News Snipers In Dallas.

[Deleted member 12723]

Alby my bad, got off topic. I deleted my posts. It was meant to be humorous that is all.

 

[Stickler]

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Philandro was pulled over an average of 3 times a year.
...I get pulled over maybe once a year, usually for hauling ass while white.
The guy I'm fooling around with gets pulled over less and drives even faster..also caucasian...

I think, though, that cops are more apt to pull over raggedy cars, not really nice ones. Just a guess.
I suspect this is an intersection of race and class.

 

[joeylittle]

Yeah... Sorry. I'm all for looking at all sides equally, but racial profiling of black men has been a problem in the US for a really long f*cking time.

I'm sorry anyone dies. I'm sorry for all of it. It's all shitty. All cops shouldn't be lumped into the same pile. Terrorism is never justified.

Too many police officers have killed too many people without legitimate cause in too short a period of time, and too many of the dead were black.

I'm not surprised it's turning into a race war. And it seems like a big waste of time to me to try and point to this conspiracy theory or that factoid. Because all that just creates more division.

I'll stay on the side of, I am sorry for everyone who has died, and I am horrified by the unnecessary, unjustified murders.

 

[Deleted member 28740]

Remarkable capture of event. The shooter sobbing, the 4 year old child giving comfort. Keeping danger from a child come first.

 

[Stickler]

What Joey said.

Look, this is about a pattern.
I get really tired of trying to prove the systemic oppression of black people to white people who don't want to believe it's happening?

So think about this:

There are roughly 42.6 million black people in the United States. Millions of them are confirming they fear police and have been given personal reason to. Or they know some other black person who has.
While individuals may lie...Millions of people do not consistently lie about their lived experience.

But you hear a LOT of white people trying to whitesplain it away, because they have not seen it for themselves.
Trying to deny the legitimacy of the concerns of millions of people.

...When these killings happen, you have millions of black people thinking,"Will I be next? Will it be someone I love next?"

 

[hodge]

The good thing now, Stick, is that people are documenting these things on their phones and spreading it around. It's all out there for anyone to see if they choose. We can't make anyone choose to see it, but it's there. It is incredibly hard to watch, but the evidence is there. You know it. I know it. Anyone who goes there knows it. And, yeah, now that my best friend is gone, it's my job to worry about her sons. They also have a lot of aunts, so it's not solely my job, thank God, but I still worry about them. I never had my own kids, so they're kind of my surrogate kids, even though they're in their 30s now, lol. But, yeah, I think everyday, will they be next?

 

[Neverthesame]

There is a very important aspect of this traffic stop turned shooting, that's being overlooked here.

We can sit behind our keyboards and ponder who did what and why?

At current, no one knows what exactly caused the officer to discharge his weapon into the man driving the vehicle he pulled over, for what began as a broken tail light.

So let's for the sake of argument, knock it down to the most basic thing possible.

Fear.

Why is a police officer feeling compelled to put himself into a situation, where he felt life was so endangered, that deadly force was required?

Or, what about the situation, can he justifiably claim was so dangerous to him that deadly force could be believed in the post shooting investigation?

How could this be corrected?

If one man in a car with an armed police officer, can do something to get the cop to shoot him. What can be done to make the officer in such a situation safe to the extent that deadly force, stops being justifiable?

In such a case, how racist a cop may or may not be. Shouldn't be a factor if he cannot provide enough justification for discharging his weapon. If the situation simply is not dangerous enough to warrant such a use of force.

What sort of things could reasonably make this a reality?

 

[The Albatross]

The cop that shot Castile was Hispanic.

All I'm saying is that the propensity on jumping on the band wagon without first examining some facts is not helping the Black Lives Matter movement.

And the media, much like the page Anthony put up from his paper, is trying to make it a racial issue, even though the image showed law enforcement officers of multiple ethnicity, though however, Johnson's stated goal was to "kill white people".

Meanwhile Lynch, the DOJ made a statement this morning telling protesters not to get discouraged... which is all fine and dandy though there are reports in various areas of bricks, concrete, fire works being shot at or thrown at law enforcement not to mention the continued threat of being shot at. A Baton Rouge Walmart pulled weapons from their shelves it was reported this morning and 7 people were disarmed and detained for being armed at another protest.

Obama want's to activate the federal police now in 6 areas.

I am hardly a white woman who thinks that there is not an issue with racial disparity and that there are doubtless incidents that occur. But I also know that IF the professed goal of the BLM movement is to remedy this... I sure don't see how this is furthering their cause. They would, in my opinion, be better served going through the courts.

 

[Bookoffee]

I am watching django

 

[Ronin]

The cop that shot Castile was Hispanic.

Not contradicting the concrete point.

But please do not use language & ethnical background as synonymous with race or negating it where it may be the case.

There's plenty Latinx & Hispanic Black people around. Don't erase them with one category.

Edited to Add: Just because you're not white does not mean you can't perpetuate antiBlackness, or be antiBlack. Own race doesn't exclude one from perpetuating a stereotype. And for the record, I do acknowledge that's not 'just a non-Black issue'.

 

[RussH]

Our paper today

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I would say that this represents a gross minority of the people here in the United States. We are a country of more than 300 Million people. Most of us work, play, and pray together regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or any of dividing lines. Unfortunately there is this minority that refuses to get along.

If you couple those few with a blatantly bias press that chooses to mis-report incidents as to sensationalize them to sell papers, you get this skewed view of the country by the rest of the world.

I heard a report that one of the police officers that was killed had bought a homeless man a meal the day before, but most of the press did not cover the story because it does not fit their agenda, and stories like this don't sell papers.

Yes, as a country we have issues, but watch and see; the people of the United States will stand together to heal these wounds that a few have caused.

 

[Deleted member 28740]

Police shoot and kill civilians. Who has gone to jail for any these deaths/murders? Use of lethal force fear defense? Training of police? Racism?
Abuse of women and children Oakland Police can't find a clean Chief of Police for underage sex trafficking of child sex. Yes, there are problems in America.