flamingotripod
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The girlfriend literally got the whole thing on tape, if nothing changes after this im going to lose faith in humanity. This must be the most disturbing video I have ever seen.
Where does your sister live, because that just doesn't happen in general. It certainly wasn't common when I was growing up and I've lived in plenty of what you would call "white neighborhoods" over the years.
The girlfriend literally got the whole thing on tape, if nothing changes after this im going to lose faith in humanity. This must be the most disturbing video I have ever seen.
To protect and serve.
Who are they protecting?
Who are they serving?
I had this thought when we watched Eric Garner get choked to death while crying, "I can't breathe!" No charges. And here we are. Again.
The girlfriend literally got the whole thing on tape, if nothing changes after this im going to lose faith in humanity. This must be the most disturbing video I have ever seen.
Right next to NASA. This is definitely common.
Not sure if you watched the video, but the original stop and shooting happened when it was still daylight. Like clear daylight where headlights and thus tail lights would not be needed yet.
The only upside at the moment is we're few weeks away from party conventions so at the very least one could pin a small hope on it leading to a broader focus on policing issues then.
Likely nothing will change but one can hope I guess.
The bolded probably has a lot more to do with the abnormally high police presence in her area than anything else.
Go to a typical suburb anywhere in middle America and you're not going to see what you're describing in your posts. Local police aren't going to have any idea who actually lives at what house.
Stuff broke relatively late. It's midnight on the west coast here. Likely this will get plastered everywhere all day tomorrow.Why is this not on CNN?
Too busy trying to work up an angle to defend the cop with.Why is this not on CNN?
If the only exposure to the people you're defending is when shit goes wrong, you will see everyone as a potential threat or trouble source. This feeds already ingrained biases you might have. Community outreach would at least help build a sense within officers that the people they are tasked to defend are people, and not just objects to be watched. These kinds of programs have definitely helped defuse tension between cops and communities in the past.
Cops should be like you describe, but in the end they are still just people. Once more, they are people who don't have exposure to minorities outside of them being involved in trouble. That's enough to turn a cop who's only slightly biased into a full racist dumbass.
I'm not saying this is THE solution. I'm not even saying it's a large piece of a puzzle, but for systematic problems like this, you need to work at the problem at many angles and any step at this point is better than where we're at.
I guess we need to distinguish that cops hiring racists and bigots is not the only issue here. Stricter hiring is not going to root out the issue. The problem is, the way we've built our system already instills and reinforces bigotry. The job right now is literally teaching our cops that minorities are their enemy, and we're reaping the results of that.
Stuff broke relatively late. It's midnight on the west coast here. Likely this will get plastered everywhere all day tomorrow.
He should have been fired the day this video came out
Holy shit, social media moves quickly.It just happened 4 hours ago
Nasau bay IS a typical whitebread suburb. This shit also happens in other white areas, like the Heights.
Police do not patrol black neighborhoods like you are claiming. This is a historic problem. Just examine the police response time in San Fransisco vs Oakland - average of 3 minutes vs 45 minutes.
You say you've lived in plenty of white neighborhoods... have you ever lived in the projects? Because I have. Hell, the first episode of OJ: Made in America is literally all about this.
Holy shit, social media moves quickly.
I take it you've never called the police in SF, because a three minute response time is beyond laughable. You MIGHT get that...if you call in an active shooter and start the clock from the moment a dispatcher actually comes on the line.
Actual SFPD response time is more like 2-3 hours. Hell, you're going to spend more than three minutes on hold just calling 911 here in SF.
I just saw it on ITV in the UK. And it's not on CNN?
Some are saying that FB is censoring this.Not quickly enough. This story still hasn't reached trending status on Facebook where it originated.
Sadly, that wouldn't that surprise me in the least.Some are saying that FB is censoring this.
well yeah, that's the kind of things I'm talking about too. To give a better example - and I swear to god I'm not making this up - about 2 or 3 weeks ago, my sister was getting her kids ready to go to school/go to work after her husband had left, when she heard a voice through an intercom yelling "Step away from the rose bushes with your hands in the air and drop the weapon"
So she stepped outside - there was a middle eastern man in her rose bushes cutting her flowers. He was trying to explain that he thought they were beautiful and wanted to cut a few and plant them in his garden or something like that. The cops had been on patrol and found him in her front yard. They asked if she wanted to press charges and she said no, but told the guy that what he was doing was rude and he shouldn't be hanging around people's front yards like that.
They caught him on patrol, because that's what cops do in white neighborhoods. They integrate into the community, become a real common, persistent force. Night and fucking day compared to how they treat projects - the only time police come to the projects is to arrest people. They come, swoop in, and take you to jail. And never come back unless there is some other black person that needs to go to jail.
Some are saying that FB is censoring this.
But if it was daylight and the brake lights were working, how would they know the tail lights were out? Unless you are saying you think the brake lights weren't working?I did, but the fact that it is daylight doesn't actually matter. I have been pulled over in broad daylight for the same thing. I am pretty sure it is still an infraction and they will assume you aren't going to fix it in the next few hours before the sun goes down.
edit: just to be perfectly clear, I am not attempting to justify or downplay anything. I am just pretty sure that the lights in that pic are the brake lights, not the tail lights.
Yep.Page was taken down the put back up it seems, I mean it's making the rounds, trending twitter and other social media regardless of what FB does anymore at this point.
My experience is that these neighborhoods, which are generally well off, have the resources to hire security to run those types of beats. Conversely, these cops are more likely to engage in these tasks because they're easier. Running a night patrol around River Oaks in Houston is sure as hell easier than running patrol in the Wards.
This is a very complicated problem that will only improve with community outreach, more training, better hiring standards, and the dissolution of the blue wall.
Why is this not on CNN?
You watched a murder. 🙁what the fuck did i just watch? I think i need to throw up.