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  • adjective Opposed to or prejudiced against the police

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ police

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Examples

  • The July arrest infuriated Mr. Marrow who became famous in the 1990s largely because of his antipolice music who posted a video on the Internet days after to vent to fans about the experience and the police officer who ticketed him.

    Ice-T Arrest Melts on Error 2010

  • DTL -- BART and its passengers are bracing for a 5 p.m. demonstration today at Civic Center Station in San Francisco by people angry that the transit agency cut underground cellular phone service for three hours Thursday evening in an effort to quell an antipolice protest.

    SFGate: Top News Stories dbulwa@sfchronicle.com (Demian Bulwa 2011

  • "We're not antipolice," Make the Road community organizer Jesus Gonzales said at the rally at City Hall Park.

    NYT > Home Page By MEREDITH HOFFMAN 2011

  • Contrary to the tone of the scores of scathing e-mails she's still receiving, Shannon McDonald insists that she is not antipolice.

    Philly.com - Latest Videos 2009

  • When they started working on the case, not only did they find clear-cut Batson violations—a former prosecutor who worked in the DA’s office around the time of Bo’s trial would later testify that the philosophy of his office was, in his own words, “that prospective black jurors at that time were antipolice, antiestablishment, and should not be left on juries”—but they also turned up significant evidence that Bo was innocent of murder.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • When they started working on the case, not only did they find clear-cut Batson violations—a former prosecutor who worked in the DA’s office around the time of Bo’s trial would later testify that the philosophy of his office was, in his own words, “that prospective black jurors at that time were antipolice, antiestablishment, and should not be left on juries”—but they also turned up significant evidence that Bo was innocent of murder.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • When they started working on the case, not only did they find clear-cut Batson violations—a former prosecutor who worked in the DA’s office around the time of Bo’s trial would later testify that the philosophy of his office was, in his own words, “that prospective black jurors at that time were antipolice, antiestablishment, and should not be left on juries”—but they also turned up significant evidence that Bo was innocent of murder.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • When they started working on the case, not only did they find clear-cut Batson violations—a former prosecutor who worked in the DA’s office around the time of Bo’s trial would later testify that the philosophy of his office was, in his own words, “that prospective black jurors at that time were antipolice, antiestablishment, and should not be left on juries”—but they also turned up significant evidence that Bo was innocent of murder.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • But he said "antipolice agitators" who have protested the shooting, and another fatal police shooting in San Francisco, have "revealed their true colors. ...

    SFGate: Top News Stories dbulwa@sfchronicle.com (Demian Bulwa 2011

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