The Police Brutality Thread

[SoCalCoug]

Follow up.

Is it that hard to hit the white guy when there's a black guy in the scene?

[Topper]

Is it that hard to hit the white guy when there's a black guy in the scene?

Special Florida law enforcement officer training: Shoot the black guy first, then ask questions and figure out what he did.

[imanihonjin]

It just keeps getting worse for the police.

http://ktla.com/2016/07/22/video-cap...stop-in-texas/

I cannot believe that in 2016 a police officer would, not only believe, but be so open about his beliefs. Basically, the officer who transported this women to jail stated that police treat black people badly because black people have violent tendencies. Unreal.

[Commando]

It just keeps getting worse for the police.

http://ktla.com/2016/07/22/video-cap...stop-in-texas/

I cannot believe that in 2016 a police officer would, not only believe, but be so open about his beliefs. Basically, the officer who transported this women to jail stated that police treat black people badly because black people have violent tendencies. Unreal.

Heh. In a statement that is shocking to exactly nobody. Maybe if people start admitting their biases the problem can be mitigated.

[wuapinmon]

I cannot believe that in 2016 a police officer would, not only believe, but be so open about his beliefs.

I see you've never lived somewhere where there are a lot of black people. I spend my life cringing and speaking out against white people who assume I'm cool with racist bullshit when there are no black people around. Hell, last week in Buffalo, NY, one of my wife's friend's mom (From Washington County, Utah no less) was at a restaurant, and there were even black people there, and my wife asked her why Buffalo's economy was suffering; I suggested that the St. Lawrence Seaway was a great idea when it was built when Europe need our grain exports, but now that they don't, the Great Lakes ports don't do nearly as much shipping business as they used to, and that has depressed the overall economy of the region. Nope, her response, in a loud enough voice where I'm sure the black people heard her, "I think it's the blacks. That's why we live in Grand Island. They can run their city into the ground and we'll live up here where they can't elect people to ruin where we live." Her daughter actually said, "Why don't you say that a little louder, Mom and start a fight?"

The ability of white people to think racist thoughts about black people--anyone who isn't NORTHERN European white--has been greatly underestimated. I always laugh when white people from homogeneous places react with disbelief at the racism of other white people. A black man, the late Nate Williams, bought a house on our street, and my family was the only one to go greet him when he moved in. THE ONLY ONE. He was a good neighbor. He worked for Macy's for 35+ years, retired, and spent his final years fishing and not controlling his diabetes. He died and his house has been empty since then. I miss him. After a couple of years, after he proved he wasn't "one of those kind" as a neighbor-who-shall-remain-nameless put it, others warmed to him, and when he died, there were several of us at his funeral, the only white people at the black funeral home. Someone actually asked me if Nate had worked for me. When I said that "No, he was my neighbor and I came to pay my respects to him and to his family because I'll miss him" they were almost puzzled, like they couldn't believe that I was serious. I took a huge dish full of beans and rice over to the wake at his house. When I knocked on the door, for a second, there was confusion in the sister's eyes, then she realized who we were, and then a huge smile. We stayed only for about 15 minutes, long enough for everyone to come over and thank us for being there. The crock of beans was twice as much as the entirety of the wake could've eaten, and I insisted that they keep it when we left. Again, disbelief that a white man and woman could be good neighbors. Finally, someone said, "Oh, wait, YOU"RE MARK! He told us about you!" I said, "Yeah, he never did remember my name was Mac, and after a while, I felt it was disrespectful to correct my elder, so I just let him call me Mark."

He told his family about me. Like I was the one <redacted> white man who was nice to him on his street.

That's why that woman got dragged from her car and got slammed to the ground and why that cop felt like he could just say whatever the FHWT to her. The tacit racism of white people in this country is boundless; it's endless, and what's worse---it's expected.

[Commando]

http://okcfox.com/news/fox-25-investigates/police-kill-family-dog-at-childs-birthday-party

What in the bumbling fuck is going on here? Cop enters a property on an improvidently issued warrant in time to shoot the family dog at a 5-year old's birthday party? So who is the real threat to the neighborhood here? GTFO.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

http://okcfox.com/news/fox-25-invest...birthday-party

What in the bumbling fuck is going on here? Cop enters a property on an improvidently issued warrant in time to shoot the family dog at a 5-year old's birthday party? So who is the real threat to the neighborhood here? GTFO.

