Our Police State

[Chicks]

Buffalo police officers plead not guilty to assaulting 75-year-old man at demonstration

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/us/bu...man/index.html

Multiple videos clearly show that they assaulted the man, yet they are protected by FAR too many rules. This needs to change. Cops in this country need to be held accountable for their actions, just as you and I are (unless we're wealthy and white).

[Chicks]

How to reform American police, according to experts

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/2127701...m-george-floyd

Miles Davis, beaten by a cop for helping a white woman into a cab outside of Birdland, where he had just performed for a Voice of America broadcast. Nothing has changed since then.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Chicks

How to reform American police, according to experts

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/2127701...m-george-floyd

Miles Davis, beaten by a cop for helping a white woman into a cab outside of Birdland, where he had just performed for a Voice of America broadcast. Nothing has changed since then.

Much has changed since then and only a fool would say otherwise. We still have a long way to go ...

[bobabode]

Thanks Cap'n Obvious.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by nailer

Much has changed since then and only a fool would say otherwise.

So blacks don't get beat up by cops now for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Chicks

So blacks don't get beat up by cops now for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

Are you asking a question or making a statement, EGN?

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by nailer

Are you asking a question or making a statement, EGN?

Just responding to your typically obnoxious post.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by Chicks

So blacks don't get beat up by cops now for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

That's interesting. I have a friend that does not side with the protesters and BLM, but he also doesn't side with the cops. The reason? In his younger days he had bad experiences with the cops and, yes, being beat up for doing absolutely nothing wrong. But he's lilly white. Cops, like all people, can act badly. Some do it for racial reasons, some do it because they are frustrated watching perps get off, and some are just bullies.

And race is just one of many excuses that they can use to justify it. And if the cop's precinct is in a predominantly black neighborhood, who's he gonna beat up? Black people.

As with all issues like this, it's not about the whole organization. It's about clearing out the bad apples. And if the police are not doing that, it's on the Chief. And if he keeps his job anyway, it's on the mayer. And THAT is on the voters.

You want change in these areas? Do it in the voting booth. Don't burn down your own house.

[Chicks]

This movement is not anarchy. It could push America to be a better nation.
By Editorial Board

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...482_story.html

It seems to us many Americans are seeing, and beginning to understand. Not everyone may have internalized terms such as “white privilege” or “systemic racism,” but they see the inequity. They see it not only in criminal justice — the Minneapolis police use force against black Americans at seven times the rate as against whites — but throughout American life. They see that the novel coronavirus is killing blacks at 2.4 times the rate it kills whites, and that the economic burden — the job losses, the shuttering of small businesses — is weighing more heavily on blacks as well, though undoubtedly there is plenty of suffering to go around.

Many Americans, in other words, are seeing, and understanding, that racism was not solved by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. It was not solved by the Civil Rights Act in 1964. The election of a black president in 2008 did not solve it, either.

It is a problem still with us, and in us.

[Oerets]

This will be a clue as where the country is heading.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Kt...A#action=share