Portland Investigates Cops for Meme About Beating Up Hippies

Fear not, gentle citizen – the Meme Police are on the case!

RT:

The Portland Police Bureau has launched an investigation after a ‘right wing meme’ about officers beating a “dirty hippy” with dreadlocks was included in a police training presentation.

The meme – which was turned over to lawyers for the Black Lives Matter group ‘Don’t Shoot Portland’ last year – was made public last week and showed controversial text laid over an old image of a police officer beating a protester.

The activist group is suing the city of Portland for using “excessive force” against demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in 2020.

“And the Lord said… Woe be unto you, dirty hippy: For thou stinketh of patchouli and BO,” the text read, describing the protester as having “dreadlocks and white skin.”

“I shall send among you my humble servants with hat, and with bat, that they may christen your heads with hickory and anoint your faces with pepper spray,” the meme continued. “And once thou hast been cuffed and stuffed; Once thou has been stitched and bandaged; Perhaps you shall learn, I’m tired of your s**t.”

The meme was allegedly included at the end of a 110-slide police training presentation and the person who included it has not yet been identified.

In a statement on Friday, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said he was “disgusted that this offensive content was added to a training presentation for our police officers” and claimed that a “thorough and complete investigation was under way.”

“I believe that the hardworking members of the Portland Police Bureau who are seeing this for the first time are also angered and disgusted by the image and the words on this slide and how it portrays members of our community and law enforcement,” the mayor continued, concluding that Portland Police “must reject the harmful and divisive attitude expressed.”

According to The Oregonian, the meme originates from the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights – a right-wing street militia that has been known to clash with anarchists. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the FOAK as being the “tactical defense arm” of the Proud Boys.

The Cop Question is a complicated one.

I have absolutely zero sympathy left for the police as an institution, after they went along with the coronavirus tyranny. We all know they’re going to do whatever the Democrat Party tells them in terms of rounding up right-wingers who had the wrong thoughts.

At the same time, in Plato’s realm of ideal forms, of course I support the police in their ideal form as protectors of the underlying civic and moral order of society.

Leftists are of course the opposite – they oppose the ideal form of the police, while embracing using the police as a weapon against their own perceived enemies.

Some individual cops still view themselves as protectors of order, I’m sure. But it doesn’t really matter what individuals think, because as an institution, the police are now a weaponized group of street thugs used to enforce a political agenda from Washington.

It’s like, during the Soviet “liberation” of Berlin, I’m sure there were some ethnic Russians who saw a gang of enlisted Chechens gang-raping a German woman and were like “well, this doesn’t seem very good.” But regardless of the fact that the ethnic Russian personally might have taken issue with what was being done to the Germans, he was still a member of the Red Army.

So, while I’m sure “good cops” do exist, the concept is irrelevant, because the police are an institution which is pledged to serve a government which is aligned against the American people.