(August 16, 2014 at 10:57 am)Brian37 Wrote:(August 16, 2014 at 10:26 am)Brakeman Wrote: The guy was shot because he attacked an armed policemen, not because he was black or because he stole some cigars.
The video is pertinent not because it shows a committed property crime, but because of the behavior observed in the crime of extreme belligerence.
Attacks on armed policemen don't turn out well for any social group in the USA. It's a STUPID thing to do, and your claim that it is somehow less stupid and more accepted when done by white criminals is laughable, and certainly needs some citations.
So, are you advocating that the police force should create an affirmative action policy where black perps are to be allowed 25% more offensive violent struggle time with a policeman before he shoots? Is that your goal for solving the problems in Philadelphia? Would that help the black portion of society?
BULLSHIT, he would not have done that in a white middle class neighborhood much less a rich neighborhood.
There were several witnesses who said the cop pulled him into the car. The only one claiming that the cop went for his gun was the cop. Regardless after he was free he was running away UNARMED, and was still shot several times, including with his arms up.
You didn't answer any of the questions, you just went on a racial rant.
Calm down and answer these questions.
1. Did he attack an armed policemen?
2. Is it a good idea to attack armed policemen and should society push to make it safer for all races to attack armed policemen, or do we need an affirmative action so that it is only safer for huge black men to attack policemen?
3. According to the reports I've read, the perp was shot once inside the door of the cop car and additional times in the street. So is it your gripe that he was shot the additional times or that he was shot in the initial struggle?
4. Do you think the witnesses you cite are more trustworthy than the police? If so, Why?
5. Do the black members of the same police force share your opinion? Why or why not?
6. What bothers black society more, that black criminals might be treated more harshly than white criminals, or that there is more black public indignation on the treatment of back criminals than for the causes of the existence of black criminals?
Speaking as a white man, If the coming month showed a huge uptick of black police officers shooting white criminals attacking them, it wouldn't bother me at all provided they weren't innocent. Hell, in most cases I'd buy the black cop a drink, and cheer to his health. I might even be persuaded to protest the lack of police shootings of white criminals. Yet I wouldn't attack my neighbor. I do have some compassion for the criminals, but they made the first move against society and refused to become a productive and abiding member.
It is a good argument that the cop's purported action of shooting the man after he had moved away and was no longer a direct threat was a mistake and could even rise to the level of a crime, but considering that he had already been attacked and he had already fired his gun, the adrenaline in the heat of the moment certainly mollifies the required motive.
If we as a society are going to hold a cop strictly accountable for an adrenaline soaked action, when are we going to start the prosecutions of all of the American soldiers of foreign wars that killed so many innocent civilians?
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