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Cell
Cell
Yes, this is in response of police brutality of far too many black people, do not defend the police on this, they are using hunches of crimes small enough that the worst result is a fine and instead result in death, that's even assuming the explanation is true and they are using that to cover a hatred of minorities, a cop got fired for not killing a black man because "it didn't defuse the situation", pathetic.
Throw out those on top and have a mental test that last more than 8 weeks, the environment will make good men monsters and innocent murdered without question, police are failing the basic job they are given, protect society, we should not congratulate those failing to do their jobs.
Black lives will always matter
Ray Trace
Ray Trace
I'm sorry, but I've got a hot take on this one: viral Twitter videos you often see do not tell the entire story and you should not base your conclusions off of it. Several weeks back, there was a viral Twitter video that was cherrypicked to appear a black man (Sean Reed) that looked like he was simply livestreaming himself, as he was stepping out of a vehicle and then looked like he just got randomly lit up by the police. The real story is that said black man had a gun that was identified on his other social media posts, he certainly fired back at the police at the scene, he was bragging about not going back to jail, and he's the type of man who would shoot randomly at passerby houses. The detective on the scene did say a very morbid joke that I do not condone in the slightest after he was presumably shot in the face, but this incident is one out of many stories you see on social media that is deliberately cherry-picked while leaving important information out. I've seen footage of a video where a cop got ambushed by a random guy who shot at point blank range at him while chasing another guy, he shot the guy down as well but took a hit from the shot and eventually fell over, and people STILL yelled and harped on the cops despite the cop passing out from the random ambush. Sometimes, people don't know who exactly they are defending, and social media makes it worse in that media can easily be cherrypicked and distorted to fit an agenda.

That being said, I do firmly believe that police brutality is indeed a real, serious issue (not only is there incidents like what led to the Rodney King riots as well as so many more examples I can pinpoint, especially their dealing of mental health cases, but there's also the interior insidious ones like the Calgang and Rampart scandals as well as the Plain View Project displaying a horrific amount of horrible horrible views on social media said by police officers), and Blue Lives Matter is a terrible, terrible countermovement that is created solely to deflect the racial profiling black people experience, instigate in-group elitism that contributes to a very real Blue Lives culture vs regular citizens and to victimize police and spread lies about how violent crimes against the police are rising (it's not) while ignoring the job-related stress issues that come with police and the increased risk of mental health disorders such as PTSD and suicide (I will repeat this: more than three times as many officers committed suicide than were involved in a felonious death; putting a focus on felonious deaths encounters by police puts a harmful thought in the way the police approach people and racial profiling faced by income inequality that blacks are more likely to encounter certainly doesn't help things).

What I think are the most heavily contributed problems with America's police? Gun culture, racism, and income inequality. Gun culture instigates the trigger happy approach in that cops assume everyone owns a gun, which is why they want you to put your hands on a steering wheel at all times, and that guns can easily be whipped out, even if the suspects hands are showing. Gun culture causes this paranoia to happen, and thus leads to incidents such as Atatania getting shot in her home while looking out the window or Botham Jean getting killed in his own apartment. I have no clue why cops are staunch defenders of the second amendment when so much horrific approaches are due to the over-encroachment of guns in our culture. Racism needs no explanation, there's a vast amount of history that documents this, and income inequality and racism are intertwined, and as I said earlier, the Plain View Project gives a horrible view of how much racists are in the force. Unfortunately, cops aren't the only thing plagued by racism, our justice system in the courts is subject to the same profiling that leads to the sentencing, which is another can of worms to dismantle altogether. Although this isn't comprehensive, there's also our draconian drug laws and our inefficient mental health treatment that contributes.

Let's just say that our law enforcement is a hugely complicated mess, and I'm interested in pinning the ills of it in the right locations rather than uncritically looking at outrageous events shared by social media.
Ray Trace
Ray Trace
a cop got fired for not killing a black man because "it didn't defuse the situation", pathetic.

Yes, I think I remembered this one. That's the one with the military veteran cop, right? Yeah, that scenario is fucked up beyond belief.
Cell
Cell
Yep
Ray Trace
Ray Trace
And while we're at it, legalize weed already.

Oh yeah, this heavy hand on drug legislation led to a heavily botched no-knock warrant bust in at 1 am in the wrong house which left a boyfriend and nurse dead because the boyfriend, logically so, thought there were intruders at the time and tried to shoot them.
London Parris
London Parris
Speaking on law and crime, if the government legalises all drugs, gang activity most likely will disappear. A majority of people locked up in the country is due to the ineffective "War on Drugs"
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