There IS no cop prejudice and brutality against blacks

I hope you're not a LEO or intend to become one.

I stood in front of an empty house with a lousy old car waiting for a guy to sell me a bicycle in a gated community for twenty minutes without anyone asking me anything and no cops coming. Would that have been the same for a black man of my age?

Doubtful. Now think about this situation: a white man is sitting on the porch of his mother's house waiting for her. Do the cops get called? Does he get assaulted by a cop? Doubtful.

Despite the video proving there was no profiling involved, Chief Brown says he’s still ordering officers to undergo racial sensitivity training.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

I stood in front of an empty house with a lousy old car waiting for a guy to sell me a bicycle in a gated community for twenty minutes without anyone asking me anything and no cops coming. Would that have been the same for a black man of my age?

Doubtful. Now think about this situation: a white man is sitting on the porch of his mother's house waiting for her. Do the cops get called? Does he get assaulted by a cop? Doubtful.

Your post is pure racism!! You assume because of someones color they would harrass someone else. That is the pure definition of racism!!

The cops were called on to the scene with a guy with no key using a shovel messing with the garage. He could have been a crazy ex, abusive son, or plain freaking wacko!

He should have been happy that the cops were there to protect his BLACK moms house!! But no he got loud and didnt listen to their commands.

Any fool reading this who thinks you can get lipy and not obey a cop cause you THINK you have rights, you will most likely be arrested!

Hot dang, why do some black people think white people get some awesome treatment by cops. They are shitty and abusive to EVERYONE! Being paraniod and not listening gets you on the floor with a knee on your back!

Dial it up wrote:

In the instances where this happens, I would say those police are removed from duty or punished etc much more often than not.

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False. There are many high profile cases of where specifically black victims of police brutality were recorded being killed and the officers involved were not punished (see Eric Garner.)

We all know the facts.

The single underlying cause - POVERTY. Nothing more. Unless you address poverty this will never go away.

You're welcome.

I admit I didn't watch the entire thing, but from what I saw, the guy's story was sketchy at best. He was trying to pry up the garage door with a shovel to "see if the dog was in the garage?" Why would that matter? One of his supposed neighbors called on him, when supposedly he knew the neighbors. His chest was heaving like an accordion he was so nervous. Seems to me that the cop was somewhat justified in not believing his story and arresting him. The truth is that he probably WAS breaking into his mother's home. His mom may have actually covered for him to protect him from the charges, but that's neither here nor there.

Apparently the arrest itself was more violent than the situation called for, and that's the part I didn't watch. I just saw a bunch of commotion.

However, I have not seen anyone in this thread posit any proof that this arrest and its ensuing violence was racially motivated. Is the fact that the victim was black and the cop was white the only evidence that there was racial discrimination?

Agreed,

however understanding WHY certain groups of people are impoverished is as important as addressing poverty in the first place.

People hate the idea that perhaps the causation is something other than racsism. The reality is, is that most of the actions taken by police against people of color are the result of training, or the lack thereof, and happen when people or color or white people are involved.

Dont start none... wrote:

spade detector wrote:

How did he bring the beating on himself?

EVERYONE knows that you listen and obey what a cop says and you do it respectfully. If you raise your voice, or tell a cop NO, white or black,this is what happens PERIOD!

You have rights, but you file a complaint AFTER, and listen to the cops as you DONT know why they are asking you to do what they are asking you.

Black or white people who dont understand that, get arrested. And if you resist cause you THINK you know why a cop asked you to do something and you refuse, then it is YOUR FAULT, not the cops!

An old thread but interesting that someone came back to answer my question.

If the government is overstepping it's rights and infringing on yours, and you tell them as much, it is most definitely not your fault.

If the officer asked you to perform oral sex on him and you resisted, it's your fault if he arrests you then, right? You should have just done it and filed a complaint later? Oh....now it doesn't seem so simple. Where do you draw the line?

Stopcecil! wrote:

People hate the idea that perhaps the causation is something other than racsism. The reality is, is that most of the actions taken by police against people of color are the result of training, or the lack thereof, and happen when people or color or white people are involved.

Training in part.

Racism in part.

However, more poor people are black.

Poorer people commit more crime.

Poorer people get profiled more.

It’s not rocket science.

lsod wrote:

More whites are killed by police than blacks. Even accounting for population sizes, blacks are not killed more often than whites.

This is a non racial issue. Both whites and blacks are being killed by police. Why is there only attention on saving the blacks instead of the whites?

After watching the video is this your initial thought?

I agree with you, but it's difficult to be submissive when you are a prideful man, you know you have not done anything wrong, you know your rights are being violated and the cop mistreating you is half your age. I was pulled over once on the back roads of a small town, I was complied with all of the cop's commands and provided all of the proper documentation. I asked what was I pulled over for and he told me to shut up and he'll ask the questions. The cop took my information back to his car and about 45 minutes went by with nothing happening. I noticed that the cop was smoking his 3rd cigarette and appeared to be in a casual conversation on his cell phone. I was running late for an important event and needed to get going. I got out of my car with my hands in the air and tried to get the cop's attention, the cop pulled his weapon on me and put me in handcuffs and was going to take me to jail until he realized, who I was and my role in the event I was headed to. I ended up being over 30 minutes late to my event, which ended up being a big deal. I filed a complaint, I received a letter about a month later from that police department explaining how my actions caused the problem and explaining the proper procedure for handling a traffic stop. Interestingly, I didn't get a ticket, but I was told my tag light was out, which is impossible to see the daylight.

This is not how all of my engagements with law enforcement has gone; I have some positive ones but I have some other bad ones as well.

The policeman is always right. You should have waited for him to finish at least a full pack of cigarettes before exiting your vehicle, and at that point, you should have crawled on your belly, backwards. Did you say, "Yes sir, thank you sir."?

A spokesman for Yale University defended two of its police officers at the center of national controversy by telling The College Fix that the officers followed protocols when responding to a complaint by a white student about about a black student sleeping in a common area. The black student at the center of the firestorm, meanwhile, denounced the spokesman’s response, stating that it “lacks empathy, compassion, and historical context.”

Conroy, Yale’s spokesman, told The College Fix the issue “has been referred to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for further review. The dean will review the incident and consider next steps.”

Higgins confirmed this in his statement, saying that the student sleeping in the common area “was not a police matter.”

Reached via email and presented with Conroy’s defense, Siyonbola told The Fix that the response “lacks empathy, compassion, and historical context.”