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16 Jan, 11 tweets, 5 min read
So Watch Three is an apparel line by LAPD officer Rudy González. The logo is a rip off of the Three Percenter logo - the III%ers are a far-right paramilitary anti-govt. grp founded (shockingly) in 2008. Left, III% logo on a flag. Right, a shirt Rudy sells. watchthree.com ImageImageImage
He seems to have been aware of the origins of the III% movement, which erroneously refers to the 3% of colonists that took arms up against the British: "...we face the fear & danger but we run towards it, not away from it. That’s why we do what we do, we are the 3%" “NEVER SURRENDER” is much m...
The normalization of white supremacist symbols and their incorporation into the language and imagery of policing is not new, but remains disturbing. Image
González seems to have done away with the stars in the logo to put some distance between his product and a documented hate group. But the popularity of his brand with LEOs - whose training should have educated them about these extremist paramilitary groups - raises a lot of ?s. Image
González sometimes plugs his anti-government millitia-adjacent product on duty. Perhaps @LAPDHQ would like to comment on this. Image
I don't really even know what to do with this one. Image
The thing about a knock-off of the III% is that it is familiar and welcoming to folks who feel like they represent that thin blue line between order & chaos. And they're right at home with folks with brands like "Savage Infidel," which I'll trust I don't need to unpack for y'all. Image
again, it's nothing new...
But its normalization and incorporation into official messaging has really picked up speed in the last several years.
When this is the business card for the Community Safety Partnership program in South Park, it's safe to say the department is incorporating an actively hostile response to the plea to respect and protect Black life into its outreach messaging.
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the very first public comment was a #notallwhitepeople statement from Steve Sann who wanted credit for white people helping elect Tom Bradley to mayor back in the day.
folks have *1 minute* to offer comment on how their communities are being impacted by complex historical processes. which meant that Tim Watkins was cut off while talking abt Watts' challenges while white westsiders are calling in to complain about being gentrified by tall bldgs.
a woman calling from Crenshaw was trying to explain some of the ways which folks are being pushed out of the area and was cut off midway through.
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South L.A., this is starting now... they just asked listeners to guess how many uses of force there were last year like it was a quiz show. [I'm recording it and only tuning in and out while working on something else, but that caught my ear.]
Now they're quizzing listeners on how many times they used force when dealing with folks having some sort of mental health or nonviolent emergency (e.g. were inebriated).
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While taking Fox apart in a column last week, the NYT's media columnist Ben Smith snuck in a couple of paragraphs decrying the beating up of "well-intentioned journalists" who inadvertently/naively helped uphold white supremacy. Reader, this does not feel well-intentioned.
Back in the 90s, while prepping to teach World Hist. & Spanish at an "independent" HS in a conservative town, I was explicitly told by staff that using words like "multiculturalism" would result in an avalanche of ☎️ from irate parents. This sh*t isn't new or mysterious. Image
Speaking of that conservative town:
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I am disappointed in myself for having looked at that 1776 doc. But I did appreciate the guffaw I got out of the idea that we'd have a kindler, gentler society if women & BIPOC folks had just been satisfied w/ having rights in theory and not demanded rights in practice. Image
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He didn't apologize for it right away, and doubled down instead. Image
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Since we're all talking about the Proud Boys now, will people care more about Sheriff Villanueva having had a Proud Boys fan speak at his anti-BLM press conference in early September? In this Buzzfeed photo she poses w/ Enrique Tarrio (id'd as a leader in the LAT photo below).
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