I'd say this was a sad tragedy and a good case of an officer overreacting - it's the closest thing to an execution I've seen. However, I have significant concerns with using a small sample size to support the conclusion that police are routinely gunning down blacks. The #1 killer of African Americans is African Americans and that's not an aberration. It's odd to me to see an entire race outraged when an officer shoots a man that's armed, resisting arrest, and disobeying officers commands but stay silent when it's black-on-black crime. Two children under there age of 3 were gunned down during a drive by over the weekend, the 3 year old killed and the 15 month old severely injured, but because a white man wasn't behind the trigger BLM doesn't care - not to mention Obama stays silent, but attends Michael Brown's funeral - it's all just so hypocritical to me. Won't be surprised if Obama skips the Dallas officers funeral too, like he did Chris Kyle's.Ski_the_Moguls wrote:What would you call the Laquan McDonald shooting in Chicago?
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What has changed recently is the proliferation of good cell phone cameras. This kind of racial prejudice has always been happening to the black community here in America, now they have proof. Yet even with the video proof, the cops are still, in the vast majority of cases, getting away with murder. Can you really blame African-Americans for being angry? How about we try to fix the problem (i.e. racial profiling and excessive use of force by cops) rather than continuing to blame the victims?
I understand that being a cop is a very difficult and dangerous job. I understand that mistakes are going to happen. What the cops need to understand is that circling the wagons and protecting the bad cops is no longer sufficient when there is video evidence of the crime!
You make the assertion that cops are murdering blacks and getting away with it - can you site some cases?
I don't blame African American's for being angry. I don't blame them for protesting. I agree with their/own cause for equality - every man and woman is created equally - and should be treated equally. However, I don't support BLM or other organizations that use their anger to attack or kill other human beings. Just yesterday at a BLM protest an officer vertebrae was crushed by a concrete block - that's the kind of sh*t that will divide our nation further. The million man march was moving, BLM is nothing more than a terror organization.