Copaganda... but make it BLACK!

[@LynetteA68]

YSL may be guilty BUT the prosecutor and judges in that case are CROOKED as HELL and EVERYONE deserves a FAIR trial!!! YSL so far has NOT gotten that!! I was a paralegal for over 23yrs and I can tell you if it was any other case in any other city with any other prosecutor and any other judges the case would’ve (and SHOULD have) ended in a MISTRIAL many MONTHS ago!!!

[@arifal-yousif]

And the key to unlock it is that Allah literally means "the concept of time"

[@Sam-wd9ly]

@@arifal-yousif No thanks to Allah

[@arifal-yousif]

@@Sam-wd9ly No thanks to "time"? What are you talking about?

[@Sam-wd9ly]

@@arifal-yousif What are you talking about? You randomly brought up Allah, and Islam is a lie.

[@Sam-wd9ly]

@@arifal-yousif If "Allah" is the concept of time, then how come Islam came after Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity and all other religions. Islam was the last religious lie to come about.

[@fadethechannel]

The ironic thing about “onebadappleism” is they often forget the rest of the idiom: “spoils the bunch.”

[@saharadesert2933]

If you look at the Wikipedia page for the phrase a good chunk of it is talking about modern misuse of the phrase in regards to cops

[@saharadesert2933]

Well, maybe not misuse. If that is how a phrase is being used its how its being used. Just because that's not how it was originally used doesn't mean its wrong. This is a weird nitpick of my own comment, great.

[@El_likes_to_stim]

Oh wow I totally forgot that part existed! Truth.

[@khrishp]

Funny thing about apples is that they're incredibly sensitive to and one of the highest producers of ethylene, which is what ripens climacteric fruit. Them and the other climacteric fruit are the reason why you have two separate drawers in most refrigerators. So to follow the logical end of the actual idiom, If cops are apples, they need to be frequently changed and checked for bad ones and separated from all the other types of "fruits and vegetables" so they don't spoil them as well.

[@magsaysay84]

@@saharadesert2933I really appreciate your nitpicking. I do the same. Don't beat yourself up about it.

[@TrillyThough]

As the son of a retired Black cop who became one after retiring from the military, this video is hitting. I love my father, but we are so deeply ideologically opposed at this point that I dont ever see us being on the same page again. This man set the foundation for so much of my Black, radical politic. And now he's a hardcore Trumper, and for the life of me, I can't figure out how we got here.

[@stevonwhite8933]

The root problem is Anti-Blackness. Sad to see.

[@zabeerfarid7687]

Damn I’m sorry about that

[@Chill-mm4pn]

He benefited from adopting the mentality and culture that comes with that profession and conservative outlook. He probably sees himself as one of the good ones and an example of what you can achieve if you think and do as he did. A lot of that is also generation based. Older Gen X and Boomers were able to buy houses and go to college for far less than we do today. I had to explain to my mom why it took so long for my wife and I to buy a home.

[@LiShuBen]

⁠@@Chill-mm4pnaka sellout

[@wesleystreet]

Cop first, Black second. Sorry about your dad, man.

[@amaravazquez8591]

The future of fascism is inclusive...

[@slykilla999]

That's a bar

[@handlesaresuperghey]

Yeah the democrats are really getting out of hand with the whole fascism thing.

[@jayce8001]

I'd modify it a bit and say: The future of fascism is all the inclusivity they will ever allow.

[@Dee-lp7lo]

mmmmm

[@ScagAteHer]

Been feeling this so much lately. Can’t be systemic racism if a brown person is doing it 😞

[@she3479]

Kenyan here In June, we had the Gen-Z led Anti-Finance bill protests, 50+ protestors died, most if not all after being shot by black Kenyan policemen. Outside the Kenyan parliament on the 25th of June, one protestor was shot by a sniper on TV. Police brutality in Kenya has always existed but in the recent protests, it was more evident than ever. On Monday, Kenyan cops dropped a tear gas canister on a protesting University student leaving him with grievous injuries to his legs. A commenter said that this is not only a US problem but a worldwide things and I agree. Most cops are just trigger happy state sponsored goons with egotistical mindsets exerting their power on the public.

[@traceankunda4949]

As a Ugandan am proud the gen-z kenyans who stood on business and may those who lost their lives Rest In Peace.

[@meja2546]

Bro uko hapa mkuu

[@meja2546]

Bro uko hapa mkuu

[@LynetteA68]

Omg I’m so sorry!!! Yes policing in America is also very BAD!!! The cops are basically a LEGAL gang who get away with everything including murder via Qualified immunity which is NOT even a law!! Most gov employees have qualified immunity here so it’s very hard to hold gov accountable!! I hope things get better for you in Kenya!! My dream is to visit Kenya one day😊 Nanaya hullo I kana~ ✌🏼 & 🫶🏼 my friend! ❤from THE CHOCTAW NATION🪶

[@she3479]

@@meja2546 Kabisa. Wazungu lazima wajue atrocities zenye pia zinatuhappenia

[@FDSignifire]

For those for whom this matters- The (original) thumbnail is not AI it was drawn by Skutch who has done thumbnails for a lot of creators The intro is not AI it was made by Overthrow Media All artists were paid in the making of this video lol

[@dropkickpherby6994]

Sad we live in a day this disclaimer is needed, but thank you for letting people know

[@GenericPlaceholder6893]

Crazy how ai has become so prevalent that we need to be specifying whether or not something is ai

[@gapsule2326]

The fingers being coherent were a dead giveaway.

[@YoLkE-22222]

looks too good to be ai anyways

[@pig-man77]

w mans

[@OGIceyOfficial]

As a black man my worst police interaction was actually with a black cop. His white cop partner didn’t say much but the black cop approached our car with his gun out and gave us basically a “stop embarrassing our race in front of the white man” type speech. We were pulled over for speeding..nothing more

[@OnlyReasonableTakes]

Why were you speeding?

[@TheMadwomen]

Consider this: They weren't speeding.

[@OnlyReasonableTakes]

@@TheMadwomen Certainly, I will try to consider all the options with an open mind.

[@Snocone333]

​@@OnlyReasonableTakessurely you've sped before as well if even on accident, don't be dense.

[@Sebby514]

"You think you tough!"

[@AwoogaWolf]

Even in Hawaii they had indigenous cops arresting their own elders for protesting land development.

[@Jeromewhite123]

That's their job. It's not rocket science.

[@Dillon-killer]

@@Jeromewhite123Just following orders, huh?

[@veronikkarobertson8064]

damm, thats cold

[@stevonwhite8933]

@@Jeromewhite123 Wanna know how many historical atrocities you can hand-waive away, with your logic?

[@UnapologeticRed]

@@Jeromewhite123We not surprised, we are disgusted and used to it

[@heyitsluke4721]

I don’t understand how it’s legal at all for a cop to get fired from one city, and then just go to one city over and can still be a cop. Like they clearly were fired for a reason.

[@davidiihouston6883]

The inherent corruption of the system.

[@moonbabies0o241]

Exactly!! Doctors /Nurses don't get to harm ppl in one state and keep their licence to work in another.

[@TheMuraqabat]

I once listened to Marc Lamont Hill discuss his visits to Gaza and the West Bank for his research on Afro-Palestinians. He describes being in a vehicle with a number of Black Palestinians being pulled over at one of the notorious Israeli checkpoints erected to harass and intimidate. As the car approached the checkpoint, Hill let out a sigh of relief at seeing that the checkpoint was manned by Israeli soldiers of Ethiopian descent, saying to his fellow passengers, "At least the soldiers here are Black." The Afro-Palestinians he was traveling with expressed a heightened level of fear and nervousness when he said this, telling Hill that the Ethiopian-Israeli soldiers would be the most harsh and violent Israeli soldiers of all, because in that apartheid state, it was in their role as IDF soldiers, through the act of brutalizing and killing Palestinians, that they could most fully embody the identity of "Israeli."

[@indianguy2276]

I can't believe I forgot about this

[@drehardin]

Then Marc Lamont said men can have babies.

