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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrave Cops Fight Breast Cancer By Arresting People Using Pink Handcuffs
https://jezebel.com/brave-cops-fight-breast-cancer-by-arresting-people-usin-1846689764As it does every year, breast cancer awareness month starts in October. But officers at the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department are getting a head start on the pink parade by using pink handcuffs, pink badges, and other pink uniform accessories touh, remind the people that they are arresting to get screened for breast cancer. I wish that I was making this up.
Alex Villanueva, an actual sheriff in Los Angeles, tweeted about the pink initiative on Wednesday and included a photo of himself and two other officers holding their new pink cuffs. Sadly, their guns will not also be pink.
But will their Tazers be Pink?
Possibly not the best day to start this campaign.
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Brave Cops Fight Breast Cancer By Arresting People Using Pink Handcuffs (Original Post)
cinematicdiversions
Apr 2021
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Deuxcents
(16,221 posts)1. I call BS
Celerity
(43,383 posts)9. did you even read the article?
Deuxcents
1. I call BS
1. I call BS
Alex Villanueva
@LACoSheriff
33rd Sheriff, Los Angeles County; Veteran; Doctorate of Public Administration; 30+ years #LASD #SheriffV
Alex Villanueva
@LACoSheriff
Pink badges & pink handcuffs, all meant to grab your attention as we raise awareness and pray for a cure to end Breast Cancer!
Because of Covid, many women have put off mammograms and other cancer screenings.
Link to tweet
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,459 posts)2. In that case, people should stop using pink handcuffs.
Modifiers, Jezebel; modifiers.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)4. That's the way I read it.
Last haircut I got before Covid I was asked if I wanted to make a donation for breast cancer by the barber. I said "Of course not I am 100% against breast cancer" (then put $ 10 in the donation jar).
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)5. Jezebel is often, at best, around a sixth grade reading level.
Not a particularly bright sixth grader at that.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)6. ...
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)3. ugh
Ms. Toad
(34,073 posts)7. As someone with breast cancer, currently NED - I hate pinktober.
I hate even more that it is starting 6 months early.
And, the point in the article about late diagnosis of cervical and breast cancer among the incarcerated is valid. My (incarcerated) brother was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer - despite extensive complaints about syptoms at a time when diagnosis would have extended his life/saved him.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)8. I am so sorry for your loss. NT
Celerity
(43,383 posts)10. Sadly, their guns will not also be pink.
Gun companies target women with pink firearms at NRA convention
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2321096/Gun-companies-target-women-pink-firearms-NRA-convention.html