RE: 4 Officers Shot Dead By Snipers, 7 Wounded in Dallas Protest Against Police Violence
July 9, 2016 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2016 at 1:33 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 9, 2016 at 12:50 pm)paulpablo Wrote: A while ago on a forum about a policeman shooting a white person you said something along the lines of "What the po-lice shot a white person, was there a mistake?" Which I'm pretty sure is a sarcastic comment about black people are usually the victims of police shootings rather than white people. That's ok when you make comments about police officers shooting black people without thinking about the reasons behind the shootings and stating it in a manner which I think impugns the entire group of police officers.
I spent the other day worrying about my cousin, a police officer in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton. I didn't know if she had been on-scene or what. She was safe; she was off-duty.
She's a good cop -- but there are far too many who aren't. When one wields the power of life and death, bring racial attitudes or power trips is unacceptable.
That I use sarcasm to make that point is simply because I like good sarcasm. The idea you seem to have, however, that I haven't though about the reasons behind the shootings is simply not true.
