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Yes, i'm pretty sure everyone's individual situation or circumstances are all different. And are they magically supposed think and have the same expectations as you and me? At the end of the day, this has a lot more to do with class than it does race.
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Gotta admit, I kind of admire this. To basically say that black people want to be poor, unemployed and in prison ... and then respond to the inevitable WTF? replies by flipping it around to accuse everyone else of being racist. That's something else.
Are you sure it was a black cop? I ask because the only link I saw didn't make any reference to race and the injured's lawyer said the following: “I have a theory that when you have two black males in a car at 1:30 in an area where they shouldn't be or don't belong, police might act a little more aggressive towards them,” That doesn't necessarily preclude the cop from being black, but it does raise the question.
Not that simple. Even if all of that is true, if it's also true that the officer had retaken control of the situation and Brown's arms were in the air, as has been reported, then the officer is guilty of murder.
Except that account seems to be refuted by several potential witnesses.
I simply said in order for there to be change you have to want change...Where did I say all black people want to be poor? You can't force change on people. You can provide all of the tools possible for change and it still will not make a difference unless change is wanted. If that is a racist statement, than I am flabbergasted.
I swear I'm not being difficult, but do you have a link for that "as it's been reported" part?
I think I saw that in the Advocate while passing the newsstand. I will see if I can verify. The cops are 100% equal opportunity in terms of corruption down here.
If Brown was shot in or around the police car I could buy it. I can buy into Brown trying to grab the weapon but once the officer secured the gun and Brown ran how was the shooting justified? Can't be.
I did some research, slappy, and have yet to find anything stating what some people are claiming other than twitter references.
Quez will be pleased
A lot of war veterans move into police work as well.
Says he was shot once in the car and a number of times outside the car. His body ended up 35 feet from the vehicle. Unless he staggered away after being shot or, they continued fighting outside the car, its kind of difficult to imagine him being a threat 35 feet away from the incident.
Forensics should be able to tell how far away he was when shot. Brown could have continued moving or the officer could have moved towards Brown before firing.
Actually, on the cover it's simple: white cop takes out black teen.
Somebody want to ask the Liberals/Progressives what our President is doing distributing hardcore military equipment to local police forces?
That's because the weapons have nothing to do with it...The guy was shot with a hand gun not a tank....Maybe it is as simple as the police officer is a bad employee.
Right here you responded to a post that said, among other things, that "African-Americans cannot break out of the cycle of high unemployment, poverty, lack of family structure, and high incarcaration" by highlighting the quoted language and saying that "you have to want change before that change can happen."
Pretty big reach here don't you think? Do you have any empirical evidence to support this? How many ferguson pd members are vets? Other cities? Amount of incidents involving war vets, etc?
The later part is what could cause trouble for the cop. If the conflict occured in the car and Brown started walking away, the situation could be viewed as being past critical. That would go out the window of course if Brown came back toward the cop. That doesn't appear to be the case as this would have been something covered by the police chief in his statement.
Of course it's not enough that the police are breaking civil rights, no the LP takes it a step past that to their larger agenda.
It is easy to imagine war veterans moving toward police work. I found no direct evidence of that though. On the second part, it sure looks 2 + 2 = 4 on the war on terror statement.
Pretty sure that falls on Bush. At worst, Obama didn't end the program (but good luck fighting the influence of the military industrial complex that is now getting to sell support for those vehicles that would have otherwise been sent to a scrap heap and retired).
I don't think there's a problem with vets as cops, there's a long tradition of that. You want vets as cops. Heck the vets may be more responsible. It's the small town yokels who are getting into britches three times too big that's the problem. All of a sudden they think they're Rambo.
Do you mean nationwide? How so exactly? What about the responses of big city departments like NYC and Boston? Are those appropriate for their terror concerns? Are smaller town departments maybe applying big city methods when it's not appropriate?
