Originally published at: In Wake Of Tyre Nichols Verdict, States And Localities Must Act To End Racialized Violence During Traffic Stops - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Yesterday, the jury delivered a verdict in the federal trial of three of the five Memphis, Tennessee police officers responsible for the fatal beating of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols during a 2023 traffic stop. The jury spent three weeks listening to powerful testimony,…
But what about all the sons of the KKK in the for-profit prison business?
Will no-one think of the shites?
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Waiting for TCF and Vance to cure this problem forever by backing a law that makes all white officers immune from prosecution if the victim was “suspected” of being an immigrant, and or having more melanin than Jim Gaffigan.
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Bizarre piece, TPM. What were you thinking? “Racialized violence”? The cops that beat Nichols were all black. Criminologists find that ceteris paribus, cops are no more likely to shoot black suspects than white suspects. TPM concealed that research and instead reports the spurious bivariate association.
Because without the racial scare-mongering, it’s just a boring policing policy argument that few would read. So instead you pumped it up into “racialized” clickbait. This reduces trust in TPM and will result in me cancelling my subscription if it becomes a habit.
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Traffic enforcement is one of the few areas of law enforcement that could be almost entirely automated, which would lead to safer driving by everybody, and significantly fewer police interactions which lead to violence.
It’s a no-brainer. It should not be the policy of this country to harass motorists because a police officer has decided that they want to.
Don’t even get me started on car searches, contraband, and the creation of contraband just to create a law to search cars and harass black people.
In short, end traffic stops now and literally increase enforcement of speed and red light violations with automation.
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This isn’t the Washington Post, this is talking points memo. Please acquire a basic understanding of racism before posting here. Thanks!
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What did you intend me to conclude from your empty ad hominem and non sequitur comparison? Are you some sort of moderator?
I apologize. I should have been more clear my critique.
I do not, however, have the energy to explain basic concepts of racism to you, and so, despite it being unfair, we’re just going to have to leave it with, your opinion that the race of the perpetrators of racial violence matters more than the race of the victims is extremely problematic, and suggest that you do not understand racism.
Do the rest of the work yourself.
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Racism is implemented by people of all colors and backgrounds (as is sexism manifest by people of all genders, etc.) Here in the US, the structural racism underlying policing has enabled and reinforced brutal “othering” of POC, particularly but not only of Black men.
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Thanks for the links to their studies. Oh, wait…
Criminologists find could be a bit more vague, if you were to try hard enough, don’t you think? Well, maybe not, but I’m sure you weren’t intending to obfuscate the matter. It might, though, have been a touch pertinent to narrow those folk down by u sing a modifier such as almost all, or in peer reviewed papers, or some unknown number of, along with the aforementioned link, or at least a citation, to where you got that idea.
And what the hell makes you think criminologists are the experts, or experts at all, in police behavior and misbehavior? I’d expect citations there, too.
Are there no peer-reviewed papers by experts in other fields, such as, oh, sociology, or psychology [perhaps even in the psychology of groups, or public servants, or uniformed cadres], or even public administration?
When you, instead of providing citations to back up a blanket proclamation, you just assert it as fact, perhaps you should not expect to be given the deference shown a pope speaking ex cathedra. And if your one verifiable assertion on the instant matter is that the cops involved were themselves black, you really ought not to accuse others of trafficking in non sequiturs, because that is a doozy of an example of projection.
So, while it may be unfortunate that you received an ad hominem response to your magisterial post that, looked at closely, offers no significant statements of fact, let alone any useful argument or conclusion, you might want to consider whether you haven’t insulted the rest of the forum by the content of the post, or the lack thereof.
I was not replying to the “rest of the forum”. I only post here to offer customer feedback. I have no interest in the regular denizens of this sewer.
Were I paid to write a piece for TPM, you can be certain it would have the relevant citations. But I don’t create content for free.
So, not a customer at all, but rather a troll. I stand behind everything in my post, with the exception of the statement that your receipt of an ad hominem may [have been] unfortunate. You have revealed that it was well-deserved, and indeed rather mild.
And the posts you do create are worth a wee bit less than every penny we pay for them. You have been risibly rude, and your posts are a shitshow. Spew on, Bubba.