[@voxomnes9537]

Phenomenal comment

[@T.H.E.O.R.Y.]

Oreos are everywhere smdh

[@jarrahkron9]

One of the really subtle forms of racism in Israel/Palestine is Mizrachi and Ethiopian Jews being as a whole made to feel socially required to prove their separation from Palestinians, I spoke to journalist Orly Noy about it when she visited my country once.

[@Anzner1993]

Ice cube went from saying "Fuk the police" to playing a cop in almost every movie he is in.

[@henriettebopda5895]

And endorsing trump

[@Ekim2F94]

​@@henriettebopda5895that happened??!

[@jimmyjohnjohnson9803]

​@@Ekim2F94 he got money.

[@ohhaiJess96]

@@henriettebopda5895rich people only care about protecting their money. Nothing else matters.

[@Ekim2F94]

@@jimmyjohnjohnson9803 damn...I'm disappointed

[@sainthuckelberry]

"If you're a cop, your race is cop"

[@grlbcc]

Until you are black and off duty😂😂😂😂

[@PhoenixFireZero]

I say much the same thing about billionaires.

[@machobandzsavage281]

And you're allegiance is to YT rule

[@lacy144320]

​@grlbcc on duty too. I remember they threw that cop in Minnesota, Noor I believe, under the bus in an instant

[@RoBoDaN91]

Assigned Cop At Birth.

[@pancakemogul]

“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.” - Paulo Freire

[@Drummafolife]

Every working class republican ever

[@wirelessbaguette8997]

Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed should be required reading for every Department of Education employee, and for every legislator who makes law about education.

[@axelblack1799]

@@wirelessbaguette8997 To quote Paulo; "The oppressors, who oppress, exploit, and r*p* by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the op­pressed or themselves. Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.". The institutions of the oppressors have a vested interest in maintaining the relations of power that exist in their benefit. Liberatory education can only be produced in the praxis of dialogical social investigation, in dialogue with a community to generate consciousness both in the community and the individual. Within a bourgeois dictatorship, the necessity of public education is to reproduce the ideology of the status quo, to produce false consciousness, to individualise and impoverish the student. Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy is therefore contradictory to the purpose of educational systems within such a state.

[@wirelessbaguette8997]

@@axelblack1799 while true, how can we implement a liberatory education without beginning to implement it? I myself am going into public education specifically because it is the one public space under our current hegemony where I have a chance to better the lives of those I interact with, rather than exploit them. Certainly a private education system cannot liberate the most marginalized.

[@axelblack1799]

@@wirelessbaguette8997 Through community organising. The creation of mass organisations and the use of those organisations for education and praxis, building critical consciousness within communities. Public schools didn’t build the Black Panthers, critically conscious community organisers did. Trade unions, revolutionary political organisations, social justice groups, these are the centres which must be used to spread consciousness through praxis, provided they are led by those already conscious. I’m also studying to get into education in the future, but my experiences so far lead me to believe that there can be no significant dialogical education within a modern classroom due to the nature of those classrooms - built not upon praxis but the banking system of education. Therefore while I might attempt to plant seeds of inquiry for students in the future, but my efforts in applying critical pedagogy will be focused around participation in mass organisations as the vehicle for that.

[@rickprime83]

James Baldwin said it best that a black cop is worst because a black cop knows how you think, feel and fear

[@cliftonharmon2403]

Right and they know no one will rush to your defense better than anyone.

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

Empathy doesn't equal being nice. This is a great example of using empathy to be more cruel

[@sebastianherrera6514]

As someone from Latin America, I’ve learned from a very young age that there’s no such thing as a “good” cop.

[@JaKingScomez]

Without cops america and Canada wouldnt be any different then latin America.

[@tigerwoods373]

Yeah I learned that when I was 18. There was about 10 of us hanging out when cops suddenly approached and came inside the house. Many of my friends were drinking. Me, my gf and the two homeowners were the only ones who didn't run. How were we rewarded for not running? We were all given underage drinking citations, except my gf who didn't drink at all. I wish I knew more about my rights as I'm certain they violated many by doing that. Another time my gf had a warrant and I think her ex husband snitched on her. We were about to leave the bank and I stopped to talk to someone in another car. After I left, I was pulled over. The reason? It was possible I was attempting to break into that car. He demanded id from the passenger, which now I know it completely not lawful as she had nothing to do with the reason stated for the stop or passengers don't need to id on traffic stops. The final thing that made me despise police was when I was visiting a gfs hometown in Florida. We just left I think Applebees. As I approached the highway, I made a right on red which it was clear and legal. 9 motorcycle cops were directly across the light making a left to go in the same direction. It was a 3 lane highway and they should've kept to the far left lane. Instead the wanted to race or something and shoot all the way to the far right lane and one crashed. At first they wanted to charge with assault on an officer and forced me to wait over an hour. I think it's required in Florida for highway patrol to investigate any accident but it wasn't until he arrived that they stopped threatening me with arrest and bigger charges. There was also a "witness" who was a close friend to one of the officers. We told them I have witnesses as some of her family seen it. No, they would be biased towards you. I met them once and somehow they can use a close friend as a witness but I can't use people I met one time? My insurance even said they didn't think it was my fault but we're just gonna pay out. He went to the hospital and released with contusions of the left knee and hip but then a few days later he tried claiming back and neck pain. Complete scumbag. You'd expect police to have morals but not these cops. I ended up getting a ticket for failure to yield to the right away resulting in an accident. Even though I was at least 50 yards ahead before their light turned green. Now I just expect them to be complete pos's. This all happened in late 90s and 2000s before they had body cams and police reform was a movement. As bad as they are now, they were even worse before because they could get away with lying and exploiting anyone unfortunate enough to get targeted.

[@JaKingScomez]

@@tigerwoods373 dang so you got a minor citation. Then you girl casually got warrants??? So they dealt with it? Last part is bs on the cops part but dude. In mexico you would literally get you money taken by them. In mexico you will get robbed by people then go to the police and they know the robbers but dont do anything because cartel is in control. Imagine in america getting your truck taken from you with aks in your face and you cant go to police.i dont want america to be like mexico🤦🏽‍♂️ boohoo you got a ticket. Meanwhile peoples lives are not in their controls and can die the worst way for no reason and theres no help.

[@luiza.limaneves]

Yup strange thing to see someone from the us thinking the color of who wears the uniforms matters, but then again I guess race and ethnicity is viewed differently there

[@luiza.limaneves]

@@OutrageIsNow that's literally not what I said but okay

[@PrinceShakurYoutube]

Thank GOD you made this. Gonna watch this over the next day or two, but I really appreciate a deeper analysis about "black faces in high places". Truly needed

[@PrinceShakurYoutube]

I really think it's Black people's jobs especially to read between the lines when we're depended upon to support or follow identity politics towards carcerality or being "soft on crime". Like what does having SECURE BORDER mean? Why do we have, according to statistics, a lower number of migrant crossings in relation to the US/Mexican border? Is that because less people for crossing OR because of more restrictive policies on who can attain refugee/migrant status?

[@noel737]

Ah, you changed the thumbnail…got me to finally click on it so I guess it worked…

[@sparkedbox]

imo the pig thumbnail was the best one, the only reason I didn't click on it was FD Signifier videos are whole ass feature length films, I gotta set aside time to watch this ish

[@ChuckAngelHawk]

@@noel737 And the title. Bit of a bummer

[@Noirevert]

I will miss the Yugioh trap card reference.

[@autismworldtravel]

@@sparkedboxexactly. I still haven’t finished the last video 😂😂😂 I love it but I got kids and ish 😂

[@VincentGordon]

I way prefered the other thumbnail, it was ART

[@Chesperito_]

When asked in an interview do you think there are good cops J Cole responded and said along the lines of ,”i believe there are good people who are cops but there are no good cops they’re cogs in a machine”

[@ChuckAngelHawk]

Cole was spot on. ACAB.

