Posted on 06/04/2020 11:05:42 AM PDT by SJackson
The New York Police Department said it is aware of the video and that the matter is under internal review.
Janelle Griffith and Matteo Moschella A video of a uniformed New York City police officer appearing to make a white power symbol at a George Floyd protest Saturday in New York City has prompted an internal review.
The video showing the officer making the apparent "OK" hand gesture — touching the thumb and index finger to make a circle, with the remaining three fingers held outstretched — was posted to social media over the weekend.
NBC News is not publishing or linking to the video to avoid providing a platform to apparent expressions of hate or white supremacy.
The "OK" gesture has been used by people around the world for centuries, typically to signal consent, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Recently, the hand signal has also been appropriated to represent the letters w and p to signify "white power," stemming from a hoax in 2017 by members of the website 4chan, an anonymous and unrestricted online message board, the ADL says.
At the Saturday demonstration at New York City's Union Square, the officer made what appeared to be the gesture into the camera sight of a rapper, China Mac, who was recording himself at the protest. Another man nearby recorded the incident and provided a copy of his footage to NBC News. He requested anonymity out of fear of retribution.
China Mac, a Brooklyn-born rapper whose real name is Raymond Yu, posted the viral clip on Instagram where it has been viewed more than 60,000 times.
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What bullsh@t!
As far as I know, the only people who think it’s a “White Power” signal are the loony leftists.....
Good old NBC continues to be trolled by 4chan.
What is the Black Power sign?
What is the Queer Power sign?
What is your zodiac sign?
Unbelievable BS
Wow. More systemic racism in another demonicRAT dominated city.
They are gonna arrest John Cena next..he does it all the time
What lunacy!
What paranoia!
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What’s Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]
Of course all the YPPO appropriating the black power fist in the air is just hunky dory. OK?
Too many people have forgotten that this started as a 4chan hoax.
The ADL is mentioned in the article as claiming it’s a white power symbol. Shows what use they are these days.
The house is being burned by Marxists but let us invent some conspiracy nutcase bullsht on signs to have a convo on white supremacy
Black Power sign (raised fist): Not racist
National Association for the Advancement of COLORED People: Not racist
Black Lives Matter: Not racist
Anything a white person says or does: RACIST!!!
I think I’ve got it now.
Uniformed officers had better be able to attend a Trump rally now...
A inferiority complex make every thing from western civilization white supremacy.
I have an alternate hand signal they definitely won’t like.
A black fist in the air for black power is ok
At this point, I wouldn’t blame the cops in all these cities to go on strike and say the heck with it.
You don’t want policing. Great, go at it.
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