Dragonlady
Designing Woman
I disagree with your first premise...that they start shooting. There are over 10mil encounters annually..how often do they even draw their guns? 1,500 out of 10,000,000 is 0.015%We entrust them to do the best they can. Want better officers? Pay more and hire better people. Your examples are what? A dozen out of millions of encounters. You really are a parasite on this world.Law enforcement abuses would not happen if people didn't break the lawIt is a racist statement. BLM'S mission is to address law enforcements abuses. The issues you talk aboit are racist stereotypes bought up to avoid the issue.If BLM really cared about black lives they would address black on black crime and high murder rates as well as the high single parenthood % in the black community. An investigation is warranted for sure.Democrats are so busy kissing Minority a$$ for votes that it blinds them to the fact that George Floyd was a criminal scumbag who stupidly resisted arrest.Democrats want a stacked, rigged "congressional commission" to "investigate" a 4-hour riot that is already being investigated by the FBI and the DC DA. But, they don't want to investigate the far more destructive and widespread George Floyd riots, which were, in many cases, coordinated by BLM and Antifa activists, and which caused over a dozen deaths, hundreds of injuries, the occupation of parts of two major cities, assaults on hundreds of police officers, the burning down of a police station, massive looting, and billions of dollars of damage.
And, of course, we now know that the George Floyd riots were unjustified, because we now know that Derek Chauvin did not put his knee on Floyd's neck, that Chauvin did not cause Floyd's death, that Floyd had ingested over three times the lethal dosage of fentanyl shortly before his police encounter, that Floyd was having trouble breathing before Chauvin laid a finger on him, that Floyd had severe heart problems, that the officers had no way of knowing any of this, and that Floyd had numerous chances to avoid being pinned on the ground but failed to take any of them.
Letting Black Lives Matter and the loosely-organized AntiFa scum off the hook without serious prosecutions is also a mistake that the next GOP administration should correct.
But when it comes to a commission to investigate the incitement and execution of the January 6, 2021 Insurrection against the lawful authority of the United States...
Such a commission SHOULD be launched and maximized and that Commission should aggressively pursue such treasonous scum and their leaders and inciters without mercy.
Those (high and low) found responsible should be criminally charged, convicted of a major and violent felony, and given the maximum sentences for imprisonment and fines.
For the worst of the rank-and-file offenders in that Insurrectionist mob, it's a damned shame that the police did not volley-fire into that crowd with automatic weapons.
That goes for their Orange Baboon-God too... Cadet Bone Spurs didn't join them as promised or lead from the front... the cowardly POS went into hiding and watched, safely.
Teflon Don talks-the-talk, but he doesn't walk-the-walk... and his Make AmericaWhiteGreat Again suckers and minions blind themselves to such important shortcomings.
The fact is that even people who are arrested have rights. One of those is a right to life. Floyd was no threat to the officers yet Chauvin refused to get off his neck. The police also infrlamed the protestors by dressing up in para-military uniforms as if they were enemies of this country.
So, the violence of the rioters is not their fault, it is the fault of the COP'S UNIFORMS?
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When you treat people like they are the enemy, that sends a message. In cases where there was not violence, officers interacted with the protestors. The police completely mishandled the protests and in many cases they were the attackers.
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What kind of message does it send, when half the country sees the other half engage in 4 years of violent, political riots, and then when they see some of their own, go over the line and have a FOUR HOUR riot, ,
and the four years are ignored and glossed over, while the four hours are treated as the worst thing to ever happen in this country?
Hint: It rhymes with Declaration of War.
What kind of message does it send when one side engages in unconstitutional violations of the civil rights of anyone who isn’t white or Christian?
What kind of message does it send when police are allowed to indiscriminately murder civilians with no consequences?
Right wing assholes such as yourself always call protest from the left “riots” and “dangerous”. It’s like only one side has a constitutional right to seek redress with you clowns.
Last but not least, every time the left protests, hardline right wingers come out and violently counter protest. The protest last summer weren’t violent. But the counter protesters and the troublemakers and those who want to discredit Black Lives Matter, came out and burned and looted and caused violence.
It’s hardly surprising that Trump cult assholes such as yourself, are still lying about the protests.
there isn’t a whole lotta money or political capital in addressing Black on Black Crime and high Murder rates among Blacks. There is no way a BLM leader could accumulate $3M plus and purchasing those mansions without something you can really shake down corporations with such as the statistically rare instance of a white police officer shooting an unarmed Black.