[@TheBoiBaz]

This had to click in my head. ACAB doesn't mean all cops are irreversibly bad people it means they're all doing a bad thing by being a cop

[@hhhy9160]

Exactly, they are very much about controlling the flow of crime within given areas, allowing gangs to grow, generate wealth and resources then step in and collect.

[@manhattanprojekt1275]

@@Chesperito_ if there are any good cops, they quit (or are stamped out). That’s always been the general pattern. Within 3-5 years they get out, often ‘cause they found a situation or conflict too egregious to stand by. Got too much empathy for the career.

[@prod.youngsensai]

He said this in his combat jack interview

[@SebastianTheGreat]

The real OGs remember the original thumbnail that featured Eric Adams & Kamala

[@th3ufobaby]

I knew something changed within the last few hours, lowkey preferred the original but I get it

[@ryanmarable2195]

If u repost it, the OG thumbnail shows.

[@UnapologeticRed]

@@ryanmarable2195haha bettt

[@officialdcshepard]

Is that the one with them flanking a pig in the middle? I think that’s still up on Nebula.

[@Pinkywinkykinky]

Yeahh saw it in my notifications and was pretty eye catching

[@thexalon]

This isn't just an American thing, as Trevor Noah brilliantly pointed out years ago talking to Jon Stewart: Jon - "Aren't blacks beaten up by police in South Africa?" Trevor - "Yes, but now they're beaten up by *black* police. Progress!"

[@shy404usernotfound]

Trevor Noah should stick to speaking about his country. He's highly annoying when talking about ours.

[@bassgoer]

Argue the argument, not the person.

[@thexalon]

@@shy404usernotfound And I was referring to a time when he was talking about his home country. What's your point?

[@FixedFace]

"so this one j was saying to this other j good thing muricans have no idea about SA" brilliantly pointed out indeed

[@VyctoriaBrooks]

@@shy404usernotfoundand you Dont speak for an entire country, so sit down.

[@dean.mcmxcvi]

One of the best commentary channels on here. Nuanced and engaging. Appreciate your work 🙏

[@dorianhinkle5595]

It's sort of unsettling how once one aligns themselves with state power, they stop being whatever they were before and become a tool of state power.

[@pompitousoflove]

Very scary

[@Frommerman]

The state is a demon, and its bargains are the same.

[@newtypealpha]

Just gotta say: I always thought it was kinda wild that Ice-T literally spent more of his career pretending to be a cop than he did pretending to be a rapper.

[@shoxx48]

That's cold...wait, somebody should tell him this!

[@Vanity0666]

Guy who doesn't know about Body Count:

[@flyingdart9819]

​@@Vanity0666 bodycount goes hard

[@irishmanrants89]

@@shoxx48 “Somebody should tell him this” why are we advocating self-harm

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

Ice T never stopped being critical of the police.

[@shiggydiggyjones9953]

In GA, a highschool student named Christopher answered a knock at his door late at night, only to be met with a cop with their gun already drawn. Christopher, whom was playing a wii game with his sister, was shot dead immediately because the cop "thought the wii-mote was a gun". The officer faced 0 jail time despite killing a child.

[@AliveBoldTV]

Omg what??

[@arkayder1325]

Christ man

[@idontneedaname318]

BRUH. He Knocked and then shot the person that answered??

[@dudebro91-fn7rz]

So much for yt privilege huh?

[@Praecosmile]

This is important but it's worth noting it happened in 2014. Why this story from a decade ago when cops are doing this kind of thing right now?

[@rockyminoma]

This is indicative of my experience. I work as a security guard now after spending so much time as a teacher. White men approach me readily and shake my hand 😅 Little kids think I'm a police officer and stare at me, some are super friendly. Black men sometimes address me as sir and some are fucking scared walking into a store and seeing my gun. Some see me with disdain. And that's just as a security guard! I can see why people do this, but I hate it. I hate how fake it is. Both the respect and the fear. I just wanna finish my degree and gtfo. Thanks for the video!

[@BalthorYT]

Hey man, good on you. Hope you can get through it and go on to do bigger and better things, for your self and for others. Checked out your latest short and I really liked it, your heart is in the right place and sharing those thoughts with the world helps make it a better place, even if it takes guts to do it. Cheers man, wish you the best

[@rockyminoma]

@@BalthorYT Thank you!

[@elliotw4606]

Interesting cause 90% of security guards (and former ones) I know were/are really cool. Idk what it is but usually they end up admirable in the end. Two I know got married and now seem to be quite happy and good husbands vs others. Only one dude I know sucked as one but surprise surprise worked for the government and continued to. The cooler ones all worked for private companies. I get the hate for private companies but government is often worse. Truth. Police are all government hired after all.

[@Gagagag-d1w]

I’ve worked fast food, and I’ve done internships where I’ve researched sciencey sht. The difference in the way I’m treated amazes me. We live in a very superficial world

[@fluidthought42]

@@elliotw4606 Well, rent-a-cops can't rent cop immunity, so they have to behave to higher standard than the state's arm of violence.

[@J.C...]

I almost got shot by a nervous cop yesterday. I wasn't resisting. I wasn't even speaking loudly. But he was so nervous, he pulled his gun on me over smelling weed! Kept repeating "don't get froggy!" any time he thought I was about to try and fight him and run 🤦 kept grabbing me. He tried to take every opportunity to escalate so he could handle me but I didn't take the bait.

[@stevonwhite8933]

Glad you’re safe

[@th3ufobaby]

God bless you. I empathize with you brother.

[@maiaraandrade1952]

He was probably on some kind of drug.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

Holy crap! Thank goodness you're okay. What does "don't get froggy" mean? That's a phrase I've never heard before.

[@tpk1412]

​@@ChristopherSadlowski move too fast, get bold or aggressive, etc

[@fluffhead6757]

"I believe it's a crime to not give children an education." Okay, so you'll fix the systems that prevent disadvantaged parents from putting their children into school, right? "So I decided to charge the parents with truancy" Good fucking god.

[@waynewayne8419]

This ‘parents’ shouldn’t be having children in the first place. Talking about systematic issues then bringing those children into the same world with zero planning or foresight is actually crazy. And expecting others to cater for you is even worse.

[@blackdragon6]

​@@waynewayne8419not fixing said systemic issues is also just as crazy.

[@waynewayne8419]

@@blackdragon6 fixing systematic issues is hard, not bringing children into a world is a lot more easy.

[@SiphoMnisi-p5v]

​@@waynewayne8419 are you yt by any chance?

[@waynewayne8419]

@@SiphoMnisi-p5v no, I’m as black as tar. Lol, actually I’m brown skinned but still black.

[@GoldnDusty]

As a white, working class person, (British, but our fundamental issues with race, class, and policing are similar *enough* when you break down the brutality stats) I always found it very interesting the attitudes of coppers who were working class. They had a distilled version of this "wolves hunting wolves among sheep" attitude that gets taught to a lot of US cops. They didn't see their class as part of their identity, but a tool to aid their true identity; being a nominally working class cop meant they had community contacts and knowledge which allowed them to operate, pre-empt, and brutalise more efficiently than those of other classes. If we take an intersectional view of race and class - though obviously gaps exist in this view - we can learn a lot about how to approach this, and it just confirms everything in this video. Cop is a class within the power structure. Your place in the racial hierarchy is enforced within that class, but outside of it, you are Cop.

[@gamemeister27]

Discriminating against the poor transcends racial boundaries. My uncle, a white man, was thrown in jail in the early 80's for possession of an empty syringe. Living up to their modern reputation, the Minneapolis PD unlocked the cell and told him he was free to go. As he started leaving, a group of cops jumped him, beat him, and threw him back in the cell, claiming he was trying to escape. Naturally, he was from a poor working class family that didn't know much about the legal system, and obviously couldn't afford a lawyer, so nothing ever came of it. If they think they can get away with it, these cops will do whatever they want to you and your loved ones, regardless of race. P.S. this comment isn't meant to dismiss the role of race in police violence. Even if it was all based on income, black people are disproportionately poor due to actions taken by the establishment over the course of our history as a nation. Systemic racism will therefore ensure disproportionate police violence towards black people, even if the individual officers themselves aren't discriminating based on race (which some of them definitely are)

[@courtneyt5237]

Intersectionality ❤

[@rmsea6429]

“Black Cops Won’t Save Us” reveals that the problem transcends race and economic status as causal variables. It shows the fundamental problem and causal variable is “evil,” while race and economic status are mediators of “evil.”

