A 2016 Piece Deserving of Its Own Thread.

@joe-shmo said
If you completely pulled police from the neighborhood. What do you anticipate is the outcome? You can save ALL of the live lost to police brutality. In the end will there be more or less Black murder?

Strawman.

"Completely pulling police" from anywhere permanently is not something BLM has proposed.

I guess you've given up on your pretend outrage over police killings all of sudden.

@joe-shmo said
https://time.com/4404987/police-violence/

"In March, something happened in Kentucky that tragically seems, in light of what happened to Alton Sterling and Philando Castile last week, business as usual. Constable Bobby Smith wanted to serve a warrant to Brandon Stanley, who tried to evade him. Smith tracked Stanley down to a convenience store and shot him dead.

Around t ...[text shortened]... the police as a racist occupying army."

Certainly must have been written by a racist white man...

It is notable that even this article admits that police kill blacks at higher rates and doesn't buy Joe's theory that the level of police involvement in urban neighborhoods is just to stop all that "gang violence":

"Moreover, many would argue that disproportionate poverty levels among black people render them more likely to encounter police officers in the first place—vastly unfair, but different from the problem being simply cops’ standing racist bias."

@no1marauder said
Strawman.

"Completely pulling police" from anywhere permanently is not something BLM has proposed.

I guess you've given up on your pretend outrage over police killings all of sudden.

I guess you've given up on your pretend outrage over police killings all of sudden.

So in you feeble estimation it is not possible to be both disturbed bad policing and more than concerned about the orders of magnitude greater lives lost due to gang violence?

Do you care about the over 2000 Black lives lost every year do to gang violence or not?

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Your paranoid delusions are perhaps best addressed to the readership that can most appreciate them. Namely in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

@earl-of-trumps said
@Soothfast Black Lives Matter is fighting to reform the criminal justice system in fundamental and meaningful ways. The "race war" crap does not jibe with reality and is something you or Fox News just made up.

Don't I *wish* that's all they were up to.

Ever see CNN - or anyone MSM, show video of a cop shooting a white guy?
And you never will. Beyond tryin ...[text shortened]... learly pushing to divide America.

And I have to hand it to them, they have done a marvelous job.

So if every police shooting that gets recorded were broadcast on television for your edification, would you, Joe, and all your other pals start thinking at long last about the fundamental problems of police brutality in the US?

I doubt it.

@joe-shmo said
https://time.com/4404987/police-violence/

"In March, something happened in Kentucky that tragically seems, in light of what happened to Alton Sterling and Philando Castile last week, business as usual. Constable Bobby Smith wanted to serve a warrant to Brandon Stanley, who tried to evade him. Smith tracked Stanley down to a convenience store and shot him dead.

Around t ...[text shortened]... the police as a racist occupying army."

Certainly must have been written by a racist white man...

Good, then get this to everyone's attention. Join the protests. Demand police reform.
Prove "the leftists" wrong (as if most don't already know that racism is not the sole problem of police shootings).

I am sure everybody will be over themselves with anger at being proven wrong when the police don't shoot people as often. I mean, that's why leftist protest police brutality, right? For the likes on social media.

No idea why that was pulled I’m waiting on feedback.

@soothfast said
So if every police shooting that gets recorded were broadcast on television for your edification, would you, Joe, and all your other pals start thinking at long last about the fundamental problems of police brutality in the US?

I doubt it.

are you f'n kidding me???

of COURSE. I know about the police brutality in America. I live here. It's quite real.
What happened to Floyd is real, the guy in Atlanta shot in the back is real.
These are brutal killings that were never needed.

BUT...

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The problem with making the police more responsible is going to be a daunting
task. There is little central control in each state, let alone, in the nation.

Not sure how they can approach the problem

@earl-of-trumps said
The problem with making the police more responsible is going to be a daunting
task. There is little central control in each state, let alone, in the nation.

Not sure how they can approach the problem

Did you manage to read the post earl and did you see anything that would get the auto mods upset, I’m wondering if I’ve misspelt something.

@earl-of-trumps said
The problem with making the police more responsible is going to be a daunting
task. There is little central control in each state, let alone, in the nation.

Not sure how they can approach the problem

Right you were probably replying to sleepy guy.

@no1marauder said
Sure, cops are all just investigating "gang violence" when they "stop and frisk" in black neighborhoods or when they ignore white selling of drugs but pursue black drug dealers.

You're ability to spew out right wing propaganda isn't as an impressive skill as you think.

EDIT: In NYC: "More importantly, racial disparities remain dramatic: 90 percent of people stopped in 2016 were people of color." https://www.cssny.org/news/entry/stop-and-frisk

Drug Abuse Arrest in 2018[1]:

Total...................White.............Black
1,234,178 ........871,295.........333,113

Explain to me how 70% off all Drug Abuse arrests are of White ( including Hispanic ) yet they somehow completely "ignore it" in the white community?

[1]https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-43

@no1marauder said
It is notable that even this article admits that police kill blacks at higher rates and doesn't buy Joe's theory that the level of police involvement in urban neighborhoods is just to stop all that "gang violence":

"Moreover, many would argue that disproportionate poverty levels among black people render them more likely to encounter police officers in the first place—vastly unfair, but different from the problem being simply cops’ standing racist bias."

""Moreover, many would argue that disproportionate poverty levels among black people render them more likely to encounter police officers in the first place—vastly unfair, but different from the problem being simply cops’ standing racist bias."