Originally Posted By utahjosh Did we solve this yet? We have people challenging authority, which leads to police cracking down on illegal behavior, which leads to more authority challenging, which leads to further police action. This pattern needs to be broken or it's only going to get worse.
Originally Posted By HongKongDisneyFreak No. Until we correct the flagrantly unfair financial inequalities and police misconduct against our black and brown American brothers due to thinly veiled de facto racism this destructive cycle will continue. It's incumbent on all of us to do the right thing now, TODAY. Let's not kick this can down the road by waiting for the next generation to fix our mistakes.
Originally Posted By ecdc <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.vox.com/2015/6/7/8744011/mckinney-texas-police-officer">http://www.vox.com/2015/6/7/87...-officer</a>
Originally Posted By ecdc White woman yells racist crap (in Texas, I'm shocked!) to black teens. Black teens tell her to knock it off. White woman gets in black girl's face, then punches her. So naturally, cop tackles a nineteen year old black girl. What a tough guy he must be!
Originally Posted By skinnerbox At least this jerk has been suspended. Hopefully, he will be fired. Jail time would also be nice but not expected: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/07/mckinney-police-pool-party_n_7530164.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...164.html</a> <> A Texas police officer has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation after video surfaced showing one cop pulling a gun on a crowd of teens at a pool party while others handcuffed teenage partygoers. <> More at the link.
Originally Posted By Ivan55 I tell you what! This is why every young colored dude best strap a 9. Because you never know when you need one either againt pigs or black gang bangers. YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT And you gals should get yourselves a 9 too.
Originally Posted By SallyOmalley OMG, where are you from Ivan? Don't tell me Idaho. it's just that you sound like my ex husband. He always bragged about his guns and how the government has files on us. What a way to live! Paranoid much?
Originally Posted By SallyOmalley ++++overcompensation issues++++ Can't be my ex then because he is large. Just saying :- )
Originally Posted By ecdc <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/us/texas-officer-was-under-stress-when-he-arrived-at-pool-party-lawyer-says.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06...ays.html</a> The Texas officer who slammed a 14 year old girl to the ground was "under stress" when he arrived at the scene, according to his lawyer. Gee, it's almost as if some interactions are highly stressful and cause people to behave in ways they might otherwise not, such as being detained by a police officer and fearing you might go to jail, even if you haven't done anything wrong.
Originally Posted By SallyOmalley Fearing going to jail? Ya think! Actually I fear getting punched or tazered or worse the jerk cop shooting my beautiful dogs or children. There is no end to the fear they instill in most of us. I'm a white grown lady with no arrest record and I'm scared to be near these officers. The sherrifs were looking for donations for their "ball" and I laughed in their faces and told them NO and that I would rather fund Gerry fulwell's 3 piece suits before I would give them a dime.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox And the McKinney situation falls deeper into the "What a Surprise NOT" pool: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/10/1392223/-Someone-took-a-look-at-the-guy-who-called-911-because-black-people-were-in-the-pool">http://www.dailykos.com/story/...the-pool</a> <> Someone took a look at the guy in McKinney who called 911 because black people were in the pool. Guess what they found? He's hideous: 911 caller in Texas pool party incident was convicted of torturing animals Sean Toon, who called police to complain about group of black teenagers trying to enter a party on Friday, was jailed for violent behaviour and animal torture The man who called 911 to complain about a group of black teenagers at a pool party in Texas, and defended the controversial police response as a “good amount of aggression”, is a convicted felon who spent time in jail for violent behaviour and torturing animals. Sean Toon was sentenced to more than nine months in jail after pleading guilty to killing and maiming prize farm animals and covering them in paint, according to court records in Texas. He was separately sentenced to two and a half months for an assault. Toon, 33, called police on Friday to allege that a group of predominantly African American young people were climbing over fences to get into a party and cookout at a community pool in his neighbourhood of Craig Ranch in McKinney, a suburb of Dallas. ... In November 1999, aged 18, Toon and three high school friends were arrested and expelled from school after vandalising the agricultural centre of a rival high school district and attacking animals housed there, many of which were owned and cared for by school children. “Cows and pigs were cut and bruised, apparently beaten with wooden boards. And baby turkeys were slain, their limbs torn apart,” the Dallas Morning News reported at the time. Dale Gardner, a teacher