[@QuikVidGuy]

Police don't have a legal duty to 'serve and protect'. They exist to keep property profitable. The only reason to call the cops is if you're in danger and you don't have someone nearby to help

[@dpeasehead]

@gamemeister27: Yes. Police of all colors know what they can get away with and they also "know their place" and keep it. They do not drag people out of their cars in upscale neighborhoods or slam them to the pavement, or get into shouting matches with them. In other words, they don't need additional training or to be taught restraint or deescalation, because they already know, but CHOOSE when and where "to act out."

[@nestorkropotkin8952]

@@dpeasehead The SLMPD cop who lost the use of his arm due to helping coworkers on his day off and then had his workmans comp claim denied was sure surprised.

[@Flashifyable]

As a resident of Atlanta, I see how black cops treat young black kids when they’re called for help. They treat regular ass kids like members of a rival gang, and when something is going on in the neighborhood and we all come out to just see what’s going on they start getting nervous and yelling. There’s an attitude in policing, even amongst black officers, that the community is an adversary.

[@darkhobo]

Yeah that's everywhere. They operate like an occupying force.

[@AfriqueNY]

Cause to them it is. They don't want to be there. They want to be in an easy area to police. Write some speeding tickets and go home.

[@regalsylvester]

@@AfriqueNYwhat makes an area difficult?

[@realSimoneCherie]

oh they’re the worst

[@LargeMcBottoms]

We out here, before the demonitazation!

[@AnimeProfilePicture]

We out here before the thumbnail change to FD face

[@monk7946]

​@@AnimeProfilePicture😂😂😂😂 good to have ya anyway

[@AnimeProfilePicture]

@@LargeMcBottoms ayo, we back again and I'm just saying

[@briannaobrien4419]

Back in the early 2000s when I was a little kid my mom and I were watching Charmed. The cop Daryl was chasing a murderer and I remember asking, "why doesn't he just shoot him?" And my mom said "because that's illegal, cops can't just shoot people.". Lies. Alllllllllll lies.

[@ShouPow]

That's frankly hilarious lmao

[@Stephen...]

Released right after the NYPD committed, by all definitions, a mass shooting in the NY subway over a skipped fare of less than $3 on an unarmed man. Four people were injured, including one of their own, and two were totally unrelated bystanders going about their day (one grazed and the other shot in the head). But it'd always be a relevant timing to release a cop video, as there seems to always be some recent news story of the police shooting a suspect.

[@Igboman87]

Say what??

[@anthonyrowland9072]

@@Igboman87 A guy jumped the fare and the cops wound up shooting two bystanders. Also, subways should be free...

[@zekewalker1350]

The person who was grazed was the head injury, the shot person was shot in the leg.

[@Stephen...]

@@zekewalker1350 The article I read said this. "The shooting left the shot officer with minor injuries while one of the two bystanders, a 49-year-old man, was in the hospital in critical condition after he was struck in the head. A 26-year-old woman was also grazed by one of the bullets fired by police officers. The shot police officer was hit underneath his left armpit." 🤷🏻‍♀️ But either way... sick stuff.

[@xxmagentaxcamelliaxx]

@@ryanwinn8731Damn son you’re right that totally justifies shooting into an open space with no regard for the numerous bystanders.

[@Kikokiki_tt]

Two side thoughts here 1. I find it mental that the "Supreme Court precedent holds that American police have no legal obligation to protect the public." So why even have a police force? 2. Unions work. Best example? The police union.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

That's more of a cartel. Unions protect workers from power, police unions protect power from the people.

[@Kikokiki_tt]

@@anthonyrowland9072 you could say that the police union is protecting it members from power - the power of justice but I do know what you mean. You're not wrong there.

[@Will-wi3kv]

Warren v. District of Colombia (1981) "a government and it's agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular citizen." "Absent a special relationship between the police and an individual, no specific legal duty exists" Police exists to serve and protect the interests of the government. Not the people. Everyone is brainwashed to think police protect the people, the lie is that they protect people only in the capacity that it benefits the state. Never forget, teach your children, and teach your friends.

[@dangerxbadger2300]

1. They quite literally are there to exclusively protect and serve the interests of capital owners. Nothing more, nothing less

[@Jane-oz7pp]

The US only had a police force to begin with to enforce slavery... take a guess what the purpose is now lmfao

[@patrickgreene5028]

Whenever someone talks about copaganda, I think about the proverbial "knight in shining armor". Knights didn't used to be the thing of fun story books for the peasants. They were tax collectors, bullies, and of course a major part of the nation's internal projection of power. The whole thing with Chivalry was mostly made up after-the-fact as a way of marketing knights as cool and awesome. I wonder if in some future time cops will end up with the same rosy lens in fiction. I wouldn't be surprised.

[@TreeHairedGingerAle]

It does seem to be a pattern. 😅 I used to like knights as a little kid. Then I found out that chivalry was fake... Then I pivoted to Samurai in my teens, only to find out that the famed Bushido code, _also,_ was invented _after_ the fact... in order to romanticize warriors who were really just bullies and defenders of the status quo which served the nobility and the merchants. ( It doesn't help that a knight in shining armor was most _assuredly_ rich and high up in the ranks of nobility. Armor isn't naturally bright and reflective like that. 😳 It took a _lot_ of time and labor from servants, in order to get that mirror-perfect effect, and it was even used as an intimidation tactic... because if you had shining armor, it was a sign that you had a _lot_ of power to throw around. )

[@hollyhaunted6502]

This is so true and not enough people understand this. The documented brutality of the ruling class’ armed enforcers throughout history cannot be overstated.

[@guyincognito1406]

Gee what a mystery the people who took power used it, almost like they had some capability to take power to start with… If it wasn’t them, it would’ve been another…

[@bplus2932]

they already are and have been since i was baby, shiiit they even made them Robot heroes in the 80s lol

[@RaspBerryPies]

I think it is the same with Samurai! Well not exactly the same and there are some pretty true cool stories of them helping, but there was a lot of brutality there too.

[@BryonyClaire]

I have no idea how this video flew past so fast, so much information crammed into it! Incredible as always

[@DevareayWilliams]

I’m a black man that served in the military, I was in the marine corps for 4 years. The military is still racist. In basic training we had a drill instructor call one of the recruits the “N word” and we were about to jump him, until the senior drill instructor found out what was going on and that drill instructor was removed While I was in the fleet, I was a knuckle head and got “the talk” from almost every black NCO/SNCO and one black officer in my unit. If you don’t know what “the talk” is, it’s the one where you’re told, “whether you like it or not, you represent all of us. We have to work twice as hard to get what they got.” My father served in the army when he younger and he has is own stories about having to beat up racist people in his own unit. Those were my wake up calls about how joining the military was not the escape from racism that many people think. The idea of “no color but green”, is really cute, but it’s just not true

[@willam123ful]

Exactly my thoughts

[@stefanreid949]

I'm white and from Tennessee but the first outright racist thing I've ever heard was "dark green marine" which referred to the stereotype of black marines not being able to swim. It was said openly even to me, an airman that was trained alongside and by marines.

[@stevonwhite8933]

Grandad fought in the Pacific, and was part of liberating the Philippines. One thing he always said was, “The way we were treated while even fighting for them, there was no difference between many that wore the uniform I wore, and our enemies in Europe”.

[@omni0414]

You knew all this and still decided to enlist. I can't even pity you, you put yourself in a racist situation and loved it.

