This is how We The People have set the system up to work.
We give our police the power to utilize force, when they are obstructed or resisted during the course of the exercise of their law enforcement duties.
okay. We also expect them to exercise i wisely. That means you don't take an unarmed child and push her face into the grass because she was crying for her mother.
Incorrect.
She got her face pushed into the grass because she was repeatedly ordered to leave the area and repeatedly refused to obey the order and therefore earned herself a detaining exercise until the police could decide what to do with her.
When she resisted the detaining exercise she crossed a line which allowed the cop to do what he did.
Once you have multiple 'suspects' engaged in refusal to obey orders or actively antagonizing police or even making threatening moves (as those two boys did while the girl was being put down), the cops haven't got time for that touchy-feely shit... and if they make the wrong choice, they die.
We don't pay our police enough to die.
They make more than our soldiers who we do pay to sometimes die...
Yep. And that's a goddamned shame, too. We really should do something about that.
...Diplomacy works wonders as does common sense...
Nolo contendere.
...However, the impression that Blacks are just all violent welfare thugs is pervasive throughout the country. That stereotypical view is caused by media and race based proportional statistics...
Many stereotypes have at least some basis in truth - historical or otherwise - as distasteful as that is to say or to hear.
As to the underlying causes, they are myriad.. preexisting bias, Blacks' own behaviors in an inner-city ghetto-like context, etc., although I disagree that the media is feeding that stereotype; on the contrary, they seem to be going out of their way to avoid being seen in just that vein. Perhaps I'm wrong.
... So, when Black kids act like normal teens and sometimes get a little cocky or resentful of authority, the cop sees 'feral negroes" who need to be put down and taught respect, regardless of any constitutional freedoms they might be aware of and are standing up for..
That's a fine speech, and, I'm sure, there's a modicum of truth in there somewhere, but I seriously doubt that you have nailed THE primary cause here.