It seems to me that when you get a volatile situations, like the police nervous at confronting people in the course of their duties, or a citizenry angry at injustice, or just those driven by hate having easy access to guns (by police and citizenry) is not going to make the situation safer. Nor do tweet’s like this sent from former Illinois Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh "3 Dallas Cops killed, 7 wounded. This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you."
It doesn't help or make it safer in any way but on the other hand, people (esp in positions of power or leadership etc.) proclaiming their stupid convictions can be very enlightening. It shows these tragedies do not stand on themselves, or are instigated and continued by one kind of group (cops, frustrated folks from the ghetto). It seems a structural societal problem with even nitwits in politics proclaiming the most stupid things we could imagine. It is also deliciously vague at this point although we all can guess what he most likely means with stuff like this is now war (probably didn't mean against all 'black lives matter' demonstrants but sure sounds like that at first instance and you know some of his supporters love this kind of shit), and 'real america'. Twitter though is an easy place to find any kind of verbal dhiarrea and some people are not as important as they are made out to be after such a tweet. Ideally they get the amount of attention they deserve
BLM is a black supremacist hate group and Obama is an absolute disgrace to America, so I completely understand Walsh's anger. That and the fact BLM can tweet anything they want and rarely get censored, what's the big deal here? Fight fire with fire, evidently logic and reason haven't worked with this savages.
Do you crazy much? I don't know what to think but I think foreign intelligence groups love this stuff. Plays into subversion very well. It's their mission to Possibly support and arm rebellion within our land. This is just small stuff and is likely to remain that way. People get twitchy on all sides. I know I fear the police and don't fuck around anymore. But how many people are getting excited and making it much worse? If people could be more zen and get their fantasies out peacefully it would be much better. Life is a fantasy and it's only perfected with acceptance. That is why I do not fully agree with any side. It's impossible to legislate what's right or rebel for what's right!
I really hate this happened because (besides the loss of life of course) the shooting in St. Paul made a lot of people who ordinarily dont pay attention to racism or police brutality take notice - it took a black man with a job to make people wake up, but whatever, i wont nitpick. Then this happens and completely negated this progress. All within 24 hrs of each other.
Because being a little crazy can motivate, a little risk and a lot of reward. Gotta balance with the zen!
What does this mean? The fact is the police kill more white people than black people, but these don't receive the media coverage black deaths do, so people are lead to believe that police are killing black people at a greater rate than white people. This is from The Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-more-whites-than-blacks-but-minority-d/ I really have a seething dislike for the people (especially the media whores) who play up the race angle in these events. It shows people don't know how to think, only react. They''re just mindlessly buying into whatever the media feeds them. The racism is found in the way the media covers these stores, in a way that triggers racial tension by making it a racial issue when it's more than likely an issue of poorly trained police on a power trip. The problem with the police is that they're being militarized to be used against ALL OF US, and all this contrived race bullshit does is muddy the issue. I am against the police, and I am against racist, hate-baiting groups like Black Lives Matter, which receive funding from shady people like George Soros, who benefit off of keeping people divided and against their real, common enemy (like him).
It means no one gives a shit if it happens to a black man who is unemployed or has gold teeth or lives in a bad neighborhood or sells cheap goods without a permit or has a criminal record. When it happens to black people like this I often hear, "eh, they were a criminal, what do you expect?" I agree police brutality and systemic racism are two separate issues, but police brutality is also a huge part of systemic racism. And i really wish people had a better grasp on statistics. Yes more whites than blacks were killed by the police last year. But blacks were killed at a much higher rate proportionate to their population.
And they also commit violent crimes at a much higher rate proportionate to their population. Not racism -- just statistics. When you put yourself in bad situation, yeah, you're probably more likely to get shot.
Looking at the big picture because statistics are always somewhat dishonest unles in a big picture context - they're also more likely to grow up in poverty which leads to a higher crime rate which leads to cops being on edge in their poorer, high crime communities, which leads to police brutality and a higher arrest rate amongst poor blacks which leads to lack of opportunity and a higher rate of poverty and crime. Vicious cycle.
It's culture. Looking up to older guys who seem to have it all going with methods that appear realistic. What's messed up is that the police used a bomb to kill the suspect. I wonder when their going to start calling in airstrikes.
Can we at least agree that our police force should be better trained? Officers should not be shooting to kill in the videos that we have seen. We can play and manipulate statistics until the end of time, but the bottom line is that in all these videos that have been made, we are seeing policemen overreacting (to put it mildly) and taking people's lives. This must stop. Bad seeds must be uprooted. Not placed on administrative leave. We seem be more pressed about smaller issues in this thread given the situation at hand.
[SIZE=12pt]Thing is that now people carry around with them high quality video equipment, in the past incidences still happened it is just the official story told by police in court was usually the one believed by judge and jury, and since it was the one printed in the press it became the ‘truth’ to many of the general public. [/SIZE] [SIZE=12pt]Something similar happened in the UK after the boom in CCTV coverage several trials had to be dropped when the police account of events was seriously undermined by what was recorded by cctv cameras. The police had to adapt.[/SIZE] [SIZE=12pt]I think what is going to happen in the US is that people will turn their video cameras on whenever they come into contact with the police. [/SIZE]
You mean those evil public surveillance cameras that will only be used by those in power against the general public?
Doesn't matter anyway. The media white washes everything. When they do the white wash it just pisses people off more. The left feels not represented and portrayed badly and right is all that's covered. There is a lot of Government influence within the media. They don't want to lose their grip on power. So when something goes wrong it's all Stars and Stripes. It's the basic program.
That is a little shocking, I can understand officers not wanting to put themselves in harms way, but isn't that what they sign on to?
