Posted on 07/13/2016 11:54:13 PM PDT by Cronos
That is the conclusion of a strongly-worded post that has been shared more than 130,000 times on Facebook and has racked up hundreds of thousands of views on other media platforms such as Imgur.
While the sentiment is provocative, it is the identity of the author that triggered particular interest. Jay Stalien's profile indicates he is an active police officer in Florida and previously Baltimore. And he is black.
The post was published last weekend, amid mounting racial tensions across America. Stalien, who says he is a Brooklyn native, was particularly scathing about Black Lives Matter, questioning whether the lives of police officers (including ones who are African-American) were as important to the movement, as black civilians killed by white police officers.
"I couldn't help but wonder if it had been me, a black man, a black cop, on TV, assassinated, laying on the ground dead...would my friends and family still think black lives mattered? Would my life have mattered?" Stalien wrote.
In his lengthy digital essay Stalien challenged assertions that black people are unfairly penalised by law enforcement. .. Stalien said he chose a career in law enforcement because:
"I watched and lived through the crime that took place in the hood. My own black people killing others over nothing. Crack heads and heroin addicts lined the lobby of my building as I shuffled around them to make my way to our 1 bedroom apartment with 6 of us living inside. I wanted to help my community and stop watching the blood of African Americans spilled on the street at the hands of a fellow black man."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
This is several days old; while the BBC should be allowed some credit, considering their bias, for at least publishing it now, they cannot do so without “knocks down” (their words) from one “Philip Stinson, associate professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.”
What Officer Stalien says, of course, is right on the mark and worth highlighting again.
Tides Foundation = financial bundlers for leftist hacktivists
Closely intertwined with the villainous George Soros
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Footage from protest in Anaheim- a glimpse of what’s to come? This video scares me.
The agenda of the democrat party and the radical left summed up in one brilliant cartoon.
Or are you going to believe Officer Stalien, a cop who lives and serves on the street every day?
Keep in mind, anyone can twist statistics to their purposes and BBC's purpose is to serve as a propaganda organ for the leftist, globalist establishment.
BLM is a racist terror group that kills innocent white police officers and white people!
Stinson is his name? Hmmmmm...sounds Northern GBR or Northern European to me.
Any takers for a bet that, Stinson is a pasty white-guy, has no dance moves and is likely 25 pounds overweight?
But, he has complimentary political intentions.
Oh, and because of his melanin, has a vertical lift less than 6-inches (he can’t jump).
Most Recent Publications: Stinson, P. M. (2015). Police crime: The criminal behavior of sworn law enforcement officers. Sociology Compass, 9(1), 1-13. doi:10.1111/soc4.12234
Certainly an objective analysis...
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