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playing devil's advocate here: in order for that to be a proper comparison wouldn't it have to be in the same area of town with the same cops? the cops with the black dude may have acted the same way regardless of who was carrying an AR15, and that area by the 7-11 could be a crime ridden neighbourhood... just sayin'.
Group hasn't being called out,police interviewed the suspect before they blew him up with mobile IED said he was acting Solo.....who knows if thats true,police were going to every apartment on the block looking for suspects
the problem is the significance of this, and the new york shootings last year, and the few more that are sure to pop up as this turns into a trend. its going to lead to way more police shootings as the police are going to be way more on edge
It may be lawful but it's idiotic someone can walk down the street carrying an AR15. Also I agree with Glow that using two random pieces of evidence doesn't show a trend of racism. I believe I've seen the first part of the video before and I think the officer mentions he is ex military so I'm fairly sure training also played a large part of how the situations were handled.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — A man accused of shooting indiscriminately at passing cars and police on a Tennessee highway told investigators he was angry about police violence against African-Americans, authorities said Friday.
One woman died and three others, including one police officer, were injured in the rampage early Thursday morning rampage. Meanwhile, police say officers have also been targeted in Georgia and Missouri in the aftermath of two high-profile killings of black men by law enforcement and the Dallas attack that left five officers dead and seven more wounded.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that initial conversations with the suspect, 37-year-old Lakeem Keon Scott, revealed he was troubled by several incidents across the U.S.
Scott, who is black, was wounded in the shootout with police, remains hospitalized and has not yet been charged. All those shot were white, police confirmed.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation alleges Scott — armed with an assault rifle, a pistol and a large amount of ammunition — fired shots through the window of the Days Inn on Volunteer Parkway.
The front desk clerk, Deborah Watts, was struck and injured. Days Inn owner Kiran Patel said he awoke to the sound of gunfire. His wife called the front desk to see what happened, Watts answered and said she'd been shot. She remains in the hospital in serious but stable condition.
The gunman then turned his fire to cars passing on the highway, investigators say.
Newspaper carrier Jennifer Rooney, a 44-year-old mother of two, was on her way to pick up papers for the morning delivery when a bullet struck her. The Bristol Herald-Courier reported that her car careened over a median and crashed through a chain link fence.
David Whitman Davis was also injured by flying glass from the gunfire, the TBI said.
Three officers with the Bristol Tennessee Police Department arrived and confronted Scott, who fired on them.
Office Matthew Cousins was hit in the leg. He was treated for superficial injuries and released.
Scott was stuck by the officers returning fire. He remains in the hospital in serious but stable condition.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the investigation is ongoing as they work to understand the shooter's motive.
The shooting spree in Tennessee began around 2:20 a.m. Thursday on the heels of the fatal shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana. Later Thursday night, 12 officers were shot in Dallas during a Black Lives Matter protest by a man who police say declared he was angry about police shootings of black men and wanted to exterminate whites. Five of the officers died.
The shootings are part of a spate of attacks on officers across the U.S. In south Georgia, police said one officer was ambushed Friday when he came to an apartment complex to investigate a report of a break-in. Another officer was fired upon by a motorist north of Atlanta. And just outside St. Louis, police say an officer was ambushed during a traffic stop.
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Why isn't this being deemed a terrorist attack?
On CNN guests were calling it terrorism but some were dissenting to that because the guy wasn't Muslim ROFL smh
The guests calling it terrorism won the argument tho, but still, it's ridiculous how the definition has changed over the years, even dictionary definitions
Group hasn't being called out,police interviewed the suspect before they blew him up with mobile IED said he was acting Solo.....who knows if thats true,police were going to every apartment on the block looking for suspects
Perhaps true, but the perpetrator doesn't have to be affiliated with a known group or any group for that matter to be classified as a terrorist.
Today, it's far too easy and (in my opinion) common, for a lunatic who has a personal agenda to burn the world down to say they are acting out because they're aligned with a particular terrorist group.
Outside of left wing media reports, I'm sure that there are many white people shot daily by police no? Lol
How about Lives matter instead of BLM? As I've always said, it's easy for a white Canadian to say, but fuck, imo every time you keep puting this fucking "black" label on everything, it's just increasing the divide.
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Outside of left wing media reports, I'm sure that there are many white people shot daily by police no? Lol
How about Lives matter instead of BLM? As I've always said, it's easy for a white Canadian to say, but fuck, imo every time you keep puting this fucking "black" label on everything, it's just increasing the divide.
Police kill more whites than blacks. Fact.
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The Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings have caused an uproar among leftists because they fuel their narrative that racist white police officers are hunting down innocent black men. But the statistics – brought to light by the superb work of Heather MacDonald – tell a different story.
Here are five key statistics you need to know about cops killing blacks.
1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or "were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force," according to MacDonald in a speech at Hillsdale College.
Some may argue that these statistics are evidence of racist treatment toward blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 13 percent of the population. But as MacDonald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties.
"Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal force," writes MacDonald.
MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that blacks "commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime" in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the city's population.
"The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent of police victims would be black," MacDonald said. "Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods."
2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. According to MacDonald, 12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the result of police officers.
"If we’re going to have a 'Lives Matter' anti-police movement, it would be more appropriately named "White and Hispanic Lives Matter,'" said MacDonald in her Hillsdale speech.
