I'm giving you the presumption of being correct. Now, do you or do you not agree that young black men commit violent crimes at a much higher rate than their representation in the population would suggest, and do you claim that profiling, as in the case of serial killers, is wrong?
Yes they do and when you profile someone you come to a conclusion across the board. Thats what they are doing they are judging based on nothing but the skin color and taking action. When they profile whites they take no action...its an idea. Do you see I keep talking about actions and you're talking about thought without action.
Thats the diff
And I am pointing out that the harassment you've complained about stems from perfectly natural profiling that everyone engages in, for example, being approached by a group of young black men triggers a different response and action than being approached by others.
Remember this from Jesse Jackson?
"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating"
Now, if the Rev Jackson has such an instinctive reaction, why do you blame cops, black or white, for having the same one? Yes, they're trained to treat everyone the same way, but they are also put in situations where they become targets, and self preservation often overrides even the best training.
The only way that's credible is if they are certain it can never be proven that's what they did. Now, if the dead person in the street has assaulted the police officer, he has given up the presumption of innocence. Like I said elsewhere, do what the cop says and let the lawyers get you a big payday if they were wrong. They are as human as everyone else is.
As you can see, its hard to go to a lawyer when a cop has already blown your head off but thanks for the advice.
If you have cooperated in every way with the cop's instructions and still get shot, you're dealing with a bad cop. There are bad cops, and always will be, no matter how hard we try to root them out, just like there will always be young black men that kill or assault other people no matter how hard we try to prevent it. Again, disproportionate response from police is inevitable when there is disproportionate crime from a certain segment of the population. We can reform police forces, require better training, use more non-lethal weapons, but young black men also need to acknowledge the damage they're causing their own communities when they commit violent crimes.
All I can say is the rioters don't generate a lot of sympathy when they claim racism as the cause of their riots and the dead black person was shot by a black cop.
So you JUST lost sympathy for the protests thats been going on for 3 years because of this case? Or is this the newest example you're using to justify not having sympathy from the start. I bet I can guess which one it is.
You can guess all day long and never hit on reality. Quite frankly, it's moot because one can have sympathy for a cause while simultaneously decrying stupidity expressed by those in the cause.