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ââŚBrown, who was unarmed, was shotâŚâ
People with guns shoot a lot of unarmed people.
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The Midwest is as racist as the Deep South.
and then claim that the person was going for their gun, even if that person was shot far away from them.
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Iâm curious as to where in the country you think this canât happen.
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Iâd really appreciate hearing the simperingly foolish Chief Justice of the United States reflect on the racial tension in this still segregated city.
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Human nature tends to exploit and abuse powers granted to a person. Cops are no different. Charged to enforce the law, they are above the law and act accordingly. They are more occupying soldiers than members of the communities they patrol. Their powers include the ability to save or take life. Sometimes they make a bad call.
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Joshâs post about the disparity in racial makeup of the police in Ferguson and of the community gets at the heart of the issue.
Whatâs remarkable is that the exact same issue was at the core of much of the racial turmoil in the central cities of the upper midwest in the 1960s, including the Detroit that I lived near. Largely white police forces patrolled largely black neighborhoods, and the pattern of police brutality is sadly the same today as it was 60 years ago. It was the reason for the concerted drive to integrate city police department in most every major city in the country during the 70s and 80s.
While nobody would sensibly claim that integration of the police alone solves problems of crime and enforcement, I doubt youâd find any cop in Detroit or Chicago or New York or Cleveland who thinks that returning to all-white police forces would be anything but terrible.
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I personally feel the Southern Strategy exploited by the GOP since Nixon has driven a huge resurgence of racial fear and hatred in these not particularly United States of America. The officer in this case might live in the Fox News environment created to support politicians who support Rupert. Americans are afraid and hateful for a reason.
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In some ways more so. I grew up in Minnesota and the racism there is intense.
What possible reason could a police officer have to shoot any unarmed person?
Itâs the very reason they joined in the first place.
Cincinnati was torn by similar racial tension back in 2001 when a 19 year-old was shot by a police officer after other occasions of police brutality and racial profiling. The city pretends it has made progress and many citizens have certainly made positive efforts but ugly incidents still occur in a gussied-up CBD thatâs more a home to staged corporate events in the off-hours rather than anything resembling daily life. A real local media could possibly impact this unhealthy status quoâŚ
I think thatâs why many folks want everyone armed. Then they can always claim, âwell I had to shoot them, they were going for their gunâ. But I also think a lot of others just want all white folks armed and the freedom to keep the âunarmedâ folk under the gunâŚso to speak.
As paranoid as whites were when we were a majority, the white folk that still donât want to mix are becoming super paranoid now that weâre about to become a minority.
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It can happen anywhere, but if I had to bet, Iâd say
Vermont would be a good place to start.
Peaceful protests get zero results.
We have a police brutality epidemic in this countryâŚthe media refuses to report on it. When Dorner was on the loose, the pigs nearly killed a couple of innocent women delivering newspapersâŚthe media barely noticed. Only one kind of good copâŚrhymes with âredâ.
Yea I think there is a tendency, for lack of a better way to put it, for people interested in law enforcement to be riding a fine line between good and evil.
With all due respect, bullshit. There are obvious problems with corrupt and racist cops and hyper-militarized, out-of-control SWAT teams, but there are plenty of good cops.
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All of America is as racist as the Deep South. Itâs unfortunate that so many liberals somehow think racism ends at the Mason-Dixon line. It doesnât.