Robin ThedeVerified account

not to be that white guy, but if you watch the full video, he obviously got tired of being called a trigger happy racist and lost his cool

a really good way cops could stop people from thinking they are trigger happy racists would be to stop being trigger happy racists.

your argument might work if all cops and police unions didn't support and protect the murderers in their ranks.

I appreciate the calm dialogue of this thread

I agree w/ the summation that the cop waa flustered & reacted. His reaction was inappropriate & w/ the current climate irresponsible.

Incredible dialogue. Amazing what we can do with patience, communication, and intellect.

The cop that joked about killing black people is terminated but the officers that actually murder unarmed black people keep their careers

Excellent point. Wtf?

He said too much

Mask slip

Did he get fired? I thought he was on modified or administrative duty.

He was at first but they decided to terminate him.

He definitely shouldn't have said that but I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic

Sarcastic or not.. He said that to comfort a white woman. Imagine how he'd be viewed for telling blacks "we only kill white people".

Wouldn't bother me any because I know sarcasm when I see it and it doesn't offend me

Not you personally.. imagine how society... the media.. and ignorant white people would react to such "sarcasm". Are you refusing to get it?

The fact that he can make such a joke... and it actually DID calm her down and you think "oh no harm just sarcasm" is a problem

You normalize the fact that he can joke about black lives in his position. Regardless of the shit going on like we really not dying out here

All I said was he was being sarcastic. He did make a mistake. No one should be joking about killing people especially if your a cop.

I guess not being targeted for your color and the people not joking about and making light of it makes you not get that its not just sarcasm