This is NOT an isolated incident – But man O’ Man has it ever opened up a conversation fraught with third rail politically correct fear.

First the media report from CNN (and make sure you watch the video to understand the concern):

(CNN) The diapered child is bombarded with obscenities and racial slurs by the adults around him.

The African-American toddler knocks down a chair and gives nearly as good as he gets, responding to some of the comments with an upraised middle finger and telling one of the adults at one point, “Shut up, bitch.” The adults laugh and prompt him to repeat other crudities.

Just another day on the Internet — until the police union in Omaha, Nebraska, posted the clip on its website to highlight what it called the “cycle of violence and thuggery” the community faces.

Now, the Omaha Police Officers’ Association is under fire from the city’s police chief, the ACLU and at least one community leader. They say the move needlessly antagonizes the city’s minority communities, who make up about a quarter of Omaha’s 409,000 residents.

Sgt. John Wells, the union’s president, said the video was “disturbing” and “offensive.”

“The focus here isn’t on any particular ethnic group. The focus here is on the troubling behavior towards this child,” Wells said. “This behavior is going to potentially lead this child down a path that is completely unhealthy.”

On the website where the video is hosted, the union said the clip came from “a local thug’s public Facebook page.”

“We here at OmahaPOA.com viewed the video and we knew that despite the fact that it is sickening, heartbreaking footage, we have an obligation to share it to continue to educate the law abiding public about the terrible cycle of violence and thuggery that some young innocent children find themselves helplessly trapped in,” the police union wrote in a post accompanying the video.

“Now while we didn’t see anything in this video that is blatantly ‘illegal,’ we sure did see a lot that is flat out immoral and completely unhealthy for this little child from a healthy upbringing standpoint,” it added. (continue reading)

A couple of issues need to be corrected. The police department did NOT post the video to the internet – the people who took the video were the people who posted it to social media.  Secondly the word “thug” is not synonymous with “black”, and it’s ridiculous to try and stop a conversation by banning a word because it makes the discussion uncomfortable.

That said, and despite the above, here is another perspective, and one worth considering:

Interesting to read the comments attached to the second video – HERE