How This Database Is Tracking and Exposing Officers’ Bigoted Facebook Posts
It’s found more than 5,000 racist, sexist, and Islamophobic Facebook posts and comments by law enforcement.
It’s a good day for a chokehold.
This was the Facebook post of a Phoenix police officer.
In a different post, a Philadelphia police lieutenant recounted a courthouse scene in which a defendant and his family walk off an elevator: “… indignant about the fact that those of us actually working are going the other way. I fucking hate them.”
Another lieutenant commented: “I fucking hate the [sic] too.”
An online database called the Plain View Project has collected more than 5,000 bigoted, racist, sexist, Islamophobic Facebook postings and comments like these by former and current law enforcement officers in jurisdictions across the country.
The database was started tw...