Posted on 07/19/2016 10:53:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If we don't stop making excuses for the actions of bad people, all Americans will start shooting one another.
Less than a week after five Dallas law enforcement officers were killed by a lunatic gunman, the nation is again reeling from a deadly confrontation between cops and an ex-military extremist. This past Sunday, former Marine Gavin Long gunned down three officers in Baton Rouge, a city on edge after police shot Alton Sterling, a black man, on July 5.
I dread the day one of my cop friends is shot by a crazy shooter seeking revenge for the murder of an innocent black person.
Make no mistake, I love and respect good cops. Over the years, I've become friends with many officers who try hard to connect with the black communities they serve. But I have a problem with bad cops, just like I have issues with bad African-Americans who kill innocent kids in Miami's inner-city neighborhoods.
We will never get past this issue unless the police fraternity tears down the blue wall of silence. We need to have hard conversations about cops — regardless of their race or ethnicity — protecting bad apples. Sometimes, officers do nothing though they know colleagues abuse the badge and break the law.
Homicide investigators often plead with African-Americans to end the no-snitching culture. Yet no one tells cops to do the same. Departments and unions that stop protecting bad cops can send a message that no institution is above the law. A person can be charged as an accessory to murder for witnessing a homicide and not reporting it to law enforcement. Why can't the cop who stays silent about an unjustified killing be charged with the same crime?
Even prosecutors rarely bring charges against killer cops because laws are designed to protect law enforcement officials. They also fear pissing off police departments.
We are on the verge of a civil war. If we don't stop making excuses for the actions of bad people, all Americans will start shooting one another.
The list of World’s Strongest Man winners is the whitest thing ever. Powerlifting and Olympic lifting are dominated by Whites and Asians. There hasn’t been a black heavyweight boxing champion in over a decade. Now, on television blacks are presented as being physically dominant, while white men are presented as being weak and effeminate. There’s a reason for that.
Look what happened to Chicago and Baltimore when the police ceased active policing tactics. The crime rate skyrocketed. Pull them out completely and the gangs will go crazy. Any bodega owner in his right mind closes his business and gets out of Dodge, pronto. How are the ghetto parasites going to eat? Do they have any idea what happens to a population when there is no food?
Simple kinetic action directed against the power supply of a large city would kill people even faster. No power means no food storage, no heat in many cases, no air conditioning in all cases. No power means your EBT cards do not work. No EBT, no food in the stores, no fast food, no food period. How long does water come out of your tap without electricity to run the filtration plants? Without a pressurized water supply how do fires get put out? How long can hospitals operate?
These people have not figured out what their end game is.
“an ex-military extremist”
As far as anyone needs to read to gauge this idiot’s agenda. Failed to mention he was a Black Muslim and adherent to BLM.
He was not really “ex-military”.
Until the Leftist press stops protecting the Soros-backed terror groups, the killings will continue.
This ain’t the civil war where it was whites against whites for the most part.
This is 60 percent against 13 percent with hispanics staying out of it.
Even throwing in the white sympathizers, that’s maybe 15 percent of whites willing to die for obama’s sons, and they’re all college fruits who’ve never thrown a punch, no less fired a gun.
That’s a massacre.
Like that blond that used to speak for obama.
You’re wrong. He couldn’t give a #### about any of those instances. He’s talking about violent blacks getting shot by cops dedending themselves.
What’d you spend an hour at DU and got infected?
Blacks need to drop their “thug” sub-culture. This is the cause of violence in the black community.
I think you are right about that, especially when you look at history as a whole.
Look back through the ages, in terms of race alone, who were the explorers, adventurers, inventors, major scientists and conquerors in battle as well as frontiersmen and keepers of ethical and oral standards?
It may be arguable that it could be those of European Caucasian or those of eastern Asian descent, but who came in last I think is easy to figure.
OK, so history does not count. Then what group of people is most apt to destroy their own community, kill off their own kind and generally be lawless in today’s society?
Am I merely referring to facts, or am I racist?
