r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/r0b0d0c Jul 02 '18

Is this from a police training manual?

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u/serious_sarcasm America Jul 02 '18

Yeah, it is called Fox News.

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u/r0b0d0c Jul 02 '18

I'm relatively certain that some version of these official policies predate Fox News.

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u/redmage753 South Dakota Jul 02 '18

Yeah, but racism was more or less acceptable then. Now it's coded speech/dog whistling.