CashMoney wrote:

Uptown wrote:

meloanyk wrote:

misterearl wrote:meloanyk - first, Stop the nonsense. Check your reading comprehension on the mis-characterization and mis-representation of what I write.

Missed your piece yesterday. I was in St Paul Minnesota for the birthday of Philando Castile, at the Rondo Days neighborhood festival. He would have been 33.

Tapping personal insults on a keyboard is not an answer to any problem.

You are the reason I started posting a different perspective and counterpoints on this thread because of the venom that you were spouting so spare me.

As far as the Twin Peaks incident, all seven of the Cossacks bikers KILLED were WHITE and the one Bandidos bike killed was I believe of MEXICAN heritage.Im glad that you cited that white lives also get caught up in bad circumstances that result in unfortunate deaths .

Alton and Philando should not have been killed but the response should not have been to inflame or to kill police. To cite flaws and demand improvements of any system is a basic right but to deny that progress has been made on many fronts is shallow . To deny the issue has other components is not having a full discussion. The last thing poor urban communities need is depolicing but that is likely what will come out of all these tragedies.

Ideally a balance can be achieved where broken window policing is lessened while safety of neighborhoods can be maintained. Unfortunately , I have my doubts

Violence is not the answer...The recent killings of the police officers in Dallas and Baton Rogue is terrible and a very unfortunate and sad situation. With that said, the hostility towards the police has been bubbling for decades, hell centuries. Alton and Philando are the known deaths at the hands of police because of video, but those who have lived in the inner cities such as myself know that this has been going on for decades. To exacerbate the problem, the police officers who are killing unarmed black people are not being properly prosecuted and convicted. Thus the birth of Blacklivesmatter...and the retaliations that we are seeing now.

Key Findings:

Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week. (See which police departments were responsible for these deaths)

Nearly 1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed, though the actual number is likely higher due to underreporting

37% of unarmed people killed by police were black in 2015 despite black people being only 13% of the U.S. population

Unarmed black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015

Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer(s) being charged with a crime, and only 2 of these deaths (Matthew Ajibade and Eric Harris) resulted in convictions of officers involved. Only 1 of 2 officers convicted for their involvement in Matthew Ajibade's death received jail time. He was sentenced to 1 year in jail and allowed to serve this time exclusively on weekends. Deputy Bates, who killed Eric Harris, will be sentenced May 31.

http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/

Of the 102 cases on the website there are plenty that are due to traffic accidents as well as people who died after officers utilized chemical agents. There are a few that are questionable at best but a majority look like clean uses of force.

For example:

37. Darrius Stewart, 7/17/15
Memphis, TN: Stewart was stopped by police for a broken headlight. Authorities said he was placed in the back of a patrol car, unhandcuffed, while officers ran his name. When the officers returned to handcuff Stewart and take him into custody for outstanding warrants, police said he became "combative" and struck an officer with the handcuffs. The officer then drew his gun and fired. Stewart's mother told local news that her son had never been arrested and that the warrants were for someone else with the same name.

41. George Mann, 7/11/15
Stonewall, GA: Police were called to a Stone Mountain home after a caller said Mann was irate and locked in a garage. Officers claim they attempted to negotiate with Mann before tasing him. The 35-year-old became unresponsive and pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

51. Ross Anthony, 6/9/15
Dallas, TX: Police claim Ross Anthony was banging his fists on the hood of an ambulance and got into another person’s vehicle when they arrived. Officers claim they attempted to talk Anthony out of the car, choosing to reach in and grab him when he opened the door. When he allegedly resisted, the officer tased Anthony, which ended up killing him.

This has more to do with suspects not complying with officers than it does the color of their skin. A majority of the deaths posted on the website would not have happened had the suspects complied with the officers.

Clean uses of force? Tell that to the victims sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, etc. None of the victims had guns, yet all of them are dead! You dont have a problem with that at all!

But several things stand out to me....1. The running theme is officers claim....Who knows if this is the actual truth of events. 2. There were multiple cops/police on the scene vs one victim. Compliant or not, these victims were unarmed and all of them should not be dead. 3. No officers have been charged with a crime for killing of (insert name). That is a problem.

BRIGGS wrote:

misterearl wrote:Law and Order/ White Privilege Edition

After initially locking up more than 170 people in connection with the May 17, 2015 incident in Waco, Texas at the Twin Peaks restaurant, not one person was charged with the shooting deaths of nine people.

“We are starting the letting go process, although they are not admitting they did something wrong,” - Attorney Adam Reposa, Austin.