[@NotesNNotes]

It’s so incredibly exploitative and they love to target impoverished schools around the United States, many of which are Black or Brown schools, to collect poor little bodies with the promise of college just to die for their profit wars 😭

[@MrMortadeloyfilemon]

calling cops pigs as a derogatory term has always been unfortunate because pigs are wonderful creatures. They are like little babies. Comparing them to the insanity of the police is truly insulting to pigs

[@venn_diagramm]

intelligent beautiful creatures

[@bplus2932]

i see what you did here.

[@itsaUSBline]

It's a reference to Animal Farm.

[@SWIMMINGDOWN]

​@@itsaUSBlineeveryone is equal, but some are more equal than others.

[@xpspsps4525]

In polish we call cops dogs bc theyre loyal loud n have dogs

[@tylertremblay3323]

Hey man, just want to thank you for what you're doing. I was a white kid growing up in a town that was 98% white and had very little understanding of black culture and racial issues in America. I always knew that racism was bad but never really had any deeper understanding than that. I've been following you since the bo burnham video (i'm aware that i just revealed how white i am), god i needed to see that video. I know it's a lot of hard work making these videos, but they've reshaped my worldview in ways i could never have imagined. Thank you for everything you do.

[@rubenotero7100]

My wife pointed out how often black people portray cops in movies and on TV and I haven't been able to unsee it since

[@bewitched9408]

Excellent video FD! It appears that there's a higher number of black and police officers in the force than ever before, despite BLM, which I attribute to copaganda's effectiveness.

[@Praisethesunson]

Same reason America's seizure of Haiti is being done by Kenyan soldiers(paid by America). Rule by and through the natives.

[@archibaldmoore4514]

BLMs ineffectiveness

[@itsartwithwords]

"Has there ever been a Black mainstream actor who has never portrayed someone in law enforcement?" I've had this question in my head for some time now, and watching this today has made me ask it again. Great video, F.D.

[@baller0724]

Let me sit here in case someone can come up with something because I'm also drawing a blank.

[@AltairKapasi]

Damn

[@maluse227]

Did Orlando Jones ever play a cop?

[@jeremybrown9611]

​@@maluse227I think he has

[@kissmyarsenal4111]

Michael B Jordan?

[@chemreac1]

This is why identity politics without class politics is so dangerous. I also feel like this vid was made before Kamalas right-wing debate performance, but regardless, thanks for another educational video

[@fourmoyle]

He has the speech in there, so he has all he needed, methinks.

[@0CLOWNFISH0]

It’s becoming more terrifying because a lot of cops now are trained by Israel. As well as Israel playing a huge role in the cop city project. If you know, you know.

[@numzdontlie2638]

This. This this this. Seeing Kamala proudly endorsing Israel using the EXACT SAME RHETORIC THAT WAS USED TO DEFEND GEORGE ZIMMERMAN is just...sickening

[@clementinedanger]

The role Israeli "security" plays on the world stage is terrifying and almost no one is talking about it.

[@billbill6094]

So am I just SOL if I don't know?

[@nestorkropotkin8952]

@@billbill6094 What are you not aware of? Cop City or the amount of NDAA money that Israel funnels back into America to fund it?

[@Frommerman]

@@billbill6094 Israel is a mid-20th century style settler-colonial apartheid state which has survived into the modern day by dint of US interference. They're training the cops because they're the state which can and must have people that hideously violent in order to continue existing.

[@djason338]

I haven't watched the video yet, but I recognized immediately what image was used as the reference for the pig's hand in the thumbnail. It's a super old image macro of a dude in a library with Yugioh cards saying "you just activated my trap card." Look it up, it's a perfect match!

[@Marcelis]

Yeah I see it now😮

[@manhattanprojekt1275]

Homie just wanted to duel, summon Black Magician, and direct attack on the opposing player to win the game🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

[@daphne4407]

i thought it looked familiar! couldn't tell what it was until i saw this

[@OlgaFlowen]

I forgot about that meme! Early 2000s

[@Jane-oz7pp]

gd blast from the past I miss classic meme culture

[@40footwolf]

can I point out what bad dialogue "You changed nothing!" "Maybe not, but it's a start" is? Like if you changed literally nothing than by definition it is not a "start" to anything lmao

[@uniquenewyork3325]

I think what they mean is "at least I'm not making it worse!" Our choices are literally either being beaten and kicked or just kicked.

[@Goliath5100]

“You haven’t done anything here.” “Well maybe not, but at least I’ve done something!”

[@hive_indicator318]

They tried nothing and they're all out of ideas

[@roenais]

part of me always wonders if the prevelance of black cop characters in movies and tv shows is a byproduct of the fetishization of black men. i can vividly imagine white writers saying "you know whats cooler and tougher and manlier than a cop? a black cop."

[@DerStammtischphilosoph]

What makes you think that Hollywood is "white"? See: Dave Chapelle... SNL monologue for details.

[@abaren730]

@@DerStammtischphilosoph Hollywood is so white, media produced by non-white people often come out white. And there is shockingly few media produced by non-white people anyway. The examples you mentioned are SUPER white coded.

[@slightlyuncomfortable]

​@@DerStammtischphilosophHollywood has always been a historically white institution. Just look at the Oscars.

[@ninjalectualx]

Sports too. White players are described as intelligent and Black players as powerful or fast

[@DerStammtischphilosoph]

@@slightlyuncomfortable Not at the decision making level... do I need to spell it out for you? Which subset of people have created and occupy all of the decision making positions in Hollywood... you'll get there eventually.

[@Humorless_Wokescold]

That opening must have traveled through a time loop to have aged so well so quickly.

[@ThrownCarp]

I'm tired of explaining to my friends that police do not care for them. They tell me I exaggerate, but how can I exaggerate violence of this form

[@feodiente9460]

These friends are white aren't they?? Or white influenced? Colored locs, Rockstar shirts and face tattoos?? No diss really asking.

[@ThrownCarp]

@feodiente9460 man I'm yt too haha. Most of my friends are white, but they refuse to learn

[@shyntrax]

Police are an institution. Organize so that they care.

[@rainbowwigglecactus6605]

​@@ThrownCarp I'm white with mostly white friends too, but at least mine are open-minded to my rants. I joked about the FBI and CIA being terrorist organizations, and a friend of a friend said they wanted to be FBI when they were younger. So I told them about cointelpro and they said "I *definitely* don't want to be FBI now"

[@ShouPow]

Do you include specific situations in which cops famously bungle? There's a lot of good reporting on how absolutely incompetent cops are (it costs more to enforce care evasion in NYC than we lose in care evasion, for example). Like yes once you know it's easy to say ACAB and don't trust cops. But frankly it took until cops murdered a foreign indian student for many diaspora indians to begin discussing abolition. People are irrational and hate to be proved wrong, hopefully you can deconstruct those complexes amongst your friends to make communication easier or you have to message specifically to appeal to these complexes of theirs. It's good to call in friends and peers but everyone needs a different approach.

[@chriswiltz6860]

Opening song is "The Men in Blue" - Prince Paul ft. Everlast for anyone curious.

[@wormsali]

Bless your heart 🙏🏾

[@Inthepotwithdiogenes]

Thank you! ❤

[@stevonwhite8933]

Good looking out

[@bt2598]

Thank you!

[@brudamo9203]

I knew it was everlast just forgot producer. Cheers

[@dmetryustendajifreeman8836]

i remember super clearly, when i was in eighth grade living in virginia, my only black teacher once told us that her husband was a cop and immediately, as if to cut off any questions or comments, went into a tirade about why officers should shoot to kill rather than incapacitate. she made a big show of imitating someone asking “oh why couldn’t they have shot him in the leg?” and ranted about how criminals are dangerous and police officers should “get to come home” it should be noted that literally this was prompted by the mention of police in the lesson we were doing, like no one had made any comments about police brutality or anything. we were all just like uhhhhh ok especially bc including me there were like three black people in the class

[@MegaDiva1999]

That's horrible. Very disturbing and disturbed. She should have been fired and is probably now the Principal of the school

[@dpeasehead]

@@MegaDiva1999 The twisted cult of cop worship and the sense of entitlement attached to it has probably done more to divide society than anything other than race.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

I am a 60-year old white guy, and I am terrified of cops. Always have been Cannot imagine what black people go through.

