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A single volunteer who was fired. This is more about the APD who have a long and much criticized history of abuse.
by sehr 11y ago
A single volunteer who was fired. This is more about the APD who have a long and much criticized history of abuse.
- KirinDave 11y agoI think both are pretty significant. Your message suggests this second incident should be dismissed.
- sehr 11y agoIMO it's better to describe it as an issue with Austin/Texas as a whole, instead of just tying everything to SXSW. Austin & Texas have a lot of problems.
- jo909 11y agoA volunteer asking for something unreasonable, possibly because he has no understanding for the religious role of a hijab, that you can simply decline, maybe explain and surely get sorted by talking to someone else, or at worst just walk away in disgust, is very different than experiencing police abuse and force, being helpless and restrained, isolated from your friends and family for hours. Not to dismiss that event, still pretty fucked up, but not the same order of magnitude.
- KirinDave 11y agoI agree they are very different. > but not the same order of magnitude. Systemic abuse magnifies the scale of individual incidents.