Police brutality

Quote from Rice

but this specific thread is about police brutality,

Rice ... This has nothing to do with police brutality, more like citizens attitude toward the one's whom are trying to protect the law abiding citizens. I do not need to be lectured about brutality, I know what brutality is. I do feel like this country is headed for a divide that will not be pretty or without consequence. Just hope I will be dead and gone before it all happens.

Quote from Mckenna

Rice, how would i know about militias?am i imagining things or you are implying i have something to do with them? Also , did you have a chance to review the audio and the criminal record of poor old victim i got shot because i'm black, Mr blake?

Not implying that, @Mckenna ; if I thought you were involved with militias or survivalists or white supremacists, I wouldn’t even engage.

The audio you’re referring to is the one from the police POV, on the scanner?

Your Wild West image, of course.

I having been following the massacre in Mozambique and have been stunned by the lack of coverage by the media. McKenna is right, it's all about the ratings.

quite a bit of coverage on the BBC website

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172x2z86grdfbg

World Service, and also that's not quite a bit of coverage. I know it was reported and I first saw it on the BBC, but if that happened in an "important" country it would have been everywhere for days.

So, the massacre of dozens of people is not the headline news across the board when it happens in Mozambique, but it is when it happens in let's say, Las Vegas or Paris. There's only one reason why... ratings. And by the way, thank god for the World Service because the BBC is one of the few MSM outlets that at least tries to be even. Still, it's a crap shoot in the media at the moment as we all basically react to whatever the news tells us we should react to. By the way, I am not in any way defending or dismissing the issues in the U.S.

Good point, Semigoodlooking .

Quote from Splinter

I for one hope that the army officer wins his case against the cops due to their needless aggression.

From what I saw I'm inclined to agree. However I don't know what information the officers had been given which led them stopping the bloke in the first place. Must admit my first thought was why didn't he just do as he was told and get out the car? He was asked several times.

Quote from Splinter

Because he's black and he knows what happens to blacks when stopped by the cops, therefore he probably reasoned that he was safer in his car.

They apparently stopped him because he had a new car with delivery plates on the rear window.

Now he knows what happens when you constantly disobey an order from the police.

Actually, the security video clearly showed that he put BOTH hands out of his open window. Even with their guns trained on him at close range, he had the presence to say that he was afraid to get out of the car. He was wearing a seatbelt that he was afraid to unbuckle in case they should shoot him and later claim they thought he was reaching for a gun. Enraged, one of the cops then sprayed him in the face with something that clearly wasn’t benign.

He did everything prudent, and remained as calm as could be imagined in a situation with two policemen, guns drawn in his face, yelling at him.

They should resign in shame. And then they should be prosecuted.

Quote from Splinter

You miss the point entirely.

No I don't.