This is his Jokers first day on the job, and he’s being such a good boy.
Donald W. Cook is a Los Angeles attorney with decades of experience bringing lawsuits over police dog bites — and mostly losing. He blames what he calls “The Rin Tin Tin Effect” — juries think of police dogs as noble, and have trouble visualizing how violent they can be during an arrest.
“[Police] use terms like ‘apprehend’ and ‘restrain,’ to try to portray it as a very antiseptic event,” Cook says. “But you look at the video and the dog is chewing away on his leg and mutilating him.”
Cook says the proliferation of smart phones and body cameras is capturing a reality that used to be lost on juries. “If it’s a good video,” he says, “it makes a case much easier to prevail on.”
The new generation of videos is capturing scenes of K9 arrests that are bloodier and more violent than imagined by the public. An NPR examination of police videos shows some officers using biting dogs against people who show minimal threat to officers, and a degree of violence that would be unacceptable if inflicted directly by the officers.
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In fact, in many videos, the release of a dog appears to escalate the violence of an arrest.
“You just look at the dog as the source of pain and you do everything you can to address that pain,” says Seth Stoughton. He’s a former police officer, now an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina who studies police use of force. “Those shouted commands — you’ll deal with that later, when the pain stops.”
And yet suspects who kick and try to shake the dog off are often accused of resisting arrest.
i don’t care what this dog in particular is being trained to do. furthering the idea that police dogs are somehow cute or good directly contributes to injustice and the perceived acceptability of police violence
My aunt rescues and rehabilitates german shepherds, and the vast majority are failed police dogs. The rehab process for these dogs is intense. They are trained to be hyper vigilant and to resort to violence. They are often is worse condition than formerly abused animals.
I spent a summer training one of these balls of anxiety. She was too fast and strong for my aunt to train her, so I did it. The biggest hurdle was getting her out of the mindset that biting someone gets her a treat. I had to let her bite my arm, forcible break the hold, and kennel her all without giving her a response because these dogs are trained to equate someone screaming at them as Go Time.
By letting her attack me and showing her that I was stronger than her and then not allowing her to play with the other dogs was what finally got her to stop attacking whenever she heard a loud noise or was surprised or just felt like it.
She still had to be homed in a gun-free, pet-free, child-free home because of the sheer anxiety she was bred for. These dogs are not cute, they are horribly mistreated.
My mom did the exact opposite of what the person above is talking about, she was involved in training the dogs not to restrain themselves when attacking. She was 18 – 21 and they had her wear this thick glove and then provoke the dogs onto biting her arm. She said they didn’t naturally want to be very aggressive towards a 100 pound, 5’3" girl, which is the size my mother was at the time. She has scars on her arm from getting time to bite so hard it broke the protective gloves.
I remember thinking that was cool as a kid. Now I just find it horrifying that they were teaching dogs to use brutal force against…. children. My mother may have been a young adult at the time but most people are 100 pounds and 5’3" as teenagers, not adults
What are short, skinny teens even doing that warrants the use of dogs? Can a grown man with a gun really not subdue someone that size on their own??
It’s animal abuse used to further police brutality
Just remember not to blame the dogs for all this. Blame belongs on the humans, the dogs are victims too. They’re trying their best to be good dogs, for trainers who don’t have their or the general population’s best interests in mind, and who are repeatedly forcing, provoking, or coercing them into violent aggressive behavior and then rewarding that behavior.
I can’t fuck wit ppl that got the flash on when they get phone calls or texts
Why do you hate HOH and deaf people??
here’s an alternate theory: i wasn’t thinking about them when i made this post, and you know that as well, but decided u would make an issue out of this anyway
“tumblr: a short story”, 2016
Not remembering that disabled people even exist when you say shit like this is exactly the problem
But there’s a difference between ‘did you consider this possibility?’ and ‘why do you hate these people?’ One is a helpful way of overcoming someone’s ignorance, the other is passive aggressive meanness that, as this shows, doesn’t help matters.
I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.
Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.
woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time
Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?
I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.
The world may never know…
Maybe it’s something mathematical?
I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.
It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.
(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)
“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).
It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.
So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.
100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.
Absolutely from the bang paths–saw people using them in early online fandom back in 1993 for referring to things.
I had been doing it for a very, very long time but never actually knew the actual name for it. This is exciting! I like learning things.
My wife – whose father is a TV director who’d worked for the BBC –
learned as a little girl that the British spy agency MI5 secretly vetted
people who applied for work at the BBC and denoted possible subversives
by putting a doodle of a Christmas tree on their personnel files;
people who were thus blacklisted were discriminated against within the
Beeb.
This practice – which continued into the 1990s – has been an open
secret for generations, but the BBC has always officially denied it.
