Does anyone recall the story about a New Jersey man who aced the police entrance exam and was told the department did not want perfect scores?
Denver police ‘Beat the Crowds’ T-shirt no laughing matter, protesters charge
By Ernest Luning 9/25/08 5:08 PMProtest groups are demanding Denver police halt the sale and discipline anyone responsible for the creation of a “commemorative” DNC T-shirt distributed to officers featuring a baseball-bat wielding cop and the slogan “WE GET UP EARLY to BEAT the Crowds 2008 DNC.”
The back of a commemorative DNC T-shirt sold by the Denver Police Protective Association bears the slogan ‘We Get Up Early to Beat the Crowds - 2008 DNC.’ (Photo/Ernest Luning)
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The T-shirt “makes a mockery” of the Denver Police Department’s Law Enforcement Code of Ethics and should be condemned, a statement from the Recreate 68 group said Thursday afternoon.
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The black T-shirt — which also displays a 68 with a slash through it, a reference to demonstrators’ intentions to bring the spirit of the 1968 Democratic National Convention to Denver — has been available for sale since the week after the convention at the office of the Denver Police Protective Association, a union representing most of Denver’s 1,400 police officers, according to DPPA employees.
Here’s the video shot by the Rocky Mountain News of a Denver officer slamming a Code Pink demonstrator to the ground:(.)
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There was nothing original about the Denver t-shirts.
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Images: (basic t-shirts) t-shirtking.com; (Crystal Night) brokenworld.wikispaces.com via (Greenpeace) underwatertimes.com;(Eye Logo) & (Strike) en.wikipedia.org; (students) buffalo.edu; (A.G. Palmer) Library of Congress via pbs.org;(wrecked office) amhist.ist.unomaha.edu;