# Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 10, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942 "2014-10-10T07:35:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 302
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6021 "2015-08-22T19:19:35Z")
[A group of black community activists visit Walmart, only to be arrested by white policemen](http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=031_1435800479) ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6022 "2015-08-22T19:22:30Z")
> [@Alkash](#): > > [A group of black community activists visit Walmart, only to be arrested by white policemen](http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=031_1435800479) Why is that controversial? ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6023 "2015-08-22T19:34:20Z")
[A 55-year old black cab driver is killed by a group of white youths.](http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/04/3_men_in_custody_after_cab_dri.html) ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6024 "2015-08-22T19:38:34Z")
> [@Alkash](#): > > [A 55-year old black cab driver is killed by a group of white youths.](http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/04/3_men_in_custody_after_cab_dri.html) You’re really not getting this. ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6025 "2015-08-22T19:54:08Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > You’re really not getting this. I probably am not–it is hard to stay cool and detached when we have so much racial violence in our country, while the movements like “White Lives Matter” seem intent on distracting our attention from the real perpetrators of vast majority of violent racial crime. [An elderly black woman is assaulted by a white thug](http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c08_1389137070) ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6026 "2015-08-22T19:57:30Z")
[Five elderly black people are murdered by a white criminal](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/09/elderly-kansas-city-couple-dies-a-week-after-shooting-rampage-that-left-three-others-dead/) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6027 "2015-08-22T20:00:01Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It’s getting to be where you can’t even walk around naked from the waist down in public and assaulting police officers anymore. She couldn’t possibly have assaulted the cop, because she is still alive. Everyone knows the only response to an assault on a cop is to draw your weapon and continue firing until the perp stops breathing. Ergo, no assault happened. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6028 "2015-08-22T20:01:45Z")
> [@Alkash](#): > > I probably am not–it is hard to stay cool and detached when we have so much racial violence in our country, while the movements like “White Lives Matter” seem intent on distracting our attention from the real perpetrators of vast majority of violent racial crime. So you’re one of those “blacks are the real racists, and they’re also uncontrollably violent” types. You definitely don’t get it, then. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6029 "2015-08-22T20:02:46Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > She couldn’t possibly have assaulted the cop, because she is still alive. Everyone knows the only response to an assault on a cop is to draw your weapon and continue firing until the perp stops breathing. Ergo, no assault happened. If you say so. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6030 "2015-08-22T20:19:01Z")
> [@Alkash](#): > > [A 76-years old black woman is murdered by a gang of white hoodlums](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516263/Defiant-76-year-old-woman-dies-shootout-gang-tried-rob-bingo-money.html#ixzz2mP68Hu4s) > She manages to shoot one of the assailants , but dies of her wounds. > [@Alkash](#): > > [A 55-year old black cab driver is killed by a group of white youths.](http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/04/3_men_in_custody_after_cab_dri.html) Fuck off, you trolling piece of shit. This is a thread about encounters between law enforcement and civilians. It’s not a place for every violent crime that you come across in the news, and it’s also not the place for your apparent agenda of “Look at all the black criminals in our society.” ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6031 "2015-08-22T20:24:00Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > This is a thread about encounters between law enforcement and civilians. Sure, if you insist:[A black police officer is murdered by a white criminal](http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/09/04/thomas-johnson-iii-rochester-police-officer-shooting/15060457/) ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6032 "2015-08-22T20:26:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You definitely don’t get it, then. I’ve already admitted that I definitely don’t get “it”. “It” is hard to get, when so much racial violence is present in our society. Sure, right-wing propaganda machine will try to convince you that we live in a post-racial society, but we all know the reality… [A 65-year old black man is beaten to death by two white females](http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/06/22/family-of-man-fatally-beaten-on-metro-train-platform-speak-out/) ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6033 "2015-08-22T20:30:50Z")
[A black police officer is kidnapped and killed by a gang of 4 whites](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/15/feds-death-penalty-off-table-for-4-charged-in-kidnapping-killing-va-reserve/) US attorney-general (who happens to be white) declared that the death penalty is definitely off the table. You won’t hear a peep from the “White Lives Matter” activists about it, though… ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6034 "2015-08-22T20:31:07Z")
> [@Alkash](#): > > [A 65-year old black man is beaten to death by two white females](http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/06/22/family-of-man-fatally-beaten-on-metro-train-platform-speak-out/) Fuck off, you trolling piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6035 "2015-08-22T20:34:28Z")
And continuing our topic about encounters between law enforcement and civilians… [Two white criminals murder a black police officer](http://theadvocate.com/news/police/9542394-123/off-duty-vermilion-sheriffs-deputy-shot) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6036 "2015-08-22T20:43:52Z")
> [@Alkash](#): > > Sure, right-wing propaganda machine will try to convince you that we live in a post-racial society, but we all know the reality… Only three kinds of people get to refer to themselves in plural - schizophrenics, expectant mothers, and the Queen. Which are you? ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6037 "2015-08-22T20:54:08Z")
[This is the officer that responded to the drive-by shooting death of the 9 year old girl in Ferguson.](http://imgur.com/gallery/DS35JZ0) ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6038 "2015-08-22T20:55:38Z")
OK now that changing the stories around shit was funny. And deeply disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6039 "2015-08-22T21:00:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Only three kinds of people get to refer to themselves in plural - schizophrenics, expectant mothers, and the Queen. > > Which are you? Let’s not make it about ourselves, shall we? The daily racial violence in our country is way too important of an issue to be sidetracked by mundane banter about our personalities. [A violent white thug robs, kidnaps and murder 75 year old black woman.](http://www.carolinalive.com/news/story.aspx?id=1216430#.VYmZUBtVhBf) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/6040 "2015-08-22T21:09:25Z")
“The daily racial violence in our country” is a figment of your imagination, you racist twit. Not every petty crime is evidence of a race war. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942.md?page=301) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942.md?page=303)