[@yveqeshy]

Kamala laughing off at the suggestion that this idea of prosecuting parents for truancy was controversial is just simply horrible, did she and the government try to understand the circumstances that were leading to these situations or are they just terrible people who lack basic empathy??

[@Varooooooom]

Like, it’s extremely concerning that not going to school being a pipeline to jail is something she can so easily laugh at… like, surely she doesn’t think jails are fun or at all nice.

[@muddobber6863]

She was able to make it in the system as is so she's unlikely to be empathetic.

[@Sam-wd9ly]

​@@VarooooooomIt's concerning that FD will vote for her after all she's done to lock up black men.

[@Varooooooom]

@@Sam-wd9ly Donald Trump killed over a million people with his handling of the pandemic

[@ziontea7045]

You can vote for trump i guess......... 😐​@@Sam-wd9ly

[@IMNAMLSS]

Someone pay this man's editor....PLEASE

[@sssophiamay]

lol let me give editor a tip fr

[@ComicXanz]

Lemme give the editor my tip

[@hlogilehlogonolo5438]

I’m sure FD is paying him, I’d happily give him a tip tho😭

[@toasty5032]

​@hlogilehlogonolo5438 nah he got sum indentured servant stuff going on

[@NickGuy0320]

@@toasty5032capitalism!

[@Malidala]

ACAB includes sitcom cops.

[@glowa-q9b]

yep

[@dustifilms]

2017 time warp comment

[@Cal.Crimson]

I remember during 2020 people were responding to stuff about ACAB saying "yeah but even Spencer Reid/any other fictional cop?" The characters we are made to love on tv are made that way because they are propaganda. Not enough people understand that or internalize it.

[@a.ah.689]

That includes you, Paw Patrol

[@thatcyanblur]

hop off my mans jim gordon (you’re correct)

[@bbeezaa]

Okay, I’m an 11th grader, queer black teen who lives within a society that CLEARLY wasn’t made for me. I just started the video and already resonate with it. I feel seen, comforted and also terrified of the world I’m growing up in. To live black is to be live with an automatic weapon 24/7. one that we can’t get rid of but just hope we survive in. This is a video that’s needed, to educate white AND black people about this fucked up planet earth and the way that these pillars of society need to be torn down and re built, for everyone. Thank you Fd, I’ve watched you for a while and your way of educating your viewers inspires me to want to educate the future youth. may Tyre and every black body rest in peace. “Tyres killers were not black men, but cops” keep being you fd, you inspire.

[@greenishapples1732]

As a white trans woman who has a black girlfriend, this video is so interesting! Thank you, I never knew so much about black history, and as a trans person I've always had sort of a blind spot for masculinity, but the way you show what black men are missing in their lives and how that makes them feel less like men does make me understand it much better, thank you!

[@-Teague-]

​@@blackken-jy9tfnever heard of a lesbian before?

[@samspade8830]

​@@-Teague-A man can't become a woman though. So it's really just a straight couple.

[@Sam-wd9ly]

​@@-Teague-A t woman is not a woman though. So it's really just a straight, interracial couple.

[@NicholasVincent-ol1zk]

@edifytrans4microsoftwindowsworldofdifference

[@savvystudios7950]

I’m really sorry about the transphobia in your replies. I hope you’re having a great day and are happy wherever you are! I’m sure you two are a lovely couple :)

[@joziepozie5178]

it is bizarre to watch this at the same time the nypd is brutalising a protest against their mass shooting over fare evasion

[@brotherjew1]

Ya know, your videos helped me quit bail bonds. Im a former Army Ranger. Wanted to be a bounty Hunter, when i got out. All I knew about bounty hunting was from the mandalorian. But yeah man. That place was evil. Mothers would be trying to get their son out of jail, and my boss made it my job to say no. I wish I’d realized how awful that was sooner. Absolutely awful. I dunno if I’ll ever see myself the same way after being that guy. If I’d ever gotten certified to be a bounty Hunter, I’d have been running around beating up poor people, just like ^these assholes. I hope… some day I get a chance to apologize to those sons and mothers that I prevented from reuniting.

[@grmpEqweer]

I'm glad you have the empathy to walk away.

[@littlemissmello]

Even good people can succumb to propaganda, learn your lessons and do better. Have a good life and try and facilitate other people's good life too :)

[@horushyperion76]

You could go after cartel leaders and their bounties if you still interested. I could see Boba Fett doing something like that.

[@brotherjew1]

@@littlemissmelloI’m working on it. Lots of therapy lol, thank you.

[@AnonymousAnarchist2]

Hey, now that im the oldest living in my fathers side I can share this. He was a ranger signed up during the Korean War. Got home after Vietnam, and he joined up with motorcycle gangs. Eventually he saw the light, it was never a question of law vs lawless. It was law workimg together with lawless vs doing what is right. And he started stealing Semitrucks full of food from major distrubuters in the 1980's and 90's when things where starting to crunch down and the monoplies of today where starting to take over.

[@edfhobbies556]

Slavery still is legal in the US through 13th amendment and incarceration. It takes police to incarcerate, PDs that are **REQUIRED ** to report stats to FBI could be low level over seen vs acting with impunity now.

[@stevonwhite8933]

And what did *Black Codes* do when Black people were found out of work, or even “loitering”? Put them back to work on the fields. It’s so damn conniving and sadistic, yet intelligent on their part. This century+ since have played out exactly how they wanted it to.

[@joshuagharis9017]

As a white man, I thank you for your videos. I am always educated, to another level, by your experience and well articulated points. Thank you 😊

[@Balouchiee24]

The love you getting is so inspiring and hopeful. Organize organize organize

[@Harris.azj.97]

The most fucked thing about this is that this happens so much in America that I forgot about Tyre Nichols murder because the next day something else will take its place in the news.

[@AliveBoldTV]

Sadly true 😩

[@MilosVuksanovic-sj8kj]

and you never heard about countles dead victim of black cri.. er o meant black love

[@brooffthestreet8148]

​​@@MilosVuksanovic-sj8kj black on black crime is not an actual talking point or issue like yall want it to be

[@bowlsallbroken]

​@@MilosVuksanovic-sj8kjI see, you think an innocent black man being beaten to death is fine because some, completely different, black men aren't innocent. You're such a moral and intellectual genius.

[@mjbset93]

@@MilosVuksanovic-sj8kjmay all the people who have experienced injustices or trauma at the hands of someone that shares your ethnic background treat you with the same lack of empathy you are displaying in your comment, when they have power over you.

[@princessjellyfish98]

I was one of the folks who was out there last year collecting signatures for the Cop City ballot petition. Thank you for continuing to call out Andre Dickens and Cop City. He is ignoring the will of the people! The people want to vote on Cop City and he won't let us!!!

[@Osric24]

AYO Skip Intro shoutout! I absolutely second watching this guy's series on Copaganda. Just outstanding work, and the poor guy has to watch *every single episode* of some of the most heinous television ever invented. A true martyr for the cause.

[@mark6302]

Minority cops are worse on their own people.

[@Yuuzas_Ei]

I agree. I mean look at Vallejo police. Any minority does it to its own people. It’s sad. The internalized hatred

[@kennethconnor3089]

As a young man having FTA'S for speeding and suspended DL no gang bs, I admit I was a scary ass complying youngin because I knew the cops are the real gang that run the streets frfr, that's my way with dealing with cops

[@Justanotherconsumer]

They know that they have to prove their cop-ness by rejecting the community they would otherwise be part of.

