Negro Matapacos (“Black Cop-Killer”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.
he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.
Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.
His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.
Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.
After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.
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But they isn't replacing I, it’s replacing he or she.
He walks to the car
She walks to the car
They walks to the car
But that sounds very not right
They are walking to the car is correct though.
Yeah that’s the problem it shouldn’t be. To line up with the other singular pronouns it should be they is walking to the car.
It’s a plural pronoun being applied to individuals. If English was more strict with its grammatical rules it wouldn’t be correct usage to use they for singular individuals at all
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It is always correct to say “they walk to the car” whether it’s singular or plural, according to the rules of English.
But that’s dumb and stupid and makes using singular they for people’s pronouns harder