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smoliske
07/17/18 2:11:39 PM
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http://weartv.com/news/nation-world/jasper-police-officers-suspended-for-hand-gesture-linked-to-circle-game

JASPER, Ala. (WBMA) Four officers in the Jasper Police Department were suspended for making a hand gesture while posing for a photo. Some people claimed the circular gesture was racist, according to the city's mayor, David O'Mary.

The mayor said some have claimed the gesture was meant to express the phrase "white power." Many in Jasper who spoke on camera to ABC 33/40 News see it differently. They say it is the gesture used in the "circle game." Popular among kids, the idea of the game is for the person to trick the other into looking at the circle gesture displayed below their waist.

"It's a kid game. Going around and hitting everybody when you see it," said one man in downtown Jasper immediately after viewing the photo.

The photo was published in the Daily Mountain Eagle last week after an arrest by the department's drug terrorism task force in the Frisco community. The mayor said he organized the photo because he wanted the officers to receive credit for their work. He said he has not spoken to them since to ask what they meant by the gesture. He said it doesn't matter.

"That's contradictory to how we run our city. That's not our mindset. That's not the way we do things and they used poor judgement."

The officers, whose names have not been made public, will be suspended two weeks and lose a week of pay according to O'Mary. He explained part of his decision process,

"We talked to two senior African-American law enforcement officers that are on the City of Jasper's payroll and they think it's fair and that's a pretty good sounding board."
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joestarrr
07/17/18 2:14:01 PM
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geez lmao
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WheezinEd
07/17/18 2:15:20 PM
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I can't believe /pol/ actually turned the fricking ok sign into a hate symbol.
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VectorChaos
07/17/18 2:20:51 PM
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I have never heard of this as a racist thing or some kids game ever before.
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eston
07/17/18 2:23:44 PM
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That seems appropriate. This was something that was published in the paper and makes them look like idiots
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Cj_WlLL_VVlN
07/17/18 2:26:08 PM
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Wait that game where you get people to look at the circle and hit them is racist? My black coworker loves doing that. I'm calling HR.
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KStateKing17
07/17/18 2:26:44 PM
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There is a game where kids do what the article describes. They make some shape with their hands put it below eye level and smack the necks of anyone who looks, really similar to telling someone they have something on their shirt then poking their nose. The way they do their hands is different than the guys in the picture though, I have no idea what the officers' were thinking when they did that but they just look stupid.
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Monolith1676
07/17/18 2:26:56 PM
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I guess they went to the Anita Sarkeesian school of thought. Everything is racist, everything is sexist and you need to point it all out.
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TES_Nut
07/17/18 2:28:10 PM
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Guy who reported this is the greatest troll ever.
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scorpion41
07/17/18 2:29:06 PM
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Are you kidding me? That game is racist now? Fucking lol.
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eston
07/17/18 2:29:07 PM
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Cj_WlLL_VVlN posted...
Wait that game where you get people to look at the circle and hit them is racist? My black coworker loves doing that. I'm calling HR.

It's been appropriated by racists, but it's also still a game too. And I've never heard it called "the circle game," everyone I know calls it Asshole
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QueenCarly
07/17/18 2:29:26 PM
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Good.

Glad to see dogwhistles becoming easier and easier to spot. Keep these trash beings scared.
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scorpion41
07/17/18 2:34:08 PM
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smoliske
07/17/18 4:10:56 PM
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QueenCarly posted...
Good.

Glad to see dogwhistles becoming easier and easier to spot. Keep these trash beings scared.


whose alt are you
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Piersons_Fox
07/17/18 4:13:56 PM
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This is racist?

Well, put it with the others. Right on top of the eclipse, being punctual, and math. That seems like a good spot for it.


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NeonOctopus
07/17/18 4:14:29 PM
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MedzXVIII
07/17/18 4:15:01 PM
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Piersons_Fox posted...
This is racist?

Well, put it with the others. Right on top of the eclipse, being punctual, and math. That seems like a good spot for it.


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QueenCarly
07/17/18 4:18:36 PM
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smoliske posted...
QueenCarly posted...
Good.

Glad to see dogwhistles becoming easier and easier to spot. Keep these trash beings scared.


whose alt are you


This is my main account.
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Monolith1676
07/17/18 4:19:33 PM
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QueenCarly posted...
smoliske posted...
QueenCarly posted...
Good.

Glad to see dogwhistles becoming easier and easier to spot. Keep these trash beings scared.


whose alt are you


This is my main account.


He just wants to know so he can try to hook up with you.
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QueenCarly
07/17/18 4:20:40 PM
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Monolith1676 posted...
QueenCarly posted...
smoliske posted...
QueenCarly posted...
Good.

Glad to see dogwhistles becoming easier and easier to spot. Keep these trash beings scared.


whose alt are you


This is my main account.


He just wants to know so he can try to hook up with you.


