According to two outside reports, 12-year-old Tamir Rice's murder by an officer who parked the car within 2 seconds and shot him on sight... was JUSTIFIED! Yeah! Because he's black in an open carry state! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/u...ted-reasonably-in-shooting-tamir-rice-12.html
Of course it's over money rather than the people, always has been. Not to mention the media try's so hard to keep us divided racially in this country yet people are so oblivious to the obvious lol and attack police or the white man rather than issuing the real problem. Black lives matter? Okay first off saying black lives matter proves my point exactly about the media, not just their lives matters, everyones life matters. Secondly, where's the media when a black officer kills a white person or a black kills a white in general? Again, proving my point it's to keep us divided racially. There's bound to be a race war in this country if we continue going this route, not only that it will cause a war against people vs the police force. I mean, black people are already killing officers just because they have a badge. If we don't tackle the issue now things will only get worse, A LOT worse.
You do know that crime is going lower each passing year, correct? In fact, police deaths are at the all time lowest. We just happen to have a broken system. I mean it's been 11 months and Tamir Rice's killers have yet to be in jail. Not to mention there's more people in jail who smoke marijuana than those who WRECKED THE ECONOMY! The USA makes up a quarter of the world's prison population.
Personally, I think most of the shootings that have occurred by cops against the African American community have been the result of poor training and mistakes made, not racism.
Personally, I think most of the shootings that have occurred by cops against the African American community have been the result of poor training and mistakes made, not racism.
Of course it's over money rather than the people, always has been. Not to mention the media try's so hard to keep us divided racially in this country yet people are so oblivious to the obvious lol and attack police or the white man rather than issuing the real problem. Black lives matter? Okay first off saying black lives matter proves my point exactly about the media, not just their lives matters, everyones life matters. Secondly, where's the media when a black officer kills a white person or a black kills a white in general? Again, proving my point it's to keep us divided racially. There's bound to be a race war in this country if we continue going this route, not only that it will cause a war against people vs the police force. I mean, black people are already killing officers just because they have a badge. If we don't tackle the issue now things will only get worse, A LOT worse.
WASHINGTON — Defending the Black Lives Matter movement, President Barack Obama said Thursday the protests are giving voice to a problem happening only in African-American communities, adding, “We, as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously.”
Obama said the movement, which sprung up after the deaths of unarmed black men in Florida, Missouri and elsewhere, quickly came to be viewed as being opposed to police and suggesting that other people’s lives don’t matter. Opponents have countered that “all lives matter.”
At the conclusion of a White House forum on criminal justice, Obama said he wanted to make a final point about the nexus of race and the criminal justice system before launching into his defense of the movement.
“I think everybody understands all lives matter,” Obama said. “I think the reason that the organizers used the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ was not because they were suggesting nobody else’s lives matter. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that’s happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities.
“And that is a legitimate issue that we’ve got to address.”
Police relations with minority communities and the deaths of unarmed black men have been topics of great interest since the shootings of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012 in Florida and 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Those deaths, and others of black women, have inspired protests around the country under the “Black Lives Matter” moniker.
Obama paired his defense of the Black Lives Matter movement with praise for police and other law enforcement officials. Some police groups have been unhappy with Obama’s response to the deaths of the unarmed black men. The president lately seems to be making the extra effort to publicly praise police officers for willingly taking on a dangerous assignment.
He did so while participating in a forum on drug abuse Wednesday in Charleston, West Virginia, and next week he’s scheduled to address the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
At the White House, Obama said there are specific concerns about whether blacks in certain areas are treated unfairly or are more frequently subjected to excessive force by police.
But the president said people should also “understand the overwhelming majority of law enforcement’s doing the right thing and wants to do the right thing” and “recognize that police officers have a really tough job and we’re sending them into really tough neighborhoods that sometimes are really dangerous and they’ve got to make split-second decisions.”
He said people shouldn’t be “too sanctimonious” about situations that can sometimes be ambiguous.
“But having said all that, we as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously,” Obama said. “And one of the ways of avoiding the politics of this and losing the moment is everybody just stepping back for a second and understanding that the African-American community is not just making this up.”
“It’s not just something being politicized. It’s real and there’s a history behind it and we have to take it seriously,” he said.
In a separate development, the Black Lives Matter organization on Thursday rejected a town hall-style forum it had been offered by the Democratic National Committee, in lieu of a sanctioned debate it had requested. The group said a town hall wouldn’t “sufficiently respond to the concerns raised by our members.” The DNC said it has approved only six debates, and all have been scheduled.
Yeah chalkus. Try to say that in the faces of John Crawford and Tamir Rice who died by "poor police training"... in an open carry state!
Ben Carson once said that white America don't understand what African-Americans gone through... in his book published in 1999. OMG... what a race hustler!
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-...grasp-on-americas-history-of-racial-violence/
The thing is that a month since I first got my driver's license several years ago, I witnessed my father got pulled over and ganged up by the police of a college just because the officer thought he passed the red light when it was yellow. Reminder that my father is old and white Hispanic. When he told me that the officer who arrests him was bragging about making arrests while in his cell, it made me realize some people should never have a badge. Thankfully they can't patrol outside the area once everyone else voiced out their encounters and got their body cams. That was progress.
If you read the Ferguson report, there's a good reason why many interactions happened for the sake of revenue.
But I digress, people especially conservatives would be hard on their support on police officers who are brutal just to stick it to the counterculture out of bigotry or make them look holy. Like the men who choked out Eric Garner or shot Tamir Rice because they are freaks of nature or... a guy doing nothing wrong in slamming a little black girl in a classroom!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...by-official-in-video_562e9e71e4b06317990f1927
I am not saying that cops are not racist. I am saying that just looking at that one issue and turning a blind eye to everything else will solve nothing.
I think in America there is not just a race problem, there is also a police problem. If compared to other western countries the police there seems to be trained to be far more violent. They seem to miss the skill to approach and calm down someone. I am refering to minor things like getting a ticket for speeding. I do realise that this seem to happen to minorities more often especially black people. But it could just be the case that it doesn't get in the news as often when it happens to other people. Point I am trying to make, this won't go away with simply attempting to solve the race problem, but also solve the overly violent way police officers use to interact with other people.