BLM, or WLM? [MOD WARNING: FIRST POST]

That's an excellent video, fairplay to the rev. for taking up the challenge and experiencing what's it like for the police 🚔.

Should get Le Bron to do the same, it might help him understand better before shooting his mouth off.

You post all the white people shootings you want, happy to compare actions by cop and severity.

Around we go with people claiming Blacks aren't vastly more likely to be gunned down by the police in the face of statistical evidence. But yes, if you want to wiggle out of the thread topic a bit let's question our jackbooted police forces in general - racism certainly helps nothing, but neither does the thuggery. Why did this kid have to die? No reason, disrespecting the blue.

Don't worry, they settled, but that officer is still at large. Sure they fired him a year later, calling it a "personal matter" but prosecution? In my hole. Like Tamir Rice's killer they just keep shuffling departments until they find one too lazy for a diligent background check

To any end you want - it was your proposal.

Their lives matter too!?

Are you trying to say that US cops are sent out hunting black people? If that's what you are hinting at, just come out and say it.

The racial bias, if any, is small. It certainly doesn't suggest institutional level of racial bias, more likely it's the perceived threat based on certain races having higher criminality rates.

I guess it depends on how you interpret the statistics and your own bias. I think they only reflect the perceived threat which is based on significantly higher crime rates, much higher than 18%. You think it shows that the police are hunting down black people - I guess it the easier conclusion.

I'd counter that it shows a lot of people not complying with the instructions of the police.

Do what the fcuk the police tell you and there's a miniscule chance that they will shoot you. Miniscule.

There are approximately 50 - 60 million interactions with the US police every year. A miniscule number of them result in someone being killed while complying.

Act the fcuk, run, fight back etc. all increase the likelihood of the police resorting to violence and usually that isn't a situation that you want to be in. Comply with the cops and you have very little chance of being killed by them. It's not rocket science.

Just shift the blame and responsibility all on to the public, "just comply and roll those dice"

21 weeks of training and you're qualified for this job?

Oh well Levar was a statistical anomaly, don't worry about him, it will never happen to you. Why do you think that?

This cop in this video sure as **** sounds in his tone and reaction that it's the Public's fault for making him empty a third of a clip into him for a seatbelt violation. Either in shock or indifferent to his suffering and blaming him for the shooting.

Sorry I didn't take it personally or anything and didn't mean it that way. I am addressing this narrative trope, owned by nobody in particular, but culturally pervasive, that 'Just comply' is an insipid manner in which blame is shifted to the public, the same way other initiatives like "just recycle lol" divest attention away from addressing institutional pollution. "Just comply" usually functions as a distraction to addressing whether the police are acting in an irreprehensible manner. Institutions are accountable to the public, too. We seem overzealous in holding individual citizens accountable for mental health crises or seatbelt violations.

And even when you dance the jig you might still be harmed. And this reputation for stern compliance with police is earned in Blood. Some of it **** awful I might add

If we talk about this less often than we talk about "Murders in Chicago Last Weekend" then I think the culture has done a grave disservice to ourselves.

Count the number of Departments now, 18,000 legal jurisdictions which range from very democratic to mini fiefdoms; realize they all can and typically do operate independently with limited national standard.

Free link through august ^

Do these articles and statistics include the number of drug offences. These individuals have, before being sent to prison?