It’s a racially charged photo the Chicago Police Department didn’t want the public to see: two white cops posing with rifles as they stand over a black man lying on his belly with deer antlers on his head.
Why do you assume the black guy isn't a cop? You racist!
Posted: 5/27/2015 4:37:35 PM EDT
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/sarcasm
It was 15 years ago, the civil war had barely ended
/sarcasm
Posted: 5/27/2015 4:42:39 PM EDT
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Looks like 3 cops horsing around to me...
Guess not after reading the article.
Although, It appears as if the 'deer' is a voluntary participant. Maybe a CI?
Posted: 5/27/2015 4:44:13 PM EDT
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Picture looks old as hell? When was it taken.
Stupid, and in poor taste regardless.
ETA: picture from 1999-2003. Didn't know people still wore jeans like that as recently as '03.
Posted: 5/27/2015 4:47:32 PM EDT
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One of the cops in picture locked up for doing some "Training Day" type shit. Robberies, home invasions, etc...
Not surprising.
Posted: 5/27/2015 4:52:45 PM EDT
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Not surprising.
Federal prosecutors gave the photo to police investigators in 2013 about two years after Finnigan — the notorious other cop in the picture — was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading a crew of rogue cops in robberies, home invasions and other crimes.
Finnigan was part of the now-disbanded Special Operations Section, an elite police unit that allegedly robbed suspected drug dealers and innocent civilians. He led a crew of SOS officers who broke into homes without warrants and conducted illegal traffic stops to commit shakedowns.
Keith Herrera, another officer and co-defendant in the SOS case, wore a wire to record Finnigan discussing his plans to have another officer killed because that officer might cooperate with the federal probe of SOS.
IIRC they also went into restaurants and bars as well as houses and robbed them because that's the Chicago way.
Posted: 5/27/2015 4:57:32 PM EDT
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The antlers are backwards... Damn city folk.
Posted: 5/27/2015 4:57:41 PM EDT
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Somebody did not get the memorandum.
Black people may only be used as props in photos of a comedy value only if they are in a superior/dominant position to the white participants.
Posted: 5/27/2015 5:03:23 PM EDT
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My first thought too... black guy is obviously a cop too, they're just having a good chuckle.
Posted: 5/27/2015 5:19:13 PM EDT
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meh
Posted: 5/27/2015 5:19:34 PM EDT
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My first thought too... black guy is obviously a cop too, they're just having a good chuckle.
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My first thought too... black guy is obviously a cop too, they're just having a good chuckle.
That's what I thought... until I saw this in the article:
But a Cook County judge has refused to keep secret the shocking image of former Officers Timothy McDermott and Jerome Finnigan kneeling with what the police department says is an unidentified African-American drug suspect.
Posted: 5/27/2015 5:30:53 PM EDT
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Only racists see that pic as racist.
Posted: 5/27/2015 5:30:58 PM EDT
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can someone explain why that is racist?
Posted: 5/27/2015 5:31:28 PM EDT
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Exactly
Posted: 5/27/2015 5:38:26 PM EDT
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Dat Obummer! He a scamp...
Posted: 5/27/2015 5:50:28 PM EDT
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Needs more race reversal and a woman or maybe a tranvestable
Posted: 5/27/2015 7:20:42 PM EDT
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how is it racially charged? I don't see bananas or hoods. deer antlers aren't really racist. fuck the guy that wrote it
Posted: 5/27/2015 7:22:07 PM EDT
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They are really reaching to try to call that racist and get a reaction from people. A picture from 15 years ago, no less.
Screw the race baiters.
Posted: 5/27/2015 7:25:38 PM EDT
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Meh, I laughed.
Not as bad as FBI posing with burned bodies in the background at Waco.
Posted: 5/27/2015 7:33:04 PM EDT
[#21]
Meh
Posted: 5/27/2015 7:38:50 PM EDT
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Meh.
Sorry, I've been over-offended by every single thing on the planet lately, so my offense organs have been overloaded.
Posted: 5/27/2015 7:42:57 PM EDT
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lol
At least they have the game check tag on it.
Posted: 5/27/2015 7:52:04 PM EDT
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Not as bad as FBI posing with burned bodies in the background at Waco.
One of the cops in picture locked up for doing some "Training Day" type shit. Robberies, home invasions, etc...
Not surprising.
Federal prosecutors gave the photo to police investigators in 2013 about two years after Finnigan — the notorious other cop in the picture — was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading a crew of rogue cops in robberies, home invasions and other crimes.
Finnigan was part of the now-disbanded Special Operations Section, an elite police unit that allegedly robbed suspected drug dealers and innocent civilians. He led a crew of SOS officers who broke into homes without warrants and conducted illegal traffic stops to commit shakedowns.
Keith Herrera, another officer and co-defendant in the SOS case, wore a wire to record Finnigan discussing his plans to have another officer killed because that officer might cooperate with the federal probe of SOS.
IIRC they also went into restaurants and bars as well as houses and robbed them because that's the Chicago way.
Sounds like they were fans of The Shield
Posted: 5/27/2015 9:42:57 PM EDT
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Photography is not a crime.
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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:16:54 AM EDT
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Brilliant decision making
Posted: 5/28/2015 3:58:50 AM EDT
[#33]
Eh, maybe they don't want him back due to his connections with the other former cop in the pic.
Posted: 5/28/2015 4:25:00 AM EDT
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No idea but those are murderers holding them
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Not as bad as FBI posing with burned bodies in the background at Waco.