Any guesses at what color that dog was?!


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[Commando]

Any guesses at what color that dog was?!

Oh it gets better! He saw the dog and returned to his truck to retrieve a rifle to shoot the dog from the other side of the chain link fence.

[wuapinmon]

Oh it gets better! He saw the dog and returned to his truck to retrieve a rifle to shoot the dog from the other side of the chain link fence.

I heard a TV announcer last night say that the cop in Florida who shot the hands up guy actually shot THREE TIMES, but only hit him once.

[wuapinmon]

Anonymous is posting about law enforcement officers and leaders increasingly referring to the current climate as war and civil war, and using terms like "eradicate" and "defeat" against Black Lives Matter groups.

For example, the sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, wrote an op-ed which he headlined, "This is War and Black Lives Matter is the Enemy."
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blo...ouge-civil-war

Read that essay. It's disturbing for its if-you're-not-with-us-you're-an-accomplice mindset.

Now, there's also a call to make Louisiana's new awaiting-the-gov.-signature Blue Lives Matter Bill that makes killing a cop a hate crime by definition, into Federal Law.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/blue-lives-matter-louisiana-hate-crimes-bill-protect-first-responders-n576246

[imanihonjin]

I see you've never lived somewhere where there are a lot of black people.

Ha, okay, whatever you say champ.

[BlueK]

I see you've never lived somewhere where there are a lot of black people. I spend my life cringing and speaking out against white people who assume I'm cool with racist bullshit when there are no black people around.

I agree. I've experienced this same thing many times also in my life. I grew up in Utah and moved to the DFW area as an adult. It's different here. My wife and I have commented with each other that our daughters seem to have no idea whatsoever why they should care about the color of someone's skin, and I'm very happy about that.

[Topper]

I agree. I've experienced this same thing many times also in my life. I grew up in Utah and moved to the DFW area as an adult. It's different here. My wife and I have commented with each other that our daughters seem to have no idea whatsoever why they should care about the color of someone's skin, and I'm very happy about that.

De-escalation is in order.

The difficulty is that there is not just one ethnic segment. Much of the disparity exists within the socioeconomic class of the indigent and the poor, the bottom twenty percent of society. On this board, we may have a few people who have climbed out of that group, but nobody who currently belongs to it. Most of us, who live outside Utah or Southern Idaho, have friends and neighbors of all ethnic groups. Have they experienced some awkward moments where somebody made assumptions about them on the basis of their ethnicity? Most likely, but their lives because of their education has been and is going to be mostly good with diminishing incidents. In the upper socioeconomic groups, society is mostly color blind. You wouldn't have a President, members of Supreme Court, or even our billionaire upper 1% contain members from all ethnic groups, even previously disadvantaged groups if this weren't true.

In the lowest of the socioeconomic groups, the effects of a discriminatory past still prevail. But I don't believe a President parading on tv these differences makes it better or will improve their conditions. The bottom 20% need a new focus how to create income mobility, regardless of ethnicity. It will disproportionately benefit certain ethnicities but should not focus on them.

[wuapinmon]

You wouldn't have a President, members of Supreme Court, or even our billionaire upper 1% contain members from all ethnic groups, even previously disadvantaged groups if this weren't true.

In the lowest of the socioeconomic groups, the effects of a discriminatory past still prevail. But I don't believe a President parading on tv these differences makes it better or will improve their conditions. The bottom 20% need a new focus how to create income mobility, regardless of ethnicity. It will disproportionately benefit certain ethnicities but should not focus on them.

You shouldn't have to be exceptional to escape the effects of a discriminatory present.

[Topper]

You shouldn't have to be exceptional to escape the effects of a discriminatory present.

You don't have to be exceptional, as many of your friends or my friends come from diverse ethnic groups. Economically neither of us is exceptional. You may be in the upper tier of teaching abilities but neither of us are billionaires.

but if you are locked into the lowest group or lowest quintile then, those are where the effects still exist and still exist. They exist in a multitude of ways.