Silence. Black men kneel for national anthem: HOW DARE THEY! THEY AREN'T PROTESTING RIGHT! THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO BRING ATTENTION TO THEMSELVES! Yeah, we see your hypocrisy, white conservatives.
If I was a cop I wouldn't even consider pulling a black person over even for the most egregious violation. Scratch that I wouldn't even consider being a cop.
I don't quite get that formulation. If a black person commits an egregious violation, it's the cop's duty to pull them over, and if warranted, arrest them. As happens, you know, countless times a day without incident. Actual criminals ought to be apprehended, arrested, and if convicted in a court of law, punished. And nobody says any differently. Are you saying you're worried as a cop you wouldn't be able to resist shooting that black person? I doubt it. So are you saying you're worried you'd do your job correctly but still somehow be prosecuted for it? I don't know of any instances of that happening. Several high-profile cases of cops NOT doing their jobs correctly and NOT being prosecuted for it, yeah. But not the other way around.
If you look at the last statement I said I wouldn't even entertain being a cop. Why would you take a job where the rhetoric is to turn on you. And I know the John Stewart quote but I think even the good cops are getting lumped in with this crap
That's because there's widespread evidence of systemic abuse and issues. If a cop shoots an unarmed person and is prosecuted, we have no problem. I mean, we have a problem, but not a systemic one. But when cops keep doing this, over and over and over and over, and they keep getting away with it, then yeah, some of us are going to wonder what the hell is going on.
Everyone. It's just that unarmed black people get shot more often than unarmed white people - the stats show this. <If you look at the last statement I said I wouldn't even entertain being a cop. Why would you take a job where the rhetoric is to turn on you.> People insisting on not being shot for no good reason does not constitute being "turned on."
Right now there's a distrust of all cops. I wouldn't even tell someone looking for a career to pursue(especially if you're black)
The real question is, is that a valid concern. If so, it needs to be addressed. If not, It needs to be dismissed. Either way, it needs to be looked at. No?
That's what happens when, too often, a cop shoots someone, lies about the circumstances, and then video comes out showing that he did. It's not fair to lump all cops in with that. But that's human nature. The real point is that they could reestablish some trust if the bad cops were prosecuted and convicted. But when they're caught on video and STILL end up getting off, the distrust is magnified.
And today we have the Charlotte police department telling us the videos back up the officer's versions of events...but yeah, they aren't going to be releasing those videos. Because of course they aren't. And people wonder why we complain about systemic issues and the blue code of silence. Want us to stop complaining about how cops do their business? Quit defending bad cops.
Used to analyze and clarify forensic video in a past life - and you better believe they aren't. It would be legal malpractice to do so, and make it very difficult to seat a jury if the thing were to go to trial. One other comment, and please take this in the spirit that it's meant: based on what I've seen so far - if you're going to get outraged about a police shooting, this Charlotte one is a really bad choice.
I'd say given that his wife took out her phone to film and begged the police not to shoot him because, as a black woman, she knows how these things go, it's a pretty damning indictment. No one is saying the guy might not have deserved to have been detained, arrested, etc. Maybe he should have. But shot dead?
"But the video, which was given to The New York Times by lawyers for the family Friday, does not include a view of the shooting itself. Nor does it answer the crucial question of whether Mr. Scott had a gun, as the police have maintained. One of the lawyers, Justin Bamberg, who is representing the family along with Eduardo Curry, said in an interview Friday that the video did not prove whether the shooting was justified or not. Rather, he said, it offered “another vantage point” of the incident." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/us/charlotte-keith-scott-shooting-video.html Also, regarding that police video ... Family of man fatally shot in Charlotte North Carolina say footage is unclear
Well what other solution is there? There could be no officer involved shootings or in few cases harassments and the distrust would still be there. 99% of police do their damndest to help relations and it still won't matter.
