Black Lives Matter NY President: Crime Needs To Be Looked At As A Health Issue, Not A Police Issue

RCP video ^ | 6-29-2020 | Tim Hains

[Sir Napsalot]

(snip)

NEWSOME: Well, here's the thing: a lot of people don't understand how the streets or the people feel. I have an in-depth knowledge for this, I live in the Bronx, I live amongst the people.

... But if people keep seeing these images of their babies, of their relatives, of black people being killed, they keep dealing with financial inequality and inequity, and it reaches a point of frustration, then people lash out.

This is a matter of inevitability that people will lash out because they're feeling like they're backed into a corner....

NEWSOME: Well, what you have to understand is overtime -- how about this? I'm not encouraging people to go out and hurt other people. That's not what I'm promoting.

What I'm talking about is systemic inequality. What I'm talking about is America treating crime as -- as something that needs to be handled with policing instead of defunding the police and looking at crime from the perspective that it's a health crisis.

The same way we looked at heroin addiction when it was only black people as 'tough on drugs, war on crime.' We have -- and when it became white people, we looked at it as a public health crisis, as something that needs to be treated.

That's the way we need to look at crime, OK? ... Look at the causes of why people are committing crimes. They are desperate. They're poor. They're undereducated and they are left out to dry but this American system of government.

So if you want to decrease crime, you don't hire police to come in and arrest everybody and brutalize people. If you want to cure crime, then you must go to the source. You must invest in people, you must give people jobs.

[manc]

who the f does this turd think he is?

[Sir Napsalot]

(More Newsome:) ... black people do not trust politicians. They don't trust black -- they don't trust Democrats, they don't trust Republicans.

Black people also have a problem with the government overstepping its bounds. The biggest manifestation of that is policing. (end quote)

Black people are libertarians? Why they keep voting for politicians with the promise of most gubmint hand-outs?

[1956tbyrd]

We only have a need for so many entertainers and atheletes.

[Jamestown1630]

I agree that, at bottom, everything ‘wrong’ with us is always a spiritual issue.

But until the thieves, rapists, home invaders, ideological crazies and violent gangs get ‘spiritual’ and churched-up, I want real COPS on my block.

[rigelkentaurus]

LOL - they are desperate, they are poor. LOL

Those are true because of the black culture that you refuse to change. Black culture disdains education and puts tremendous negative peer pressure on any black child who is even attempting to get an education.

Black culture values single mothers with many children from different dead-beat sperm donors who then do absolutely nothing to raise their children. Blacks culture endorses gansterism. Black culture endorses the crime culture. Black culture endorses immorality. Black culture endorses the drug scene. If blacks are poor and desperate, it is their own fault.

[Libloather]

I’m pretty sure it isn’t a health issue until the bullet hole appears...

[hal ogen]

The blm group are terrorists and criminals. They should be arrested for sedition...and their ongoing criminal acts.

[Sir Napsalot]

>>>> You look at how this country is beholden to corporations and people feel betrayed. <<<<

Mr. Newsome sprinkles a bit of truth into his thinking, yet he proposes strange stratagem that “if US ‘doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system’”.

They are not going to follow the established routes within the system, they are making demands that we are required to meet right away, or else there will be “otherwise...” threats.

[ealgeone]

Heroin has always been associated with whites. Crack for blacks.

[Monty22002]

Yeah, figured it had to be way back. So basically he’s bitching about something almost 100 years old.

[Fungi]

It is a moral issue. Read the ten commandments.

[Skywise]

Crime is a health issue... you need to help me to your money.

[boycott]

Neither police issue nor health issue . . . it is a spiritual issue.

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Yep. But blacks fail to acknowledge that. That’s even the ones in their churches.

[RoosterRedux]

We could treat them as a mental health problem and lock criminals up until they begin to behave like sane people by showing respect for the law and society.

[Hadean]

I’ll be sure to give them a good dose of vitamin led if they come looking on my property for health care.

[wardamneagle]

Well Hawk Newsome....unless you start with 70% of the black male population who walks away from the responsibility of getting the girl pregnant and the responsibility of manning-up to be a father, you will continue to have a Poppa Was Rolling Stone society. But I'm a racist ?

[caww]

NEWSOME: "Well, here's the thing: a lot of people don't understand how the streets or the people feel".....

After what I've seen for weeks now I don't give a rats butt what they're 'feeling'....and I never will again.

[Ann Archy]

BLM has a PRESIDENT???? They are THAT ORGANIZED??? OMG!!

[RoosterRedux]

Look at the causes of why people are committing crimes. They are desperate. They're poor. They're undereducated and they are left out to dry but this American system of government.

He knows this is bullshite.

These are people with iPhones and weed who spurned any attempt to educate them.

These are people who choose the criminal way of life because they believe the cops are enforcing the White man's law.

[cranked]

Utter idiocy. Yep, let’s treat all crimes as a psychological disorder with no real accountability rather than a crime which has actual accountability for the criminal...called jail or prison.