#police misogyny

[lucylesdreams]

The whole thing is so disgusting. And parts of this are sadly so normal. Gabby was a human, she wanted to live. Her murder could have been prevented. The police could have done their job.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Of course, the burkini ban is messed up on grounds of religious freedom and racial discrimination. But also

Under any other circumstances, people would be HORRIFIED at a government mandate that women have to show a certain amount of skin. Like. That’s fucking dystopian, and the absolute opposite of feminism. If a government tried to pass a law that all women had to wear tube tops and miniskirts to go outside, people would rightfully be up in arms demanding blood

But because it’s targeting a marginalized religious group, many folks are lauding the blatant forced sexualization of women. Appalling

(apparently the ban also outlaws things like sun – protecting bathing suits if they cover too much skin. Which like. Yes, let’s give everyone skin cancer just so we can spite a religion we’ve decided to hate. Sounds like a good plan </s>)

[newsfromstolenland]

In one private chat group conversation, a Mountie was accused of saying a new female employee "was overweight and insinuating that the shape of her vagina was visible through her clothing."

In another, a second RCMP officer allegedly bragged about "Tasering unarmed Black people" and called a sexual assault investigation "stupid" — drawing comments from other members of the online group who "made fun of the victim" and said, "she's a dumb Mexican c--t."

An investigator with the RCMP's professional standards unit detailed those allegations and many more in a search warrant sworn to obtain evidence now being used to call for the firing of three Coquitlam Mounties for violating the force's code of conduct.

The CBC has obtained a copy of the search warrant — which recounts behaviour which led the officer who sparked the investigation to complain to RCMP brass about what he saw as "atrocious" and "racist and horrible" activity in a private group operating on the Signal messaging app.

Full article

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

More from this article below the cut, because I think it's important to understand just how much fucked up shit they were saying:

(tw misogyny, domestic violence, racial profiling, anti-Indigenous racism, racism)

The documents reveal that investigators also reviewed 600,000 messages posted to the RCMP's internal mobile data chat logs — finding evidence of "frequently offensive" usage by the three officers facing termination of "homophobic and racist slurs."

"The reviewers had identified a variety of comments that were 'chauvinist in nature, with a strong air of superiority, and include flippant or insulting remarks about clients (including objectifying women), supervisors, colleagues, policy and the RCMP as a whole,'" the warrant says.

Code of conduct hearings against Const. Philip Dick, Const. Ian Solven and Const. Mersad Mesbah had been slated to begin in Surrey this week but have been adjourned until March of next year. All three officers have been suspended since June 2021.

Although Dick, Solven and Mesbah appear to be the only Mounties currently facing code-of-conduct hearings, the court documents say seven other officers were also part of the private chat group — including two supervisors.

Among the details contained in the search warrant are allegations one of the officers facing discipline joked about a domestic violence victim, calling the victim "a dumb f--king bitch, should've worn a mouth guard."

The whistleblower — Const. Sam Sodhi — claimed that outside of the private chat group, members of the group also "belittled Indigenous people, talking about how they were 'stupid' or 'drunk' and saying they have 'unfortunate bodies' and all have fetal alcohol syndrome."

"They would say, 'We're not going to the reserve,'" the search warrant claims Sodhi told investigators.

"We're not going there because we're not going to help those people."

According to the court documents, Sodhi was posted to Coquitlam in 2019.

"As part of that process, he wrote a letter about wanting to work in an urban centre and help at-risk youth that didn't have role models," the warrant claims.

But Sodhi claimed that on his second day at work, Dick — his trainer — asked him: "Are you a cool brown guy, or are you a Surrey brown guy? Because in that letter, you're whiny, like, 'Ooh, I want to help brown people.'"

Sodhi claimed there were two chat groups for members of the Coquitlam detachment assigned to Port Coquitlam — one for all members of the watch and a second private group that began on WhatsApp but then moved to Signal. He said he was told once he was "worthy" of the private chat group, "we'll add you to it."

The officer claimed he was admitted to the private chat group in March 2021 but left after a few days because of the "constant negativity." He said he was then accused of "not being a team member" and encouraged to return.

According to the search warrant, Sodhi complained to his superiors in May 2021, and a chief superintendent mandated an investigation into five Mounties — including a corporal who was accused of failing to take measures to prevent misconduct.

The probe initially focused on text communications between the RCMP's own laptops — known as Mobile Data Terminals. Investigators reviewed messages between the five men from January 2019 until May 2021.

"When members of the [Signal] chat group realized there was an investigation, they opined that the investigation was probably about 'MDT chats' ... since the private chat group was kept 'amongst the trusted' and 'there's no way this got out,'" the warrant says.

Examples cited from the RCMP computers include statements like, "Why do brown guys have unusually high pitched voices." "As an idiot woman would say ... 'toxic,'" and, "I just racially profile pulled over a car."

A review of the chat logs also allegedly found the three officers facing termination "appeared to use 'goldfish' as a slur for Asian people."

"For example, they talked about how 'goldfish' have 'bulging eyes' that 'can't see anything,' how a Korean church in the detachment was a 'goldfish church' and how 'goldfish' were bad drivers (a common Asian stereotype)," the warrant says.

