Interesting. Personally, I blame really bad police training. So, I blame the sheriff.
âThere is data that supports that,â Lemon shot back.
âThere is not data,â Clark insisted.
Studies commissioned by the National Institute of Justice and Washington Post, among others, have confirmed that drivers of color are stopped more often than white drivers and that black Americans are far more likely than white Americans to be killed by police.
Using facts, data, and life experience is useless with people like this. They cling to their pre-conceived notions like others cling to religious beliefs. You might as well argue with a marble.
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âMake America safe again.â I didnât know America was in the middle of a crime wave. Violent crime is down almost everywhere. Oh, cable and local news focus on the crime beat. If it bleeds it leads and we are stuck with hours of meaningless âbreaking newsâ coverage. As a result people think the streets are more dangerous than ever. Be afraid, be very afraid, -------- of your cable or local action ___ news host. .
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âAfrican Americans deal drugs because they are âlazyâ and âmorally bankrupt.ââ
âtheyâ
To quote Stevie Wonder: " so make sure when you say youâre in it but not of it. Youâre not helping to make this earth a place sometimes called h-ll, change your words into truths and then change that truth into loveâŚ"
He is such a disgrace. Thereâs validity to both sidesâ arguments but the way he delivers it - such self-hate and playing to the crowd ( thereâs a word I want to use but know it would get me banned!)
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Humans being of one ârace,â the trait of amygdala dominance respects none of our self-imposed social constructs based on skin color.
Did he expect us to praise it?
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I know they have a link to some of this gentlemanâs other comments, but I thought it was important to have it in the comment section, âLet me tell you why blacks sell drugs and involve themselves in criminal behavior instead of a more socially acceptable lifestyle â because theyâre uneducated, theyâre lazy, and theyâre morally bankrupt,â Clarke said. âThatâs why.â
I think the lack of empathy this man shows is a perfect example of the problem with some law enforcement officers in the US. The police mentality should not be the same as a military mentality, where metaphorically âyou are the knifeâ and âcongress is the hand and head that guides that weapon to do its jobâ, policeman in the US who patrol US citizens must be more empathetic with the fellow citizenry, they must be more nuanced in their ability to solve problems without force, and thousands of officers do this every day. But having statement like this, which was just from last year, is damaging to the community, does not engender cooperation and most importantly does nothing to solve the issue of drugs in our communities.
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" These people " exist?! Who knew?! If so, they only got there one of two ways: affirmative action aka code for taking a spot they did not deserve or white guilt. That has to be it , right? Either way - marginalized, lumped in with " the Blacks" who commit crime.
( FYI some of that is sarcasm or my anger coming out in the wrong way, regurgitation of the hate-filled nonsense I read on other boards. Successful Blacks are marginalized, riduculed, etc etc - look at how POTUS and former AG Holder get treated and blamed as race baiters if they mention race or blamed for not doing enough if they mention race, No-win situation.)
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Blame the victims, thatâs an old tried and true tactic.
Problem is, if Blacks stayed silent and âin their placeâ it wouldnât help. Was there a strong bias and clear lack of equality before BLM, of course there was but it was going unreported and swept aside. Is the problem worse or more real, lets say since BLM, or is it just more out in the open now because of BLM.
This self loathing cop just doesnât like that his own bias and his fellow cops tactics are being exposed. Now he has to do real cop work and not just cut corners, shoot first and/or bust heads to get his way.
BLM is righteous and Iâm with them. The cops, not so much.
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I saw this live last night and thought the Sheriff came in spoiling for a fight. This wasnât a tame interview that spun out of control. From the first seconds, it was typical Trumpism: bullying, belligerent, vague unsubstantiated allegations and attacking the media.
Given that tonight is RNC âlaw and orderâ night, I suspect the Trump campaign sent him into this interview specifically to create a confrontation. Or possibly the sheriff, knowing Trump will like this, is trying to earn himself a bigger role, maybe a cabinet job.
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The only âhateful ideology" on display here is the absolute dig-in-my-heels beliefs that the police are ALWAYS right and the âpeopleâ are always mistaken. There is no nod towards a persons feeling that they should have equal protection and care in their communities. No, none at all.
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People who truly do their jobs well seldom harbor elaborate theories why they shouldnât be held accountable. All such theories should be taken with a Wisconsin snowplow-sized truckload of salt.
Everyone who can walk and chew gum at the same time should be able to support the police, appreciate who they are, value what they do, and still expect them to do their job right and be held accountable when they screw up.
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Clarkeâs County has the highest homicide rate in the nation.Maybe he should spend more time on the job instead of politicing
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They could start by doing away with unmarked squad cars and predatory traffic stops. Wisconsin police are notorious for speed traps and itâs a ticket revenue generator which serves no public safety purpose at all. The French police, whose vehicles and uniforms are two-tone fluorescent with reflective tape all around, stopped and killed that terrorist truck driver in Nice, every bit as fast as any American police force could have.
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I havenât seen this interview and have only read the report of it here . However, once again, it shows that Don Lemon is often out of his depth when doing such interviews.
If this officer has often made such inflammatory statements and has accused BLM of being equivalent to the KKK and that there are objective studies re black and police interaction, Lemon and his producers could prepare vidual documentation to show such. It seems as if they didnât.
Lemon could argued that it odd that the chief , who works in a fact-based professionâlaw enforcementâoffers no evidence re BLM being the equivalent to the KKK. BLM has only called for better policing and has explicitly condemned the shooting of the police. Some marchers have mnade anti-police statements, but they are not indicative of the organization of as a wholeâŚThe KKK had killed and lynched black people in the South. Where is is the equivalence?
The chief seems to be arguing that no criticism of the police if legitmate. And if heâs speaking at the Republican convention doesnât make his position politicized? I mean, he is suppose to be an âobjectiveâ law enforcemnt officer, right?
Would he accept an position in a possible administration?
Is Lemon or the chief aware of Campaign Zero? (http://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision). If so, what is his opinion about it? Has he ever met the organizers of BLM?
Once again, send in Anderson Cooper.
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He will not see the problem. There is a huge difference in not seeing something and refusing to see that thing. This man has most carefully honed and cherished his refusal to see what he will not see.
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Sao the Trump Solution is to through gasoline on the fire and Clare that he is putting out the fire. Excellent!
Saw the interview. Guy sounded nuts and tended to raise his voice at tender-bean Lemon. HoweverâŚpart of the dudeâs whinging seemed to stem from the repurposing of the police function. Police are more militarized and now required to provide crowd-control to the underclasses, a function earlier performed by e.g. religion (opium for the masses) when income disparity was not quite as bad (really, the US Gini coefficient even declined for a few years in the 1960s). Particularly working-age black males disproportionally under-participate in the economy as they tend to be less educated and more incarcerated than other groups and thus bear the brunt of the new policing/ enhanced crowd control dynamic. I can see how it might be frustrating as hell to be a policeman during this period of mission creep. Occupy got it right: economic opportunity, reasonable allocation of wealth and equal protection under the law matters. Denying that only leads to more crowd control and tension, and that is probably not what David Clarke signed up for back in the day.
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Why use an old photo of the guy? He has a big dyed black goatee now. And heâs a wildly partisan far right winger who seems kind of angry and a little crazy.
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Iâve also been thinking lately that income inequality is a big part of a lot of our problems. If you count Section 8 housing and housing projects and SNAP etc. it may not look quite as bad but these programs are all counterproductive in many ways. We need a whole new approach. Republicans of course canât be trusted under the hood as they will just destroy all of it, so Democrats have avoided opening it in the first place. The last try was twenty years ago and half assed, not really setting up a new structure or seriously addressing the basic causes.
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