Do you think any of these officers are going to be hired by any other department.
Of course. Peter Liang is doing fine right now
The problem is, most of these people who are killed aren't innocent.
Gurley had 24 arrests for dealing drugs.
Michael Brown robbed a convenience store
Laquan McDonald was vandalizing trucks
George Floyd was taking drugs and passing counterfeit money.
Breonna Taylor's boyfriend fired at police officers
There is no such thing as an innocent black person who get killed by the police. That's the whole point of law enforcement to be able to kill blk ppl and get away with.
Even when blk ppl follow instructions...does not matter.
yes, these cops made mistakes or overreacted.
They know not to make mistakes and over react when the person is white.
But to put in perspective.
OK. Give me a good laugh
Police officers respond to 16 million calls for assistance a year. Of those, 1000 result in someone being shot.
We are talking about UNARMED people. That's the issue.
How many cops have been killed by an unarmed citizen in the last year ? ZERO.
How many times a year does a police officer get beaten to death ? ZERO.
How many officers in the field are killed each year by violence ? 0.5 per state.
There are over 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers and less than one officer per state meets a violent demise, only 100 officers are killed in the line of duty each year (and of that 100 most of those deaths are by vehicles)
So tell me where is the danger?
Of those 1000 who were shot, most are ruled justified because the person came after a cop with a gun or a knife. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
A white man can fight with cops and still not got shot. Stop. Unless you think if the video below were black men the cops would have acted exactly the same.
1. White man refuses to comply with police orders.
2. He resists arrest.
3. He goes to his car and opens the door.
4. He attacks police officer.
5. He chases police officer.
6. He tries to steal police officer’s car.
7. He's not shot by police.
So you maybe have a handful of cases a year where cops messed up. Yup. That's terrible. They need better training, we need to get the problematic cops off the police departments, we need to get the unions to stop protecting the bad apples. Most of the time, though. The cops get it right.
So if the police are just full of such good apples and get right then why is it that when the good apples try and challenge the bad apples, the bad apples close ranks and make life hell for the good apples ?
Dont listen to me. Listen to stories of
Michael Wood Jr. and
Joe Crystal (both white Baltimore cops whose honesty about police brutality got them run out of policing). These are white guys who will tell you that's it more than just a few bad apples.
But hey ! You're the one whose saying the police is just full of lots of good apples - Right ?
Systems operate as they are designed to operate, with or without the approval of who turns the gears of the machine. Sure you can push against the gears if you like, but the machinery is stronger than you.
So here's a crazy idea.
1) Don't do things you shouldn't be doing.
2) When the cops show up, cooperate with them.
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