Kumail Nanjiani few bad apples

Comedian Kumail Nanjiani’s Viral Tweet Explains The Problem With The “Few Bad Apples” Cops Analogy

Last week, a video of officers from the Buffalo, New York, police department shoving an elderly man to the ground, then leaving him to bleed from his ear on the pavement horrified viewers.

The man survived and was taken to the hospital in serious condition. After the incident but before footage of it went viral, the BPD released a statement saying the protestor “tripped and fell” causing the accident, even though it’s perfectly obvious he was deliberately pushed.

Comedian Kumail Nanjiani tweeted about the violence and attempt at a cover-up by invoking the familiar phrase “it’s just a few bad apples.”

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Many defenders of policing believe the problem with police is that a few of them are bad, not that policing itself supports systemic racism. 

“Buffalo PD officially said that the man tripped & fell,” Nanjiani wrote. “If we didn’t have video there would have been no accountability. Why? Because one ‘bad apple’ pushed him down but 20 ‘good apples’ would have let him get away with it. It’s systemic.”

Yes! The end of that saying, by the way, is “spoils the whole bunch.” Bad apples ruin the good apples next to them. That can be further proven by the response the BPD had when the two officers involved in the actual shoving match were suspended.

Now 57 officers resigned from their roles on the Emergency Response Team. They’re still on the force and still getting paid, unfortunately, but they showed up to applaud the assaulters at court and made this unified stand in protest of the shoving cops getting called out at all.

Seth Meyers had some strong words about the “few bad apples” analogy as well:

seth myers bad apples, seth myers a few bad apples, seth myers bad orchard
via Facebook/Late Night with Seth Meyers

The man who was pushed, by the way, is named Martin Gugino according to the Associated Press. He is a veteran peace activist who works with the Western New York Peace Center and Latin American Solidarity Committee. He showed up to stand for what he believes in and the police knocked him down, because the whole barrel is rotten.

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