frenchyisback Posted July 12, 2022 Posted July 12, 2022 (edited) Quote Disturbing footage has emerged of a toddler cursing and swinging at cops while adults in the background hurled racist slurs in St. Paul, Minnesota, where crime has soared since the killing of George Floyd in 2020. The footage was recorded last week while police were at a home to serve a search warrant in the hunt for a murder suspect, according to local news outlet Alpha News. The 30-second clip shows the unnamed boy standing in the street in his underwear, barefoot, screaming: 'Shut up b***h!' at a black police officer and telling him to 'shut the f**k up!' He then turned to the other cop and made fun of his 'ugly a** shoes', while other barefoot and barely-dressed kids stood around him. More disturbing is the commentary in the background of the video from what sounds like an adult male who called the black police officer 'Oreo head'. It's unclear where the child's parents were, or who the subject of the murder warrant was. Crime in the Twin Cities soared in the wake of the 2020 unrest that followed George Floyd's killing by cops, so much so that St. Paul increased its police funding in 2021. There are now 620 sworn officers in the city of 305,877. The children continue to pummel the police with their tiny fists whilst the officers could be seen trying to calm them down. The cops could be seen reaching out but the youngsters continues to lunge and hit them. The officers all managed to show restraint against the toddlers who were easily kept at bay. Journalist Sheila Qualls shared the story first in a column for Alpha News, where she wrote that the 'behavior of these children is eerily similar to the behaviors of rioters who burned and looted Minneapolis two years ago.' 'They cussed, berated, and struck police officers with their fists. This video is disgraceful. Heartbreaking. It is unsettling to law enforcement officers who encounter this behavior daily. It should be frightening to all of us. 'It should be embarrassing to leaders who have failed to lead a community toward virtue and morality,' Qualls wrote. 'We can do better, and we must. Let's stop playing politics with our children's lives. I do not believe this is what civil rights leaders wanted for the future of the black community. 'These children and our country deserve better.' For the video: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11004511/Shocking-moment-TODDLER-swings-cops-Minnesota-officers-try-execute-warrant-murder-suspect.html . Edited July 12, 2022 by frenchyisback
ATRL Moderator feelslikeadream Posted July 12, 2022 ATRL Moderator Posted July 12, 2022 10 minutes ago, frenchyisback said: Crime in the Twin Cities soared in the wake of the 2020 unrest that followed George Floyd's killing by cops, so much so that St. Paul increased its police funding in 2021. What disgusting, irresponsible framing The sentence is written to imply that the "2020 unrest" is what led to an increase in crime, when what's led to an increase in crime is COVID, unemployment, evictions, the lack of a social safety net, etc. But of course in an article about a Black child cursing, they frame the sentence without mentioning any of that.
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