Newt Gingrich, the villainous toad in the Disney movie of my nightmares, just said that white people don’t know what it’s like to be a black American and I am so destabilized that I can no longer be certain that my life isn’t a prolonged episode of the Truman show.
In the aftermath of the prominent non-indictments of two white police officers who indisputably killed unarmed black men (and the murder of a 12-year-old boy by a cop who didn't even try to perform first aid after shooting him), you might think that police departments would have the good sense not to pop off on social…
The Detroit Police Department has a public relations snafu on their hands right now. A commander named Dwayne Love accidentally forwarded a document to all of their colleagues, which contained the bra sizes, height and weight of female officers who would be receiving new bulletproof vests.
According to The Telegraph:
A Minnesota investigation has found that police in the Land of 10,000 lakes are using the state's DMV database like non-cop internet perverts use Facebook — as their own stalking wonderland, a veritable cornucopia of pictures of unsuspecting hotties ripe for the gawking. One woman was horrified to discover that…
Crap employment notice from some dudes: Authorities in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China are looking to improve their city's image by amassing a stable of new police officers. Applicants must be young, female, and attractive.
[Brooklyn, June 4. Image via Getty]
"There is no such thing as a bullet proof bra." -Julia Roper-Smith, a representative of the Police Federation on female police officers in Britain wearing underwire bras. [Telegraph]
