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Oh yeah, chances are low anything will happen to most people in specific. But it isn't specifically about BLM and I don't agree with your words about it.
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The best part is, the homeless kid had a cellphone. Right... cause when I was broke growing up, I had a ****ing cellphone. A conversation would have sufficed. A non confrontational, conversation. |
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You know, that story about the unarmed naked kid is ridiculous. How can the police not deal with a naked kid. How in the world can a naked guy be armed? Where would he conceal the weapon? I feel bad for people in this situation, but I also feel bad for the cops...the GOOD cops that are being overshadowed by the bad ones. Geez...
Here, I was told that police officers have to be trained in a martial art (judo, Kendo, karate, for example) to deal with unarmed suspects. I thought US cops had training for that too. |
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... And another shooting has happened. This time, it was in Sacramento, California.
He was only twenty-two years old. He was a father of two young children. He had TWENTY shots fired at him, while he was in his grandmother's backyard. I usually stay silent on issues such as these, as I don't want to face the massive, yet inevitable, backlash from people who claim that these types of incidents don't exist in real life. However, when horrific occurrences like these happen, I just can't ignore and shun it away. These can't keep happening. All of this must end. My thoughts are with his friends and family. Let's hope that all involved will get properly reprimanded and punished. |
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People will keep getting shot by police, particularly black, latino, or homeless/mentally ill people, and police will keep getting off without any type of consequence other than a brief period of paid leave. The police in the USA aren't here to protect the average citizen, they exist to uphold the status quo put in place to serve corporate/political interests.
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Prophet Ganja You say that particularly minorities are getting shot when in fact more white people are killed by police than any other race. Also your cynical comment about police protecting corporate/political interests is very insulting and I promise you that most Officers sign on to protect and serve. Also Prophet Cops are not getting "Away" with it. A minnesota cop is being indicated for Murder and a Oklahoma Reserve Cop plead guilty to manslaughter. Unfortunately the National Media is not reporting this, because they want to report divisive or controversial topics or even out at times push a narrative they want to portray. I will be following this closely, bc I am curious to see what happens. I think we need to implement a National Standard with Law Enforcement Training and I think at a early age we need to teach kids not to run from police and to follow their instructions to prevent future tragedies like this.
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Link didn't work for me, do I found some other ones.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKBN1H003T https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/22/u...ing/index.html http://time.com/5209780/stephan-alon...lice-shooting/ It's clear that Black people shouldn't hold anything in their hands in the presence of an American police officer, like ever. Cause a cellphone or a wallet seems to make them piss their pants and think they're in a ****ing Rambo movie. 20 shots, like holy ****, are you serious!? What kind of scaredycat pansy that can't control their trigger-happy finger is this. Absolutely ridiculous, it'd be laughable hadn't been for someone is dead. Car jacker or not, 20 shots. This is why the rest of the world is ridiculing the American police and making them the butt-end of jokes. Quote:
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The officers, who are said to have thought the object was a gun, then fired 20 rounds at Clark. It’s unclear how many of the shots hit Clark, but other facts aren’t in dispute, and they’re disturbing: After the shooting, officers waited several minutes for backup before moving to handcuff Clark and beginning medical treatment. And the only item he turned out to have been carrying was a cellphone." https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/...ing-sacramento Quote:
"According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/do...-black-people/ Also, it probably says a lot about the attitude of cops when some of them will say outright to people they stop "don't worry, we only kill black people". https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/u...e-georgia.html Quote:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/us/po...ses/index.html "Is it really so rare that white police officers serve time for killing black men* and women? According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 70 percent of people charged with some form of killing (including murder, manslaughter, homicide, etc.) in America are eventually convicted. That is what researchers call the “homicide conviction rate.” But when it comes to police, that rate drops precipitously. Bowling Green State University’s Police Integrity Lost project shows that only 29 officers have been convicted for killing on duty since 2005, mostly on lesser charges. Police are 33 percent less likely than a regular citizen to be convicted of a crime, and the conviction rate for cops charged with some form of murder is 35 percent—half that of the normal population. In fact, in the last 13 years, only one officer has been convicted of intentional murder. And in the rare case in which a cop is convicted, the officer hardly ever does time for killing a black man." "Part of the reason for the discrepancy in convictions of police officers is that the justice system is tilted toward them. If the conviction rate for officers charged with homicide seems low, the statistics on how few officers are charged is startling. Most cops never even face charges for shooting black victims. Even though 1,146 lives were ended by police in 2015, not one cop was convicted for an on-duty killing that year. Prosecutors have to work with police departments every day, so many are reluctant to bring charges against the officers who work with them to convict criminals. Even when prosecutors charge the cops, the grand jury process ensures that many officers will never face trial. In most states, when evidence is presented in front of a grand jury, the victim is represented by the state. While this seems legitimate in most criminal cases, in the cases of police shootings, the prosecutors trying to indict the police officers are essentially teammates of the accused." https://www.theroot.com/white-men-ca...the-1796309966 I wonder how much of that is down to compensating for poor accuracy with more dakka.