[@interm0l-p2u]

I'm from Ukraine, which is as ethnically homogenous-white as countries get. Conservative-fascist types always romanticize eastern european countries for their traditionalism aesthetics and again, racial homogeneity, despite poorness (Poland, Ukraine, Russia etc.) Yet despite it all, being a "heaven" for any ethno-nationalist who doesnt want to have racial minority as a neighbor, Ukrainians despise police. In 2014, after president refused to sign pro-EU membership document, bunch of students started to protest this decision, and the president decided to put the prtoests down with force. 108 of protesters died that day. It didn't help that they were white, it didnt help that they were basically children. This is just a showcase of how this is not a US issue, if you're a cop, your guts is cop, and color of your skin doesn't matter. This is an incredible piece of work and I'm glad I'm able to learn more about racial issues. I'm sorry if this comment comes out as ignorant, I just think it might give some people new perspective.

[@tybirous3417]

How the hell do we not hear about that protest over here in the US? I'm assuming this is before Russia invaded Crimea and the president fled to Belarus, yeah? Where did that happen? I wanna read into it, myself. Please, PLEASE do not take this as me calling you a liar, I legit just want to know more

[@interm0l-p2u]

@tybirous3417 Oh, you can read on it. Those events go in order: Euromaidan of 2014, Russian annexation of Crimea, proxy-war in Donbas region. Even a simple Wikipedia read on those can help to understand a full-scale war better from western viewpoint. Euromaidan also was much, much bigger then I described, the shooting of those students was just what kicked it off. The president fled to russia, and he himself was as notorious of a pig as a president could be. His name is Victor Yanukovich, and he had a golden piece of bread in his apartment. We don't remember him really fondly.

[@DerStammtischphilosoph]

After all you've been through and you still don't know a CIA operation when you see one? Tavarish, your President didn't do that, Victoria Nuland did, and she is neither "homogenous" nor Ukrainian... just like your current "President" (who banned elections).

[@DerStammtischphilosoph]

@@tybirous3417 Lol, hear about it? We are the ones who incited it. Watch "Ukraine on Fire" and learn something.

[@interm0l-p2u]

@@DerStammtischphilosoph no. Why are you spreading russian misinfo

[@fadethechannel]

Edit: I wrote this before even watching lol Being a cop comes before anything. I live in Memphis, where just a year ago, 5 or 6 black cops beat Tyre Nichols to death about a block from my home while he was screaming for his mother. They were charged with his murder, and that’s when they became black again. Ironically, black cops are dispensable when it comes to being made an example of to the public.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

They were holding him taking turns throwing haymakers like an old movie...

[@MeditativeMuse5860]

Hey fellow Memphian!

[@fadethechannel]

@@MeditativeMuse5860ayyy wassup home team! 🫡

[@fadethechannel]

@@anthonyrowland9072there’s a memorial not too far from where he was killed, in front a church and across the street from my child’s school, and I’m reminded of this incident daily.

[@lowkey2494]

That's been my observation. Even when F.D. was speaking about police brutality in the first few minutes, when we found out they were charged, I was like "FINALLY." Then, when I saw that they were black, I was like "It figures!"

[@D.I.V.A.Journey3758]

THANK YOU so much FD for constantly proving that we can walk and chew gum at the same time!!!! We appreciate you! Please keep challenging us to be critical thinkers in this crazy landscape! 🙌🏾🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾✌🏽✌🏽✊🏽✊🏽🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@RicoRants]

As a Memphian, thank you for helping keep Tyre’s story alive.

[@Dopesaur]

25:30 "and the narratives around black men's feebleness or monstrous stereotypes that persist to this day." This really reminded me of a thing that fascist regimes do, where they make up an enemy that is easily defeated by the might of the regime, but also insurmountably powerful and dangerous at the same time. This dangerousness justifies persecution of the enemy, but you also have to remind the people that the regime is strong, and your leader is strong and cannot be defeated. A clear contradiction. I just thought it was an interesting parallel.

[@ookamiblade6318]

Well, fascism took notes from the US South so it’s not surprising that America still has fascist tendencies. Especially since America is in denial about their fascist tendencies so no one has quite managed to unpack and dismantle those elements and that’s what leads us to the orange man today who is outright fascist, but also the more troubling elements of Kamala Harris’ campaign as well.

[@michaeljmyers1995]

I got pulled over on my bike by a literal gang of cops and asked for my information. Shit is fucking stupid

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

7 cop cars because I waited for one cop to pass before pulling out

[@jamieagnad1918]

Fo real?. Bruh and they ain't do shit if some drunk driver where go speeding.

[@mahiraskirata]

....having Ice T play a cop for 20 years after his song post-Rodney King's death (which I think was the event that inspired Cop Killa) = diabolical work on the part of Hollywood.

[@gorillazarebest3849]

The second the Kamala quote about truancy ended, a mid roll ad with Kamala asking for fundraising happened..

[@Justanotherconsumer]

KZbin has a gift for irony.

[@DarlaReborn]

I was harassed by an older black cop in my small town in Alabama just after I graduated college. The Walmart that I was parked at, and used to work at, had been robbed. Some white kid claimed that he saw a man exit from the back of the van. I was driving. I repeatedly said that I was alone, but the cop asked me over and over if there was anyone with me. After I left and went to another shopping area, he followed me there and harassed me, threatening to arrest me if I didn’t “shut up”. He demanded my license, and while he looked up my information, I let him know that he was allowing whoever was responsible to get away while he was bothering me. I think he was embarrassed, but I was mortified and terrified. A white lady who witnessed everything told me I should get his badge number and information.

[@-Teague-]

ay shout out to white lady for not being a karen in this situation

[@user-xsn5ozskwg]

I don't think I've seen many people talk about the role of the black elite in reinforcing this stuff. So much talk about the presence of black people in policing is similar to the military: it provides opportunity, whether social or economic or otherwise and ultimately forces them to participate violently and with discrimination like their white counterparts regardless of their intentions. But reflecting on the specifics of Atlanta, and even to an extent people like Adams, Harris, and Obama, has made me reassess the role played by people who aren't directly participating in that structure as enforcers.

[@blackdragon6]

The skin folk segment definitely needs to be expanded upon. I feel like the black bourgeois don't get enough criticism. Espers if they're supposedly democrats.

[@GameboyJones]

I always love the angles you take when tackling these subjects. The Kamala section was very much needed and not expected!

[@brego69]

IT’S HERE

[@someone-gi5lq]

i recently came to understand racism as a system or like a machine rather than an interpersonal thing, which i feel like should have been obvious but hey i'm white so i'll be learning stuff my whole life. but understanding it as a system means that that incident he brought up in the beginning is still an example of racist cops committing police brutality. because it doesn't matter what the cop's race is, it matters what the victim's race is, because regardless of their own race they still targeted him and they're still upholding that system. edit: also btw i haven't finished the video yet i just wanted to process my thoughts and put them somewhere. edit 2: yeah so it's what i was saying. cause what is a cop really? their job is to uphold the systems we have in place, even if it harms people and regardless of if they know it harms people. i used to say a lot that if you become a cop you give up your humanity. and i'm thinking i was on to something but i understand a bit more now. i guess i didn't really understand how someone could get to the point of inhumanity and the ability to disregard human life. but if your whole role in society is to uphold the systems that actively harm people, you have to start justifying racism and sexism and brutality and all kinds of stuff. when you can justify the death of another human just because of who they are and their identity, in my opinion you stop being human yourself.

[@johnlagoss5932]

For contrast, as a white person in a small town, I grew up on a first name basis with every cop in a five mile radius. They came to play cards with us at our high school hang out spots, they chatted at street corners, I have never had a conversation with a cop that wasn't friendly and chill. This is why it's easy for people to get behind the "few bad apples" idea, because a lot of us white folk have never met any.

[@MrGameSecrets]

You were playing cards with the same cops throwing poor black people in prison and looking the other way on police brutality. Just a case of unexamined privilege

[@wildewildestrawberries]

Good for you.

