[Incoblack1]

Somebody always has to politicize a situation and post blame. People have the right to assemble in America!

[Alto2548]

Originally Posted by Windguy

It’s apparent you still don’t see the systemic racism in our society. That’s what the continuing protests are about. The murder was just the trigger. You can push people only so far.

Read this & educate yourself on the false claim of "systemic racism"...
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Hold officers who use excessive force accountable, but there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias

[Alto2548]

This is going to TRIGGER the SNOWFLAKES on here but I'm gonna say it any way...

[B]ALL LIVES MATTER[/B. Wake up people--especially the supposedly "woke" crowd.

[CS1987]

The fact that the blm protesters use a rap song with the phrase "f#ck cop's" as their rally song doesn't endear them to me.

[mtdjed]

Candace Owens . Please save us.
Right-wing commentator Candace Owens says ‘she does not support criminal George Floyd’ and that ‘we are being sold lies’ – The Sun

[John_W]

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[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by rdmills

Just think if no crime was reported we wouldn't be having this conversation.

No, if everybody did not have a video camera in their pocket, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Do you think?

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by CS1987

The fact that the blm protesters use a rap song with the phrase "f#ck cop's" as their rally song doesn't endear them to me.

They are at the minimum thugs and probably terrorists.

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by Alto2548

This is going to TRIGGER the SNOWFLAKES on here but I'm gonna say it any way...

[B]ALL LIVES MATTER[/B. Wake up people--especially the supposedly "woke" crowd.

Black Olives Matter! https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is...atter-t-shirts

When I went there they were sold out of T-shirts but I got a baseball cap.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

No, if everybody did not have a video camera in their pocket, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Do you think?

Nailed it.

In the past, it's always been the police's word against the victim's and of course without a video...the police are going to be believed 99.9% of the time.

Sadly though, as in the Buffalo incident where everyone saw a 75 year old shoved down and was bleeding from his head and ears with no one helping him., there's still those who believe the cops & their union's who say... "the old guy just slipped."

[Viperguy]

How about a peaceful protest for all the cops that have been beaten up or killed?

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by cgilcreast

How about a peaceful protest for all the cops that have been beaten up or killed?

No one is stopping you...from starting/organizing one.

Just advertise the time and place and I'll (along with many others I'm sure)...will join you.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

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Given that many studies have shown that in general, the younger generations are a lot less racist, bigoted, xenophobic and misogynistic than the large numbers of old white folks, who will be dying out in coming years...there's still hope for this country.

Nobody gets out do this world alive. All younger generations have different views than mom, dad, and gramps. Nothing new here except?????

[ffresh]

Originally Posted by Windguy

I'd like to tell a true story.

When I first came to TV, the neighborhood men got together once a month for lunch and invited someone to come speak. It was a sheriff's deputy one month. He suggested we call the Sheriff's Office to request a free safety assessment of our houses. I did and a deputy came to my house. He showed me some things I could do to make it more difficult for someone to break into my house.

After that, he warned me to stay east of the railroad tracks in Wildwood because people were dangerous on the other side. He then said, and I quote verbatim, "Now don't get me wrong, I don't think ALL minorities are bad." There is no doubt in my mind that he was as racist as they get.

How would you like to be one of the (I'm sure) many good people living west of 301 knowing this racist was walking around with a gun and a hatred for them?

Now don't get me wrong, I don't think ALL cops are bad. ;-)

But there sure seem to be a lot of them here in central Florida. :-(

How is your utterance any different? Or, is it because you inserted a smiley?

Fred

[ffresh]

Originally Posted by bluecenturian

I will say that while 1 life is too tragic, look at these FACTS. and they are according to the Washington Post own research. “Systemic Racism” is so overused. This cop was and AHole before he became a cop and I bet the good cops that worked with him probably thought he was an AHole while he was a cop. It’s not a cop thing it’s a personal thing.

In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population. The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.

Thanks for your excellent post citing FACTS, not emotional rants like so many others.

Fred