Stephanie Beatriz and Griffin Newman Urge TV Cops To Donate To Bail Funds

[just444]

Stephanie Beatriz and Griffin Newman are donating $22,000 to bail funds, and are urging TV cops to reciprocate https://t.co/k7mBbZwhac
- Vulture (@vulture) June 2, 2020
Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Griffin Newman (The Tick, played a cop on Blue Bloods) each donated $11,000 to the Community Justice Exchange and are urging other actors

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[britneyspears]

mte...

[jaydestarlight]

i say this as a stephanie beatriz fan but.......she has the ability to donate more and i'm disappointed she didn't

[bellwetherr]

i mean i was definitely thinking this

[meganlynn09]

It took me way too long to realize the damage cop shows have done.

What it normalizes (police brutality for one), the messages they send (like peddling the idea that innocent people being questioned don't need lawyers). It's all bullshit and this is the least cop/military actors can do.

Though I'm sure she can do better than $11,000.

[britneyspears]

cancel all cop shows and replace them with dmv shows

[missjersey]

Or about working in restaurants. It's insane how most of what happens in "Waiting" is close to how it's like to be a waiter lol

[daijouboo]

Kitchen Confidential was also a lot of fun.

[ben_superdetka]

I loved that one!

[crash31]

Maybe I’m just not intelligent enough but I recently binged all of B99 and I guess I didn’t read into it deep enough to see it how it’s described here.
I just took it for being a surface silly show with characters that happen to be cops. I do watch a lot of other police related shows that I guess are just more obvious in their propaganda.

[caitiecait]

I don’t think it’s not being intelligent enough. It just means that its purpose is being served. You are meant to think “oh this show is harmless and silly” and then people think cops are the same way. Which is not true.

[crash31]

True. I genuinely feel bad for people who REALLY believe that TV is even close to real life. I think the combination of life experience + common sense allows me to separate it a bit?

[msbombtastic]

With b99, I don't think it's the idea that the writing itself pushes copaganda like other shows might (such as Blue Bloods) but it does cast all of the cop characters in a generally good light. It has touched on police corruption before (not too deply) but also tries to showcase their precinct as a beacon of "real justice" and what "real" cops would do, so I can definitely see how it's a mild form of copaganda now and I really enjoy the show.

I liked the episode where Terry is profiled; Holt's reaction, their sort of back-and-forth and Holt's conflicted emotions - I wish they dug deeper into that. They should continue to include more eps like that imo

[zibbydoo324]

I posted this in roundup and didn't get any replies so if that happens again, read the room zibby but I want to do a bunch of smaller donations today.
I'm hoping for at least 20 places to donate. It can be gofundme's by people you know who have been effected by all of this. It can be political to help get trash out of office.
If you have anyone you want to amplify, please let me know!

[britneyspears]

here’s a way to donate to a bunch of bail funds at once: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

[zibbydoo324]

Thank you!
I just did that!

[chocolatebird]

thank you!