Police on TikTok want to “humanize the badge” — but as the Black Lives Matter movement accelerates, staying apolitical is becoming impossible
There is more than a minor element of self-defensiveness attached to this stance. “There’s this cop mentality of us against the world, and that nobody else understands their lives,” says Jim Mulvaney, adjunct professor in the department of law and police science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “Especially in times of high tension, when every time you turn on the TV and see bad cops, people are gonna be hyper-sensitive.
With the George Floyd protests, however, it has become increasingly difficult for cops on TikTok to avoid stepping into the politicized fray. That’s in part due to the brutal nature of Floyd’s death and the unambiguously horrific circumstances of his killing, and most police officers will profess to have been horrified by the video. “I
Regardless, it’s a tough time to be the cute and cuddly face of law enforcement, and police officers on TikTok have a hard time staying out of the fray, no matter how much they may like to. Daniels, for example, says he felt compelled to speak out about the George Floyd video on Instagram.
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