F*** THE POLICE T-Shirts In Front of Police

Video of F*** THE POLICE t-shirts worn in front of police who were lined up between the the May 2, 2015 National Freddie Gray Rally and Baltimore City Hall. Those t-shirts, that ill-conceived, untrue, hateful way of insinuating that all cops do all kinds of wrong to everyone they deal with, is no way to help change things for the better. If those t-shirt individuals were just hurt in a car wreck and a cop was first on scene and was giving them First Aid (as cops do), I bet they wouldn't say "f*** the police." Police arrest a criminal who committed a crime against one of the t-shirt people's loved ones, what will they say? Probably not "f*** the police." 

I use the f word, but not in front of kids or any other people who it might sound bad to. I have heard that word used by kids and also (most shockingly) parents in front of their children, but it is offensive to many people, so I don't like it on t-shirts worn in public.

I did not use video software to make the f word unreadable on those t-shirts in the video because it did happen in public, and I want the world to have a clear record of what it was at that point in time in that spot in Baltimore, City and how the police and protesters stayed away from violence - even though they were on opposing sides of a terribly bad situation in Baltimore's history.

This video is also a fair representation of what it was like to be in the crowd.

[Watch this in HD on Full Screen, if you can.]

Photography by David Robert Crews

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