police e-mail/ racist footage?

[curlyfilm]

apparently the police are investigating their own officers about an e-mail thats going round, it shows a racist bit of footage about a black man being decapitated by a large container...
so if the man was a white man would it be racist still?
or only if a black man watched/sent it?

[andy-hughes]

The police were at pains to point out that the disciplinary action was taken, not because the e-mail was judged to be racist, but that it was offensive and inappropriate. The racial origin of the subject was not an issue.

[curlyfilm]

could be wrong but i'm sure on tonights news they said racist, but if not they did say that the man was black, so why would it matter what colour he was

[Loosehead]

Yes it has been referred to as racist, I have seen the email and it is not racist in content, however I think the general inference is that the way it was circulated was making some point about the colour of the person, I suppose that could be construed as racist. I saw it about 5 years ago by the way so it took the old bill a while to get it!

[sp1814]

Like Loosehead, I saw the photos a long time ago, but the photos as they stand weren't racist.

However, if you sent the photos as an attachment to an email in which you made racist comments, then the photos themselves can be construed differently.

The shots are particularly horrible, and the officers involved were disciplined for inaapropriate use of the force's email system.

You wouldn't want your tax money going on that would you?

[ELVIS68]

From what I heard on the news it came across as a racial investigation

[NH]

The race card will always be played in situations like this because racism and the police has been a problem for epochs.

[Panic Button]

Apparently some of the police officers who were disciplined for forwarding the e mail were black themselves.
While on the subject is there a white police officers association similar to the black police officers association? Wouldn't be allowed

[joko]

the way this has been presented has been to imply that one of the officers sat at his computer and made this thing himself, not that he merely received as an attachment - that would place a different slant on the issue.

[Gromit]

Not seen it but apparently the incident portrayed happened in America or orginated there. Nothing to do with any Police matter in Hertfordshire where the deciplinaries were dished out..

[almcd007]

I have seen it quite a while ago. The story I heard was that it was contained in an e-mail which said "Don't run from the Police !" The pictures I saw were of a black american, decapitated on a railing when he made off from an officer stopping him for a minor traffic offence. He climbed up onto a roof and tried jumping or slipped off the roof and ended up on the railing. Nothing racist involved at all - but could maybe conceived as being - it's very ambiguous and I would think innappropriate to be passed around a workplace such as the police. Bear in mind they are publicly paid and and it is viewed as being a bit of a waste of time sending such e-mails around. My wife is a civilian manager with the police and she has loads of stringeant guidlines as to what can be and can't be sent in e-mails.

[bazwillrun]

PC now stands for Politically correct and not Police Constable.

This is the sort of crap we have to put up with in this country on a daily basis.
The whole slant on this has been to make it appear racist, its pathetic.
Its yet another example of why this country is going down the pan

[sp1814]

Unless you've actually read the emails involved, I think it would be pretty difficult to deny whether the mails themselve were racist.

Even more difficult to accuse the accusers of being 'PC'.