The Bloody Christmas case was rooted in racial tension between the LAPD and the hispanic community. If you actually read the article, you would know that.
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Or maybe, just maybe it was rooted in tension between criminals in once group and law officers in the other. How could you tell?
Physically resisting a police officer will get you manhandled too whether you are white or not. And in 1951 the police were even more likely to act with force than they are today. The tensions were a lot harsher then.
Why indeed do you think that when a cop roughs up someone it is always because racism?
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Here is a quote directly lifted from the bloody christmas wikipedia article, which I am pretty sure you didn't actually read.
"Despite previous police chiefs trying to improve relationships by quelling public fears of Mexican American crime, community leaders hoped Parker's appointment would really lead to an improvement in the situation. Problems occurred because of anti-Mexican sentiment among LAPD officers, many of whom believed Mexican Americans were generally delinquent and violent. This racial profiling led to numerous violent encounters between the police and Mexican Americans because both sides expected the other to use force."
The LAPD had been so infiltrated with white supremacists that community relations with people of color had completely broken down. The article provides links to several places showing that, if you would actually read instead of exercising willful ignorance.
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The fact that there was helluva lot of crime and violence in the Mexican American neighborhoods had nothing to do with the idea that they were "generally delinquent and violent". I see.
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The idea that they were generally delinquent and violent came from the racists that spread their ideas and propaganda throughout the LAPD.
The fact that you are so quick to go along with the racist notion that these police were expressing, the notion that all Mexicans are violent criminals, is a pretty clear indicator as to what your true motives for defending these racists are.
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You are saying there weren't Hispanic gangs causing mischief (crime and violence) at that time? It's all just propaganda?
Have you ever entertained the idea that the police are doing their jobs as to protect the public from miscreants? If your place gets looted and ransacked, who do you call? My first bet would be the police.
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Have you ever entertained the idea that racist propagandists have you blaming problems on poor brown people while they destroy the environment and suck all the wealth from the middle class?
Have you considered the possibility that you are being fed a false narrative about these folks?
Has it maybe crossed your mind that the people telling you that Mexicans are nothing but rapists and drug dealers are lying to you?
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No-one is telling me "Mexicans are nothing but rapists and drug dealers". Those would be your choice of words if anyone's.
I am not much into conspiracy theories myself. "They" are not blaming brown people, nor are "they" destroying the environment and sucking the wealth out of anyone.
Who is this elusive "they" you are talking about? White supremacists? KKK? Freemasons? Illuminati? 4chan?
First of all I have never heard anyone blame "brown people" for the sake that they are brown, or anything like that. What I have heard and seen is that crime and violence tends to go hand and hand in poverty and lack of education and that it isn't exclusively a "brown" problem.
You are the only one who is highlighting "brown people" like they somehow are an exception to the rule.
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