Now, the BBC has allowed Paul Reynolds, one of its reporters, to look at
its “vetting files” and publish his findings. He found that long after
MI5 lost interest in spying on BBC workers, the BBC was still
enthusiastic about the practice, with senior managers fighting against
scaling back the practice. The BBC also lied to the press, the public,
and Parliament about the process. Potential hires were blackballed for
belonging to “radical” organisations, but could also be denied
employment just for being associated with members of the Communist Party
– for example, for belonging to organisations whose members included
CP members.
This is disgusting. The white “person” undermines the foreign guys ability to speak English in every tweet in this thread. He literally said “the last thing I want to do is high five a guy who barely speaks my language.” Was the foreigner as hostile due to the supposed language barrier that was most likely exaggerated? And who’s getting props for realizing they’re a self absorbed piece of shit after they see that they would benefit from being friendly with a foreigner? Fuck this post lol.
Right?! Some people are so dense. Thomas is a blatant racist. What if the guy saving his seat was not saving his seat, what if he just thought Thomas wasn’t coming in and decided to put his papers elsewhere Thomas made it a race issue by bring race into it and he is getting praise. Cancel this post.
I’d not considered this all at first but yeah… yeah this smacks of racism. To be honest this reads like the internal perspective of the kind of racists who simply make an exception for the people they get involved with, but don’t really lose their racist viewpoints.
Linguistic racism and antiblackness, internalized or otherwise, always rear its head in conversations surrounding the language spoken in the Caribbean. Namely, Jamaica.
Patois has its own grammatical structure which is separate from English and is accompanied by its own lexicon (which yes, does include English loanwords.. we were colonized and enslaved for a few hundred years so that happens).
Patois is not to be confused with a Jamaican person with an audible accent speaking English.
The sheer disrespect people give it because it’s a language born from colonization is ridiculous at best, and these same people are the ones who claim to love vacationing in our country and consuming our arts.
Jamaican Patois contains many loanwords, most of which are African in origin, primarily from Twi.
To reiterate:
Patois is not to be confused with a Jamaican person with an audible accent speaking English.
Let’s look at some hard examples.
Examples from African languages include /se/ meaning that (in the sense of “he told me that…” = /im tel mi se/), taken from Ashanti Twi, and Duppy meaning ghost, taken from the Twi word dupon (‘cotton tree root’), because of the African belief of malicious spirits originating in the root of trees (in Jamaica and Ghana, particularly the cotton tree known in both places as “Odom”).
Let’s keep it going.
The pronoun /unu or unnu/, used for the plural form of you, is taken from the Igbo language.
Let’s look at some real world examples of linguistic discrimination and trivialization of culture and denial of right to call a language what it is: a language.
Rihanna, a Bajan artist, released a song entitled “work”. On the track, she used quite a bit of Jamaican patois in the song, which was a dancehall/pop fusion.
People went bananas. The first thing to happen was the demotion of the language to “gibberish”.
Now, I want to take a step back here and actually rewind about 20 or so years.
Dancehall, a Jamaican music genre, has been in the international eye in a major way since the 90s, with artists like Shabba Ranks and Beenie Man holding the culture torch.
We’ve been scrutinized as a people for our language that exists in our music since then (and of course before that as well, but we won’t go into that for now).
From jokes about gibberish in movies and television (In Living Color did a skit on Shabba Ranks, mocking patois and Shabba’s prominent Black features. Thus, reducing a key bearer of popular Jamaican culture to an ugly (read: Black with Black features) gibberish spouting comedy crutch), we’ve been perceived as a caricature for so long, that blatant disrespect of our culture seems trivial.
Here’s the video for “Mr. Loverman” by Shabba Ranks: (xxx)
Here’s the parody video by the cast of In Living Color: (xxx)
So here we are in present day. We’ve watched dancehall in the 90s and early 2000s get “othered” in the American and European eye, and we’ve seen the caricaturization of Caribbean (in this case, Jamaican) culture so much that we are desensitized.
In comes Rihanna and her dancehall hit of 2016.
The language is demoted.
It went from “broken English” (which is problematic in and of itself, as the use of the term has been used to point to English being a default language worthy of respect and humanization for most of its speakers) to “gibberish” in a matter of seconds, with memes to match.
My language isn’t a broken dialect of your default language.
My language is an act of rebellion and is a middle finger to colonization and antiblack violence.
I’m proud of it and how my language and my people have influenced the world around us. Be more critical, because I watch a lot of you take part in this sort of behavior and it’s a shame.
ONE MORE TIME FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK‼️
Unnu ah guh put soom bloodclat respec pon mi language.💯💯
There is….Twi in Patois?
That makes so much sense
Many of us were stolen from modern day Ghana.
My grandmother is of a group of people called the Maroons. They fought for our liberation in Jamaica and even fought in other countries like neighboring Haiti.
