'Much like the Christian right, the cops see enemies everywhere, and their imaginations tell horrible tales. In both cases, the lie serves a specific function. It’s a screen, meant to hide the way power really works.' onesarahjones writes
Cops lie for the same reason the Christian right does. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Nobody put bleach into the milkshakes at Shake Shack. The cops who ordered them and got diarrhea had food poisoning, or lactose intolerance, or indigestion, aroused by the consumption of garbage. But for a while, police unions insisted that something more nefarious than gluttony had occurred. The cops were “intentionally poisoned,” the Detective Endowments’ Association tweeted, “by one or more workers.
Calls to defund the police are “thinly veiled class war,” Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri recently claimed. But if the police do think of themselves as working-class, it doesn’t show. The same racist brutality that provokes nationwide protests also betrays workers and the poor. Nor is it coincidental that the persecution myths of the police star working-class villains. Cops understand their social purpose, which is to protect the order of things from the rabble. The proof is in their lies.
For decades, the Christian right has conceived of itself as a much-loathed and oppressed religious entity. Anyone who grew up evangelical in the ’90s can recall the old battles. The purple Teletubby bore “a gay-pride symbol” upon its head, the late Jerry Falwell said. In another affront to innocent children, the creators of The Lion King allegedly spelled “S-E-X” with the stars in a nighttime scene. Christians have launched boycotts for less.
Fast-food legends aren’t new, either. Shake Shack workers, who don’t have a union to tweet for them and who had to deep-clean an entire restaurant because the NYPD’s finest ate too much food, have allies in misery. There’s Tanis Ukena, whose booking photo still circulates online. A Utah police officer falsely accused the Subway worker of putting meth in his order.
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