Austin PD Brags About Dozens Of Support Letters They Got, People Call Them Out For Lying (Updated)
It’s only natural that police all over the US are going through some hard times amidst the Black Lives Matter protests that sprung up after George Floyd was killed by police during an arrest in Minneapolis. Furthermore, violent police response during the protests has been a massive topic nowadays as well.
In light of these events, it only seems logical that people would turn their backs on the police and throw their support towards the other side—the victims of police violence and those who protest against it.
However, the Austin Police Department seems to be unaffected by the ongoing crisis and is getting more support than ever before. Are they really, though? After they shared a photo collage of dozens of thank-you cards and support letters on Twitter, people noticed immediately that something wasn’t adding up. Turns out, most of the letters were written in the same handwriting. Furthermore, they didn’t even bother to add stamps and addresses on the envelopes and people couldn’t stop laughing.
Update: Austin PD explained that two people, who delivered the cards, have written “Thank You” all over them. “Many of you have inquired about the cards that were posted on our social media pages,” Austin PD wrote to Gizmodo. “The cards were from several community members to include kindergartners and Austin families, who wanted to show support for APD officers. Two people, who organized delivering the cards in person, addressed the envelopes with a “Thank you,” so our officers would open the notes to receive encouragement during these difficult times. That is why the front of the envelopes appear to have the same handwriting.”
Austin PD shared a beautiful collage of dozens of support letters and thank-you notes they got from their supporting neighborhood
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While police in the US are experiencing hard times and have little support since George Floyd was killed by police and protests have sprung into action all over the country, Austin PD claims to have their neighborhood’s support. Despite news spreading that a college student was shot by Austin police and suffered brain damage, on Saturday, June 6th, they shared images of dozens of thank-you cards and envelopes with support letters on Twitter. Many of the short notes read “Thank you,” “We are thankful for all you do,” and “U R appreciated.” But people shortly noticed that the text wasn’t the only thing most of them had in common. Most of the notes seen in the photos shared by Austin PD seem to be written in the same handwriting as well.
However, people couldn’t help but notice they all seemed to be written by the same three or so people and had no post stamps on them
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In the Twitter post shared by Austin PD, a black officer and a white officer are seen happily reading the cards. After seeing the post, many people were convinced all the letters were forged. “Damn, everyone in Austin has the same handwriting. Public schools must be amazing out there,” someone tweeted. Other mistakes were pointed out as well: “And why no postage? How did they even get them…?” said another tweet.
People thought it was obvious the policemen faked everything and forged the letters to make themselves look good in the eye of the public
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An Austin-based woman named Maryl agreed to share her insights on the situation in Austin, but wished for her last name not to be revealed. She voiced her disbelief that the police “would have the guts to pull off something like that when two incidents happened during the last weeks involving shooting someone. A teenage boy was shot in the head last week and experienced brain damage, but police don’t seem too eager to have justice for that. I should be able to take my kids to these historic demonstrations. But I can’t. Not because of the protesters, but because of them,” she said. “Austin PD is the violent threat at these protests,” she added.
Someone offered some context for those who are not fully aware of the situation with Austin PD
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Share on FacebookThe Trump tactic of not taking responsibility for any of your downfalls, and then congratulating yourself while egregiously lying to the public.
And being narcissistic enough to believe that you will get away with it because you are obviously much smarter than anyone else.
Load More Replies...Hilarious. You can see how the writing is the same. Can't even fake simple thing properly lol
Well, on the plus side we probably don't have to worry about them pulling off frame-ups. Not that they wouldn't try, but they'd do it so poorly a five year old could see through their "evidence".
And we would have gotten away with too if it weren't for you pesky Twitter users.
The Austin police department also likes to shoot people's non-threatening dogs when answering calls.
This isn't this particular PD's first desperate image-control measure. Consider the beating they're taking for #1: Firing LTL rounds at a protester who merely threw a water bottle, #2: Hitting a completely unrelated protester, Justin Howell, instead, and #3: Directing those trying to get medical help for Justin to the police HQ, then firing on his rescuers as they approached. They're rightly terrified. (Good.)
We do this with our youth group for different organizations (like FD, assisted living communities, etc). Lots of letters, one large envelope. One little sweet granny probably wrote several to ensure every police officer got one. Just a view of another potential explanation.
But why would anyone want to do that? They've not done anything worthy of it. Doesn't make sense.
Load More Replies...That is what happens if you only permit your DUMBEST idiot folks to join the police force of your country, racism and abuse of power. Aka also the reason no other country has so much trouble with their police force, because we don't give baboons power and authority and save their asses in case they majorly f**k up. Then again, I live in Europe and not the middle ages so the people here have an average IQ above bread, contrary to the US it seems.
This is like those “Bae took this pic of me while sleeping“ where you can see it's obviously a selfie. Just sad.
This just proves once again: Having a minimum IQ level is not required to be a police officer. Being dumb, muscular and able to kill are much more appreciated in the US police force. On a side note: Liking doughnuts is certainly a plus.
The average IQ of a police officer is 104 - that's not hyperbole. If this stupid stunt doesn't show the the entire vetting process needs to change, that they have to stop hiring low IQ sadists with a chip on their shoulder, then nothing will. If these cops were anyone else, they'd make the stupid criminal hall of fame for trying to pass this off as legit.
