Originally posted by Omega Vision
I think the onus should be on police departments to do more to engage their communities. Bring back foot patrols and more outreach programs, more scrutiny of racial prejudice in hiring, and an end to the culture of impunity that you've pointed out in your post. In communities where the police have adopted these measures, we don't see nearly as much tension and mistrust.http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2015/08/12/black-lives-matter-police-reform-rich-barlow
I agree, but would like to add that ALL departments should test recruits for explosive anger tendencies. I'm sure there is a much more technical way to say that but I'm drunk.
The Bama police officer who was sucker punched and pistol-whipped by a black thug reveals real reason why he didn't shoot the assailant:
You can thank Obama's liberal race-baiting media for making this cop being in fear of doing his job properly and shooting the ****er when he had every right and justification to.
Indeed- the idea that a police officer has any type of right to shoot dead an unarmed suspect (not even committing a major crime) is morally abhorrent.
The whole excuse is nonsense anyway- when was he otherwise thinking he would have shot him? Before he got incapacitated by the punch? Shooting the guy before he even started fighting is a bit much even for the recent US police record. So after, then- when he had already been incapacitated and the other guy had got the gun? Clearly impossible.
So this is just a nonsense excuse.
What right? Why a right? What did the person do to deserve shooting- particularly BEFORE he beat the cop up? Please note that hitting people is not a capital offence. It's something that needs you to be overpowered and restrained, not shot.
It is gibberish to suggest unarmed suspects are a reason for cops to carry guns, let alone use them. You don't need guns to police unarmed people, and using lethal force on an unarmed person resisting arrest is grossly disproportionate.
By a LONG way, it is what you are suggesting that is uncivilised and a disservice to society.
He had no moral right to shoot him at all.
People better start learning to appreciate police officers doing their job properly or else they'll start adopting the attitude "To Hell with all of you" when we need their help. They might even walk away from their jobs completely. It's not like they make a shitload of money putting their lives in danger and now with the media and government putting them in fear of doing their jobs the right way people would have to be crazy to work as a police officer.
I agree that good police officers should be celebrated, but bad officers especially have to be monitored, or else no one will be able to tell the difference, which is exactly what is happening. Police departments have to be responsible and punish bad cops or it makes them look like they don't care and thus it makes all cops look bad, which is again what is happening.
Americans were willing to take their chances fighting Natives than live under the unfair oppression of the British for protection. Think they will wont do the same towards our police forces? This is America. Freedom will always be valued over security, as seen by the recent NSA scandal. It's our way.
Originally posted by Star428
People better start learning to appreciate police officers doing their job properly or else they'll start adopting the attitude "To Hell with all of you" when we need their help. They might even walk away from their jobs completely. It's not like they make a shitload of money putting their lives in danger and now with the media and government putting them in fear of doing their jobs the right way people would have to be crazy to work as a police officer.
Don't try to tell me that cops aren't trained to overcome suspects using non-lethal methods like tasers, clubs, or arm locks. This cop just got overpowered and now he's trying to save face by claiming he'd have shot the guy if not for fear of media shaming, which shows that not only is he incapable of acknowledging his own incompetence but he also thinks he's entitled to use deadly force against an unarmed perp.
More riots in St. Louis after police killed a black suspect who fired on them:
So basically, cops no longer have the right to defend themselves against thugs cause if they do a bunch of animals will loot and burn the town down. 🙄
Anyone who actually wants to be a cop nowadays needs to have their head examined. 👆
Anyhow, if anyone doesn't want to read the story, Star is overreacting again.
Cops shot and killed a black man who they claim fled a house being raided and then drew a gun on them in an alley, a crowd gathered at the scene, some civil unrest was had with people throwing bottles and bricks, a few thefts were tried by opportunist, a car was burned, nine people ended up being arrested. Very small by comparison with last year's riots.
150 people came out in protest and support of a dead armed criminal.
Damn blacks. They're such savages. It's not as though the media actively traps them in a violent lifestyle by paying millions to rappers to sing about violence and not promoting more socially conscious rap, resulting in violent rap being what most black people hear and thus what influences their behaviour.
Funny you lobby all this hatred towards blacks, but not the white CEOs who created the "thug" culture by only signing and paying violent rappers and making gangsta rap mainstream instead of other more socially conscious rap. Hard for blacks to hear a positive message and change their behavior when the media is purposely suppressing that message and instead spreading one of violence and ignorance.
Why do you think you're far more likely to hear, say, Rick Ross on the radio than, say, KRS One? If KRS One style rap has more dominant media play, do you really think hip hop culture would be as violent as it is? It is ultimately CEOs who choose what music to produce, and again,they knowingly hire violent rappers over socially conscious ones. So don't criticize black violence and ignore the role of the presumably white CEOs who created the violent culture to begin with.