Posted on 07/17/2020 8:43:08 AM PDT by blam
The Seattle City Council is facing something of a dilemma in its popular pledge to cut the police budget by 50 percent. To do so would require firing a significant number of police officers, which is also popular. The problem is that the firing would be done by seniority and many of the less senior officers are black. The solution according to City Council member Lisa Herbold is simple: fire officers based on their race. While that would be the definition of racial discrimination, Herbold clearly believes that it is discrimination for a good cause. The federal courts are likely to disagree. Most notably, Herbold’s call for racial discrimination against white officers would seek to undue the work of Justice Thurgood Marshall who insisted that racial discrimination unlawful and evil regardless of the race you want to disenfranchise or discriminate against.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best released a video calling the plan of Herbold and others “completely reckless.” She also sent a letter to Mayor Jenny Durkan warning that dramatic cuts would require the layoff of hundreds of officers. The Police Department also warned that the firings would include many minority officers.
It was only the last risk that concerned Herbold who promptly suggested discriminating on the basis of race:
Herbold insists that this would be perfectly legal despite the prohibitions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What concerns me most is not that such calls for racial discrimination are possibly constitutional but that they are so clearly popular.
The EEOC amplifies this point on its website: “It is unlawful to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race or color in regard to hiring, termination, promotion, compensation, job training, or any other term, condition, or privilege of employment.”
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Herbold insists that this would be perfectly legal despite the prohibitions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
ok then.
If they drop their police force to what they are talking about, the racial angle is going to be pretty much meaningless. They will simply have no law enforcement at all, which is the goal.
take it from a jew.... white males are the ‘jews’ of 21st century america...
many of you are well read, but if you need a reminder I am happy to recommend books regarding the process of Germany preparing/marinizing jews into what became mass genocide.
Blatant discrimination.
But, the police usually have a strong union with well-funded lawyers.
Racism is alive and well.
You want racism? Keep it up. You will somehow be shocked when the inevitable backlash occurs.
Chief Justice John Roberts once declared “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” That is clearly not the plan of Herbold and any of her colleagues who want to fire officers based on their race.
Like California, Washington has seceded from the union. The residents of Seattle have forfeited their right to be Americans.
A formal purge order and nationalization is in order ASAP
Isn’t that a trans?
Federal officers should be arresting those Democrat/marxist “elected public officials” who have ordered their police to stand down and have allowed wholesale civil rights violations by Antifa and others. They should also be arrested under the RICO statutes. When arrested it will be found that behind those Antifa masks, you will find the person of those “elected public officials”.
Seattle City Council Member in An Act of Overt Hate and Racism Suggests Firing White Officers In Massive Reduction Of Police Department
Cheers heard ...
True.
They are setting white males up among the under 50 demographic (as well as older leftover hippies and old antiwar types now with white hair).
Someone for feminists to blame instead of taking responsibility for their own personal defects and failures.
Easy target for blacks to hate and blame.
So when the killings get going the leftists will shrug and say “they deserved it” “they had it coming.”
The poet and essayist Heinrich Heine wrote:
Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people.
——Born a Jew, he converted to Christianity. His books were among the ones burned by the Hitler supporters years later.
The goal is not no law enforcement. Once the existing force is reduced, they will be replaced with SJW public safety officers who will selectively enforce the law. In a word, tyranny.
Lessee, the nose ring is on the right side.
Been South or ??
This approach would have been fine under the obama/holder administration. I believe Holder implied that since the Civil Rights Act was passed to protect blacks, whites aren’t really protected by it. I’m sure we’d see the same approach in an Obiden administration, if God forbid, there is one.
I say-fine with me.
Then when another crook gets shot you can blame it on your ‘new’ police force. Like THAT would make any sense.
Hmmm, looks like your in Tennessee and looking at this website from 2019 it would appear you should be more concerned with your state instead of sniping at others's.
Also a quick google search shows that there is no lack of BLM idiots protesting in Tennessee. Glass houses and all that.
Against federal law. Go ahead and do it...you’ll get your ass sued and lose
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