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'It's inflammatory': Vancouver police officer's patch ignites questions about objectivity (bc.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Before I load the article, I’m gonna guess Punisher.

Edit: Israeli flag with a line through it. Fuck Israel.

Also:

In the photo, the bottom corner of the patch is not visible. Mariel Cooksey, the executive director of the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies, told CTV News she’s seen the patch before, often with the skull-shaped logo for The Punisher, a violent comic book vigilante, added in that corner.

Cooksey said the skull imagery is often utilized by Neo-Nazi groups in the U.S., and was previously seen on a police officer in Toronto in 2020.

“We saw it painted on the shields of protestors at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017,” she said.

“It’s a very frightening symbol to be worn by a police officer who is there to protect the general public.”

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's almost certainly this patch:

https://static.972mag.com/www/uploads/2021/10/WhatsApp-Image-2021-10-19-at-21.25.48-1000x668.jpeg

The article does a bad job describing it. It's not really an Israel flag with a line through it. It's a a patch that's half Israel's flag and half punisher logo with a thin border separating them.

That image is from this article which is about the symbols prevalence in the IDF (in spite THEIR uniform regulations) and the anti- Palestinian message it portrays.

I think the police viewing themselves as punishers (even in the most naive interpretation of the symbol) is really problematic. Police expressing a position on Israel is also not appropriate, I don't even like them wearing 'support our troops' badges and ribbons. But maybe it's better that they make their bad attitudes explicitly visible....

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I came back to update the thread after seeing the full patch. Thanks for pointing this out. Here's the patch.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

So doucebag cops at it again