TX Police Apologize For Leading Black Suspect Down Street With Rope

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A Texas police chief issued an apology to a suspect after photos of two officers leading a black man down a street with a rope attached to his handcuffs went viral.

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There are establishments where you have to pay damned good money to get this treatment.

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Prolly where those he-men Texas sheriffs got the idea.

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They just can’t help themselves.

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TX Police Apologize For GETTING CAUGHT Leading Black Suspect Down Street With Rope

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If you are white you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. If you are black you are presumed guilty until proven innocent.

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So - “no harm, no foul”, huh?

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WTF - who would have thought something like this could be considered best practice?

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A little on the nose, my dudes. Trumping the quiet part out loud.

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Any State where the concept of runaway slaves is still fresh in the minds of their LEO’s.

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Oh well then…they didn’t have malicious intent in their HEARTS so the mere fact that HISTORY shows this wasn’t a ‘good’ idea means nothing. Got it. It’s the old ‘I looked into his eyes’ defense.

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They are not sorry it happened, they are sorry they got caught — this time. Wonder how many times this has happened before?

NARRATOR: More times than you would think. Why do you think the leash was at hand?

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FIFY

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“It’s not like we had a noose around his neck,” Police Chief Vernon Hale said. "Sure, we may have wanted to but we showed great restraint, no pun intended, and didn’t do it.

“I think this goes a long way towards demonstrating the department isn’t completely racist.”

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Sounds like Blazing Saddles

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“black practice”

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I anticipate a lot of sensitivity trainings flowing from this. “OK, Jenkins, again, ‘snarling German shepherds’ is exactly the kind of thing you don’t want to go with in terms of crowd control. If you remember it was on the ‘strongly avoid’ list we talked about before lunch.”

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“Especially in light of the fact that everyone and their dog now has a camera on their phone so keep it - uh, professional looking, yannow.”

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“Poor judgment” my white ass. This was THEIR manifesto.

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