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Hold this L #45. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-trump-cannot-end-daca-big-win-dreamer-n1115116 Unmitigated disaster for Trump. His racist agenda has been derailed, and this is a court that was built with two guys he placed there.

Such Morons. https://www.newser.com/story/292407/us-is-stuck-with-63m-doses-of-hydroxychloroquine.html And Liberals are the Sheep Maybe they can re-brand it for Halloween.

Looks like people who thought the lockdowns were a waste of time have quieted down a bit. Sunbelt US states are now the new epicentre of the virus. The US sees 20,000+ new cases a day. And they're not coming from New England. That's a more than Canada's entire total since the pandemic began every week. Population difference or density doesn't explain that way anymore. States that were eager to open up quickly because the caseload wasn't what it was in the Northeast must realize now why that was dumb AF. Testing is better, but you also have to have reason to need testing. EI being sick. The saving grace, I suppose, is that death rates haven't skyrocketed. Doctors seem to know how to treat it now.

Cops are public servants. Conservatives keep forgetting that. They work for the public, so we have every right to have an onion on what they do. If the penalty for not being complete appreciate of a cop is getting assaulted or worse, then I can totally understand why the police are taking a beating in public opinion right now.

I think when the initiating factor of the stop was an expired sticker, the result shouldn't be a ragdoll tackle and a punch.

Saw the lawyers of the other cop on TV yesterday. The one being charged for assault and not felony murder. He was asked why two grown-ass men got beat down by a drunk man. Paraphrasing, of course. The retort is that the non-murderer had no idea that the guy who was about to commit murder was about to try and cuff Mr. Brooks. Awful policing on so many levels.

Maybe because he's getting so much grief from a cop for an expired sticker.

Sure. But there are still hot spot in the US. Mostly states that opened up fast. The instances of new cases in the US has actually remained pretty stable as cases have migrated from New England/New York to the Sunbelt. I do think that one of the things that is helping keep transmission down is that Masks are now this cultural touchstone.

So, they get stopped because they fear she is being assaulted. And because they resent being stopped by the police and don't want to deal with them, the police end up assaulting her. Very ironic.

I think that's probably the worst opinion you've shared on this site.

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The mayor of Atlanta may have a good shot in this environment.

And a better indication of the chances of violence are the person's socio-economic level and not their race.

They're trained to shoot to kill when someone runs away from them with a non-lethal weapon? Well he's on administrative leave right now, so he did something wrong. We'll see I guess. I'm hearing the fired cop should see charges by Wednesday. I'm sure you don't. I'm not torn up about it, I just I hate how they took every step to escalate the situation. This isn't as awful as the other black killings recently but I still think there are a myriad of ways this could have ended differently.

There's private security. But at least you'd know a crime is taking place in the moment. How many people have security systems? I would suggest breaking and entering is a violent crime. But again, trying to tackle problems that lead to theft and vandalism may be a better tactic than simply stopping then as they happen.

Well if the alternative is getting close enough that the risk of being tazed (in the eye as you put it) means the felon has to be killed, then perhaps they should have re-evaluated the situation. It likely cost both dudes their job and likely more. Brooks could have done many things differently to avoid his fate, but so could have the cops. Especially considering the environment revolving police right now. Killing a man that's running away from you has to be one of the more tone deaf things that could have been done.

Just like with George Floyd, his previous crimes do not justify him being killed here. The litmus test on this being murder or an unjustified police killing is the idea that he posed in threat to the cops. The only reason he could even have tazed a cop was because they were in hot pursuit. It's not like he was in a car, he wasn't a threat to anyone at that point.

I also would disagree that instances of unarmed white people being killed isn't a problem. The police killing unarmed people is a problem. But as a white person, I will say my interactions with police have been to the minimum. It seems black people don't experience the same thing. But then we have to debate Broken Window Policies and Mass incarceration as root causes to inner city crime and poverty.

Says you. And guess what? You're not the type of person that's driving public opinion right now. If you're going to blame progressives for crime in inner cities, I would hope you would also blame conservatives for the level of poverty, drug abuse and suicides in poor rural areas.

I'll draw your attention to the White Person who was assaulted in Buffalo. The problem with All Lives Matter is that it's just an excuse to minimize the concern. "Your protest is invalid because White people are killed by the cops too"

I've posted more broadly about it in the proper thread as to avoid thread drift. I will say that the idea that higher scrutiny means that cops won't do their jobs is part of the problem. Only Unionized workers seem to have this attitude. In the cases that have garnered national attention it's almost always a black person NOT being violent and the police interaction ends up leading to violence. I don't hear anyone saying that violent people shouldn't be dealt with.

He was running and tazing, which would greatly reduce his ability to hit him in the face. I'm contending that the only reason Rayshard could have tazed the cop was because he was in hot pursuit, something that only escalated the situation further. Again, what was he going to do? Be a fugitive from the law, on foot, with a Tazer?

Tazers don't have the range of a gun, you have to also assume that close pursuit was in the best interest of all involved. He was running away, they had his car. What was he going to do? Start murdering random people with a 2-charge tazer?

I'll post this here instead of in another BLM related thread. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/05/defunding-the-police-us-what-does-it-mean Defund the police is bad marketing, but the ideas are solid. Police don't need to do a lot of the stuff that they do. For example, why do we need armed officers giving out traffic tickets and directing traffic? Places with low crime don't have low crime because of the police, they have it because the socio-economic conditions make crime less appealing. Tackling that may be a better venue than spending billions equipping armed people looking for people to throw in jail. If you're throwing people in jail for low-level crime you're ruining that person's life an increasing the likelihood they'll continue with a life of crime.