Controversy over Nike deal for Cornell athletics

[Cop at Lynah]

So please tell of a time when you witnessed police brutality by a member of the Cornell University Police department ?  What a load of shit to be spouting off on that particular issue.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Cop at Lynah;

Speaking for myself, my stand (or sit, as it were) has nothing to do with Cornell or the CUPD.  My stand is simply pro-BLM, pro-Kaepernick, and anti-Trump.

Knowing Bill and the often tongue-in-cheek tone on this Forum, I took his comments as a joke.  And as is often the case here, I re-joked.

[billhoward]

My comment was written with the Monotype Sarcasmus font. It doesn't show up on some PCs or phones. Campus police have a lot of sensitivities to deal with such as what do you do when a boisterous crowd in Statler doesn't like a speaker and wants to shout him/her off the stage. Or cops in the UCal system caught in the middle when Palestinian students march in hopes of defending Jewish organization because because being Jewish (I think I have this right) is a form of racism when there also Muslim students on campus. Or how about Smith College, where the police had to check out a report of a person tresspassing in a dorm and possibly being dangerous. How'd the caller know of the danger? Because the person lying a first floor couch late at night is black and there are no black women in that dorm.

Me, I have a lot of respect for police work. I am mystified when the most dangerous cities to be a municipal policeman pay the worst (Camden, Trenton, Newark in NJ) but in zero (violent) crime towns a patrolman might start at close to $90K. Plus OT. If you were on the Cornell PD in the 1970s when somebody took a nice crease out of another car's fender leaving Lynah and I called in the plate number because it was the right thing to do.

[Trotsky]

So please tell of a time when you witnessed police brutality by a member of the Cornell University Police department ?  What a load of shit to be spouting off on that particular issue.

Q. "How many cops does it take to change a lightbulb?"

A. "That isn't funny."

[Trotsky]

whatever

#nopolitics.  Please. Again, this is the one place without that shit.