CNN should’ve known its #AskACop was set for social media failure. Lest it forgot the #MyNYPD Twitter debacle. The news channel tweeted that they put together a police panel for their “Cops Under Fire” segment, which will air later tonight, and proceeded to ask Twitter users: What would you #AskACop?
The results weren’t pretty and reflected the country’s state of turmoil against police officers in light of no indictment charges in the Mike Brown and Eric Garner cases among other systemic injustices. Here are some of the tweets:
#AskACop why become a cop in a Black neighborhood if you're afraid of Black people? I'm afraid of ghosts, so you see me being a Ghostbuster?
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) December 17, 2014
at what point in police academy training are you taught that black people are inherent threats? beginning or end? #AskACop
— zoe samudzi (@BabyWasu) December 16, 2014
