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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Really? This is not right. Unless you are doing something bad or up to no good you should not be hassled by police.
My ex husband who is white was a target for police but that is because he had a smart mouth and once he was on their radar they always hasseled him even if he wasn’t misbehaving.
The whole world is going down the tubes and it is sad to watch.
If he was on PCP a taser isn’t going to affect him. They can go crazy with broken arms and legs. You don’t obey a cop and you are tempting fate.
Pray America wakes
And another thing.
I happen to be a “privileged white” who has worked her butt off to make a good living, while 30% of my income goes to pay for rioting welfare thugs, who hate my whiteness while holding their hand out for what I can give them, because they think I owe them something.
They have time to riot because they have no job, and only the food and subsistence that they get from people who work....they blame the white hand that feeds them instead of their own laziness for their poverty....what a crock!
Get jobs,, marry your baby daddy if you know who he is...I am not the problem.
Crutcher had a hefty criminal record before he was shot. In fact, he had just been released in May after nine years in prison for drug trafficking, WZ reported.
He also had a history of resisting arrest. Behold the rap sheet:
1996 Shooting with intent to kill — Dismissed
2001 Petit larceny — Conviction
2004 Driving while suspended — Conviction
2005 Driving while suspended, resisting officer — Conviction
2006 Driving while suspended — Conviction
Driving with open container — Dismissed
2006 Trafficking in illegal drugs — Conviction. (He was also charged in that incident with assault on a police officer and resisting, but that was dismissed.)
2011 Public intoxication (while in prison for drug trafficking) — Conviction
2012 Public intoxication — Conviction
Obstructing an officer — Conviction
2013 DUI — Conviction
Resisting officer — Conviction
Open Container — Conviction
Failure to wear seatbelt — Conviction
Speeding — Conviction
But even all of that was not all.
Take a look at the numerous open warrants for Crutcher. These Aug. 30 warrants were active at the time of his death, and as you can see in the graphic below, they included things like DUI, resisting, drug trafficking and public intoxication.
http://conservativetribune.com/truth-crutcher-bad-for-media/
I was thinking working for Apple. That would be probable cause to me.
Good rant..............
Yup. PCP is often the answer to questions about things like this.
I used to care...five dead cops in Dallas changed all that.
The thing that really completed my conversion to conservative was when I realized I was paying enough in Federal taxes year after year for a small family to live very comfortably. I realized that I should morally be allowed to have some responsibility for how my “charity” was being used. Just as I did with my family. No big screen TV but back to school clothes, etc.
And the cops would have been notified of his criminal record as soon as they reported his license plate number.
Really,
what kind of clothes is the BF wearing when being hassled?
I know lots of whites who get hassled in stores when they show up looking like the local branch of the Crips.
Always keep in mind that what you have seen so far is not all of the facts, so it really does not count. What follows is also not all of the facts so we should all refrain from making judgements based on what we have seen so far.
http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/09/20/terence-crutcher-shot-hands-heres-definitive-proof/
It is best that Mr. Crutcher is dead. His death has saved taxpayers considerable resources. NEXT!
Sure every “motorist in distress” has a mile long arrest record and a vial of PCP in their car.
Or you are watching video from a carefully selected angle and do not know the actual facts. Perhaps people should not be so quick to assume what they see on social media is the reality and start realizing a lot of it is carefully manged political propaganda.
Protocol says you do not use lethal force unless you see a weapon or the suspect charges you. All this points to an accidental discharge. The woman heard the taser deploy and accidentally fired.
I know a deputy that had a shotgun pointed at him and didn’t fire. He said he didn’t feel threatened because of the distance and he was behind a car door.
Excuse me but the official narrative is that he was a beloved preacher. Please amend your inconvenient optic.
http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/09/20/terence-crutcher-shot-hands-heres-definitive-proof/
learn something. Look at the video,
“He was walking away from the police, in defiance of their orders”
I don’t understand why some black males feel they don’t have to obey policemen. They must feel it diminishes their manhood to do so.
Whenever a policeman gives me an order, I do exactly what he says. Policemen are deputized by organized, elected, constituted authority. That same constituted authority has provided methods of redress, and it is not on the streets based on personal interpretation of the situation at hand.
It seems, despite the outcry, that they have immense confidence that the policemen will react with restraint. Otherwise, why would they be so blatant in their actions (I am referring to those who have that mindset). You have to assume they are in a minority.
I was once stopped by a policeman on the outskirts of a small town for supposedly speeding (five over the speed limit). He seemed to be the type that was desirous of a confrontation. He seemed very dangerous (as in, turned purple with rage when I asked where the speed limit sign was). When I realized that, I said not another word.
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