When there’s so little trust between a community and the people with guns paid to police them, just about any social media post they made trying to “connect” is going to backfire.
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But a recent tweet from Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is proving to be downright laughable.
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Villanueva, who has faced repeated calls to step down in the past year, shared a photo of him with two other officers, holding pink handcuffs, plush police dogs, and cutesy pink police patches to raise awareness for breast cancer.
“Pink badges & pink handcuffs, all meant to grab your attention as we raise awareness and pray for a cure to end Breast Cancer!” he wrote.
The “pink for breast cancer awareness” movement, which generally doesn’t happen until October, has turned into an oft-scorned commercialized event over the past years, with many failing to see how plastering pink everywhere actually does anything at all.
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But coming from the LAPD, people were even less receptive than usual.
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If the LAPD is so concerned about breast cancer, perhaps rather than praying for a cure, they could donate part of their over $1.5 billion budget to cancer research instead of spending it on pink handcuffs and bad social media decisions.
*First Published: April 16, 2021, 6:50 am
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