A satirical video of the public service youth program causes a stir. Now, however, a police calendar appears, the contents of which are more than questionable.
- The satirical video from the youth program of the public broadcaster funk does not go down well with everyone
- From the policy , there was reason to tilt the increase in broadcast post the requirement
- Content has now emerged from a calendar that the police sees in a bad light
Munich - The topics of police violence and racism in the police are currently dominating media reporting, sadly, again.
The reason is repeatedly incidents in which officers do not behave according to their function or even become violent. A private video was recently published from Frankfurt showing a police officer kicking a person lying on the ground.
Last night in Alt-Sachsenhausen. At 12:16 am, the blonde policeman couldn't help but kick the guy on the ground again. #Policeiproblem pic.twitter.com/88Tsn9TzW8
- ..... (@FrankfurtSued) August 16, 2020Shortly thereafter, a satirical video published by the public youth broadcaster Funk , which shows a person of color catching up on a bicycle, whereupon a large police operation triggers *, caused a stir.
More trouble about satirical video: But now a police calendar appears, which causes real trouble
A CDU politician even called for the radio license to be raised in the coming year because of the video, as this “video, financed with fee money from ARD & ZDF , is a slap in the face of all police officers in Germany,” wrote Sven Schulze on Twitter.
This video, financed with fee money from # ARD & #ZDF, is a slap in the face of all #policemen in #Germany. This is not the only reason why it is right that the planned increase in the # broadcasting fee will not come. The #CDU in #SachsenAnhalt will prevent that. #GEZ 1/2 https://t.co/SJhWjbFZrH
- Sven Schulze (@schulzeeuropa) August 18, 2020Now a police union calendar, which has also been published on social media, is causing a sensation. Although this is already from 2012, the content is still highly explosive. The freelance journalist Stephan Anpalagan published excerpts from it on Facebook and Twitter.
Because everyone is upset about a satirical video that the police criticized: Here are some
Because everyone is upset about a satirical video that the police criticized: Here are some calendar sheets that were hanging in the police station - issued by the @DPolGBund. As well as caricatures that created amusement and mood in police circles.
Have fun! pic.twitter.com/iZSCLZFRz1
Some of them are obviously racist caricatures . A black man is captured on a sheet of paper, whereupon he angrily shouts to the police in bad German: "... what does' mean 'Ve'dunklungsgefah'?" - as an allusion to his skin color.
On another calendar sheet, a white policeman kicks an oversubscribed black man, is thievingly happy and said: "... comes from a 'safe step state'".
Racism in the Police? The federal chairman of the police union does not want to know anything about it
The Vice magazine had already dealt with the topic in 2012 and then asked for an interview with Rainer Wendt , the federal chairman of the police union. When asked about the caricatures, Wendt said: "The motifs are entertaining for many colleagues and people laugh heartily about them again and again."
Wendt did not want to put up with the racism accusation in any way. "That is absolute nonsense," said the now 63-year-old at the time: "Only people who are looking for racism judge it racially."
Police and racism: Jan Böhmermann denigrated Rainer Wendt
The police union chairman was already in the media focus more often. In 2017 , the satirist Jan Böhmermann published a video with a song about Wendt and accused him of right-wing populism.
When asked about the sensitive issue of racism among the police and the sensitivity that can actually be expected with this issue, Wendt did not see any problem with such cartoons even then. “None of this has anything to do with racism,” Wendt told Vice : “It has something to do with how policemen, who are in their daily work, deal with these burdens. Namely by de-demonizing and de-dramatizing them with this kind of simplistic caricatures and thus making them bearable for the first time. "
On Twitter, many users were angry about this calendar. “These calendar pages are sedition! Why has nobody been active yet? ”Asks a user, for example. “Who should be active?” Replies another: “The police?” (Smk) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital network