[corvid-on-the-rock]

look im sorry but im sick to fucking death of people who were raised & socialised as boys and men never taking a fucking second to analyize the lens they view the world through like. half of the younger amabs, and yes i mean that, ive met never learned how to stop seeing afabs, and yes I mean that, as little girls who need to shut up. you just havent taken the time to unlearn that. it's fucking infuriating. im tired of not saying it. transitioning into womanhood doesn't baptise you of the patriarchy you've been taught to perpetuate your whole life, especially if you're white, or the behaviors you learned to do that. you have to actually look that in the eyes and deal with it and stop treating the LGBTQ+ community as a whole like it's our job to deal with the "complexities" of intersectionality while you just get to focus on yeah pretty much JUST white transmisogyny. Y'all are still fucking sexist deep down.

[uncanny-tranny]

Okay, are belly button piercings "trashy," or do you just associate them with femininity, or women, or sex work and strike it down as inherently less worthy? Are 'tramp stamps' "trashy", or do you just associate them with femininity, or women, or sex work and strike it down as inherently less worthy? Is pole dance "trashy", or do you associate it with women, or sex work and strike it down as inherently less worthy?

These are examples, but I find it interesting when people link things with womanhood or femininity or - gasp! - sex work and then immediately condemn, scrutinize, and dehumanize those who even dapple a little in these things, even if it isn't for sex work or to "look trashy." It's funny how the feminine or woman is seen as trashy until proven otherwise, and it's shameful that people still hold the bias that women must prove their humanity by not "being trashy" or "acting like a hooker."

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My grandparent’s dog was swapped with an evil changeling dog which began speaking and making misogynistic threats at me. We had to call the police.

[thebusylilbee]

what's even fucking crazier about the Mazan serial rapes case is that everybody is already so shocked by the basic facts of it (Dominique Pélicot drugs his wife for 10 years and gets her raped while unconscious by 73 men or more) that the medias literally often forget to mention that DNA testing suggest that the husband is actually a whole ass killer who killed and raped at least one woman in the 90's before getting married to Gisèle Pélicot

[fromtheseventhhell]

Team Green calling Rhaenyra every misogynistic slur under the sun for the crime of having sex just for Alicent to be having sex with Criston while Blood and Cheese happened is pure comedy

[hairtusk]

not sure there has ever been a worse time to be a woman or girl in the uk. random stabbing attacks, crimes on trains increased by 50% in the last few years, 50 women murdered by men since the start of the year ... and absolutely no urgency whatsoever. it's terrifying.

[joanofexys]

the next time i see a MAN criticizing a hijabi, or a muslim woman in general, on the way she should be dressing i am going to hit him with my car

[femsolid]

[England]

Over the past five years more than 300 officers have been reported for rape and 500 for sexual assault. Only ten of those accused of sexual assault have been convicted. The vast majority – 350 – are still working for the police.

“Holly”, a serving police officer who was raped by a colleague, said there was “simply not a chance that all 350 are innocent of the things they are accused of”. Her attacker was allowed to stay in the force for years until he was exposed by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. In the meantime Holly and others who had been attacked struggled to get the force to take their allegations seriously.

“If you made a complaint, you were painted as having serious ‘mental health issues’ or ‘attention seeking’,” she said. “It was like you had stepped back into the 1920s before all women even had the right to vote. The police took women's voices and silenced them.”

More than 250 police officers had been reported more than once for sexual offences. A dozen had more than five separate reports against their names.

The true numbers of accused officers are likely even higher. TBIJ’s data was compiled from FOI requests to every police force in the UK, but nine failed to provide full figures.

TBIJ has been tracking forces’ failure to deal with police perpetrated domestic abuse (PPDA) for the past five years. In particular, TBIJ has highlighted how forces let down victims and the public when they fail to properly investigate allegations against their own officers.

The murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, a serving Met police officer who had been reported for exposing himself in public, showed how catastrophic the consequences of inaction on sexual offences can be. Two years on, however, there is little sign of wider reform.

In February this year David Carrick was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison after admitting 24 counts of rape and sexual offences against 12 women while serving as a Met officer. He had been repeatedly reported for domestic abuse since joining the police in 2001, but those allegations had not been taken seriously.

In TBIJ’s research, of the 375 officers and staff reported for domestic abuse in the past two years, more than three quarters are still working for the police.

In 2020 TBIJ worked with the Centre for Women’s Justice to submit a supercomplaint to police watchdogs. The Independent Office for Police Conduct, the College of Policing, and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services responded with a joint report last year, admitting there were systemic weaknesses in how forces respond to allegations against their own people.

In particular they were “not always doing enough to ensure all PPDA cases are properly and impartially investigated”. In January the National Police Chiefs Council reported that most forces had agreed to improve procedures for dealing with PPDA. In March the Casey Review found the Met Police was institutionally misogynist, racist and homophobic.