3. The Post's data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man...but this does not tell the whole story. In August 2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police gunshots compared to unarmed white men; the ratio was six-to-one by the end of 2015. But MacDonald points out in The Marshall Project that looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different picture:
The “unarmed” label is literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly tried to grab the officer’s gun, or had been beating the cop with his own equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post’s “unarmed black victims” category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then racism could have played no role in their deaths.
In one of those unintended cases, an undercover cop from the New York Police Department was conducting a gun sting in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City. One of the gun traffickers jumped into the cop’s car, stuck a pistol to his head, grabbed $2,400 and fled. The officer gave chase and opened fire after the thief again pointed his gun at him. Two of the officer’s bullets accidentally hit a 61-year-old bystander, killing him. That older man happened to be black, but his race had nothing to do with his tragic death. In the other collateral damage case, Virginia Beach, Virginia, officers approached a car parked at a convenience store that had a homicide suspect in the passenger seat. The suspect opened fire, sending a bullet through an officer’s shirt. The cops returned fire, killing their assailant as well as a woman in the driver’s seat. That woman entered the Post’s database without qualification as an “unarmed black victim” of police fire.
MacDonald examines a number of other instances, including unarmed black men in San Diego, CA and Prince George's County, MD attempting to reach for a gun in a police officer's holster. In the San Diego case, the unarmed black man actually "jumped the officer" and assaulted him, and the cop shot the man since he was "fearing for his life." MacDonald also notes that there was an instance in 2015 where "three officers were killed with their own guns, which the suspects had wrestled from them."
4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Gary Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.
5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black. According to MacDonald, the police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person.
Despite the facts, the anti-police rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and their leftist sympathizers have resulted in what MacDonald calls the "Ferguson Effect," as murders have spiked by 17 percent among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. as a result of cops being more reluctant to police neighborhoods out of fear of being labeled as racists. Additionally, there have been over twice as many cops victimized by fatal shootings in the first three months of 2016.
I suggest clicking the link ^ because there's embedded links that take you to more reports that completely contradict BLM's entire MO. Between BLM and other SJW style movements, society is regressing, not progressing. The black on black violence is insanity right now. Look at Chicago...
In my factual opinion, this is the only Black Label that matters
Outside of left wing media reports, I'm sure that there are many white people shot daily by police no? Lol
How about Lives matter instead of BLM? As I've always said, it's easy for a white Canadian to say, but fuck, imo every time you keep puting this fucking "black" label on everything, it's just increasing the divide.
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its no doubt that police have become, or maybe we're just noticing more, very lax in their use of force, even here at home, we've all heard the stories and seen the videos.
like the recent video release of the UBC student beating (from 5yrs ago tho) because the transit officer didn't believe the name he was given was real, an officer that failed his use of force test and the question on when to deploy a baton. (he's been on admin leave for 5 years sucking up our tax dollars)
the thing is the only way to really get bs like this to stop happening is to be loud, and the BLM group are doing just that, albeit they're only concerned for Blacks, but why should they be inclusive? why put them down for being concerned with Black lives only? there are all sorts of groups out there which aren't inclusive and no one bats an eye.. instead of working against a group trying to stop violence, you should be protesting any and all unjust police use of force, start an All Lives Matter group then, and invite the BLM reps
unless you dont think there's a use of force problem... but then you shouldn't be nitpicking the BLM for having the B
Here are five key statistics you need to know about cops killing blacks.
1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015.
Only wtice ans many whites?: White people make up 62.5 percent of the population. Blacks only 13.2 percent. So blacks are killed at a much higher rate than whites.
The guy killed in Minnesota was pulled over for a broken tail light. But guess what his tail light was not broken. The cop just pulled him over because he was black and blacks are always up to no go. The stop was 100% B.S.
Also DWB driving while black is real ABC News PrimeTime Live proved it a long time ago.
The guy killed in Minnesota was pulled over for a broken tail light. But guess what his tail light was not broken. The cop just pulled him over because he was black and blacks are always up to no go. The stop was 100% B.S.[quote/]
^^^You wanna know another fact about him? He was a sex offender and had a history of Assaults. Juuust saying...
I think the main issue here is the culture of specific Police departments.
The key is getting the good/neutral police to put pressure on the force to do something about the bad police. Many investigations into Police wrong doing reveal that there is typically a culture of complacency and blue brotherhood where even if one officer doesn't approve of the conducts of another, they won't say anything.
You have to remember in the states, outside of major metro areas, a lot of the officers are simply "deputized" people who might have been working at home depot selling lumber the week before (Many of them probably related or friends with the Sheriff etc). In major metro areas there it is now common that police recruits must attend significant training or apply after completing police science programs etc.
Pretty sad though, one guy is shot directly in the heart by Police while laying on his back pinned against a car... and then a number of officers, who were probably very good people are killed in an act of vengeance.
I still Murica and would happily move there.
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The guy killed in Minnesota was pulled over for a broken tail light. But guess what his tail light was not broken. The cop just pulled him over because he was black and blacks are always up to no go. The stop was 100% B.S.[quote/]
^^^You wanna know another fact about him? He was a sex offender and had a history of Assaults. Juuust saying...