Posted on 06/09/2015 7:42:52 PM PDT by Morgana
Black Man Showing Support To McKinney TX Cops & All Law Enforcement!
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Giving support to “all” of anything means giving support to bad apples.
I fully give my support to police officers who aren’t out of control in crowd situations and those who don’t punish but rather subdue and apprehend criminals.
You ever notice how State Patrol and Sheriff’s Offices don’t seem to abuse their power so much as Police Departments? I suppose it’s because SP and SO report directly to a public elected official and Police Departments report to a Chief that’s appointed by a city council that’s elected by the public.
This officer was out of line but not racist.
No. The idiocy is even more linked by you- patrol. Rub your hands, barney.
Yeah, I don’t think race had anything to do with it. I would be willing to bet if everyone there was white, he would have acted just about the same amount of fool.
Patro, you mean? Not patrol? And do you mean “linked”, or “liked”?
Huh?
If everyone there was white, they would have been acting more civil. He would not have to be robocop.
I’m having a hard time understanding what you are trying to convey in your post. Please be a little more detailed. I’m not trying to be judgmental.
My wife is black and she wouldn’t have acted that way. In fact, she wouldn’t have shown up uninvited like that in the first place. So lets try that again.
I don’t think he was out of line at all. I think he treated a feral in terms she could understand. Wouldn’t matter if she was a white feral either. In fact, if more cops acted like him America would be a lot more civilized...thus cops would not need to act like him.
How soon we all forget that the days we long for were policed by cop cops that treated scum like scum. And ‘kid’ or not, she was scum. As Tommy says often, watch the World Star Hip Hop site to see what ‘kid’ ferals do for sport. You don’t police that with flowers and midnight basketball. You police it with force.
Good grief. The water’s high, the abalone are just right. Let’s shoot fish. Be judgmental. Say what you actually think.
Not necessarily true at all, by any means.
I don’t even know where to begin with that. Have you never seen or heard of a party with a bunch of white kids getting out of control? I’m white and I knew people who threw parties in high school that were all white and sometimes things got way way way out of hand. I have seen Fraternity parties and beer busts and all kinds of things get way out of hand, and I’ve seen lots and lots of cops show up to these events and guns didn’t have to be pulled and nobody got thrown to the ground.
But if you’ve never seen about sixty under-aged drunk kids running out the back door of a house and over fences and through yards in the middle of the night fleeing cops, it’s something to see.
That sort of thing goes on all the time in all kinds of communities. On every major college campus year after year. Fights break out, people try to elude police, people crash parties they weren’t invited to.
When police react, they have to get control of the situation, not scare the crap out of a bunch of kids who don’t know how to properly react, or people will end up killed, by law enforcement’s guns, for no good reason at all.
Good cops know how to get a situation like a bunch of kids in an upscale neighborhood under control. 11 of the 12 in McKinney did just that.
One officer goes running through the scene, doing barrel rolls over tree roots, screaming profanities about having to be out in the sun in his gear, and slams a 15 year old skinny girl to the concrete after shouting at her to get her ass on the ground when she already was.
If you’ve ever been in tense or dangerous or crazy situations like car wrecks and tornadoes and earthquakes and fires, you’ll see some people stay calm and asses the situation and do what they can to make it better, and some people lose their shit and go out of control and make things worse. That cop in Texas was not a whole lot different than a Barney Fife except he was more foul-mouthed, and people who can’t keep their cool when things are tense don’t need to be cops.
I’ve been a bouncer in a big college town when I was younger, for several years at a nightclub/bar where there were tons of drunk people, many of whom wanted to start shit with security. Security can’t be composed of people who lose their cool. In my years as a bouncer, I broke up many fights, talked down guys with broken bottles being used as weapons, and have had to tackle one or two people. But people who got the job and lost their shit when they needed to be at their best just got let go, and that’s the way it should be. I’ve had to call in the cops, and I was lucky, I never saw any cops react badly, and that’s to groups of hyped-up drunk college kids after a football game that need to be calmed down. You don’t go in and do that with riot gear and whacking people with billy clubs. You don’t have to do that. But more and more, cops seem to think they do. I don’t understand it, because I’ve seen crazy situations diffused without that.
Law enforcement have a really tough job. I don’t envy them it. I couldn’t do it. At the same time, they have tremendous amounts of lethal weaponry at their hands, and they don’t need to be killing or injuring people who may or may not have committed a crime. They also have a duty not to overstep their roles.
I’ve known of cops putting out a cigar in the arm of a guy who got arrested for speeding. That’s punitive bullshit and doesn’t need to happen.
If we had a military state with armed forces on the ground, there would be even less unrest. Maybe mandatory curfews from sundown to sunup, since that’s when a lot of crime happens.
That was very well said. +1!
Somehow when we got through 200+ years of seriously tough cops in America when the situation dictated, A police state never materialized.
Yet now that we are all touchy feely about policing ferals a police state is a real concern. Perhaps you could elaborate a bit on that strange occurrence.
Good lookout! But can he smell?
We’ve also had cops getting out of hand. Turning firehoses and police dogs on civil rights marchers. Sitting down protesting being sprayed with large amounts of pepper spray when simply handcuffing them arresting them.
Where the situation dictates, yes, tough policing is necessary. At suburban pool parties, it probably isn’t.
Cops know how to handle large crowds without things going south. Look at Times Square in New York City at New Year’s. Look at college campuses full of drunk fighting college kids.
When police overstep, yes, they should be called out on it. 11 of the 12 officers in McKinney still have jobs and they weren’t screaming and throwing people to the ground. 1 guy was, and he’s thankfully off the force.
Police have definitely stepped up their militarization and armed response, and too many people are dying during arrests that don’t need to be. There are bad people that need to be dealt with. But not every situation has to turn physical, and cops yes, do sometimes have a role in that. All the time, however, cops do respond to incidents in the proper way and we never hear about it. How many high school parties do you think police responded to over the past week or month? How many blew up like this one did? Were all the kids at all the other ones perfect angels? No. But the cops in those cases didn’t over-react.
Chief of Police in McKinney says he doesn’t support this guy’s actions. 11 out of 12 cops at the scene didn’t act like this.
If there’s a guy in your office who gets mad and throws file cabinets over and tackles people when he’s upset with them, he’ll get fired. Same instance can happen with a cop.
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