Colour Blind
Random Acts of Reality is a paramedics blog, in which he recently writes about being accused of not helping a patient who was clearly faking, just 'because shes black'.Reynolds, I wouldn't worry about it. Whenever I arrest a white person, I regularly get "You don't bovver arresting them asians/blacks though do you, they can do whatever they want." Whenever I arrest a coloured person, its very often "Only because I'm black". I used to get extremely irritated by it, and often used to try and explain the mistake to my prisoner. I've given up on it now though. The only thing you can assure on my shift, is that if you choose to say anything such as the above, you lose any chance of respect from us.
I'm not racist, and no one on my shift is racist. I've never seen anyone on my station acting in a racist manner. However, some people tend to justify the fact that they've just been arrested for stabbing someone in front of us with the obvious and clear fact that if they had been white/black/green we wouldn't have bothered.
posted by A non mouse
6 Comments:
I'm asian and still in my 10 week tutor stage, I've had 3 accusations of racism - 2 from white people; another from an asian. Also had one count of racially aggravated Section 5. Lovely eh? :(
Just a general suggestion, but perhaps one of your colleagues could do a bit to restore the public's opinion of the force (it is sure not a "service") by arresting some of the citizens calling for murder, violence, terrorism, and the beheading of their fellow citizens in London three weeks ago?
No?
Ian Blair wouldn't like it?
Thought not.
Don't be a dick, the actions of police on that day were prearranged - regardless of personal opinion and judgement of officers the force decision was to act the way they did. Don't have a go at coppers for that you ass.
Some clever guy decided to call me racist. I took offence and explained his misconceptions...he got nicked
Anonymous is a little green I think. If a white guy paraded through the streets of London with a placard saying "All Muslims Piss off" he would have been hanged, drawn and quartered by every liberal thinking politician, copper, and the like. So much for free speech. One way racism is here to stay.
And yet that speculation doesn't magically invalidate what he said about the prearranged response to the demonstrations.
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