A former Tulsa police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of killing his daughter’s boyfriend in 2014. Despite being convicted […]
Notice how they always use the term "ex-cop" or "former cop" when they were employed as a cop at the time of the incident.
It gives passerby reading the headline the impression that the person was taken off duty before the incident, making police departments look competent for recognizing a violent shitbag and canning him...instead of looking incompetent or malicious for hiring such an egregiously racist fuckstain.
A simple, technically true choice of wording does a lot to launder the reputation of an organization chock full of violent psychopaths who violate the law while being expected to enforce it.
This is exactly how the libs' favorite "just a few bad apples" narrative is allowed to propagate. If not for media doing wordplay gymnastics on behalf of cops, the non-bourgeois libs wouldn't view police as good people protecting them from violence, but as frequently sadistic nutjobs one suspicion away from gunning down those who look like someone they may not like.
Notice how they always use the term "ex-cop" or "former cop" when they were employed as a cop at the time of the incident.
It gives passerby reading the headline the impression that the person was taken off duty before the incident, making police departments look competent for recognizing a violent shitbag and canning him...instead of looking incompetent or malicious for hiring such an egregiously racist fuckstain.
A simple, technically true choice of wording does a lot to launder the reputation of an organization chock full of violent psychopaths who violate the law while being expected to enforce it.
This is exactly how the libs' favorite "just a few bad apples" narrative is allowed to propagate. If not for media doing wordplay gymnastics on behalf of cops, the non-bourgeois libs wouldn't view police as good people protecting them from violence, but as frequently sadistic nutjobs one suspicion away from gunning down those who look like someone they may not like.