ANOTHER murderous cop: I wonder why no one's protesting over this one?

your parents wrote:

open your eyes wrote:

I missed the part of the Ahmaud Arbery video where he explained why he was trespassing when confronted by the neighbors, and you must have missed the part where he charged a guy holding a shotgun and tried to wrestle it away from him? I'm not familiar with the others, but most seem to be gun/drug/alcohol and resisting arrest related. Is there one that you listed that that isn't the case?

What they ALL have in common is criminally incompetent police. That's the most prevalent link.

the guns/drugs/resisting arrest seem like the issue to me and I'm still waiting for an example like keeps getting brought up that doesn't involve my common denominators and there are plenty of incompetent criminals that get arrested daily and do not get shot, or physically abused because they don't have or reach for a gun or resist arrest - not sure why this is such a hard fact to swallow?

your parents wrote:

open your eyes wrote:

I haven't seen how the situation went down, but it seems like extremely poor parenting to allow a 12 year to play outside with a toy gun that looks way too close to a real gun and apparently others felt the same way and called the police about this.

Letting your kid play outside with a real looking toy gun is nowhere near as incompetent as shooting a kid that you were told has a toy gun.

So the cop that shot him knew that was a toy gun and still shot him?

your parents wrote:

open your eyes wrote:

Your last guy also had a gun - do you have any cases where guns/alcohol/drugs or resisting arrest AREN'T involved? That was what I was talking about...ALL these issues have common themes besides "poor policing"

That's incorrect. The only one that is true across all cases is pool policing. There is not a single other factoid that is common among them all besides that (well, and the victims being black).

He told the police he had a gun...

open your eyes wrote:

your parents wrote:

What they ALL have in common is criminally incompetent police. That's the most prevalent link.

the guns/drugs/resisting arrest seem like the issue to me and I'm still waiting for an example like keeps getting brought up that doesn't involve my common denominators and there are plenty of incompetent criminals that get arrested daily and do not get shot, or physically abused because they don't have or reach for a gun or resist arrest - not sure why this is such a hard fact to swallow?

Those are all different issues, not a single issue. There is nothing illegal about many of them. The one overriding commonality is criminally incompetent policing. You are making the job harder for police by defending crappy ones.

The police were informed by the person who called about Rice that it was a toy gun. If that was not communicated to the actual officer that shot him, that is further evidence of gross incompetence.

I watched a video and the person said it MIGHT be a toy gun, which also means it MIGHT not be a toy gun. One CAN take your life one can not.

DOUBLESTANDARD wrote:

Very weak argument. Chauvin and Mitchell were both SHITTY cops. You are a troll for assuming I am comparing them as equal acts. Just because he was a sexual predator does not mean he wasn't abusing his power just like Chauvin was abusing his power. And if you haven't realized it, Chauvin is not getting away with anything.

You are incapable of rational debate.

Chauvin and others like him, used a disproportionate amount of force to subdue a man that was pleading for his life in this case. Whether that man was black or white is relevant in his reaction.

Mitchell was in it to extort a prostitute (using an unauthorised sting) for his own sexual pleasure. When that went wrong it resulted in him killing her, presumably to cover up, with the excuse of defence. Whether her colour played a part in his reaction is moot.

Please provide better examples for your denial of a disproportionate killing of blacks by cops.

FACTS:

A white police officer is more likely to get killed by a black man than kill a black man

More white cops kill white criminals vrs black criminals. More black cops kill black criminals.

If police brutality is caused by systemic racism then Obama (our beloved black president) had 8 years to do something about it. A huge study was funded in 2016 that showed that the average police officer is less racist than the average person. Look it up.

Black people that immigrate from Africa have almost zero issues with law enforcement. Since these people are black the fact that a group of black people void of violent encounters with law enforcement indicates that the amount of black arrests is largely cultural and not race-based prejudice. How could society be so naive to think stereotyping a group of people is the cause of racism in the US? Hello, we had a black president for 2 terms. Every white American guy would give his left nut to be Michael Jordan.

Way too many facts for the haters to digest.

But thanks for sharing, hopefully a few people will start to open their eyes!