Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) wrote in a statement on Thursday that the grand jury’s decision to indict only one officer involved in Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting by Louisville police leaves him “angry, sad, and frustrated.”
Well it’s that’s nice, no really.
If only Trump would keep his damned mouth shut. He would still be gasoline on the flame, due to his racism, incompetence and narcissism, but at least we wouldn’t have to hear his fucking voice.
The reality is that you cannot indict cops that were shot at while serving a warrant. The shame is that that judges keep issuing that types of warrants. The cops could have just come late in the afternoon knock on the door present the warrant and search the place, but I guess there is no excitement in that for that for the would be Rambos that infest our police forces.
Prosecutors don’t need new tools to prosecute reckless inference. Just the will.
Was going to edit to replace “inference” with “indifference,” but, hell, I like the type o.
This may be true as a matter of law. As a matter of ethics, cops should not be going in guns blazing against harmless drug dealers.
My thoughts exactly through this whole thing.
They expected the woman to be alone in her apartment. Why did they even need crash through the door, they could just have knocked and say “Ma’am, we have a warrant to search this place’”. But no, lets treat the population like it was an occupied territory.
How many Susan Collins “concerned” does that equal?
There’s a word (or two words) in the Black community for people like Tim Scott. I won’t say it, but I’ll think it really loud.
Dear Senator Scott,
If you dropped dead tomorrow, you’d get just a bit more recognition than Herman Cain received, and that really is not acceptable. Ya know?
Why do you do what you do when it really doesn’t make life any better for people with brown skin, including yours?
It really is infuriating that the cops who falsified the reports weren’t charged with anything, or apparently punished at all (I haven’t read anything about that). It’s an outright murder, with unidentified people breaking into a house and shooting it up…the punishment should be severe. But, hey it’s the South, so no surprise that there’s no justice, just more police brutality without accountability, all through the efforts of Republican officials.
No wonder police are afraid of reforms, they wouldn’t have open season on black people anymore and would actually be held accountable for their actions.
How can we change this? There are no consequences for bad decisions by judges, prosecutors, and cops. There is no incentive not to act like an occupying army. Scott is full of shit, of course, and his ideas are pathetic.
We could legalize drugs, but the white supremacist states will say no.
We could make a federal law clearing up when a no knock warent is constitutional, but the fucking SCOTUS will over turn it.
How about we just pass a law that makes it a federal crime to kill an unarmed person in the line of duty?
Good god fuck this guy…I truly cannot stand him.
I’m not American but as you know we get all your news up here. Sometimes I don’t quite get wtf is going on. Before the Rump we didn’t read about such blatant stupidity and obvious racial bias.
I have begun to wonder if the extreme conservative elements of your socio/political world isn’t simply taking advantage of who is in the WH. It appears that way but perhaps it has always been that way and the wide ranging media coverage we have now is just amplifying the hate.
Which ever is the case, I wish you guys could rid yourself of the past and move forward with the rest of the world.
This bs is getting stale. Time for change.
Uh oh, Tim. That’s not the party line. Did Mitch give you permission to say that? Talk about a slave and his master.
It has been argued (by Frank Wilderson and others in the afro-pessimist community) that the gratuitous violence against black people is necessary for our understanding of freedom and human rights. It is a strange argument that positions the Black person as a necessary other, as socially dead, so we can understand what it is to be part of society. I don’t agree with his argument, but try as I might, I can think of no other explanation for the behavior of the cops. They act like the killing of Black people is not a problem to solve, but a perk to enjoy.
Honestly, my friend, the change is not Trump. Violence against black people is our national pastime, right after baseball, and before (American) football. The change is that we are waking the fuck up.
“Scott — who is the lone African-American Republican senator and the leader of the GOP’s effort on police reform — wrote that Taylor’s life ‘must mean more than this’…”
You know, I look at Scott, and I just shake my head.
This person is profoundly confused.
His Freudian repression and denial mechanisms are off the charts.
Talk about looking for love in all the wrong places, or maybe Stockholm Syndrome…
If DSM-5 doesn’t include an entry on “Political Dysphoria”, it should.