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Downtown Hound

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4. I knew people who wore this shirt back in the day

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Thu Sep 12, 2019, 05:56 PM

Sep 2019

But they were mocking the L.A.P.D., not supporting the beating. Not really enough info here for me to jump on the "fire her" bandwagon. That photo is 25 years old. Sometimes I think we should move on.

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Philadelphia's top cop apologizes for wearing shirt that mocked Rodney King beating [View all] Demovictory9 Sep 2019 OP

Translation: "I got caught." Aristus Sep 2019 #1

Precisely Sherman A1 Sep 2019 #2

"never even thought of it as anything other than an LAPD shirt" FiveGoodMen Sep 2019 #3

I knew people who wore this shirt back in the day Downtown Hound Sep 2019 #4

I do remember there was lots of mocking of LAPD for its reputation for violence Demovictory9 Sep 2019 #7

Disgusting. More evidence that cop culture in the US is rotten to the core. the problem is not Nitram Sep 2019 #5

The previous person in the job stepped down because some officers under his command Blue_true Sep 2019 #6