Not one person is in prison. Crime statistics my ass.

misterearl--what is white privilege today? An African American father can tell his son--you can be President, you can be Attorney General--you can buy any home you want anywhere in the US if you work hard. Why is any race privileged over another?

briggs - for your edutainment

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelblackmon/17-harrowing-examples-of-white-privilege-9hu9?utm_term=.rrzbKew6b#.bdkEmaxkE

misterearl wrote:Privilege For Beginners

BRIGGS wrote:

misterearl wrote:Law and Order/ White Privilege Edition

After initially locking up more than 170 people in connection with the May 17, 2015 incident in Waco, Texas at the Twin Peaks restaurant, not one person was charged with the shooting deaths of nine people.

“We are starting the letting go process, although they are not admitting they did something wrong,” - Attorney Adam Reposa, Austin.

Not one person is in prison. Crime statistics my ass.

misterearl--what is white privilege today? An African American father can tell his son--you can be President, you can be Attorney General--you can buy any home you want anywhere in the US if you work hard. Why is any race privileged over another?

briggs - for your edutainment

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelblackmon/17-harrowing-examples-of-white-privilege-9hu9?utm_term=.rrzbKew6b#.bdkEmaxkE

Speaking at Batey’s sentencing hearing this Friday, the unnamed victim described how even after the sexual assault, the football player continued to abuse her by degrading her with more hateful speech and urinating on her face, according to The Tennessean.

I guess its black privilege to hold people responsible for events that happened decades and centuries before they were born.

BRIGGS wrote:

misterearl wrote:Privilege For Beginners

BRIGGS wrote:

misterearl wrote:Law and Order/ White Privilege Edition

After initially locking up more than 170 people in connection with the May 17, 2015 incident in Waco, Texas at the Twin Peaks restaurant, not one person was charged with the shooting deaths of nine people.

“We are starting the letting go process, although they are not admitting they did something wrong,” - Attorney Adam Reposa, Austin.

Not one person is in prison. Crime statistics my ass.

misterearl--what is white privilege today? An African American father can tell his son--you can be President, you can be Attorney General--you can buy any home you want anywhere in the US if you work hard. Why is any race privileged over another?

briggs - for your edutainment

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelblackmon/17-harrowing-examples-of-white-privilege-9hu9?utm_term=.rrzbKew6b#.bdkEmaxkE

When Vanderbilt University football player Cory Batey and three of his buddies raped a 21-year-old white woman on June 23, 2013, he said this to her: “That’s for 400 years of slavery, you bitch!”

Speaking at Batey’s sentencing hearing this Friday, the unnamed victim described how even after the sexual assault, the football player continued to abuse her by degrading her with more hateful speech and urinating on her face, according to The Tennessean.

I guess its black privilege to hold people responsible for events that happened decades and centuries before they were born.

Nice example briggs. Lets play the rape card. because the threat to white women is what drives heinous events like the murder of Emmett Till.

Just for the record, slavery was followed by nearly 90 years of criminalization via "black codes" that denied the rights to testify against whites, to serve on juries or in state militias, vote, or start a job without the approval of the previous employer.

Southern states again enacted a series of laws intended to circumscribe the lives of African Americans. Harsh contract laws penalized anyone attempting to leave a job before an advance had been worked off. “Pig Laws” unfairly penalized poor African Americans for crimes such as stealing a farm animal. And vagrancy statutes made it a crime to be unemployed. Many misdemeanors or trivial offenses were treated as felonies, with harsh sentences, imprisonment and fines.

The Pig Laws were expanded with even more discriminatory laws once the Jim Crow era began. Voting was a crime punishable by death. Lynching was a spectator sport. Think about that.

The law to end segregation was not until 1963.

Reading is fundamental.

misterearl wrote:Why not list the statistics for white on white crime briggs?

Its roughly 3.7 times more likely that an African American will commit rape than a white American. Like I said--you can look to the facts of crime in the US to get an understanding on why police might be more jumpy with AA(although this is not a proven fact) It seems like rape is a black privilege

holfresh wrote:Or you could be David Cone and be accused of rape and sexual misconduct by multiple women and never be charged and settle out of court...Privilege...

I dont see Bill Cosby in jail? I think that if you turn a blind eye at 3.7X more likely or make excuse about it--that you should just turn a blind eye at everything. Its common sense man

Just look at what that kid from Vanderbilt said to that young woman---this is for 400 years of slavery bitch and then pissed on her face. Just think about that for a few moments. This is a guy who had PRIVILEGE to get to go to college for FREE

BRIGGS wrote:

holfresh wrote:Or you could be David Cone and be accused of rape and sexual misconduct by multiple women and never be charged and settle out of court...Privilege...

I dont see Bill Cosby in jail? I think that if you turn a blind eye at 3.7X more likely or make excuse about it--that you should just turn a blind eye at everything. Its common sense man

Just look at what that kid from Vanderbilt said to that young woman---this is for 400 years of slavery bitch and then pissed on her face. Just think about that for a few moments. This is a guy who had PRIVILEGE to get to go to college for FREE

He deservingly got 15 years in jail for his actions...Brook Turner got 6 months, how do you explain that other than privilege???