[venussaidso]

I love a good scamming/gold digger love story where the manipulative fraud has her target eventually stumbling & falling, all wrapped around her finger, as she's solely concentrated on her goal which turns to shit when she's the one to catch feelings next. Throw in some family dynamic superhero shit along with that too? I'm fucking in. I'm kinda obsessed with this pairing actually, and I haven't been sucked into a kdrama pair for a while so I'm curious to see how this develops. I think I wish Do Dahae had a much more ruthless/witty side like her fake Mom (ofc I like my FLs morally-grey but leaning just a lil more towards evil ehehe) so the romance and her relationship with that kid would be more of a slowburn. She's a bit too plain for my taste for now but I'll accept it because this is my favourite trope & the acting is not shit, so I'm willing to overlook that for more Dohae x Gwiju scenes and the story unfolding.

[p-paradoxa]

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after over 139 hours and at least 12 showers one of the Palestinian student targets of the chemical attack at Columbia University believes her endometriosis symptoms are being exacerbated. she’s also reported dizziness, nausea, lack of sleep, vomiting, lack of appetite, skin rashes, and pain, which no doubt compound on each other. Odortec, the zionist company that manufactures and exports Skunk, touts its “non-toxic, non-lethal” properties, but Palestinians and targets of police violence in the u.s., such as prisoners and immigrants, have experienced its harm for years. and despite the irregular periods Layla and other victims of crowd-control weapons experience, many so-called advocates of feminism and reproductive justice are presently concerned about things that don’t matter.

this is just one attack here in the u.s., and not one of the most lethal. but it tells us that the thin, racist veneer of “the ‘conflict’ is in another country, so we shouldn’t get involved, let’s worry about feminism here at home” never held up. Palestinians and close allies everywhere are having their collective struggle dehumanized for their Palestinian-ness. it’s zionism, and it’s colonialism, ethnonationalism, and (in many cases) run-of-the-mill racism and Islamophobia. we can call it what it is

[gacha-incels]

"Solidarity overturned the decision, we will watch police reinvestigation" interview with victim of ‘pinched-fingers’ case (archive link)

(Seocho police station)

this is mtl of the article that I’ve edited. you can click the link and see the original, if there’s any glaring issues lmk and I’ll edit the post ✍️.

The victim of the Nexon MapleStory pinched finger (🤏) incident responded to the Seoul Seocho Police Station's decision to re-investigate her case, saying, "I recognize that many people's attention is focused on this, and I ask for a clean and thorough investigation. Even though the re-investigation is underway, we don't know what will happen, so we will continue to watch it carefully," she said.

In a written response on the afternoon of the 7th, victim A said, "I thought it would never be overturned, but I think it was the solidarity of many people that made it happen."

"My first thought is to thank them for their solidarity. I didn't realize that there would be thousands of complaints (against the Seocho Police Station)," she said, continuing, "I couldn't have done it alone. I will continue to work hard and do whatever I can to help," she stressed.

"I'm happy yet nervous at the same time. I think the police should have been more cautious in their initial decision to not extradite," she said, adding, "If they were able to admit that they were wrong two days after the news broke, I wish they would have taken a little more time to consider (a full investigation) from the beginning.”

“How Solidarity Protects Me"

Ms. A also emphasized that "solidarity with other people is the solution to healing oneself."

"After (the incident), I couldn't ignore the stories of people who were affected similarly to me, and I tried to understand their pain and offered my support in any way I could," she said. "I started several activities, including regular donations, to give back the solidarity I received, and I live every day trying to become a better person."

"When I give other victims the comfort I wanted to receive during (the incident), my condition also improves," she said, adding, "Solidarity is how I protect and heal myself."

Ms. A was also victimized online, with her personal info being circulated as an employee (of studio ppuri) even though she did not draw the so-called "pinched hand". Malicious posts insulting her were also frequently posted.

On June 14, A. filed a complaint to the Seocho Police Station for 41 online posts on charges of defamation under the Information and Communication Network Act (정보통신망법상 명예훼손), stalking (스토킹처벌법), violation of the Special Act on Punishment of Sexual Offenses (obscenity using communication media) (성폭력범죄 처벌 등에 관한 특례법 위반(통신매체이용음란) ), and insult (모욕). However, the Seocho Police Station dismissed all of Ms. A's complaints, citing reasons such as she had "sympathized with feminism."

When the case was first reported on, online collective complaints to "correct the sexist rhetoric" as well as criticism from the political sphere erupted. The Seocho Police Station, which continued to deny any problems until the following day, the 6th, saying that "it was due to the misunderstandings they (A's company) caused with their response that people expressed their opinions," admitted that "the investigation was insufficient" and announced in a press release on the afternoon of the 7th that it was "planning to conduct a re-investigation."

[tiefling-queer]

it's really disheartening hearing white trans people talk about 'who i will be safe with if i need to be hidden' when they talk about the possibility of a trump presidency, completely unwilling to engage with the fact that this is already a reality for latine people in the country. like, so divorced from the world immediately outside of small white communities that many talk about persecution and imprisonment as though it's a theoretical thing that can happen in the future and will target us, rather than something that's happening currently and targeting people at greater risk than we are.