Still trying to figure out why the "note" is written on the envelope and not on the cards themselves....
Did it occur to anyone that maybe just maybe a church group or other group had a table going where you could write a thank you to the police and they were hand delivered? Maybe people didn't write anything on the front of the envelope so the organizers did it themselves? I once set up a table at work with a slew of blank cards that people could write a thank you to soldiers and I ended up writing thank you or other messages on the envelopes otherwise they would all be blank. People wrote in the cards but not on the envelopes. I also hand delivered these to the local VA hospital, so why is it impossible to think that this may be the same thing with these thank you cards? Is the world that cynical that we can't possibly believe that some people do appreciate the police?
What is perhaps most surprising is that the officers who did this know how to write. Not well, but still... This is one sick police department. All they need is a "Mission Accomplished" banner, which they apparently can make for themselves. Personally I plan to have mine ready for November 4, 2020.
There are multiple people in my community with "I stand with the badge" signs out front of their lawns. This isn't so hard to imagine. I support the majority of the police force because the majority of them are good people who genuinely want to protect and serve their community. Remember people, when you use blanket statements, you are intentionally throwing blinders on yourself.
You haven't even met a majority of the force. As someone who has had to call the cops, and someone who has had the cops called on me (for standing on a sidewalk--lady had mental issues), I know first hand that they don't treat victims very well.
Load More Replies...Wow. Even when they murder defenseless people? No matter what??
Load More Replies...It's unfortunate that they get called pigs - pigs are very intelligent.
Load More Replies...The Trump tactic of not taking responsibility for any of your downfalls, and then congratulating yourself while egregiously lying to the public.
And being narcissistic enough to believe that you will get away with it because you are obviously much smarter than anyone else.
Load More Replies...Hilarious. You can see how the writing is the same. Can't even fake simple thing properly lol
Well, on the plus side we probably don't have to worry about them pulling off frame-ups. Not that they wouldn't try, but they'd do it so poorly a five year old could see through their "evidence".
And we would have gotten away with too if it weren't for you pesky Twitter users.
The Austin police department also likes to shoot people's non-threatening dogs when answering calls.
This isn't this particular PD's first desperate image-control measure. Consider the beating they're taking for #1: Firing LTL rounds at a protester who merely threw a water bottle, #2: Hitting a completely unrelated protester, Justin Howell, instead, and #3: Directing those trying to get medical help for Justin to the police HQ, then firing on his rescuers as they approached. They're rightly terrified. (Good.)
We do this with our youth group for different organizations (like FD, assisted living communities, etc). Lots of letters, one large envelope. One little sweet granny probably wrote several to ensure every police officer got one. Just a view of another potential explanation.
But why would anyone want to do that? They've not done anything worthy of it. Doesn't make sense.
Load More Replies...That is what happens if you only permit your DUMBEST idiot folks to join the police force of your country, racism and abuse of power. Aka also the reason no other country has so much trouble with their police force, because we don't give baboons power and authority and save their asses in case they majorly f**k up. Then again, I live in Europe and not the middle ages so the people here have an average IQ above bread, contrary to the US it seems.
This is like those “Bae took this pic of me while sleeping“ where you can see it's obviously a selfie. Just sad.
This just proves once again: Having a minimum IQ level is not required to be a police officer. Being dumb, muscular and able to kill are much more appreciated in the US police force. On a side note: Liking doughnuts is certainly a plus.
The average IQ of a police officer is 104 - that's not hyperbole. If this stupid stunt doesn't show the the entire vetting process needs to change, that they have to stop hiring low IQ sadists with a chip on their shoulder, then nothing will. If these cops were anyone else, they'd make the stupid criminal hall of fame for trying to pass this off as legit.
Still trying to figure out why the "note" is written on the envelope and not on the cards themselves....
Did it occur to anyone that maybe just maybe a church group or other group had a table going where you could write a thank you to the police and they were hand delivered? Maybe people didn't write anything on the front of the envelope so the organizers did it themselves? I once set up a table at work with a slew of blank cards that people could write a thank you to soldiers and I ended up writing thank you or other messages on the envelopes otherwise they would all be blank. People wrote in the cards but not on the envelopes. I also hand delivered these to the local VA hospital, so why is it impossible to think that this may be the same thing with these thank you cards? Is the world that cynical that we can't possibly believe that some people do appreciate the police?
What is perhaps most surprising is that the officers who did this know how to write. Not well, but still... This is one sick police department. All they need is a "Mission Accomplished" banner, which they apparently can make for themselves. Personally I plan to have mine ready for November 4, 2020.
There are multiple people in my community with "I stand with the badge" signs out front of their lawns. This isn't so hard to imagine. I support the majority of the police force because the majority of them are good people who genuinely want to protect and serve their community. Remember people, when you use blanket statements, you are intentionally throwing blinders on yourself.
You haven't even met a majority of the force. As someone who has had to call the cops, and someone who has had the cops called on me (for standing on a sidewalk--lady had mental issues), I know first hand that they don't treat victims very well.
Load More Replies...Wow. Even when they murder defenseless people? No matter what??
Load More Replies...It's unfortunate that they get called pigs - pigs are very intelligent.
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