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"NYPD Officer Hopes Black Teen Only Coughing Because He Just Choked Him"
Title (Dublin Core)
"NYPD Officer Hopes Black Teen Only Coughing Because He Just Choked Him"
Description (Dublin Core)
While the pandemic remains at the forefront of news coverage, in the beginning of May, a string of high profile murders made national news. In addition to the murder of
Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery and a series of police shootings in Indianapolis that left three people dead just hours apart, reports from New York show that social distancing arrests have overwhelmingly and disproportionately impacted Black New Yorkers. This satirical article from the Onion, perhaps America's most well known satirical paper, uses dark and gratuitous satire to criticize police brutality in the time of COVID. Perhaps the most devastating line in the entire article is a quote from a fictional officer who says, "I promised my wife and kids that until this pandemic is behind us, I would just shoot black teens from a safe distance."
Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery and a series of police shootings in Indianapolis that left three people dead just hours apart, reports from New York show that social distancing arrests have overwhelmingly and disproportionately impacted Black New Yorkers. This satirical article from the Onion, perhaps America's most well known satirical paper, uses dark and gratuitous satire to criticize police brutality in the time of COVID. Perhaps the most devastating line in the entire article is a quote from a fictional officer who says, "I promised my wife and kids that until this pandemic is behind us, I would just shoot black teens from a safe distance."
The Onion, Satirical Digital News
Date (Dublin Core)
May 7, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
The Onion Staff
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Carolyn Evans
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
The Onion
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
News coverage
English
Conflict
English
Social Issues
English
Race & Ethnicity
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
police brutality
NYPD
satire
dark humor
#blacklivesmatter
Collection (Dublin Core)
Law Enforcement
Black Voices
Social Justice
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
05/10/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
05/13/2020
07/20/2020
12/15/2020
03/25/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
05/07/2020
Accrual Method (Dublin Core)
3767