Police Union Calls for Banning of Books in High School Because They Mention Police Brutality
Police are calling for books to be banned from school because they talk about police brutality and real life scenarios that they say breeds distrust.
By Matt Agorist
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
July 3, 2018
Censorship is a necessity of the police state. Peaceful ideas that oppose the status quo expose the insidious nature of the establishment and are therefore stricken from the public record. This has long been the practice of all empires and it is currently the practice in America today. Case in point: police in South Carolina are attempting to get two books in a school banned because they talk about police brutality and corruption.
The Fraternal Order of Police in Tri-County have made their case public and are demanding that Angie Thomas’s multiple award-winning novel about police brutality, The Hate U Give, on a school’s summer reading list, be banned. The union referred to the book as “almost an indoctrination of distrust of police.”
As TFTP has reported on numerous occasions, all though this book is certainly not “an indoctrination of distrust of police,” the police themselves give society every reason to distrust them.
Another book on the radar of the union to be banned is Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely’s All American Boys, which sees a teenage boy trying to overcome his distrust of the police after he is wrongly suspected of shoplifting and then beaten by an officer. All American Boys even features a cop as a protagonist and mentor, yet the union wants it gone.
President of the police union, John Blackmon told local News2 that the union had “received an influx of tremendous outrage at the selections by this reading list.” He then went on to question why the school had chosen to “focus half of their effort on negativity towards the police” when “there are other socio-economic topics that are available.”
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