Posted on 09/21/2016 7:52:58 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
If America were a song, the killing of unarmed black people by the police would be a standard chord progression or rhythm, the sort of indistinguishable background noise that you hear so often you might not even notice it anymore.
On Friday, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a 40-year-old black man named Terence Crutcher had car troubles. The police approached him. Crutcher responded by putting his hands in the air. The Tulsa police used a Taser on Crutcher. A Tulsa police officer, Betty Shelby, then shot him dead. They left him bleeding in the street for almost a minute before rendering any aid. The incident was recorded on video.
Crutcher had committed no crime. He was unarmed. He was a motorist in distress. He was driving home from a music-appreciation class at a local college. This street execution took less than 30 seconds.
Several months ago, I decided that I would no longer watch videos of black people being killed by America’s police. These images have become a type of pornographic violence, a new digital-era version of lynching postcards. I know all too well what dead black bodies look like. To be repeatedly exposed to such images is psychologically unhealthy.
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Oh yes they do! Our daughter’s BF is from Nicaragua and is of mixed race. He’s an engineer with Apple with a degree from UC Berkeley. He get’s hassled by the cops and merchants all the time for no other reason than his color and his hair. He himself has never been in trouble with the law. So if I understand you “being hinky” is grounds for the “hinky black person” dying. Just dispicable! Try treating people as individuals for a change.
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I seriously doubt that he gets hassled by cops and merchants all the time. There are thousands of Americans who fit the description of your daughter’s BF. And no doubt there are many right in your neighborhood. Are all of them being hassled because of how they look? Your whining sounds like a load of BS to me.
What kind of “white” person do I want to be?
What kind of happy horse poop question is that?
Know this I’m not gonna be a guilt ridden white at all.
If white people block my way on the interstate, I’m plowing through them...if black people block my way on the interstate, I’m plowing through them. I have my own damn problems and I don’t care about yours - black or white.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, assuming you can find a place that will allow smoking.
If even a small faction of the public is as fed up as I am......
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+1
ditto
“Do you have the source for this information? PCP could be why he ignored the cops and the taser.”
This info started coming out in local Tulsa media Monday afternoon. Below is the latest article and current on the Tulsa World website. Media away from Tulsa are not interested in you having such information.
“I seriously doubt that he gets hassled by cops and merchants all the time. There are thousands of Americans who fit the description of your daughter’s BF. And no doubt there are many right in your neighborhood. Are all of them being hassled because of how they look? Your whining sounds like a load of BS to me.”
I don’t even know how to respond to such a moronic statement. Are you clairvoyant? Just how do you know that what I recounted isn’t true? I try to be civil here, but you tax my limits!!
LOL Man, am I right there.
What do I hear on this thread?
My friends cousins ex girlfriends brothers uncle is alway harassed, No one offered comfort to the thug...
Get a grip people. You don’t like what went down? Hell, have your own little riot. Get on TV! Be Important! Contribute to societal decay!
As for me, I don’t give a rats a$$ about any of it. It has nothing to do with what is important to this country. A bunch of rioting welfare recipients has no meaning at all.
Harassed by the po leece because you got a bit of color? Get over it!
LOL Man, am I right there.
Ya. And that is not the half of it.
What’s moronic is you worried about your daughters be being harassed by police.
Bet you believe everything cnn tells you as well.
Tell the little shit to grow a pair.
“What’s moronic is you worried about your daughters be being harassed by police.
Bet you believe everything cnn tells you as well.
Tell the little shit to grow a pair.”
You can’t even read my post correctly Go STFU!
You can’t even read my post correctly Go STFU!
Hey, snowflake! I read your post just fine. your little baby girls boyfriend gets harassed all the time, does he? Poor baby. It’s good he has you to defend him.
Perhaps you should grow a pair before you suggest he does.
He was walking away from the police, in defiance of their orders, he went to his vehicle, reached towards his pockets or into the vehicle, I’m not clear yet on which—you don’t do that and expect to live to tell the story.
It’s because he went to Berkeley.
I don’t even know how to respond to such a moronic statement. Are you clairvoyant? Just how do you know that what I recounted isn’t true? I try to be civil here, but you tax my limits!!
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I’m sorry that I’ve tempted you not to be civil, but you’ve compelled me to turn you question back to you. Have you personally been a witness to this hassling all the time of your daughter’s BF by police and others? I serious doubt it, so perhaps you’re clairvoyant?
“It’s because he went to Berkeley.”
So did I, and while I detest the place to this day, the education I got helped me to be a 2%er. When I graduated in 1965 UCB was considered to be the second best Engineering school in the country ( behind MIT). #’s 3 and 4 were CalTech and Stanford. Back then California was a very different place.
And BTW, you’d probably crap your pants to be earning what he’s making.
But that might contradict my facts.
The guy is dead, I can’t say he deserved to die but he clearly was killed because of the danger he presented.
They should teach at school what ‘Suicide by Cop’ is.
If a cop tells you to stay put, but instead you keep walking to your car and then reach inside the car, you will be shot dead. Period.
It doesn’t matter what color or ethnicity you are. Those trying to make it a race issue are a bunch of racist bigots.
Are you drunk? You sound like a nut tonight, and that’s unusual.
Are you drunk? You sound like a nut tonight, and that’s unusual.
Lol! How nice of you to be so concerned.
But no, not drunk, just sick and tired of the bs.
I guess that could be considered unusual. Being sick and tired of the bs is just not...........dignified, is it?
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