Teh One Who Knocks
10-25-2019, 10:23 AM
By Brian Niemietz - New York Daily News
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Police officers in Winston-Salem have vowed to re-think the stuffed animals they keep in their squad cars to comfort kids who have experienced traumatic crimes. Their efforts come in response to a complaint from a motorist who called a dreadlocked stuffed monkey she spotted in one cruiser as “the most racist thing” she had ever seen.
"In the future, we will confirm our stuffed animals are not offensive,” police chief Catrina Thompson told the Winston-Salem Journal after a Facebook user who goes by Divine Deva posted video of the Rastafarian-inspired primate slumped over a stuffed puppy in the back of a squad car.
The video, which was taken shortly after 9 a.m. Monday, appears to have been shot from the driver’s side of the aggrieved citizen’s car. It attracted 7,000 views within hours of being posted.
“And The Worst Part Was My Son Was The One That Pointed It Out,” the woman captioned her online video. “This Is Way To Close To Home.”
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Divine Deva followed with a Wednesday posting reacting to online comments that were both critical and supportive.
“The ignorance of those are shown by their words for anyone to say that there is nothing wrong with a monkey with a Rastafarian hat and locs in the back of a caucasian males police car has a underlined truth that they are not willing to except,” she wrote.
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Chief Thompson reportedly said an investigation of the incident revealed there was no racist intent behind the stuffed monkey in the back of the white officer’s car, but expressed regret that anyone was offended.
“I apologize to any community member that found this circumstance to be offensive,” Thompson offered.
On Thursday, the motorists who’d spotted the stuffed monkey wrote on Facebook that she would be saying more about the matter soon.
https://i.imgur.com/VfvJUCP.jpg
Police officers in Winston-Salem have vowed to re-think the stuffed animals they keep in their squad cars to comfort kids who have experienced traumatic crimes. Their efforts come in response to a complaint from a motorist who called a dreadlocked stuffed monkey she spotted in one cruiser as “the most racist thing” she had ever seen.
"In the future, we will confirm our stuffed animals are not offensive,” police chief Catrina Thompson told the Winston-Salem Journal after a Facebook user who goes by Divine Deva posted video of the Rastafarian-inspired primate slumped over a stuffed puppy in the back of a squad car.
The video, which was taken shortly after 9 a.m. Monday, appears to have been shot from the driver’s side of the aggrieved citizen’s car. It attracted 7,000 views within hours of being posted.
“And The Worst Part Was My Son Was The One That Pointed It Out,” the woman captioned her online video. “This Is Way To Close To Home.”
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Divine Deva followed with a Wednesday posting reacting to online comments that were both critical and supportive.
“The ignorance of those are shown by their words for anyone to say that there is nothing wrong with a monkey with a Rastafarian hat and locs in the back of a caucasian males police car has a underlined truth that they are not willing to except,” she wrote.
https://i.imgur.com/IWB8lyH.png
Chief Thompson reportedly said an investigation of the incident revealed there was no racist intent behind the stuffed monkey in the back of the white officer’s car, but expressed regret that anyone was offended.
“I apologize to any community member that found this circumstance to be offensive,” Thompson offered.
On Thursday, the motorists who’d spotted the stuffed monkey wrote on Facebook that she would be saying more about the matter soon.