Poisoned relationship between police and minorities

CNN ^ | 8/13/14 | Mark O'Mara

[2ndDivisionVet]

[LaRueLaDue]

You know, all these police / minorities conflicts remind me of growing up in the late ‘60s - early ‘70s. Same problems, same news reports, same riots, same tired old rhetoric, etc. Nothing seems to have changed or gotten better.

We have reverted back to the ‘60s. Are “Mad” and “Cracked” magazines still around?

[Cubs Fan]

Not to mention the fact that when detectives attempt to get info from black witnesses to solve those violent crimes, they are told "I didn't see nothin'"

Exactly, and notice how blacks who do well in school are belittled by their peers for "acting white" and successful blacks are called "sellouts" and "uncle toms." But somehow the authenticity and blackness of black criminals is never questioned. Hmmm, Quite revealing.

[Cubs Fan]

Great post

Where is the outrage over the black “teen” who sucker punched a 71-yr-old white guy recently for no other reason than he was white?

Exactly, whites are victims of black violence far far more than blacks are victimized by whites, whether police or civilians.

The problem here is not militarization or profiling or any other PC scapegoat du jour. The problem is black culture and the way it fosters, enables and excuses black criminal behavior.

[Cubs Fan]

You know, all these police / minorities conflicts remind me of growing up in the late ‘60s - early ‘70s. Same problems, same news reports, same riots, same tired old rhetoric, etc. Nothing seems to have changed or gotten better.

Its never going to change as long as everyone allows blacks to blame everything and everyone else for the problems they, for the most part, create.

[cripplecreek]

Plenty of useful idiots both left and right and they all have one thing in common. They're busy raging and can't be bothered to take real legitimate action.

My township doesn't have police militarized or otherwise because we voted to get rid of them. The same can be done with equipping police if people pay attention and inform others to get out and lean on their local and state governments.

Meet a Town That's Had Enough of Militarized Policing

The township's insurance company finally forced the police chief to make his small army of reserve officers stand down and confine themselves to special events (it also forced the town of Oakley, population 290, to put its army of 100 reserve officers on ice).

After a packed town meeting last night that had to be moved to the high school to accommodate attendees, the township board unanimously voted to review Pierce's continuing employment in a special meeting to be held tonight.* A notice of the meeting occupies the township Website's entire front page.

And where did this lead?

Barry Township police chief Victor Pierce resigns

[Cubs Fan]

CNN is supposed to be news, this is history. The left have always ensured to let blacks think that cops are out to kill them. This is yet another example of the left using this to get out their base and votes.

Yep and now Rand Paul is trying to borrow a tactic from their playbook. Sad to see that some of the people here, who should know better, are falling for it.

[manc]

100% agree with every word.

[manc]

nail on the head.

[GeronL]

All we want to door is knockout some white people, rob some stores and burn them down, why do keep treating us bad and putting us in jail??

[kearnyirish2]

“In the case of Ferguson, it used to be a white suburb, now black. Police are a legacy from the white past.”

Very well put; same here in northeastern cities. The current residents don’t pay for police protection (or schools, or anything else for that matter); they expect them because when Anglo-Americans were there they had those things (the fact that they paid for them is conveniently ignored). When municipalities try to raid employers for the revenues, they simply pack up & leave.

Today they complaint about the retirement benefits being paid to those retired white employees (since they consume so much of the limited current revenues); apparently they don’t like other Democrats getting their “stuff”...

[kearnyirish2]

“Poisoned relationship between police and minorities”

They should specify that it is one particular minority group, not minorities in general.

[Secret Agent Man]

no offense, it ain’t just minorities.

[Valpal1]

Yes, I woke up one day and suddenly understood what some other demographics were complaining about. I ignored the growing police state because I was unaffected by it... until I wasn’t.

So no, the Ferguson PD isn’t getting a free pass on this one. I’m no longer assuming that victims of police shootings invited it through their own criminality.

[Secret Agent Man]

he pd may have problems but the officer still may have been attacked by the guy.

reports say the kid got several face punches in on the officer and then went reaching for the gun. they say the officer’s face is clearly swollen ow. if true, it wold lend some credibility to this account.

i was a “good boy” at 18 and at that time never would have thought that was the thing to do to an armed officer.

[Yaelle]

I have been saying this for days. If civility had been used on both sides, the guy would be alive. “Gentlemen, move onto the sidewalk!”

“Yes, Officer.”

Done deal.

[Eagles6]

Exactly. I wish one politician would have the spine to say that there is an epidemic of violence being perpetrated by blacks on Whites and that the problems within the black community are of their own making, not due to White racism.

[Valpal1]

Same as the retired cop that shot the retired navy guy over texting and thrown popcorn.

Good manners saves lives.