Something has to give in Ohio, because clearly our open carry law doesnt apply to people of color( John Crawford, Tamir Rice, now Paul Gaston).
Just the day before a caucasian man pointed a fake gun at officers, and yet he was taken into custody. We lawfully carry a bb gun, and are gunned down. I am so over the disparate treatment. They are reporting he reached for his, and Im not sure.
What I do know is non minorities can go on killing sprees, and still be brought in alive.
I heard the other day that police are starting to examine the concept of “technically justified, but ‘unnecessary’ officer-involved shootings” with the hope of reducing them. I hope this snowballs into a complete reeducation for law enforcement. Most of the one million cops in this country do their jobs very professionally, but as in flying, medicine, IT protection and so many other areas, constant monitoring and retraining greatly improves outcomes.
But, gosh, didn’t you see the viral Facebook post from the Black man who said he was wearing a hoodie, had a weapon, and the cops were courteous and didn’t kill him?
Of course, he missed the obvious- that he had to make a post that the cops didn’t kill him! How many white men would ever be stopped and think they were going to be killed by the cops? Oy vey 8-|
I don’t know the answer. I don’t pretend to. I do know that we’re doing nothing to actually curb this and very few people (out of the 3xx million in the US) seem to really, truly care about that.
“But, gosh, didn’t you see the viral Facebook post from the Black man who said he was wearing a hoodie, had a weapon, and the cops were courteous and didn’t kill him?”
I didn’t see the post but I’m really glad that he wasn’t killed.
Sorry- I completely meant to link the story. Distracted this morning.
I, too, am glad he wasn’t killed (obviously) but it sickens me that he had to write a facebook post about not being killed because, truly, that shouldn’t be one’s expectation in a traffic stop.
Here’s the story. On mobile, I didn’t realize the story was a few months old.
I will repeat this, by and large, most cops are nice and respectful, as are most citizens. Most stops go off without a hitch. However, there is far too much evidence of bad cops not being punished when they are wrong, and typically the victims are of color.
But when it came to a black guy who ** just had an accident and was visibly disoriented**, their “great restraint” mysteriously vanished:
NINE TIMES. NINE. Because there was danger he would live after the first shot? You had to make sure there was no possibility of him surviving? Why shoot in the first place? Anyone who wastes time complaining about Beyonce’s “racist performance” at the Superbowl when racial stereotyping is a very real thing in 2016 should perhaps re-evaluate their priorities.
put the power back at the lowest levels. Make government accountable to the local community.
That would do a lot to solve these issues. What can a town do when the state police overstep? Nothing. What can the town do if the town police overstep? They can get new police.
iowa is trying to pass a law to let kids carry handguns. and tex-ass is letting kids in college have them too. the addicts are completing losing their minds.
I know cops are in the news a lot for bad behavior. But I literally just had a flat tire out in the middle of nowhere. 2 cops helped me get off the highway with fast traffic all around me and changed my tire for me. I’m so grateful to those nice young men.
While blacks have every right to be upset about the treatment of blacks by the police in many places, you also have to be careful about it being ‘racism’, in the sense that these are all white cops gunning down blacks, usually young black men. Among other things, black cops often have a higher rate of discharging their weapons than white cops do, and in the case in Baltimore, a number of the cops charged with the Freddie Gray death were white. The answer isn’t racism as much as a common mentality among some cops, that the people they are policing are animals and worse,and they are the ones who often are responsible for what we see. I also think that the idea that cops are suddenly declaring open season on black men is also hysteria, in that this has been going on for a long time, and that while it is terrible in 2016 to see scum like the Chief of Police in Ferguson, Missouri, who was the spiritual descendent of Bull Connor,or other cases of misconduct, it also is true there are a lot of cops out there who aren’t like that. I think it is important to keep this issue out there, I think there need to be solutions so we don’t see people dying needlessly, but I also think we need to do it rationally and not go on a witch hunt, either.
