the allegations while also reinforcing our zero tolerance for anything with racist views.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is hoping that the ratf%$#s behind this get nailed to the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrating the murder of a Black man at the hands of police demonstrates a profound absence of humanity. The mock valentine underscores problematic & racist perceptions of law enforcement culture regarding the communities we are sworn to protect & serve.https:\/\/t.co\/w52m2mEK9U \u2014 George Gasc\u00f3n (@GeorgeGascon) February 15, 2021 Pretty much It has a picture of George …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,970,969,1041,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}