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You 'train them to be very careful when they have ... an encounter with a police officer' . “With Dante, very early on, we said, ‘Look, if a police officer stops you, do everything he tells you to do. Don’t move suddenly. Don’t reach for your cellphone,’” said deBlasio. “Because we knew, sadly, there’s a greater chance it might be misinterpreted if it was a young man of color.” “It’s different for a white child. That’s just the reality in this country,” the mayor said.
When you look at the number of young unarmed blacks who have been shot and killed, I don't really understand what the issue is here. This is something I've heard blacks say for, well, even when I was back in the service in 1975, blacks I've known have said this. It seems the very same Republicans on the USMB who are outraged by these statements cheered at the deaths of unarmed blacks shot to death because they apparently deserved it.
The rush to clear police in shootings - Chicago Tribune
The man's mother screamed from the sidewalk: "He can't walk! He's paralyzed! He can't get out of the car!"
When one officer thought the driver raised a gun, he opened fire, shooting the driver five times before reloading and shooting him once more.
Eight hours later, as Cornelius Ware, a 20-year-old paraplegic who drove by pushing the pedals with a wooden cane, lay gravely wounded in the hospital, police supervisors cleared the officer of any wrongdoing.
They didn't check the direction of the bullets. They didn't interview all the witnesses, two of whom said they saw Ware's hands raised in surrender. And they didn't wait for the autopsy report, which showed two of the bullets struck him in the back of his hands.
The inquiry, which reviewed available records for more than 200 police shooting cases over the last decade, found that these cursory police investigations create a separate standard of justice and fuel the fear among some citizens that officers can shoot people with impunity.
In at least a dozen cases, police shot civilians in the back or from behind.
Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police 1999-2014
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Is the police reaction justified? You're not supposed to tell young people of color to be careful? That police will kill you for very little reason, if any?
You 'train them to be very careful when they have ... an encounter with a police officer' . “With Dante, very early on, we said, ‘Look, if a police officer stops you, do everything he tells you to do. Don’t move suddenly. Don’t reach for your cellphone,’” said deBlasio. “Because we knew, sadly, there’s a greater chance it might be misinterpreted if it was a young man of color.” “It’s different for a white child. That’s just the reality in this country,” the mayor said.
When you look at the number of young unarmed blacks who have been shot and killed, I don't really understand what the issue is here. This is something I've heard blacks say for, well, even when I was back in the service in 1975, blacks I've known have said this. It seems the very same Republicans on the USMB who are outraged by these statements cheered at the deaths of unarmed blacks shot to death because they apparently deserved it.
The rush to clear police in shootings - Chicago Tribune
The man's mother screamed from the sidewalk: "He can't walk! He's paralyzed! He can't get out of the car!"
When one officer thought the driver raised a gun, he opened fire, shooting the driver five times before reloading and shooting him once more.
Eight hours later, as Cornelius Ware, a 20-year-old paraplegic who drove by pushing the pedals with a wooden cane, lay gravely wounded in the hospital, police supervisors cleared the officer of any wrongdoing.
They didn't check the direction of the bullets. They didn't interview all the witnesses, two of whom said they saw Ware's hands raised in surrender. And they didn't wait for the autopsy report, which showed two of the bullets struck him in the back of his hands.
The inquiry, which reviewed available records for more than 200 police shooting cases over the last decade, found that these cursory police investigations create a separate standard of justice and fuel the fear among some citizens that officers can shoot people with impunity.
In at least a dozen cases, police shot civilians in the back or from behind.
Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police 1999-2014
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Is the police reaction justified? You're not supposed to tell young people of color to be careful? That police will kill you for very little reason, if any?
