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If You Don’t Want Police To Shoot You, Don’t Resist Arrest (not breaking news, but forever relevant)
The Federalist ^ | July 11, 2016 | John Gibbs

Posted on 08/21/2016 6:32:07 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

"Every time I hear of a black man being killed by the cops, he’s almost always a criminal thug I have no desire to defend." -- John Gibbs

It saddens me that what little is left of the black civil rights movement is spent defending thugs, hustlers, drug dealers, and troublemakers such as Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile. Can you believe we’ve gone from honorable causes like fighting for the right of black people to attend college to defending black criminals who foolishly mouth off against, run away from, and fight with the police; police who are putting their lives on the line to protect us from criminals?

Can’t the protestors at least defend young black men of honor, quiet heroes going against the grain by wearing their pants around their waist; refusing thuggery, weed-smoking, and hustling; those who marry one woman, have all their kids with that one woman, proactively raise those kids to be successful, productive citizens, and love only their wife and no other woman; those who work an honest job with integrity, intensity, and discipline, no matter how menial the work? (Note: selling illegal cigarettes on the street or bootleg CDs on the corner doesn’t count as honest work!)

If a protest were held against the oppression of such young black men, I’d be the first to join in. Yet every time I hear of a black man being killed by the cops, he’s not the man I just described. He’s almost always a criminal thug I have no desire to defend. Hardly our best, and hardly what Dr. King died for.

You see, unlike those men recently shot, I do not fear for my life from the police. Quite the contrary, my life is made safer by the police who stand between me and people like Sterling, who is much more likely to break into my car or stick me up at night compared to any harm that might come to me from a police officer. The fact is, the police are not shooting black men like me. Why? Because I am not a criminal, and when the police stop me, I politely do what they say, and they leave me alone. I do not run away, fight back, or mouth off. It’s really pretty simple.

Why is no one asking how these men’s families and communities failed them so badly that they became criminals or thugs? If you look up “tough” in the dictionary, my grandmother’s picture will come up. If you were raised under her and acted up, after she got done with you you’d wish the police had gotten to you first. I’m glad my father was raised in such an environment. Discipline happens in the home, and it starts early. When it doesn’t, the police are left to clean up the mess of deeply broken human beings who were already doomed before their first interaction with the law. It’s totally unfair to ask the police to treat hardened criminals with kid gloves.

How did we get here? The Welfare Industrial Complex has produced generational government dependence that has devastated black families and communities and created the criminal underclass of black thugs the police are killing today. I wonder what Black Lives Matter has to say about that? Will they unequivocally call for an end to the welfare, food stamps, and government subsidized housing that have replaced the black father, and thus return the role of family provider to the black man where it belongs, not the government?

Will they call for a complete end to illegal immigration and to burdensome regulations and taxes that make hiring Americans too expensive? After all, these things reduce wages, increase unemployment, and harm the ability of young black men to get jobs that provide for a family. My guess: don’t hold your breath. It’s just so much easier to blame the police, white privilege, and institutionalized racism.

Yet amid all the hype, let us not lose sight of reality: No matter how much the media attempts to stir up racial strife, the fact is about 70 black people are killed by other black folks for every one killed by a white police officer. White police killings of black people are simply a non-issue compared to what black people do to each other, unfortunately.

So no, despite the prevailing atmosphere of hysteria, I’m not afraid of being killed by the police. Quite the contrary: sadly, the data shows I’m much more likely to be victimized by a fellow black man than by a white police officer. So may the police remain sharp, aggressive, and strike fear into criminals so the good people don’t become victims.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: integrity; lawbreakers; police
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Precisely.
1 posted on 08/21/2016 6:32:07 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Chris Rock: How To Not Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police
2 posted on 08/21/2016 6:35:08 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

This is peppered with typical Chris Rock foul language, but still funny:

Chris Rock ~ How Not To Get Your A** Kicked By The Police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igQDvYOt_iA


3 posted on 08/21/2016 6:37:07 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

As you can tell, I’ve seen that movie too ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grYBKcuWowM&list=PL836BA82F617FBA83&index=8


4 posted on 08/21/2016 6:39:31 PM PDT by soycd
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To: BlueLancer

fist bump! :^)


5 posted on 08/21/2016 6:39:49 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: BlueLancer

You beat me to it. I am unsurprised. FReepers are *quick*!


6 posted on 08/21/2016 6:40:58 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: HokieMom
fist bump

Boom!

7 posted on 08/21/2016 6:42:36 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: FreedomPoster; BlueLancer

The legal system sucks for EVERYONE on the receiving end.

Courts suck, bail sucks, fines suck, traffic tickets suck. It drains you of your money under penalty of getting your life ruined.

