Ferguson unrest

[bush_cheney2004]

They're often also shot for being mentally ill - point being there is little excuse for not training police to better assess and react to situations before blasting away.

Screw that....let all the bleeding hearts take the assaults and police killings first. Police officers should not be trained to add further risk to themselves and others because of perps or the mentally ill. Blast away when necessary...police officers are trained very well for that.

Edited November 28, 2014 by bush_cheney2004

[eyeball]

Better yet, train police to hide behind the bleeding hearts.

[bush_cheney2004]

Better yet, train police to hide behind the bleeding hearts.

They won't be for long...instead begging for "police protection".

[eyeball]

Is that a threat or a warning?

Edited November 28, 2014 by eyeball

[bush_cheney2004]

Is that a threat or a warning?

It's a prediction.....even "black people" deserve protection from the perps most likely to assault or kill them.

[eyeball]

Never said otherwise only that police should be trained and directed to do so with less shooting first and asking questions later.

[Argus]

Except the cops. They would expose the thin blue line for what it really is.

Absolutely necessary?

[bush_cheney2004]

Never said otherwise only that police should be trained and directed to do so with less shooting first and asking questions later.

Why ? We have already reviewed the well defined and legal progression of police training up to deadly force in response to perp actions. Please review as needed.

[On Guard for Thee]

One need only look at the video of the 12 year old being shot in Cleveland to see how stupid/inept these cops are.

[Smallc]

I see, and you can use the video to stereotype how?

[On Guard for Thee]

I see, and you can use the video to stereotype how?

hopefully they will use the video as a training aid to stop this kind of incident from becoming more stereotypical, and before more innocent people die.

[Smallc]

No, no, you said it was stereotypical. You said that without evidence.

[On Guard for Thee]

At least in the Cleveland case there is a video so the cops may/should hav to do some 'splainin. I think I'll buy stocks in lapel cam producers.

[Smallc]

So you're not going to back off of your earlier insinuations then?

[On Guard for Thee]

I'm not sure what you mean.

[Smallc]

One need only look at the video of the 12 year old being shot in Cleveland to see how stupid/inept these cops are.

Who are these cops?

[On Guard for Thee]

Who are these cops?

I guess they are Cleveland city cops.

[Smallc]

So one cop makes a city then. That's what I thought.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Smallc

[On Guard for Thee]

So one cop makes a city then. That's what I thought.

You flail around all you like. The fact is there is a dead 12 year old, needlessly.

[Hal 9000]

There are some horrible statistics out there. To put these in perspective to Police killings - the best stat that I could find indicated that police kill just less than 100 black Americans each year - about 17% of the total Police killings. An undeniable conclusion - a vast majority of the time, Black people kill Black people - and it's hard to find racism in that fact. Link: http://www.vpc.org/studies/blackhomicide12.pdf

So, if I'm reading this right...and I think I am, then white cops in fact like black men a whole lot more than black men like black men.

[Smallc]

You flail around all you like. The fact is there is a dead 12 year old, needlessly.

That may be, but you can't draw wider conclusions from that.

[On Guard for Thee]

That may be, but you can't draw wider conclusions from that.

You certainly can draw a lot of conclusions from that. Right off the top that this particular force needs to have their training investigated, and you can go on from there.

[Argus]

So, if I'm reading this right...and I think I am, then white cops in fact like black men a whole lot more than black men like black men.

[sharkman]

Here's some commentary on the media's lack of accuracy and accountability during this whole sad affair. Their reporting and pushing of a certain narrative inflamed things far more than if they had checked their facts or fairly reported other evidence that didn't fit their shot-in-the-back theories.

It was initially claimed, in interviews aired by MSNBC and also by CNN, that officer Wilson had shot Michael Brown in the back as he was fleeing. These witnesses claimed Brown then turned and put his hands up but was shot dead by the advancing officer Wilson. This was a description of a cop committing a murder and, understandably, enraged people around the country.

...

Meanwhile, the facts about the shooting gradually turned out not to fit the left's chosen narrative. Claims Brown had been shot in the back collapsed in the wake of the autopsy report which showed Brown had only been shot in the front, i.e. while facing Wilson. The same autopsy report also cast doubt on claims Brown's hands were up when he was shot. In fact, the evidence was consistent with Wilson's claim that Brown had been charging forward, with his head down, when he was fatally shot.

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When a sympathetic NY Times piece mentioned in passing that Brown was "no angel" as a reference to his stealing, fighting, drinking, drug use and vulgar rap lyrics, the left swarmed the characterization and labeled it an example of "unconscious bias." The Times' public editor and the author retreated saying they regretted the choice of words.

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Having thus established that Brown was the innocent victim of a police execution, progressives were furious when the police released video showing Brown committing a strong-arm robbery just a few minutes before the shooting. The image of the 6'5" 290lb Brown intimidating and shoving a tiny store clerk who wanted him to pay before leaving his convenience store didn't fit their narrative in which Brown had done nothing wrong.

[GostHacked]

So, where do we go from here?