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Cops make 'sinister associations' when dealing with black men, warns FBI director in landmark speech
Daily Mail ^ | February 12, 2015 | CLAIRE CARTER, DANIEL BATES

Posted on 02/12/2015 11:14:04 AM PST by rickmichaels

Police can make 'sinister associations' when dealing with black men and American police are facing a 'crossroads' in race relations, the director of the FBI has warned.

James Comey made an unprecedented speech about policing and race issues at Georgetown University today - becoming the first director of the FBI to speak at length about the issue.

Mr. Comey made the speech, called ‘Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race’, at a time when racial tensions with police in America are high, following the police shootings of Michael Brown in Ferguson in August and Eric Garner in New York.

Mr. Comey admitted that officers had to acknowledge that ‘much of our history is not pretty’ and that they had to change.

He said police officers who work in neighborhoods where most street crime is committed by young black men may hold unconscious biases which means they can be tempted to take a 'mental shortcut' in dealing with suspicious situations.

'The two young black men on one side of the street look like so many others the officer has locked up,' he said.

'Two young white men on the other side of the street - even in the same clothes - do not. The officer does not make the same sinister association about the two white guys, whether that officer is white or black.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: comey; donutwatch; fbi; idiot; racism
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1 posted on 02/12/2015 11:14:04 AM PST by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

0bama Administration:

100% Race.

Wall to Wall.

24x7.

Most divisive President EVER.


2 posted on 02/12/2015 11:14:52 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: rickmichaels

Sinister? More gauche left wing drivel.


3 posted on 02/12/2015 11:15:27 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: rickmichaels

If black men didn’t commit so many crimes, far out of proportion to their numbers, the police wouldn’t be suspicious.


4 posted on 02/12/2015 11:17:07 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
B T T T ! ! ! ©

5 posted on 02/12/2015 11:17:35 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: rickmichaels

Um, Eric Garner was shot?

When did that become the narrative?


6 posted on 02/12/2015 11:18:10 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: rickmichaels

The FBI is being corrupted from top to bottom by the Obama regime. It’s a sad development for the once storied organization.


7 posted on 02/12/2015 11:18:21 AM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: rickmichaels
Whichever non-democrat follows this president, if thats now even possible, had better plan on a top to bottom house cleaning of all appointed positions in all departments under executive authority.

The leftists have so stacked the deck that it will be impossible for anyone whom they do not approve of having any measure of success at all.

For God's sake no more Marquis of Queensberry rules RINOs.

8 posted on 02/12/2015 11:18:30 AM PST by skeeter
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No way this country ever recovers from these people. No way.


9 posted on 02/12/2015 11:22:12 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: rickmichaels

Just pickup the paper or watch the news. There’s plenty of sinister “implications” there. These people don’t understand the concept of truth or reality one iota do they?


10 posted on 02/12/2015 11:23:01 AM PST by jsanders2001
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‘The two young black men on one side of the street look like so many others the officer has locked up,’

So whose fault is that?


11 posted on 02/12/2015 11:24:11 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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'The two young black men on one side of the street look like so many others the officer has locked up,' he said.

'Two young white men on the other side of the street - even in the same clothes - do not. The officer does not make the same sinister association about the two white guys, whether that officer is white or black.'

 

Nor should he. This is basic human nature. Common Sense. Anyone with half a brain knows the fundamental social differences at play here. There is nothing sinister about it.

12 posted on 02/12/2015 11:24:48 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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‘The two young black men on one side of the street look like so many others the officer has locked up,’ he said.

‘Two young white men on the other side of the street - even in the same clothes - do not.


Duh. The black guys are selling and the white guys are buying.


13 posted on 02/12/2015 11:26:46 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: rickmichaels

There are more black men in prison than jewish men for the same reason there are more men in prison than women.

It’s not a discrimination thing. Well, most of the time it’s not.


14 posted on 02/12/2015 11:27:54 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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“There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”

-Jesse Jackson
March 1996

15 posted on 02/12/2015 11:28:00 AM PST by Obadiah (Wind turbines, aka: bird choppers, cause earthquakes due to their harmonic frequencies.)
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To: ColdOne

My tag line concurs.


16 posted on 02/12/2015 11:29:14 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: rickmichaels

Comey has destroyed whatever credibility the FBI had. Now, it is a joke.


17 posted on 02/12/2015 11:29:48 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: rickmichaels

Sounds to me like the one making “sinister asscoiations” here is the FBI director.


18 posted on 02/12/2015 11:30:03 AM PST by circlecity
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To: rickmichaels
Observing characteristics that are present in a given situation, together with an accurate knowledge of their statistical presence in a variety of alarming situations would not be making uncalled-for "sinister associations".

What the FBI director is doing same as acts that dumb people down: break down reasonable, learned associations and train people to make selective, not-otherwise-associated correlations. It is social engineering, based on desired, political correctness of the day. In violent situations, it can easily get people killed, but that is knowingly accepted to achieve the desired Political Correctness.

HF

19 posted on 02/12/2015 11:31:05 AM PST by holden
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To: cuban leaf

Your tagline is moving closer to certainty every day.


20 posted on 02/12/2015 11:31:24 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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