I completely agree with you. Assuming, that is, you’re talking about the football players who were being protected by police at that very game from the nearby “protesters”.
One waits in vain for the people who say there’s no problem with the way black people are generally treated by the police to explain this one.
Why do the St. Louis Police deserve an apology?
They don’t. They’re being whiny little bitches.
Thanks for your interjection. Your ESL status continues to plague you; native speakers will not struggle to follow the exchange. But let me help you out again. The subject of the article to which I was responding was the complaints made by the St. Louis police.
I know you and I differ, and you struggle to express yourself well in English, but I do have to take a moment to say that for all that, you do a good job. Better than I would do writing in whatever your native language is!
The players, by the way, were in no danger from protestors. As black men, especially large black men, they are just doing exactly what every conservative here says they should do. It’s incumbent upon them to not scare police. They should be lauded for keeping their hands away from their waistbands.
Something to consider…the man in this story had access to or had a gun on him, and was tasered…twice…and given the opportunity to actually fire shots himself before he was shot and killed. Now I can’t find a picture of the guy, but knowing that area if I had to guess I’d say he’s white.
I wonder if a black guy would have enjoyed the same use of force continuum?
It’s not that I don’t understand English, you poltroon, it’s that I find it hard to believe that anyone with a functioning brain would choose to write the drivel you do, that somehow manages to combine sanctimony, ignorance and arrogance in an almost unprecedented fashion.
So, a deputy was shot and injured because he chose to use less lethal weaponry against an armed man. That’s why people, including the police, are entitled to shoot first, if shooting is at all justified.
I’m becoming more convinced that black people aren’t being treated unfairly badly by the police so much as white people being treated with unnecessary kid gloves.
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At least you’re acknowledging that black people are treated with a different standard by police than white people. That places you ahead of your peers here who remain racist as well as fascist. You want an iron fist of justice for all!
From Time on why Asian Americans should care about Ferguson:
It is indeed a point in his favor that he’s an equal-opportunity fascist.
We already listed Utah, but here is one of their shootings (white shot by police):
Half the police force would be bagging your groceries at Walmart if it wasn’t for the prospect of work in the government.
Incompetent and unprofessional is what you’re going to get.
We need to make training a LOT better, testing on the field and off, very meticulous, re-training and continued training needs to be part of their career, and we need to pay them a hell of a lot better too.
We need to be training and employing police officers that aren’t going to act like the douches in a lot of these threads, and we need tools that can quickly and efficiently eliminate any cops not competent enough to be police officers.
You also need some major shake up in the way police do their work and interact with their communities. Transparency and accountability need to be more than just words thrown around.
Charges dropped for cop who shot and killed a sleeping 7-year-old girl
The quote of the day:
Why people aren’t rioting over this, I don’t know. I feel like tossing a garbage can into someone’s storefront window my damn self.
It truly is appalling.
I’m sure the SDMB Police Defense Force will be along to explain how it’s completely understandable though.
It was her own fault for sleeping in the wrong place.
In the case linked by monstro, there is apparently still a possibility that an appeals court will reinstate the felony charge. You can also count me dismayed that “careless discharge of a firearm causing death” is only a misdemeanor.
If you want the full background on the whole fucked-up story of Aiyana Stanley-Jones’ killing, check out this Mother Jones article.
Silence from the resident cop lovers on the killing of a little girl. How unsurprising.
I’m not defending the cop either, but who the fuck calls the police to say they are unsettled by someone walking by with their hands in their pockets? The general population in that neighborhood has to take some of the blame for that one.
Exactly! Who the fuck sleeps on a sofa, in a dark room somewhere the police might be looking for a murderer? You do dangerous things, that make cops nervous and this is the probable outcome