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Memphis cops’ violence and the problem of culture
American Thinker ^ | 28 Jan, 2023 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/28/2023 10:06:31 AM PST by MtnClimber

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To: Telepathic Intruder
The problem lies with whatever f’d up standards were used to hire these ghetto gang bangers as cops.

Agreed but the US military has turned thousands of young black men from a lifetime of crime into American patriots. It can be done.

I think these officers would have been better served by less equity inclusion, critical race theory and EEO training and more actual police training. These guys did not seem to have the most fundamental arrest skills.

Its kind of like calf roping the clock starts ticking when the barrier drops. Every second you delay cost you.

For cops the clock starts ticking the second you put hands on someone to make an arrest. Well trained officers can tag um and bag um and have them in the back of the vehicle in under 60 seconds.

Every minute after that bad things start to happen. The uncontrolled perp starts escalating and becoming more agitated. Crowds form, cameras start recording and people start playacting for the cameras.

You don't deescalate the situation on the street you do it when the perp is safely secured in the police vehicle.

21 posted on 01/28/2023 11:02:14 AM PST by usurper
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To: MtnClimber

Chris Rock had some wisdom about running from the cops.

“If the police have got to come and get you they are bringing a beating.” — Chris Rock


22 posted on 01/28/2023 11:03:25 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: MtnClimber

Every one of these deaths seems to happen the same way. Resisting arrest, fighting with police. Why a lone idiot thinks they can fight multiple armed people and escape them is beyond me.

How many black women have been killed this way? I can’t think of any. Maybe they are smarter than the men.


23 posted on 01/28/2023 11:03:40 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: Valpal1

Indeed so.

Do you, or does anybody else on this forum truly believe 4 black cops beat the living sh!t out of an innocent black man for fun, sh!t and giggles? Followed by 2 white cops arriving on scene and being equally callous and uncaring to this “innocent” man’s suffering?

Uh...No. That poor unfortunate dipstick did something to enrage and engender the wrath of the MPD.

Not saying what happened was right, but he crossed the line somewhere and screwing another man’s wife sounds about right to me.


24 posted on 01/28/2023 11:04:27 AM PST by Four of Six (Tagline deleted because the moderator is delicate snowflake and suffers from delusions of grandeur.)
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To: Four of Six

“rumor has it....”

If you’ve never been a trial juror may I respectfully suggest you do your level best to never be one. LOL!


25 posted on 01/28/2023 11:04:37 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Four of Six

“Rather, rumor has it...”

So, you’ve got nothing. Why even post such tripe?


26 posted on 01/28/2023 11:04:51 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: MtnClimber

Memphis is majority black. Look at African justice.


27 posted on 01/28/2023 11:06:23 AM PST by Mr. Blond
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What stuns me is the reluctance of the black community to realize that their responses to police stops are a factor in these incidents. After all the incidents - all over the US and involving polices officers of all races - far too many blacks feel it necessary to argue with the police when pulled over for a traffic infraction.
Blacks seem to believe that if they protest loud enough and long enough, the police will release them without a ticket.
As anyone knows who has been sopped by the police (and I've been stopped on numerous occasions) once the police have stopped you, they're convinced in their own minds that you're guilty - and that you're going to get a ticket, regardless of your protestations of innocence.
Any arguing is a waste of time.
If you want to argue, argue with the judge.
With all these tragic incidents, why haven't black people learned this inescapable fact?
28 posted on 01/28/2023 11:08:01 AM PST by quadrant (1o mercyflush)
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To: Four of Six

Because you (and many on the internet) can’t fathom senseless violence, you cast around for a reason. But our current culture is replete with senseless violence.

These cops reflect that culture.


29 posted on 01/28/2023 11:11:14 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Four of Six

“Yes, indeed. I am. What’s your excuse, douchebag?”

Tread lightly, Newb.


30 posted on 01/28/2023 11:12:00 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: usurper

Goes back to My Lai (1968) and even further back. What causes a group of people to almost instantly become a pack of animals?


31 posted on 01/28/2023 11:13:21 AM PST by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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To: Scarpetta

“ You’re a Class A A-hole”

He sounds like one of the criminal cops up on murder charges


33 posted on 01/28/2023 11:17:57 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Four of Six

That was for you


34 posted on 01/28/2023 11:18:24 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Four of Six

Criminal cops don’t get to play jury and executioner. Go back to the filthy rock you crawled out from under

You’re the reason we have laws and *prisons*


36 posted on 01/28/2023 11:20:39 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Four of Six

There’s still time for your OPUS.


37 posted on 01/28/2023 11:24:22 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: Four of Six

No problem....apology accepted. THANKS!


38 posted on 01/28/2023 11:27:01 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

This four of six idiot is a troll!

Only been on FR since last November.

What a jackass.


39 posted on 01/28/2023 11:28:25 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep.


40 posted on 01/28/2023 11:28:53 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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