Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻it is very important to remind the public not to piss on the police if they are on fire
Kevin Karhan 
1. How is this even legal?
2. This is why police funding should never be based off tickets, fines and asset forfeiltures.
3. That's some fash baiting!
4. Agreed!
Darcy@kkarhan @vegetablegremlin It seems to be from a parody account on FB rather than a real occurrence.
Hopefully it doesn't continue to be spread as misinformation because I worry it undermines real injustices and incidents of corruption when people see falsehoods like this presented as fact and then imagine there's little or no real corruption 😬🤷♂️
And I'm sure there are plenty of people elsewhere trying to raise awareness about real incidents that this kind of thing distracts from.
@O_DarcyW @kkarhan does your master detective work extend to checking replies to see if someone's already cracked the case
@vegetablegremlin If only you put the same effort into replying to the people you can see took your original post seriously instead of encouraging them to believe something that isn't true.
When things like this are presented as truth and then debunked, it allows others to pretend there are few real injustices and anyone who criticises law enforcement is just misinformed or willingly lying. It is my "job", as you put it in your other reply to me, to care about that because that's human decency.
Bishop Whitewind@O_DarcyW @vegetablegremlin to be fair if someone out there hasn't noticed the police hunting disabled people for sport in the streets by now, it's because they choose not to, not because of some dumbass facebook post.
@B_Whitewind @vegetablegremlin Very true. I don't think it helps to trivialise the important stuff though and it plays into disinformation to spread misinformation, if that makes sense.
@O_DarcyW @vegetablegremlin The sheer fact that I did believe this to be real and not a shitpost tells a lot about how LEAs from the USA are known and seen from around the world.
When reporters from #DWnews get shot at whilst reporting live and threatened to get hospitalized by #Riotcops for the "crime" of existing as journalists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN8ISwuiX68
...& cops routinely murder non-white children and have toy guns in their cars to place on them, baiting ppl. into "#Jaywalking" isn't absurd.
When reporters from #DWnews get shot at whilst reporting live and threatened to get hospitalized by #Riotcops for the "crime" of existing as journalists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN8ISwuiX68
...& cops routinely murder non-white children and have toy guns in their cars to place on them, baiting ppl. into "#Jaywalking" isn't absurd.
Minneapolis police shoot at, threaten to arrest DW reporter | DW News
@kkarhan @vegetablegremlin Not absurd at all. It's very believable. It's hard to convince others of that though when they see deliberate misinformation though. Misinformation never helps and certainly not where important issues are concerned.