My grandma, like many Maroons, speaks a language called Kromanti that is spoken among many elders on one of the settlements called Moore Town in Jamaica.
For some Ghanaian people, Kromanti and Twi are mutually intelligible, meaning they can understand us!
Reblogging for the nice education on what patois actually is.
You see the “broken English” (or “broken [whatever]”) prejudice wherever related languages are spoken, with one associated with higher status, whether this is due to colonization or regional dominance. As well as Jamaican Patois and a lot of other creoles, you see it with Scots, the regional languages of France, even the various mutually unintelligible Chinese topolects (with Mandarin as the “standard” prestige language).
Oh, definitely, and it sometimes ties into prejudice against accents/dialects that are lower class and/or associated with minorities. Look at the way people talk about AAVE. And I can’t talk my native accent/dialect unless I’m with my family because in America people don’t understand me and in Britain it’s “common.” Which it is, but…
I’ve found it ‘interesting’ that most of the ‘we white people shouldn’t say that, it’s from AAVE and that’s cultural appropriation!’ declarations I’ve seen involve things inherited from southern dialects in general – y’all, ain’t, the basic form of ‘fixing to’. AKA ‘poor white Southerners and poor white Appalachian people need to stop sounding black’ to put it in very blunt terms. The same things that would have gotten ‘that’s not proper English, I know you know better’ two decades ago.
The complaints I’ve seen from actual AAVE speakers tend to be about borrowed slang and not grammatical features. The ‘you made fun of us for saying bae and now you’re making how much money by printing it on everything’ phenomenon.
regret not learning to computers not “earlier when I was young and impressionable and situated at the time when computers were becoming a Thing”, but rather, “earlier before computers were specifically designed to drive you insane”
I mean, sure, that’s cool, but the same people could also say “my grandpa owned 70 slaves”, or “my grandpa was responsible for the Tyler Doctrine, which eventually led to the annexation of Hawai‘i against its people’s will”, or “my grandpa signed the Preemption Act of 1841, which established the doctrine of Manifest Destiny”, or “my grandpa advocated for the forceful removal of all Native Americans from Florida”.
there used to be fewer winning zip codes though; I grew up in an extremely liberal post-hippie town in a blue state and it was still pretty much like “if this then best move to SF or maybe NYC fucking asap, maybe up to and including running away from home as a minor” wrt being gay in the late 80s and I do feel like that’s changed quite a bit for sexual orientation stuff
gayness in the late 80s
there were 450 people at my grades 9 through 12 high school, and I can think of 4 that I was aware were gay at the time, and not because they were all proudly out of the closet
one was a super obvious, really sweet guy who cultivated a highly vocal crush on Madonna and we all liked him so we just let him do that because that’s what felt kind. one kid was What? I’m a Theater Kid, Theater, Also It’s The 80s I Can Have A Forelock If I Want, one there was just heavy rumor, one was my friend P who was a nice sad closeted preppy boy I wouldn’t ever have clocked if I didn’t hang out with him and even so we never talked about it, not once. no girls at all, although looking back now I can’t believe I didn’t connect the dots wrt one
basically? nobody came out till they went away to college. that was just how that was. you wanted to get out of the immediate social and family crucible first. we didn’t have internet yet, the couple hundred people around you were the only world you had. at some point in my thirties I found out my old high school now had a gay/straight alliance and I think I literally cried
again: this was a small sheltered private school in a lefty hippie town in Massachusetts
Do any other 80s kids (or older, but I think kids got a lot of it) remember the basic health information type brochures on HIV/AIDS and how intensely heavily they blamed the epidemic on bisexual men?
Because I sure do remember feeling suspicious of bisexual men and wondering why they would be so terribly irresponsible and so hurtful to all the rest of us as to spread the plague in ways even gay men didn’t.
If anyone is wondering why I immediately shut down someone the other day for telling a bi man to shut up about homophobia because wlw have it worse?
That shit is why.
Do not try to tell me, someone born in 1979, that homophobia and biphobia against bi men wasn’t as bad as anything else because I will pee in your cereal bowl.
“bi men are responsible for spreading HIV” totally yes, but it was actually worse than that
it was “actually there’s no such thing as a bi man and anyone who says he is one is lying because he doesn’t want to admit to being gay, therefore he’s exactly the sort of terrible deceitful person who would selfishly spread HIV”
with a hefty side of “oh and bisexuality doesn’t exist period, it just extra specially doesn’t exist in men, in women it’s sort of a thing but only in a totally fake immature phase bullshit way”
and both of those messages were coming from the gay community just as much as or maybe even more than from the straight oppressors
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Yep, that’s true.
Also there was a heaping spoonful of racism mixed in, at least from what I remember. People did a lot of sensationalist talking about black men “on the down low.”
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