"We got a Trumper right here." Shoots him dead.
Portland is a **** hole
Right-wing jerks make everything worse.
"We got a Trumper right here." Shoots him dead.
Portland is a **** hole
Especially the ones with paintball guns and bear spray.Right-wing jerks make everything worse.
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Yes brother. I love it. Keep stirring the pot. We will get what we want soon enough.Right-wing jerks make everything worse.
Didn't see this one yet. Black man shot in LA. Seems weird.
Protesters gather after LA sheriff's deputies shoot Black man during confrontation
Protesters gathered in South Los Angeles on Monday night after sheriff's deputies shot and killed a Black man who they say had a handgun and was fighting with them. The shooting occurred Monday afternoon after two deputies pulled over a man who was riding a bicycle in violation of vehicle laws...news.yahoo.com
Stopped the guy for riding his bike against code (?) And then a chase ensued. The guy apparently dropped a gun, and when they saw it on the ground they shot him.
You know how often I see people riding their bikes against "code"? Pretty much all the time. That seems like a weird stop unless something else prompted it.
You can count on Archie Moses to justify the shooting of black people. He'll condemn it generally, but manages to downplay just about every individual case.
You can count on One Brow to condemn the justified shooting of a rapist who was harassing his victim against a protective order, resisting arrest, endangering the lives of 3 innocent children in a vehicle, the police, and everyone around, and lunging into a vehicle for who knows what.
Who cares about the real victims here. Rape happens in nature all the time amirite.
I don't want to live in a police state.
If the guy isn't directly threatening the police or anyone else, they shouldn't be shot. If Blake were arrested without being shot (I know, we wouldn't be talking about him) you would hear zero complaints from me.
The police figure out how to avoid shooting people in other European countries and still manage to keep people safe.
For that matter, the police in this country can figure how to avoid shooting white people and still keep people safe.
That's quite the stretch of the imagination.
Dangerous, violent, disorderly, resisting arrest, lunging for something, who knows what threats he made.
Discounting all other relevant factors eh Eric? Far fewer guns? Stronger social support systems decreasing crime? Less stringent jail sentences don't reduce resisting arrest? None of these have anything to do with it, is that what you are saying? Their cops are nicer, plain and simple?
Tell that to the families and friends of white people shot under similar circumstances.
If the police can shoot anyone even when they are not a threat, how much further do we need to go, in your opinion?
I agree those are all factors, as well. European countries also seem to have a different police culture.
With less frequency. We both know anecdotes are not data. We also both know that police pull over, search, and arrest black people disproportionately. Do you really believe that this differential policing suddenly stops when it coming to pulling out weapons or firing weapons?
Agree to disagree. There's no point in disgussing this since you disregard all actions leading up to imminent danger. It used to be a simple concept to not resist arrest and reach fir an unknown weapon or object.
A police state is a government that exercises power through the power of the police force. Originally, a police state was a state regulated by a civil administration, but since the beginning of the 20th century it has "taken on an emotional and derogatory meaning" by describing an undesirable state of living characterized by the overbearing presence of the civil authorities. The inhabitants of a police state may experience restrictions on their mobility, or on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force that operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.
Not even anecdotal yet, but I'll hear you out.
You are being intellectually lazy here. Because a and b, then c must be true in this circumstance.
B. Police do not use deadly force disproportionately against blacks than whites. I'm sure you are as surprised to find this as I was. Seeing events like the Wallmart bbgun kid being murdered make it look wholly untrue, but from the study in the link above, it is not. Here it is again for those who missed it. Pay attention to the economist and his motives going in, I think they are relevant:
Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings (Published 2016)
Contradicting conventional wisdom: When it comes to the most lethal form of force, a study finds no racial bias.www.nytimes.com
Our results have several important caveats. First, all but one data set was provided by a select group of police departments. It is possible that these departments only supplied the data because they are either enlightened or were not concerned about what the analysis would reveal. In essence, this is equivalent to analyzing labor market discrimination on a set of firms willing to supply a researcher with their Human Resources data! There may be important selection in who was willing to share their data. The Police-Public contact survey partially sidesteps this issue by including a nationally representative sample of civilians, but it does not contain data on officer-involved shootings.