Posted on 04/16/2021 11:42:37 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
perhaps you could be more specific
This article is more than a bit odd. Daunte Wright was evidently a bad guy. Okay. But he’s dead because some stupid cop pulled her service pistol instead of her taser. That’s the bottom line.
As a rough analogy, suppose some juvenile delinquent steals a woman’s purse. As he’s running down the sidewalk, a drunk driver jumps the curb and strikes and kills the kid. I’d say that death is entirely on the drunk driver, even though the kid set things in motion.
Don’t forget that fine young man, Trevon Martin. . .he was heading to college, perhaps med school before he was assaulted by the evil White Hispanic!!
Would get cancelled if I did.
Funny how that works.
more black on black crime then? Why would a black female falsely accuse a brother and have him catch a case? Doesn’t sound like standing in solidarity to me.
Anyway, this is what a court decides right? If an accusation is credible or not?
he didn’t bring logic, he brought up an irrelevant point and a deflection.
“The 800 lbs elephant in the room is that racism is a learned behavior. Blacks need to ask why they are discriminated against more than other minorities. If the are honest with themselves, it’s because of the violence everyone sees associated with blacks. We read stories about a black woman who jumped out of a car in a Burger King line and start waving a gun at the employees because she didn’t think they were fixing her food fast enough. We see a young black riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and for no reason, sucker punches an 80 year old lady. Sorry, but you have a problem and it’s a black problem that needs to be solved by blacks, not every stupidly-woke company or person in the US. Until they fix their problem, why should anyone feel differently about blacks?”
My life has been directly threatened four times. Gun in your face kind of threatening. In all four cases the perps were black. In all four cases I was doing absolutely nothing to cause the event, climbing into my car to go to work, coming out of the library, walking across a parking lot, parking my car. Does that impact the way I look at people? You bet it does.
perhaps you can explain the relevancy of whether the female who claims he and his friend robbed her is lying??
He did not comply with bail while awaiting trail which is what is used to determine evidence and whether the accuser is making it up, and he put himself in a situation of being wanted.
trial**
Mingha! Where do you live man? Eight Mile?
Imperfect analogy. If he hadn’t been violently trying to escape arrest, she would not have pulled her gun, and he would be alive.
The situation would be more like an escaping thief running across a highway and being hit by an inattentive driver.
Bottom line is the world is a better place without him.
> The situation would be more like an escaping thief running across a highway and being hit by an inattentive driver. <
I mostly agree with that! But the female cop in the Daunte Wright case was more than just inattentive. She was unbelievably negligent. So how about this:
The situation would be more like an escaping thief running across a highway and being hit by a driver who was reprogramming her car radio at the time.
I suspect Covid shutdowns is partially responsible for that kind of delay.
Um, no. He did bring logic as the warrant is completely irrelevant to this case.
The police can not be allowed to kill people who are not an immediate threat to an officer or other innocent people. No immediate threat, no justification for lethal force. If you don't understand this you are actually contributing to the problem. The warrant was completely irrelevant and no new details are going to emerge that will somehow justify lethal force. It was not justified, period, case closed.
This man was unarmed and attempting the flee. That's it. If the criteria for lethal force was as some on this thread advocate the police would shoot and kill fifty people every single day in this country.
This title should be here's why it DOESN'T MATTER.
Don’t forget the Army Lieutenant in VA Beach who the Sergeant Major of the Army says makes us proud after he refused repeated commands to step out of his car.
“They don’t want to fix the real problem.”
They created the problems as well.
So then deadly force should be the first resort and not the last? Good to know.
It seems to be a Florida problem too. They don’t seem to get shot as much though.
In 1960 MLK said:
We represent 10% of the population (blacks) and 58% of the crime. We need to work on our morals and values. [paraphrased, I don’t remember the exact quote, but that’s close].
Today, blacks represent about 13% of the population, and when Michael Brown was killed I saw Sheriff David Clarke and several others I trust stating that blacks account for 70% of the arrests every year. While cops shoot overctwice as many white suspects.
2014 when Brown was killed, about 128 blacks killed by cops, 322 whites. Thank you Sheriff Clarke, he was the 1st one I saw quote those numbers. I think that was from the year before. The CDC cause of death file for 2017 has similar numbers, 148 black, 292 white. Doesn’t look to me like cops are out hunting black guys...looks quite the opposite.
Nothing has changed in 60 years. If anything, it’s actually worse today, and very few are trying to tell the black community to look in the mirror, like Sheriff Clarke did.
All of the thugs listed in this article died for one reason.
Resisting arrest.
Two more who can be added to that list:
Freddie Gray
Eric Garner
And every one of them engaged in criminal activity, all except Michael Brown had long criminal records, I suspect he had a juvenile record, but city officials refused to release it.
Eric Garner had been arrested 9 times for the same thing in the same general area. Selling loose cigarettes. New York taxes make cigarettes about $10 a pack, (thank you democrats) $2 each for singles, and Garner could get a couple of cartons out of state, resell at price gouging rates and come out way ahead. Cops were called by local businesses, as before, because he was disrupting their business.
Freddie Gray had been arrested and convicted of selling heroin in the same location where he ran from cops.
Michael Brown was caught on video stealing cigars from a convenience store 10 minutes before being stopped for jaywalking, and shoved the store manager into a potato chip rack. The “friend” who started the “hands up don’t shoot” lie helped him steal the cigars.
My train of thought derailed...
OK all better now...
All of them appear to be career criminals. You’d think their parents might have listened to MLK. Apparently not. He’s just a name they throw around when they call you a racist because you want their innocent little boy arrested.
Every city has a street named after MLK. How many of the blacks who demanded those streets be renamed can tell you about that quote? We represent 10% of the population and 58% of the crime...
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