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Policeman Schaap: A feeling of superiority
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Ilvy Njiokiktjien / DER SPIEGEL
Leen Schaap kept a diary of the things that happened when he tried to reform the Amsterdam fire service.
He wrote everything down in a striped notebook that he often carried with him.
September 2017
X mentions the "damn Moroccans". They refuse to do an exercise in a mosque. They call the area "the caliphate".
Undated, 2018
Racism is insidious, subliminal. That makes it hard to fight.
September 24, 2018
I had lunch with a group of new recruits. You have been in training for three weeks. They ask me questions like: "Why do you only hire foreigners?" In other words, you are already poisoned.
The whole world has been discussing this "poison", which is called racism, for months.
Since a white police officer kneeled on the neck of the black George Floyd for almost nine minutes in May of this year, millions of people in the USA, but also in Germany, have been calling for an end to institutional racism.
Prejudice and hatred among security guards must finally be combated.
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