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This is nothing new. I personally have respect for law enforcement however this MUST change. Black people are treated differently by law enforcement and may police officer abuse their authority.
Having black skin is NOT a crime. This MUST stop. It happens every day. Black people are reaching the breaking point. If you do not like or even hate black people then you should not be a police officer in predominantly black areas. This is not about GOOD police officers, its about the rotten apples.
I understand that law enforcement is a low paid and often thankless job but police officers must stop taking out their anger and frustrations on citizens. Change must come in the way in which officers treat the community AND the improvement of the training and salaries of police officers as well.
I know that many of the usual suspects will go off of the topic but this is about changing the manner in which law enforcement interacts with the communities that they police. This thread is about ideas and solutions. Please keep it moving if you have neither to offer.
There are cuts in the video and we don't know why the police were called in the first place.
Let me ask you a question OP: do you think black skin is the reason this happens? If so, why don't we hear about this happening with southern Indians, many of whom are darker than black Americans?
Again, this thread is about ideas and solutions. Please keep it moving if you have neither to offer.
I'm trying to get at the solution. Do you really think blacks get more attention from the police because of the shade of their skin? That's the only reason?
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Don't commit crimes, never meet a cop.
I don't commit crimes but I have to interact with cops all the time. If it isn't petty criminals attacking my business, then it's drug houses in my neighborhood or where I own apartments.
So I have no choice - and the problem is about half the time police treat ME as the problem, not the victim or the solution. We are on their side, we support them, but we (the leaders of communities) are still seen like everyone else, as criminal who just haven't been caught yet.
This is nothing new. I personally have respect for law enforcement however this MUST change. Black people are treated differently by law enforcement and may police officer abuse their authority.
Having black skin is NOT a crime. This MUST stop. It happens every day. Black people are reaching the breaking point. If you do not like or even hate black people then you should not be a police officer in predominantly black areas. This is not about GOOD police officers, its about the rotten apples.
I understand that law enforcement is a low paid and often thankless job but police officers must stop taking out their anger and frustrations on citizens. Change must come in the way in which officers treat the community AND the improvement of the training and salaries of police officers as well.
I know that many of the usual suspects will go off of the topic but this is about changing the manner in which law enforcement interacts with the communities that they police. This thread is about ideas and solutions. Please keep it moving if you have neither to offer.
Of course they are, and its going to get a lot worse, thanks to groups like BLM, who has openly declared "War" on all Police in America.
As long as Black folks allow these people to represent them, nothing will get any better, only worse, and relations between Blacks and Whites will return to the days of the KKK, since BLM is the New KKK. These people are abusing their freedom, and the freedom of others.
This is not about Good Black people. This is about the rotten bad apples that will spoil the entire basket. I understand that some are frustrated and angry, but they have to stop taking out their anger in violence, and illegal acts, like thugs and criminals. All that does is turn people against them.
Your going to see a change in the way Police act, and I hope they do. They should not respond to calls in Black neighborhoods, since its unsafe for them now. Cities should be able to declare Martial Law at the first sign of violence in a Protest, and Officers given the right to use Deadly Force against Looters and Rioters. This would lead to Peace, and a lack of Bad Apples.
Philando Castile was stopped because he supposedly resembled a fresh robbery suspect.
Heck, I was stopped by a cop (#2) five minutes after I got off a bus because I resembled a suspect who had just done something across town - description had been radioed by cop #1. Cop #2 who stopped me radioed in, ran my name, no warrants, described me in greater detail to cop #1 who said Nope. So 15 minutes of my time was wasted because cop #2 thought I matched the description reported by cop #1.
Ever heard of Driving While Black? How about Driving While Poor? At night, it is harder to discern the color or race of a driver who has windows up. But it is easy to discern or to infer a driver's socioeconomic class because the car they are driving just oozes with socioeconomic clues. (e.g. wealthy people don't drive clunkers.) Drivers are sitting ducks for cops who have animus toward a racial, ethnic, or economic group. Don't need to commit a crime to meet a cop.
p.s. some data exist on black drivers stopped by police because blacks have been able to get the data tracked, but we'll probably never know how many poor people get stopped because poor people are powerless and can't get that tracked, and we can't know how many black drivers get stopped for being poor rather than for being black.
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