in the school district’s agriscience and technology program, told the newspaper: “It was brutal. There’s no way to describe it. I’ve never seen anything like it.” About a dozen prize turkeys, which were reportedly being bred by a student aiming to win money for his scholarship fund, were feared killed. Animals and buildings were covered in green and gold paint, according to reports. These were the colours of Toon’s high school, Newman Smith, whose football team rivalled that of RL Turner High, whose students used the agricultural centre. <> This 911 call was racism, pure and simple. The caller was a white guy. So obviously, the cops believe he's telling the truth about all these black kids who supposedly hopped the fence (they didn't) and crashed a pool party who didn't live in the area (they did) and weren't invited to the social event (they were). And when the cops showed up on the scene, they took this guy's word as gospel and started rounding up the black kids while completely ignoring the white kids and white adults. 'Cuz why would a white person ever lie to the cops about someone who's black? Especially someone who was a convicted felon found guilty of torturing animals? /sarcastic rant
Originally Posted By skinnerbox And there is a bit of good news in this debacle: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/10/1392082/-Woman-Involved-in-Starting-McKinney-Pool-Fight-Placed-on-Administrative-Leave-by-CoreLogic-Inc">http://www.dailykos.com/story/...ogic-Inc</a> <> While the primary focus of the incident in McKinney, TX has been calling for the termination of now resigned Corporal Eric Casebolt, Twitter launched an impromptu campaign to identify the two women confirmed to have made racist comments that led to the fight and the police being called in the first place. The video begins with an adult white woman and what appears to be a much younger African American girl locked in a fight, with each holding the others hair attempting to throw punches. A group of black teens initially act as observers but eventually try to separate the two. Another woman, now known as Tracey-Carver Allbritton, at first seems to be trying to break up the fight, but quickly decides to start throwing punches to the top of the younger girls head. After a few seconds the fight is broken up and both parties go their separate ways. That video led activists on Twitter to ask who were the two women and why hadn't they been arrested, or at least questioned for their role in the fight. At this point they seemed to have slipped under the radar. It didn't take long for that video to be matched up with a Facebook profile linking Ms. Allbritton directly to the incident, and to her apparent employer listed on the account, Bank of America. The tweet sent by Dallas Communities Organizing for Change, an organization who fights for racial justice and police reform, spread like wild fire and eventually forced the banking behomoth Bank of America to conduct an investigation of its own to determine whether or not Ms. Allbritton actually did work for her. Contrary to what is listed on her Facebook profile, Bank of America released a statement online confirming that in fact she didn't work for them, but that she did work for one of their vendors. That vendor company is CoreLogic Inc, a major financial data and analytics firm closely aligned with Bank of America. CoreLogic has been providing various financial and home loan services to Bank of America since at least 2011, which is around the time the U.S. Department of Justice settled a $335 million suit for racially discriminating against African Americans and Latinos in home mortgage lending. While CoreLogic Inc. seems not to be directly responsible for the decision on whether or not to issue home mortgage loans or other financial products to individuals, they provide a comprehensive lender profile and all necessary information needed to make the decision. This includes providing services such as credit profiles, credit reports, home mortgage default services, and analytics on multifamily leasing among others. According to a statement given to the Dallas Morning News, “CoreLogic does not condone violence, discrimination or harassment and takes conduct that is inconsistent with our values and expectations very seriously. As a result of these pending allegations, we have placed the employee in question on administrative leave while further investigations take place." Several calls to confirm if this was actually the case have yet to be answered by CoreLogic Inc. This is seen as preliminary good news by some, but the question still remains as to what her role exactly is with the financial data firm, whether or not she has direct decision making authority over the issuance of loans, and if so, how many African Americans and Latino's may have been denied based on her personal racial bias. <> Hopefully, this woman will never have the opportunity to make professional lending decisions to minority borrowers now or in the future.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 If nominal Christians actually lived Christ's message to love one's neighbor as oneself (including loving one's enemies) and turn the other cheek, then certainly that would help. Unfortunately, nominal Christians have justified brutality and racism using their religion as much as the people of any other religion have.