So what you're saying is that these very well educated, smart and motivated Black Lives Matter leaders, who have created the largest racial rights movement in world history, that is literally changing the legal landscape around the world, aren't capable of making enough money to be able to afford these "luxuries" on their own merits.
There must be something dishonest about black people creating things of value for themselves, is what you're saying. How very racist of you to think this way.
No, that is not what I am saying. That is what you are saying so you can throw the racist card at me. Go back an read what I said. I said that there are larger issues to be addressed but clearly those issues don’t pay as high. That’s an analysis, not a racist statement.
Really??? So the police get to be judge, jury and executioner, if someone breaks the law and shop lifts a candy bar, like Michael Brown? Selling cigarettes is a capital offence, like Eric Garner.
What about the poor bugger whose car broke down and he flagged down the cops to help him and they shot him. He wasn't breaking any laws.
Or the caretaker of the autistic man who was lying on the ground with his hands in the air, begging cops not to shoot? Neither of those people broke any laws.
Bullshit. Your supposed to be a business consultant. Let's talk about the dollars and cents of it all.
You have a large, well equipped, militarized, mostly white and ex-military, police force, which, when it arrives on the scene, treats your fellow citizens as armed combatants on the field of battle. Any threatening movement and they start shooting and don't stop until the threat is "neutralized".
And yet they manage to arrest armed and dangerous white mass shooters, especially those whose victims are not white or Christian, without incident. The Parkland shooter, Dylan Roof. They helped Kyle Rittenhouse up, and clapped him on the back and sent him on his way after he shot 3 people, killing two of them. They didn't even take away his gun.
American police are the best paid municipal civil servants there are. Many officers make more than $100,000 per year, with overtime. Teachers should be so well paid. And they have "qualified immunity" so that no matter what they do, they can't be sued. They're seldom fired, arrested, or in any called to account for the violence they inflict on people either.
Municipal taxpayers have been paying out more than $300 million per year in settlement of "excessive force" claims by civilians every year. And that's just in cities with a population over 100,000 people.
Joe Arpaio wasn't voted out of office and arrested because the people of Maricopa County don't want immigration laws enforced. The County paid out over $25 million in settlements to his victims in settlements for wrongful death, denial of Constitutions rights claims, malicious prosecution, and dereliction of duty claims. Arpaio was causing their taxes to go up, and he was allowing criminals to prey on illegals with impunity.
Derrick Chauvin's murder of George Floyd was the 18th complaint of "excessive force" in Officer Chauvin's jacket. George Floyd was the second suspect Chauvin has killed in the line of duty. Just the Floyd murder cost the taxpayers $20 million. Insurance companies will not cover these amounts. They're coming out of YOUR pockets.
The rest of the first world doesn't have an ultra violent police force that kills 1500 people per year. We're not jailing more people than ANYBODY else in the world - even the authoritarian dictatorships. The only countries where more people die at the hands of the police are the Phillipines and Brazil, where the police simply shoot people on the streets and leave them there as a warning to others.
When you look at all of the numbers - the killings, the incarcerations, and unequal treatment of young blacks, and young white people at the hands of the police, it's really fucking hard not to see an authoritarian police state.
When Ronald Reagan was elected, there were 40,000 black and brown prisoners in federal prisons. In 2010, there were 400,000 per prisoner black and brown prisoners in federal prisons, even though the crime rate has been steadily dropping since 1990. Each prisoner costs taxpayers of $115,000 per year. Of course, when all of these black and brown men get out of federal prison, they've lost their right to vote, so there is that.
Derek Chauvin was a bad cop protected by his union. The Mayor of MN is a Democrat, why didn't he do anything about it?
If you want fewer prisoners then you want more not fewer police officers. Rudy's stop and frisk worked and crime was way down. We don't put people in prison unless they commit crimes.
In terms of lawsuits....I'd need to take a deeper dive.
Why does it concern you? You're not a US taxpayer? And you're a hypocrite. Illegal immigration costs the US a lot more than $25MM.
PERHAPS YOU NEED TO BE TOLD THAT IT'S WRONG TO KILL 1500 SUSPECTS PER YEAR. YOU SEEM TO THINK IT'S NO BIG DEAL. OF COURSE, IT'S NOT YOUR PEOPLE WHO ARE DYING. SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM??
Stop focussing on the part that didn't end with a suspect's death, and start focusing on WHY 1500 people die at the hands of the police every single year.