Cop execution ad provokes storm

5th March 2010

An advertisement for a brand of youth clothing got more attention than it bargained for after being slammed by the justice minister, and irate policemen reported it the prosecutor’s office.

The reason for the anger is that the advertisement, which appeared in the magazine Skateboard, showed a skateboarder pointing a pistol at the head of a cowering policeman under the blunt slogan “On your knees, dog!”

Although the advertisement ran in the January/February edition of the magazine, it re-surfaced just days after the funeral of a Warsaw policeman stabbed to death after accosting some hooligans at a tram stop, and its violent tone drew immediate criticism.

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