Discussion for article #231385
This is horrible, but how can the police realistically think they can continue to kill unarmed black civilians and not trigger a retaliation at some point?
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You reap what you sow.
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I was going to post this exact thing. These two cops did not deserve this, but when you have incompetent cops shooting 12 year old kids with toys, shooting people while they are asleep, strangling people for selling cigarettes illegally, and shooting people with their hands up, at some point, something like this was going to happen. Wilson et al. are partially responsible for these cops’ death. There’s no way around that.
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I think there has to be some acknowledgment that this is a horrible, despicable crime before anyone gets to the point of discussing why it happened.
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I think most, possibly all, readers here are going to agree with that assessment, as do I. It’s a tragedy. Unfortunately, it also seems somehow inevitable.
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He said they were looking at whether the suspect had attended any rallies or demonstrations.
Right, cause the most important thing about this tragedy is that it can be linked to demonstrators.
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It happened because the man was a psychopath, much like the many men who commits mass murders.
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Police are not “the foundation of our society.”
I’m sad for the families of these two men. They didn’t deserve that any more than anyone out there who’s murdered.
Too much anger and injustice to go around.
Now what?
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The unprofessional and inflammatory statement attributed to the Sergeants’ Benevolent Association should be repudiated.
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Hideous. Heartbreaking. The cycle of violence continues, the bodies pile up, and the prison industrial complex is alive and well, never stronger.
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agreed
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Sorry, the Police are not randomly killing unarmed African Americans. Michael Brown was trying to be armed by attempting to take away a policeman’s gun. The Garner case is different, but that is no excuse for anyone to kill anyone else. However, the culture of violence, which NO ONE will discuss because it is politically incorrect to do so. Here in Chicago, a young 15 year old African American who was a great student was killed for his jacket by another African American but there is no protest, no outrage because the killing of African Americans by other African Americans is not considered an outrage in the black community. It’s just another day at the office. Very few African Americans are actually killed by the police. Yes, minorities have been treated unfairly by the police and it is a valid issue that needs to be dealt with. The Michael Brown case, however, is not that. Read the Grand Jury report as I have done.
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Very, sad. Good cops can be caught in this retaliation. The police need to cease this band of brothers mentality and stand with the people again.
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The headline should read: Man Who Killed NYPD cops was mentally ill.
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Uh oh. Cue the right wing outrage machine. Oh wait it’s probably already started.
Well, shit. This is horrible. To add the guy’s anger over Eric Garner as a justification makes a tragedy even worse. Any minute now there will be a cop on TV saying, “see! See what they do!”
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Nice straw man. Is it Step 1 in the Conservative Troll Guide to always point to Chicago when debating police aggression against African Americans?
I love your mindless dismissal of the Garner killing. “The Garner case is different, but that is no excuse for anyone to kill anyone else.”
Apparently some people disagree with you. Maybe next time you bring up Garner, you might want to spend more than half a nanosecond dismissing its significance.
As for “Read the Grand Jury report as I have done,” you’re a day late and a dollar short on that one, pal. Dozens of posters here have read every inch of the Ferguson grand jury report, including me, and still don’t understand the no bill.
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Yes, but that “See! See what they do!” will be spoken by the front ranks of the police storming City Hall in a coup d’état of city government.
These citizens need to cease this band of brothers mentality and stand with the law that puts their lives on the line to protect them!
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Insensitive time to say it, but this really underlines the protesters’ point. The last NYPD officer shot was in 2011. That’s less than 1 dead per year. How many innocent blacks are assaulted, beaten and killed every year in NY before cops even check whether there’s a crime to prosecute?
And they’re supposedly doing this to keep cop fatalities low?? Really? What’s that, a 50:1 blacks-to-cops death ratio?? That’s how much black lives matter to the NYPD?
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