The Media love to sensationalize it when a black man is killed by the police.
The outcry is usually pretty much the same when these tragedies happen.
Yet it should NOT be the same. Every shooting is different and must be treated as unique.
For those who know the law and are familiar with police procedures, it's easy to see that most, if not all, of the shootings of the past couple of years have ended with the CORRECT outcome.
Yet the Media lump them all together and, if anything, push the notion that the police are at fault.
Because that's where the money is........demonizing police is how you keep the ratings high.
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Ever situation involving competing interests have different interests. When you say the "CORRECT outcome" the question that begs to be answered is correct for whom? For the police? For the establishment? For the victim? For the citizens?
The fact is that the law enforcement community does not really represent the interests of the citizens. They claim to, but their real constituency is the establishment. The establishment is the alliance of the government and the oligarchs who own and control them.
The divide is really not between the criminals and the non criminals, it is between the rich and the poor just as it always has been.
The job of the police is to maintain an environment in which the rich can exploit the poor, and in return they are allowed to have special privilege like beating and killing whomever they choose without fear of prosecution.
The sad reality is that there are so many guns around, our cities remain violent, so cops are understandably scared. Any traffic stop can prove fatal. Yet on the other hand, black parents still give their sons "the talk," the reminder that they are viewed as dangerous.p, which still must break hearts to tell your kid he is less human. I am a swarthy-ish white guy. Mistaken for a Puerto Rican, three plain clothes cops trained guns on me and cursed at me. They never identified themselves. I almost ran.
In a previous job I used to visit prisons. Lot of white guys there. Also a lot of white guys on death row, so it's is established that white people break the law. Have to assume it happens sometimes, but I don't recall reports of unarmed white gusy shot in the back by police.
XBad luck being swarthy-ish. Young black men (at about 6% of the general population) kill about 43% of the cops killed. (FBI Statistics.)
No wonder cops are cautious and quick to shoot. They're dealing with the deadliest demographic in existence.
Yes, white guys do get shot by police, but police aren't as concerned with whites for the reason above.
Which is entirely logical and understandable.
Oh......and, don't blame guns. We had plenty of guns around in the 60s, 70s and 80s and the killing was nothing like it is today. Things have changed. Inner city violence has gone nuts.
Place the blame where it belongs.......on violent, vicious, psychopathic and hopeless people who choose to do crime and have no moral or ethical foundation.
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The Media love to sensationalize it when a black man is killed by the police.
The outcry is usually pretty much the same when these tragedies happen.
Yet it should NOT be the same. Every shooting is different and must be treated as unique.
For those who know the law and are familiar with police procedures, it's easy to see that most, if not all, of the shootings of the past couple of years have ended with the CORRECT outcome.
Yet the Media lump them all together and, if anything, push the notion that the police are at fault.
Because that's where the money is........demonizing police is how you keep the ratings high.
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I tend to think that unarmed white guys get away from fleeing cops cause cops instinctively know that there is a bigger price to pay if they shoot. Give me the examples of unarmed white guys shot in the back. By your totals of police killings, half of these deaths should be white.
The Media love to sensationalize it when a black man is killed by the police.
The outcry is usually pretty much the same when these tragedies happen.
Yet it should NOT be the same. Every shooting is different and must be treated as unique.
For those who know the law and are familiar with police procedures, it's easy to see that most, if not all, of the shootings of the past couple of years have ended with the CORRECT outcome.
Yet the Media lump them all together and, if anything, push the notion that the police are at fault.
Because that's where the money is........demonizing police is how you keep the ratings high.
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Very Wise words...and of course you are 100% right. Now Imagine the Black guy as a white guy and Police as Muslims/black or brown...Would you advocate the same instance by instance with any media hype?
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Those are not MY totals, those are government statistics.....Young black men (at about 6% of the general population) kill about 43% of the cops killed.
What deaths are you talking about?
White guys aren't being shot (as often) because they're not trying to kill cops.
Black guys are being shot because they're trying to kill cops (as those government statistics clearly show).
Trying to kill a cop will get you shot.
This is the way of the world........anywhere in the world.
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Only 43%...
ONLY........ONLY??? 43%????
FORTY-THREE PERCENT SHOT BY SIX PERCENT?????????????
DON'T YOU GET HOW OUT OF PROPORTION THAT IS????????
Please......think about it.
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Of course it's out of proportion. What's your point?
You have a strange mixture of truth and fantasy here.
"Correct" simply means justice was served. A just decision was rendered.
You say law enforcement does not represent the interests of the citizens. Depends on the citizens. If they're criminals or criminal sympathizers like BlackLivesMatter, then law enforcement certainly doesn't represent their interests.
If it comes to me (a citizen) law enforcement certainly DOES represent my interests.
Your statement that police have "special privilege like beating and killing whomever they choose without fear of prosecution" is clearly ludicrous.
Police are often prosecuted, fired, punished and even sometimes sent to prison for beating and killing in the line of duty that was adjudged excessive and unwarranted.
You are correct that there is, as always, a divide between rich and poor......but that's an easy one.......taking it farther and portraying police as being above the law due to their agreement with the rich is fantasy.
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It's always Sensational when an Un-Armed Human Being is shot Multiple Times ... Always.
It's The Principle reason why every time I leave home, I'm Armed.
In my 50 years, I've never once worried about any encounter with a Thug, even though I've regularly gone in and out of Chicago worst Neighborhoods for most of my life. My Father was a Cop, and I have multiple friends and family who are trained Law Enforcement Processionals. The one thing my Family and friends all know, they will never have to worry about reading that I was an Un-Armed Victim.
you carried in Chicago before it was legal to do so?
... and as predicted, a Texas Police Officer is Fired and Charged with Murder with shooting in to a Car with his Shotgun, killing a 15 year old honor student.
... because he "feared" for his life. :roll:
Your Move.
That's easy to see.
It's GROSSLY out of proportion for six percent of the population to be killing 43 percent of the police officers who are killed.
Taking strong action against that six percent could save a lot of lives.
Instead, the Media and the BlackLivesMatter and their friends the Liberals give that six percent sympathy and treat them like they're the victims.
Tail is wagging the dog. Things need to change.
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You still haven't answered the question. Hard to find sympathy for cop killers, except for some hangers on in the Black Lives Matter movement. But that movement came about because of the perceived or real failure to prosecute white people, including white officers who abused blacks, in a way suggesting that black lives did matter. I can easily find examples of cops who have abused black people and were not punished, dating from the Rodney King incident. Can you find a example of a someone who was caught on tape abusing or killing a cop who wasn't prosecuted?
Pit bulls have demonized themselves by their consistent bad behavior.
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Nope, that is due to idiots that make them that way, every pit I have met is a big teddy bear, There are no mean dogs, just people that make them that way, if one or the other needs to be put down it is the person that created the scared dog.
It would be pretty awful if I could. Would not expect a cop-killer to go free.
Abused black people??? If they were abused it's because they were resisting arrest.
And you know this from what study? You are pretty naive. I was nearly shot by white cops when I thought of running away from them. My bad. Only problem was they were in plainclothes and didn't identify themselves as cops. I thought they were muggers. The world is not as simple as you describe it. Cops are human, subject to all the fears and prejudices that the rest of us have. That is why a statement like "if they were abused it's because they were resisting arrest," is naive... the certainty of that absurdity is dangerous to all of us. Judge each incident on its own.
That's ridiculous.
Read the pit bull thread for numerous incidents where supposedly nice family dogs of good owners suddenly snapped and attacked and maimed or killed a child.
Your rosy pit bull opinion differs from reality.
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