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https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ables/table-43 People point out the percentage, but ignore fact that Black/African Americans commit THE MOST MURDERS, more than any other ethnicity in the U.S. despite only being 12% of the population. My point being is WE NEED TO STOP ALWAYS BLAMING POLICE AND INTERVENE IN THESE LESS FORTUNATE COMMUNITIES. We need to promote education and give adequate resources so that these young men and woman will turn to crime to begin with. It flat out sucks some of the conditions a lot of these neighbor hoods are in. Another problem is that Officers are mistaking everyday items for guns, especially officers who are in gang units. I will try to find the study, but essentially the study shows that officers who work in the gang unit are more likely to mistake a black man/woman for having a gun, bc of mental shortcuts the brain creates from experience, at least that is the theory.. Quote:
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But I disagree the justice system is not slanted towards cops. Officers jobs puts them in that position by nature, think about it. Most cops are engaged in physical altercations when a police killing happens. Meaning they can easily claim self defense and also because murder requires intent it is hard to make a case for this. Its not just a black thing. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...-daniel-shaver As I said before because of the nature of the job and the fact that murder has to have clear intent or malice it is difficult to convict a cop. You can not find much clearer video. Again if people would simply listen and obey this would not happen nearly as often. Again from the stats and evidence and studies I have seen this is not a race issue and its not always the cops fault. I will reiterate this is why I think we need a national standard for training police officers and I think a special state prosecutor should be assigned to review all cases. Also I think we need to teach kids at a early age to listen and respect law enforcement.
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I don't think you can tell me why most people sign up to be a part of the police force because that is something only the individual in question can know for certain, and they can easily make up a false reason to tell other people. I don't claim to know why most cops chose to become cops but I do know that many of them abuse their power, as studies have shown that power almost always has a tendency to corrupt if left unchecked, plus the evidence presented to us in the news so regularly (unarmed civilians committing dubious crimes and being killed because an officer "feared for their life"). The cop who shot the unarmed Australian woman in Minnesota (who, if I recall correctly, was in fact the person who actually called the police) is facing charges. Is it a coincidence that the cop involved in that incident is black? Let's hope so. That's still only one cop out of the near countless police shootings of civilians that occur each year in America. A person committing a crime is not grounds to murder them, it is simply justification to arrest them and process them through the justice system (which has its own numerous flaws). And so your solution is to enforce compliance with an armed police force by teaching children not to question authority but to simply follow orders? I feel like you would have loved Germany in the 40s. Quote:
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"If people would only listen and obey"... Well that sounds to me like someone who's never run into one of those bunch spoiling bad apples.
Were it that we were all so lucky.
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I am going to try list my Basic Points Below Again.... -We need a National Standard for Police Officer Training. -All States Should have a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute police shootings -We need to teach kids in school to never fight a police officer and how to interact with police. Prophet I am really not trying to take a side and I have my own bias and tendency like anyone else, but I am trying to find solutions to this problem...
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I have unfortunate run into two bad cops in my life, but I did not pick a fight with them despite them wronging me/breaking the law.
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I don't know how to explain statistics to you to make you understand that if black people, who make up a considerably smaller percentage of the US population, face far greater rates of police intervention, brutality, and shootings than other races, that there is some type of disparity there. I guess you're placing the blame on black people themselves, saying that they're bringing it on themselves rather than seeing it as a result of the modern police force being an extension of runaway slave patrols or protection rackets.
Don't worry, I read your posts in their entirety. You're saying that black people are disadvantaged so let's increase "proper community resources", which to me just sounds like you want to increase police presence and enact things like curfew laws or stop-and-frisk policies. Yes, "all lives matter". But the whole point of the Black Lives Matter movement is that black people are killed by police at a disparate rate, while white people in similar situations are typically brought in alive, taken down with nonlethal means. Yes, some white people have been shot by the police. There's that terrible video of the guy in the hotel who allegedly pointed something out of the window and was crawling towards the office on his hands and knees and then the cop shot him anyways (warning, the video is disturbing). That is unacceptable. But still, the fact is that black people are shot at far greater rates. They got shot walking down the street, minding their own business, shopping at Walmart, even for having a broken taillight. Unacceptable. Alright well, I'm not going to continue trying to explain complex sociological issues to somebody who doesn't believe in evolution. I wish you all the best in this thread, I'm going back to the comics subforum.
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Prophet, I don't know where you're getting the idea that he wants curfews, frisking, or any of that bullhockey, or that he misread statistics. He has said nothing of the sort in any of his posts. What he means (and it's quite obvious from context alone) is that communities should work toward EDUCATING and COUNCELING and HELPING those of minorities in poorer neighborhoods to improve consitions so that thwy will not feel a need to resort to illegal activities to survive, and to improve safety and sekf esteem, which are really at the root of the issue. He is saying that people should be TAUGHT that police are there to protect and serve the community, and are not the "enemy", as is the current mindset. Cops should likewise be trained to treat such people just as they would anyone else, and to not be so quick to pull a gun out when facing minorities. How you can so grossly misinterpret that as wanting "more police and stricter rules for minoritie" is beyond me.
I know you have a lot of conspiracy theory ideas about "the Man", but honestly, most police are NOT like that. Most are decent people just trying to do a difficult and often dangerous job for little appreciation from those they serve. There is no police agenda to keep minorities down or whatever. We are living in 2018, not 1918. That kind of thinking is purely based on media-spun divisive propaganda at best, not real-world interactions between the vast majority of people with the law enforcement in their communities.
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Most police are decent people. I've got some in my family.
But some police aren't decent people. I've got some in my family. The problems come when the departments do their damnedest to protect those bad apples. When they're kept on the streets, when they shouldn't be. This is only magnified by the fact that many departments don't have the training to defuse high risk situations, and so they resort to violence to set the situation straight. They're getting military equipment, but not the proper training. Yes, I agree it's a dangerous job, but it's a job they've decided to do. They're supposed to be the Adults in the situation. And while most are, there are some that aren't. If departments across the US truly want people to trust the police implicitly, then they need to be more transparent in dealing with the Few Bad Apples.
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