Now back to the comment I am responding to, considering my statements above, in a civil war they will lose big time. Any advancements the MLK movement made will likely be thrown into the dark ages, which would be a very sad thing.
What I do know is civil war will be good for absolutely no one, which is why we need leadership that turns this all around back to the MLK standards of the pre-Clinton era where racial relations were probably at their best for all parties concerned.
Maybe cops have simply embraced that cherished value from the ‘hood - “snitches get stitches.”
Whenever someone uses the word "but", as a rule of thumb, everything to the left of the phrase is window dressing, and everything to right has the most meaning to them.
This jackass doesn't care about good cops or friends.
Agreed - Let us start with black thugs.
Anyone who believes that the “blue wall of silence” is a myth is an idiot. Bad cops do exist, just like we have bad lawyers, doctors, teachers, clergy, electricians, taxi drivers, black people, and white people.
In my experience, bad cops are able to remain on the force because of the blue wall of silence in all but the most egregious acts of misconduct (which usually involves the unnecessary endangerment of their fellow officers, irrefutable video, or off-duty misconduct the results in the death or serious bodily injury to another person, i.e., alcohol related vehicular homicide). I know this because I have represented municipalities for over thirty years in civil rights cases resulting from alleged police abuse and brutality, In most cases (but not all), the police officer has a history of bad arrests, civilian complaints, alleged graft, abuse, or other misconduct that is so disproportionate to the other officers on the force, that I have no doubt the officer is a really bad cop. And when I start interviewing fellow officers and supervisors to prepare a defense, no one knows anything about anything, when even to the most objective observer, the evidence shows they are lying.
In my opinion, every cop ought to take make a similar oath to the honor oath that the cadets at the United States Military Academy: “A Cadet [police officer] will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do.” Any cop who violates that oath is just as bad and guilty as the cop who committed the underlying act.
Again, not all cops are bad, and indeed, the vast majority are very good, except for their unwillingness to break the blue wall of silence against the few bad cops that cause most of the problems.
Yep, #BLM needs to be working on educating young ferals about the rule of law in order to promote a Civil Society.
What about the Medical profession? They are the THIRD leading cause of deaths in the USA after all. Idiot PCP could have killed me with a very strong not needed Diabetes drug, because she did not take into account GI health, meds and 1000 MG C. Ran no test but glucose. No education, no meter, had to throw a fit to get 1 with 1 test strip per day. She is NOT an Endocrinologist, why play one? I have one for my Hypothyroidism. They police their own and unless they kill several patients or cut off the wrong limb they never get kicked out.
America’s Healthcare System is the Third Leading Cause of Death
http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm
Researchers: Medical Errors third leading cause of US Deaths (claiming 251,000 lives every year)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/03/researchers-medical-errors-now-third-Researchers:
criminals like this one
Ashley Nichole ‘Nikki’ Read (8yrs old, 67 lbs) March 16, 1990
http://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/keen-david.htm
Nikki was beaten, RAPED, strangled with her own shoelaces, wrapped in a green blanket, which was then tied, by David Keen, he dumped her body into the river off the old Auction Street Boat Dock in Memphis, TN. She drowned to death. Nikki was alive as Keen RAPED her. DNA proved he did and he eventually confessed to the crime. 2 juries, up held the Death Sentence. All State and Federals Appeals are done. Yet he still sits on Tennessee Death Row because Tennessee’s RINO governor won’t sign the Death Warrant for this Child Rapist/Killer.
It’s 2016 Nikki’s mother is still waiting for JUSTICE!
TN Governor Bill Haslam
(615) 741-2001
Bill.Haslam@tn.gov
CRETIN will die on death row of natural causes because of the cowardice of our state and federal government fear of lawsuits. If a Veterinarian has plenty of drugs to put down a horse or cow, or States use assisted suicide drugs, they have enough to put down these CRETINS.
Okay, who are the bad cops?.... oh that is right, you mean all white cops.
People who claim that we are close to a civil war are delusional or perhaps just marketing their band of bat-sh!t craziness.
The author needs to get out of his cubicle more frequently and talk with people.
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