A rather shocking article by Max Blumenthal on really ugly racist emails and rants on police forums. One sore point: does Blumenthal have to refer to police union leaders as "union bosses"? Is it really necessary to use Sean Hannity's vocabulary even if it is to refer to your enemies?
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/emails-and-racist-chats-show-how-cops-and-gop-are-teaming-undermine-de-blasio?paging=off ------------------snip But nothing fueled NYPD outrage like de Blasio’s relationship with Al Sharpton. When the mayor hired a former Sharpton aide, Rachel Noerdlinger, as the chief of staff to his wife, Chirlane McCray, then defended <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/nyregion/rachel-noerdlinger-top-mayoral-aide-to-take-a-leave-of-absence.html> Noerdlinger against atorrent of bad press for her relationship with an ex-convict and her son’s Facebook postings referring to cops as “pigs,” NYPD anger exploded. On a Thee Rant forum, commenters homed in on Noerdlinger’s race (she is black) and her gender. While one commenter described <http://theerant.yuku.com/reply/743215/Mayoral-aide-Rachel-Noerdlinger-ex-beau-mum-City-Hall-dra#reply-743215> her as “a weed soaked cum dumpster low life POS,” another officer wrote of her and her partner: “The bit-ch will be bugging mofo's ass, if she hasn't done so already, about making nigge-r noise in court and he will begin clobbering her, and then junior will jump in and snap his neck!” “They're born N I _ _ E R S , live like N I _ _ E R S and usually die like N I _ _ E R S,” a police commenter added <http://theerant.yuku.com/reply/743187/Mayoral-aide-Rachel-Noerdlinger-ex-beau-mum-City-Hall-dra#reply-743187>. His language was typical of commentary appearing on the forum whenever Noerdlinger's name was mentioned. When de Blasio remarked this month that he had instructed his son, Dante, to use extra caution when engaging with cops, Thee Rant commenters lit up the chat boards. In a typically lurid thread, a Thee Rant commenter made light of the struggle de Blasio’s daughter, Chiara, has waged with substance abuse. “Somebody should slip her a ‘hot bag,’” a fellow officer who called himself Thisroundsoneme replied <http://theerant.yuku.com/reply/761929/VOTE-OF-NO-CONFIDENCE#reply-761929>, suggesting a cop plant drugs on her to frame her for possession.
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