[@johnlagoss5932]

@@MrGameSecrets that's what I'm saying too- when we point out police brutality and people get upset, it's because we're criticizing police as an institution, while all they've ever seen is police as people. I'm not trying to defend cops - fuck cops - but wanted to give people some insight into where pro-cop people are coming from

[@kaiserruhsam]

@@MrGameSecrets hey now that's slightly unfair, maybe it was a sundown town and there weren't any black people around to be abused in that locality 🙃

[@kalka1l]

I wonder if anyone has asked their wives and ex-wives if they are not bad apples.

[@Duffy_SSBM]

That Kamala Harris quote about Israel is so upsetting. People cheering for genocide that we fund. Damn

[@kalinmwilliams]

I'm an Atlanta native. This video is 100% accurate. Love the academic quality of the analysis. No lies told. Great job.

[@airpurifier._.1]

the thing about this election is that NO MATTER who wins, be it Kamala or Trump, we STILL need to be making steps towards building a new party that will actually represent working people of all races. When you keep on voting for the lesser evil, neither option is going to stop being evil. WE have to keep the struggle alive.

[@angeloluna529]

A new party will never happen, ive seen people get disappointed with a president they liked and once they get into power they're disappointed and vowed to vote 3rd party, once the upcoming elections come, they forgot their disappointment and voted the same dude again. Things won't change if people continue voting the same two parties.

[@sarahenson9659]

Look into the working families party. They throw their votes behind the candidate who will best support their policies. They are actively trying to spread their influence.

[@ToLovelyJesus]

Unfortunately, that will never happen. Fred Hampton did just that and was killed by the FBI and police.

[@DrGrumbles11]

Agreed.

[@gooseberries608]

100% I think we should push for ranked choice voting at least in presidential elections. Right now most leftists or liberals (including me) are voting for Kamala and it’s not bc we like her. We just want to do everything we can to prevent a worse alternative. It’s fucked up, really.

[@korbinkepner7264]

F.D. Signifier saying "this video may get demonetized" is like netherrealm saying the new MK is "not yet rated"

[@AmazonCrime]

Well put. Haha.

[@teecee313]

she’s not going to move further left if you believe that you haven't been paying attention

[@Rompelstaump]

Do you prefer project 2025? Elimination of social institutions like FEMA, NHC, Social Security, government home insurance, food assistance programs, etc. Kamala looks like a decent choice compared to the alternative.

[@teecee313]

@@Rompelstaump everything you said, doesn’t make what I said not true kopmala has not earned my vote and as a resident of the state she was AG of she never will. I don’t care what scare tactics you try and use on me. I bet you have zero to say about Biden continuing to build the border wall and look all the cop cities being built in blue states.

[@sleeper6000]

"progressive prosecutor" is so contradictory as a term. This has been great learning.

[@Sewwfffyhjijui-n1e]

Why was Tyre Nichols stopped and attacked? Easy answer: He was driving while black.

[@Sam-wd9ly]

It's obvious that there's a deep underlying issue that FD chooses to ignore, and it's the fact that the black community is hard to police that even their so called brothers end up doing the same thing the other cops did for decades. Keep ignoring that problem, you'll get the same results.

[@hugh_jasso]

Had an uncle who was a cop. Those benefits went out the window every time I got pulled over by Not my uncle.

[@nickmaniatis9626]

The production quality and editing has been really improving over time props to y’all

[@CrustyOldFridge410]

This is a massive issue in Australia too with Aboriginal Youth. Has been for as long as theres been settlers. You hear about it all the time about the indigenous Australians dying in police custody

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Everywhere I’ve been in my travels has had some variant of the same - Dalits in India, Roma in Bulgaria, Uighurs in China. This isn’t a uniquely American problem but the amount we lie to ourselves about how we’ve fixed it is definitely off the charts.

[@ToLovelyJesus]

That sounds like a covert continuation of colonialism and ethnic genocide.

[@knate44]

I will say that the one difference is that because the officers are Black, they are more likely to see jail time.

[@RaspBerryPies]

Yeah exactly! It’s horrible that on one hand I am happy that they’re getting jail time, but on the other I have to acknowledge it is only due to racism.

[@Sam-wd9ly]

Derek Chauvin just entered the chat.

[@TubeTAG]

Just to add another reason to Stop Cop City, its planned location is in the middle of one of the oldest green spaces ITP.

[@domocan6877]

Incoming ERIC ADAMS IS BEING INDICTED comments.

[@lolwuttup420]

Same!

[@OGMacGee]

Don't expect any American politician to do anything but unequivocally back Israel even as they commit genocide: AIPAC funds most of their campaigns. The system incentivizes outside interest groups with money to influence american politics.

[@Marie-c1e]

THANK YOUUU

[@brannonandrews3296]

Not sure if anyone has commented on it yet, but I am really glad, but I really appreciated that you included the Bad Boys section and the analysis of Reggie’s character. The idea that it took him living out a power fantasy at the risk of his own life to be seen as “man enough” to GRILL FUCKING CHICKEN (a placeholder as mentioned for the earned respect of his father-in-law) didn’t sit right with me ever. And it makes it that much more frustrating to see folx laugh at the humor in it, but not realize that the humor comes from the bleak reality of how black masculinity is expected to be fulfilled and proven. I know not the overall take away of the video, but definitely a part that resonates deeply. 🤞🏾

[@greenitems]

This video reminded me of when Live PD was still on an A & E. Before the show was canceled, there was a moment in an episode where they were pulling a black woman over and handcuffed her behind a car and the cameraman zoomed in on her behind. It was saddening to watch, knowing that someone could be humiliated on live television if they were presumed to be guilty.

[@tcincali9642]

They killed someone on the show if I remember.

[@ShimonYaqulu]

I heard about the truancy thing from Kamala but watching that clip of her being all giddy arresting parents for truancy was the most psychotic thing I've seen.

[@willbanks2085]

they’re also making Commissioner Gordon Black in, if not all, most of Batman’s media now.

[@Leahcimmichael]

The writers must be bummed they can't outright say Gordon's one of the "good" ones without a side eye

[@fangal12]

Batman: "I meant cops! He's one of the good cops. You know I didn't mean it like that! I have black friends in the Justice League" 😂

[@shahs1221]

Tbf it does still kinda work due to the whole point of Gordon constantly having to fight a losing battle by trying to fight the system from within, so having him be black is an added commentary to that thought. The really well written storylines do show the failings of this. That being said, the only reason why it starts to "work" as intended is because he has the help of a vigilante millionaire (another irony). Also this all "works" because it's ultimately fantasy after all. So uh... yeah what should be a good idea in fantasy still ends up becoming hella depressing when considering how that gap from reality is unfathomably large. We don't have superheroes, after all 😮‍💨

[@willbanks2085]

@@shahs1221 very true i have no issue with it… it was just another one i wanted to point out

[@AnonymousAnarchist2]

​@@LeahcimmichaelBatman, the comics has always been deeply weird. He is an aknowledgement that police are bad, in Detective Comics. Thats kind of the point, the police can be the bad guys while batman does "the good work", and depending on what writer pens him that can either actually be good work or really just batman is another villan we are supposed to root for. As far as Commissioner Gorden, the character goes. Well, we are supposed to assume Batman is doing things the right way, without regard to the law. And Gorden is always helping batman, no matter what the GothamP.D. and goverment has to say about it. Making. Gorden. Always.... "one of the good ones" as his charactor. I have always noticed that and side eyed casting choices to having a black man play Gorden. That one feels like a dog whistle to me. Really strongly like a Dog whistle.

[@DonVoghano]

Black president didnt save you, what are black cops gonna do 😂

[@jadeandonyxkatana]

Mixed/biracial president.

[@theovanhurtere]

@@jadeandonyxkatana black.

[@grandsome1]

Ya they shot a black kid and all Obama could do is say he was sad. I just can't that ninja.

[@LuckyNeuron-ys8sy]

@@jadeandonyxkatanaplease he was black

[@iammar1159]

@@theovanhurtere White.

[@WeyounSix]

A line I like to use is "I really hope Kamala wins so that way I can start criticizing her more and focus on Trump far less."

[@ashtongarcia6894]

Yeah Im just so sick of trump like can we pls just move on to someone else atp