I have to see a Magistrate tomorrow about an expired inspection sticker. Missed day of work, and that damned sticker wound up costing me $350. The ticket was issued for $25. The rest are fees. Oh, and I received a letter that there is a bench warrant for me because I didn’t respond in time too. So that’s another $98.

The legal system will keep a poor person poor if you keep stepping in it. It’s like social quick sand. Doesn’t matter if you’re white, black, brown or purple. Unless you’re a friend with a cop, or having coffee with some cops, everytime you talk to a cop shit gets really unfair really quickly.


8 posted on 08/21/2016 6:43:52 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Yet amid all the hype, let us not lose sight of reality: No matter how much the media attempts to stir up racial strife, the fact is about 70 black people are killed by other black folks for every one killed by a white police officer. White police killings of black people are simply a non-issue compared to what black people do to each other, unfortunately.

Interesting statistic.

9 posted on 08/21/2016 6:54:57 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Celerity
I have to see a Magistrate tomorrow about an expired inspection sticker. Missed day of work, and that damned sticker wound up costing me $350. The ticket was issued for $25. The rest are fees. Oh, and I received a letter that there is a bench warrant for me because I didn’t respond in time too. So that’s another $98.

Funny, isn't it, just how much is fixed by the right amount of money paid?

In some countries, it's just called what it is, bribery and extortion.

What a racket.

10 posted on 08/21/2016 6:57:27 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
If you look up “tough” in the dictionary, my grandmother’s picture will come up. If you were raised under her and acted up, after she got done with you you’d wish the police had gotten to you first.

Okay, that made me laugh out loud.

11 posted on 08/21/2016 6:59:17 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They aren't being radicalized; they're being activated.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Not precisely — it’s easy to forget that both sides have their own supplies of whitewash (pardon the term, maybe it should be called blackwash for the BLM crowd).

And the majority of black crime today? Could it possibly be things that were not even illegal, however frowned upon socially, in the 1800s?


12 posted on 08/21/2016 7:00:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Celerity

1- The legal system, while imperfect, is certainly better than most. Stepping in it, as you say, can be avoided.
2-I get calls every day with similar complaints and it continues to astound me how very few of these callers have any clue what their case number, specific charge, possible punishment or even background record is. They want miracles performed for very little money spent on the case they “caught” this week. Heavens, they cant even ackowledge they were arrested for breaking the law. This charge just suddenly fell out of the sky on their dumb unlucky ass!
3- Legal work, if you can get it, has excellent job security.


13 posted on 08/21/2016 7:00:42 PM PDT by amadeus
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To: A_perfect_lady

And so isn’t that just loading in a might-makes-right philosophy at a different door?

Some modern black social philosophers feel resentful, rather than thankful, that their forebears taught fear of Whitey. They believed that this should not have been necessary, but somehow ordinary social good conduct was not sufficient to get along in Whitey’s world.


14 posted on 08/21/2016 7:02:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: amadeus

This is no excuse for not trying to bring it in line with humaneness.


15 posted on 08/21/2016 7:03:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: amadeus

And why are you lambasting people for not understanding a system that was crafted for lawyers, not for John Q. Doe?


16 posted on 08/21/2016 7:04:32 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I don’t understand what you mean. I think he was just saying that if he disobeyed his grandmother, she was tougher than the police.


17 posted on 08/21/2016 7:04:37 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They aren't being radicalized; they're being activated.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Which implies might-makes-right. You would understand if you stopped to ponder.


18 posted on 08/21/2016 7:06:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

The point is, that such stories did not stand alone. They also stood together with a widespread ethos that mere ordinary social good behavior was not enough to get along in Whitey’s world. That one had to kiss up to Whitey. And so the grandmother was teaching fear of Whitey, internalizing Whitey’s wrath. The result not even being God centered but selfishness centered, where the selfishness of Whitey was running the show.

Pendulums do what pendulums do — they swing. The bad behavior of today — an over reaction to the excesses of the past — does not exist without context. And neither will any real remedy.


19 posted on 08/21/2016 7:15:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

People both white and black (and any other color) are going to have to learn to care about God and His desires even more than they do about the powers of earth, before they can even put the powers of earth into proper context.

The Man who calmed the sea can calm hearts, not through being a bully, but through mercy in what really counts.

Might-makes-right will, if not curbed, eventually melt down into self centered temper tantrums.

If people will not be humane to one another, from whence will they learn to be humane even when what they face is not humane. The answer is nowhere, except from miraculous divine intervention, which in fact is the story of Christ. It ought to be huge, huge news instead of being kept to mumblings in buildings every Sunday morning.


20 posted on 08/21/2016 7:27:13 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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