US police brutality item

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well, he was hardly likely to have his slugs in someone else's gun.

Boru

The guy that shot him was ten years old and a relative of mine. The "victim" was attacking his mother. Kid reached around and pulled the "open carry" gun from the asshole (who was a lefty) and capped him through the seat. I understand the cops are calling it "accidental".

[Rev. Rye]

There has to be something lacking in the way cops are educated and trained these days that they are unaware of the fact that their every action on the street is very likely to be recorded on one of the millions of cameras people carry with them.

They read too may Joseph Wambaugh novels. You can't get away with that shit anymore.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the issues involved in the epidemic of police brutality are too deep for the police academies to counteract in any meaningful way. Think about it; imagine you go around town every day meeting the worst representatives of the human race your town can muster. To keep yourself safe in the behavioral sink that is America, you go around armed and you've been trained to use your guns. Because of the depressingly intertwined natures of race and class, a disproportionately high proportion of these "worst representatives" will be nonwhite. And since these nonwhite people are more likely to be poor, and thus more likely to commit crime, it only makes sense that doing this reinforces racist ideas that society was already implicitly spreading. Sustain this for a long enough time, it's more a matter of when and not if shit like this happens. Frankly, even if they stop doing this in public, they can just drag people off the street and take them to a warehouse and do it there. I know this because I live in Chicago and our cops have, in fact, done this and probably still are.

And taking a clue from Joseph Wambaugh novels is a shitty idea, since those books are more descriptions of how the LAPD actually did things, and not meant to be exemplars. Seriously, one of the first things I learned about his oeuvre is that there was a cop character in one of his books who hated humanity so much that he wanted a word as strong as the N-word to apply to humanity as a whole (he settled with "Scrotes.")

[Huggy Bear]

Wasn't the principle photographed wearing a "Make America White Again" hat? or am I on the wrong incident?

AP reports the photo was total fabrication.

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Why the riots?

Because thats what cunts do.


In 2003 police were chasing a black guy on a motorcycle in Benton Harbir Michigan  - who was speeding - running multiple stop signs - riding through people's yards - and finally he lost control and crashed into a building and killed himself.  At no point did the cops have contact with him or his motorcycle.

This was followed by three days of rioting - including shooting at the cops.


You explain it.

I can't.

Generally cops don't chase people on motorcycles for that very reason, but the riot wasn't just about ONE guy, the town had reached a boiling point, but as usual you want to focus on the result, not the cause.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/us/fa...-town.html

When they threw the bricks and smashed the windows, when they set the blazes that devoured a dozen buildings over the past two harrowing nights, the people of this depressed city on Lake Michigan were not just angry about the 28-year-old motorcyclist killed early Monday in a high-speed police chase.


They were still simmering, many said, over 7-year-old Trent Patterson, who died in a police chase a few years back, and Arthur Partee, who was strangled by police officers only two months ago. They said they were still seething over a teenager's mysterious drowning in the St. Joseph's River in 1991, and the man who was shot in the back by an officer the year before.

''We're just tired, we're sick of them killing us,'' Bonita Bulger, 28, said this afternoon as she stood at the corner of Empire and Pavone Streets, opposite where the motorcyclist, Terrance Shurn, crashed to his death and the smoldering remnants of an apartment building burned in the riot.

*emphasis mine*

[onlinebiker]

AP reports the photo was total fabrication.

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Why the riots?

Because thats what cunts do.


In 2003 police were chasing a black guy on a motorcycle in Benton Harbir Michigan  - who was speeding - running multiple stop signs - riding through people's yards - and finally he lost control and crashed into a building and killed himself.  At no point did the cops have contact with him or his motorcycle.

This was followed by three days of rioting - including shooting at the cops.


You explain it.

I can't.

Generally cops don't chase people on motorcycles for that very reason, but the riot wasn't just about ONE guy, the town had reached a boiling point, but as usual you want to focus on the result, not the cause.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/us/fa...-town.html

When they threw the bricks and smashed the windows, when they set the blazes that devoured a dozen buildings over the past two harrowing nights, the people of this depressed city on Lake Michigan were not just angry about the 28-year-old motorcyclist killed early Monday in a high-speed police chase.


They were still simmering, many said, over 7-year-old Trent Patterson, who died in a police chase a few years back, and Arthur Partee, who was strangled by police officers only two months ago. They said they were still seething over a teenager's mysterious drowning in the St. Joseph's River in 1991, and the man who was shot in the back by an officer the year before.

''We're just tired, we're sick of them killing us,'' Bonita Bulger, 28, said this afternoon as she stood at the corner of Empire and Pavone Streets, opposite where the motorcyclist, Terrance Shurn, crashed to his death and the smoldering remnants of an apartment building burned in the riot.

*emphasis mine*

You want a free pass to be a criminal...


Got it....


No. 

Final answer.

[Huggy Bear]

Generally cops don't chase people on motorcycles for that very reason, but the riot wasn't just about ONE guy, the town had reached a boiling point, but as usual you want to focus on the result, not the cause.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/us/fa...-town.html

*emphasis mine*

You want a free pass to be a criminal...


Got it....


No. 

Final answer.

Nope, I see them as patriots, in the same manner that history speaks of the perpetrators of the Boston tea party.

[Rev. Rye]

And of course, one of the factors that led to the Boston Tea Party: the colonial equivalent of police brutality, and the first man to die was black.

[notimportant1234]

All this should serve to remind us that society's do have tipping points and that we shouldn't take democracy, prosperity and peace for granted.

[Huggy Bear]

I guess Onlinebiker didn't have a response to that.

[onlinebiker]

I guess Onlinebiker didn't have a response to that.

Yes. 

I did.


You just didn't like it.


Tough shit.

[Huggy Bear]

I guess Onlinebiker didn't have a response to that.

Yes. 

I did.


You just didn't like it.


Tough shit.

No you didn't, but just in case you missed it and aren't being purposefully obtuse...

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You want a free pass to be a criminal...


Got it....


No.

Final answer.

Nope, I see them as patriots, in the same manner that history speaks of the perpetrators of the Boston tea party.

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