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cops making themselves souvenirs again
haven’t seen any challenge coins yet but it’s a matter of time
well ‘time’ was about ten minutes. the O and T in ‘rioters’ are highlighted to signify overtime
Remember when Atlanta cops just decided to not come into work? They do
cool skull, long beach
sherf
the gas mask skull makes a reappearance. LASD seem to have the most varieties of these
imagine getting an empty plastic bottle thrown over your head and immediately making a ‘veteran’ patch
hey but someone in the NYPD went to art school. this is easily the nicest piece of police brutality I’ve seen, aesthetically
all cops do is complain
so many small variations of this one terrible design
oh yeah that’s absolutely the case - it is perhaps worth emphasising that this is not at all a new phenomenon https://twitter.com/justaphil/status/1298029195076001792">https://twitter.com/justaphil...
case in point: the challenge coins NYPD officers made during/after Occupy Wall Street
I’ve never seen it happen - part of the point of ‘morale’ patches like these is that they’re meant to be officially deniable - if we find out about them, the department can just say, truthfully, ‘we didn’t authorise that’ https://twitter.com/blvckrichter/status/1298077658903793665">https://twitter.com/blvckrich...
of course that doesn’t change the fact that someone’s making them and presumably someone’s buying them. they’re memorabilia, destined for desks or office walls and so forth. cops might carry a challenge coin on them but even those are more for collecting than anything else
I mean things get a little fuzzier depending on what cops think they can get away with. Tactical units, for instance, are more likely to wear them because they’re less likely to get in trouble over it - for instance this Kansas City, MO SWAT officer with a ‘doorkicker’ patch
usually these tend to be comparatively subdued - thin blue line and punisher motifs, ‘1*’ (one ass to risk), and so on, rather than the open contempt you see upthread. not always, though, like the Florida SWAT officer who met Mike Pence with a QAnon patch on his plate carrier
in general the less noticeable the thing, the more likely it is to have been individualised this way - racial slurs and swastikas etched into flashlights aren’t unheard of
also if you remember Daniel Shaver, the guy the police executed for losing a game of Simon Says in a hotel hallway, the cop who killed him had a custom dust cover on his rifle with ‘you’re fucked’ engraved on it. acquitted, obviously
