And who's responsibility is to treat the cops with respect?
It's all of our responsibilities. Whose responsibility is it to treat the suspects with respect?
You and I agree! The cops have to treat the potential arrestee with respect no question.
Totally a two way street.
And I truly believe that the numbers bear that out. Because extremely few of the blacks arrested resist. No question. And there are extremely few cops that
are on the force though that disrespect the arrested.
The MAJOR point that I think you and I disagree on is that the MSM especially today is prone to gross exaggeration of the situations.
They hardly ever discuss the FACTS of the killing that the black resisted arrest first.
A perfect example is this a killing where the arrestee caused the nervous cop to shoot.
But the article didn't say that in the headlines.
Quoting exactly the article:
"Castile's final traffic stop turned tragic in less than a minute. Officer Jeronimo Yanez made the decision to pull over Castile because, as he said on the police scanner, he and his girlfriend "just look[ed] like people who were involved in a robbery." After a brief exchange, in which Castile told Yanez that he had a firearm in the vehicle and Yanez told Castile not to reach for it, Yanez opened fire, hitting Castile five times."
When Philando Castile, a 32-year-old Black man, was pulled over while driving with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, outside of St. Paul, on the night of July 6, 2016, it was far from his first encounter with the local police. Between 2002 and 2016...
www.yahoo.com
But the following didn't appear in that article or ABC news station report.
But now what DIDN"T come out right away... more articles later...
Yanez tells Castile his brake lights are out.
Yanez:
"I told him (sigh) 'Can I see your license?' And then he told me he had a firearm. I told him not to reach for it. And when he went down to grab, I told him not to reach for it. And then he kept it right there, and I told him to take his hand off of it. And then he, he had his grip a lot wider than a wallet."
What's most shocking is how fast it happened.
www.stltoday.com
Just to summarize... the above Black shooting illustrates BOTH sides I hope we agree.
The Black driver went down to reach and the cop nervously thought the driver was going for the gun.
WHAT you have done if you were the driver and were told "take your hand off of it" by the cop and you the black guy didn't "COMPLY"!
See what I mean? Both parties were nervous. So why didn't Castile comply?