I would never hook up with a sigless user.
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Bad_Mojo
07/17/18 4:21:05 PM
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Sephiroth1288
07/17/18 4:24:17 PM
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LightHawKnight
07/17/18 4:26:31 PM
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What kind of stupidity is this?
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Peter_Giffyndor
07/17/18 4:26:41 PM
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While it is stupid to label it racist without any basis or evidence whatsoever (literal ignorance), their actions were stupid. Cops need to stop trying (and failing) to be comedians. They're never funny and it just highlights how unprofessional most departments are. If they want to be comedians, do that shit after hours or resign and become a comedian.
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eston
07/17/18 4:30:32 PM
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I'm willing to accept that there are people who use it as a racist hand signal, however I'm pretty sure a lot more people play the game. Racism wouldn't be my first conclusion here, and part of that is because I know how frat-like some of these PDs are and it is in no way surprising this kind of immature stuff would happen
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Sephiroth1288
07/17/18 4:36:44 PM
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Peter_Giffyndor posted...
While it is stupid to label it racist without any basis or evidence whatsoever (literal ignorance), their actions were stupid. Cops need to stop trying (and failing) to be comedians. They're never funny and it just highlights how unprofessional most departments are. If they want to be comedians, do that shit after hours or resign and become a comedian.

Do you even know what the game they're talking about is
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DarkTransient
07/17/18 4:38:43 PM
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eston posted...
I'm willing to accept that there are people who use it as a racist hand signal


There literally aren't, tho. The claim that it was a racist hand signal was one of those "let's claim an ordinary thing has a hidden racist meaning to freak liberals the fuck out" /pol/ memes.
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Funkydog
07/17/18 4:40:04 PM
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smoliske posted...
The mayor said he organized the photo because he wanted the officers to receive credit for their work. He said he has not spoken to them since to ask what they meant by the gesture. He said it doesn't matter.

I mean, it kind of does.

If they were being racist, then sure, fair play to dismiss em. But if they are doing the game as they say then it seems a bit much to do this over a children's game.
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Zikten
07/17/18 4:40:41 PM
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I still don't understand how a circle has anything to do with race or white power.
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MedzXVIII
07/17/18 4:42:05 PM
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Trump's America
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VandorLee
07/17/18 4:49:28 PM
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But wouldnt this make you worry about how they make decisions about enforcing the law?

"We think he was pulling for a gun or maybe he was getting his license out like we asked. We just assumed the worse and shot him"
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MedzXVIII
07/17/18 4:50:24 PM
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VandorLee posted...
But wouldnt this make you worry about how they make decisions about enforcing the law?

"We think he was pulling for a gun or maybe he was getting his licence out like we asked. We just assumed the worse and shot him"

good point
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The Great Muta 22
07/17/18 4:52:31 PM
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DarkTransient posted...
eston posted...
I'm willing to accept that there are people who use it as a racist hand signal


There literally aren't, tho. The claim that it was a racist hand signal was one of those "let's claim an ordinary thing has a hidden racist meaning to freak liberals the fuck out" /pol/ memes.


Once again demonstrating those who frequent /pol/ have the comedy chops of a 13 year old
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The Great Muta 22
07/17/18 4:56:26 PM
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Oh and to the shock of no one this is a Sinclair owned station with a host who is also the Sinclair Broadcast Group Vice President for Corporate Relations.

But remember, all the media is controlled by big bad liberals
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voldothegr8
07/17/18 5:07:37 PM
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VandorLee
07/17/18 5:09:07 PM
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voldothegr8 posted...
MisguidedVapidGallowaycow


Hes literally saying "White power!" in that clip.
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boxington
07/17/18 5:10:30 PM
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voldothegr8 posted...
MisguidedVapidGallowaycow

lol, I like that defeated look on Reese's face
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DezDroppedFreak
07/17/18 5:14:18 PM
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This is about 45 miles from my hometown

Neat

Thats a sarcastic neat. This doesnt surprise me at all tho

Wait

Thats the gesture they used?

Ive legit never seen that outside the context of the circle game

Wat
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gmanthebest
07/17/18 5:15:06 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKteK8gaOWc" data-time="

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Hexenherz
07/17/18 5:15:40 PM
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The gesture is racist as it was a motion made by white plantation owners mocking their black slaves who were chained in the field. If he did it to trick another white person and the other white person saw it then the plantation owner got to make that white person his slave for an afternoon (to do friendly things)
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VandorLee
07/17/18 5:17:55 PM
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"Boy" is racist.
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DezDroppedFreak
07/17/18 5:20:33 PM
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VandorLee posted...
"Boy" is racist.

All about context and it most definitely is in certain contexts.
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smoliske
07/17/18 6:57:03 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
The gesture is racist as it was a motion made by white plantation owners mocking their black slaves who were chained in the field. If he did it to trick another white person and the other white person saw it then the plantation owner got to make that white person his slave for an afternoon (to do friendly things)


gonna need some sauce for this spaghetti
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