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Dems Warn Surveillance Videos Perpetuate Stereotypes By Accurately Depicting Events
The Bee ^ | September 9, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 09/09/2025 5:03:27 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As national discourse continued to be centered around highly publicized violent crimes perpetrated on innocent victims, Democrats warned that surveillance videos perpetuate stereotypes by accurately depicting events.

A series of shocking incidents caught on various surveillance cameras brought the increase in violent crime to the public's attention, causing prominent members of the Democratic Party to push for the removal of security cameras, as they tend to portray violent criminals as violent criminals.

"It's wrong for these cameras to show things as they really are," said Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett. "With all these cameras everywhere, it's gettin' really hard to spin some crazy stories to create false narratives to fit our agendas, ya'll. For real. With videos goin' viral on social media, showing events as they actually happened, it perpetuates all those negative stereotypes. I'm not even playin'."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries agreed that the continued use of surveillance video could lead to too many people being informed about what actually happens. "This is a dangerous and slippery slope," he told reporters. "If too many people know the truth about things that happen, it becomes far more difficult to feed them misinformation to shift public opinion in a direction that would be more favorable to our side. Showing violent criminals being violent criminals could lead to people thinking violent criminals are all violent criminals. That's something we can't have."

At publishing time, activists who had pushed for law enforcement agencies to adopt officer bodycams had organized a protest to demand that law enforcement agencies stop using officer bodycams.

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If it's Degenerate, it's a Democrat!
1 posted on 09/09/2025 5:03:27 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot
This is the Bee, but it highlights a real problem.

The narratives of the Left are at risk when compared to reality.

2 posted on 09/09/2025 5:21:37 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Navy Patriot
LOL...Hakeem Jeffries said "Showing violent criminals being violent criminals could lead to people thinking violent criminals are all violent criminals. That's something we can't have."
3 posted on 09/09/2025 5:27:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Navy Patriot
Democrats warned that surveillance videos perpetuate stereotypes by accurately depicting events. A series of shocking incidents caught on various surveillance cameras brought the increase in violent crime to the public's attention, causing prominent members of the Democratic Party to push for the removal of security cameras...

Isn't this like a working definition of 'shooting the messenger'?

4 posted on 09/09/2025 5:29:54 PM PDT by GOPJ (Time to drop off a few thousand red MAGA hats for Chicago's South side...<P> <I> <B><big><center> )
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To: Navy Patriot

Yikes - stung again...


5 posted on 09/09/2025 5:30:43 PM PDT by GOPJ (Time to drop off a few thousand red MAGA hats for Chicago's South side... <I> <B><big><center> )
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To: marktwain
This is the Bee...

It's more accurate than CNN, NYT, WP, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Associated Presstitutes, Rooters Sewer Service, the entire Democrat Party, and RINO Republicans.

6 posted on 09/09/2025 5:34:18 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot
Just maybe those "stereotypes" are accurate generalizations, albeit frequently unfair in individual cases.

It certainly looks to me like Decarlos Brown Jr. stereotyped Iryna Zarutska.

7 posted on 09/09/2025 5:43:21 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Navy Patriot

It’s not even really satire, this time. The quotes may be fiction but the attitude is 100% real.


8 posted on 09/09/2025 5:44:50 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Navy Patriot

Question....

In the NC train attack, the suspect repeatedly attacked the victim's neck directly. Yet after the attack, there are no cuts or blood on the right or the left side of the victim's neck. The blood only appears on the floor when she falls out of the camera view. Why… pic.twitter.com/bnIbq7tSrN— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) September 9, 2025

Great moments in tone deafness.

9 posted on 09/09/2025 6:19:11 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Navy Patriot
Dems Warn Surveillance Videos Perpetuate Stereotypes By Accurately Depicting Events

They are going to need to go to the burn ward after that one. :)

Go Bee!

Oh and I am in favor of body cams for this exact reason. We need to see what is happening.

After that the chips can fall where they may.

10 posted on 09/09/2025 6:33:24 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Navy Patriot

The Bee stings again with satire very close to the truth.


11 posted on 09/09/2025 6:56:40 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Navy Patriot

So ..
.a story told while sitting around a campfire, beginning. with those famous words, ‘no s(p)it, is more believable than an accurate video depiction?


12 posted on 09/09/2025 7:09:03 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Navy Patriot

Surveillance videos be racist.


13 posted on 09/09/2025 7:19:11 PM PDT by Robwin ( )
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To: Navy Patriot

Q: What are the difference in the odds of back and white races murdering each other according to FBI statistics?

Grok:

The rate of black offenders murdering white victims was about 1.28 per 100,000 black population.

The rate of white offenders murdering black victims was about 0.098 per 100,000 white population.

This means black individuals were roughly 13 times more likely to murder a white individual than white individuals were to murder a black individual, on a per capita basis.


14 posted on 09/09/2025 7:20:08 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
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To: Robwin

Blacks got what they demanded when they forced all police to wear bodycams. (”That will prove they are all racist!”) It didn’t quite work out the way they wanted. But YouTube was enriched with lots of videos of police busting them.


15 posted on 09/09/2025 8:58:09 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: grey_whiskers
... after the attack, there are no cuts or blood on the right or the left side of the victim's neck. The blood only appears on the floor when she falls out of the camera view. Why…

I assume the question is posed by Tariq Nasheed.

Honest answer:

When a smooth knife is withdrawn quickly, without twisting or wiggling, the flesh closes back together but does not seal.

It takes a short while for the blood pressure and increasing heart rate to force the blood to the surface and open the wound.

16 posted on 09/10/2025 8:03:18 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Now you know why the leftists call math racist.


17 posted on 09/10/2025 8:09:36 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Honest answer:

Why don’t we do to the violent urban youths (and cartel members) what was done in El Salvador?


18 posted on 09/10/2025 8:51:07 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
I believe President Trump IS doing that by enforcing The Law in his current manner.

It's a bigger job here as opposed to El Salvador, and will take longer.

19 posted on 09/10/2025 9:17:40 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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