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.'
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0bama Administration:
100% Race.
Wall to Wall.
24x7.
Most divisive President EVER.
Sinister? More gauche left wing drivel.
If black men didn’t commit so many crimes, far out of proportion to their numbers, the police wouldn’t be suspicious.
Um, Eric Garner was shot?
When did that become the narrative?
The FBI is being corrupted from top to bottom by the Obama regime. It’s a sad development for the once storied organization.
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.
No way this country ever recovers from these people. No way.
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?
‘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?
'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.
‘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.
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.
-Jesse Jackson
March 1996
My tag line concurs.
Comey has destroyed whatever credibility the FBI had. Now, it is a joke.
Sounds to me like the one making “sinister asscoiations” here is the FBI director.
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
Your tagline is moving closer to certainty every day.
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