What you have is a refusal to admit that the police have the authority to enforce the law. These young Black guys have been pumped full of resistance mentality to the point that when officers approach and expect reasoned things, the Black youth challenges and gets aggressive.
When I was young, I was taught not to oppose the police. I was taught to respect them and follow their instructions. (And of course folks, that’s only if it is reasoned. I’m not to stab someone simply because an officer ordered it.)
If Black youth were taught to abide by the law and respect police officers, there wouldn’t be this problem.
Police officers didn’t target Black areas of major cities just because of who lived there. They did so because of the high crime there.
White communities, low crime, low police presence.
Black communities, high crime, high police presence.
Get your neighborhoods under control, and the police won’t frequent the area. Simple as that.
Good points.
The media have had some stories recently, lamenting how black parents have “the talk” with their sons, about how to deal with the police.
Heck, my own parents had a talk with me. I’m white. But they told me to respect other people, respect authority, and don’t go mouthing off to cops if stopped for some reason.
My point is that many parents, not just black parents, teach their children how to react with police, and also advise them to stay out of trouble in the first place.
But as you point out, many black young men seem to escalate these encounters with police.
Which in turn can lead to tragic consequences, such as with the Michael Brown shooting.
Is anyone else disturbed that the Black Lives Matter movement, got its jump start from the Michael Brown shooting, which was predicated on the lie that Michael had his hands up and said don’t shoot??? When the truth of the matter is, Michael became aggressive with the policeman, and tried to get his gun to shoot the cop???
Anyone else disbursed that facts just don’t matter anymore, at least to liberals pushing an agenda???