White cops harass and pepper spray Black Army Lieutenant in Windsor, VA
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Anonymous
Ok, argue with the cops, refuse to comply. Resist them and refuse to cooperate. That will definitely work better. |
Anonymous
So it's a good idea to disobey lawful police orders because the cop in the Philando Castile case screwed up? I love reading these LE threads which contain dozens of idiotic comments from DCUM morons with absolutely no LE training or experience. A big part of the problem is that the big cop just doesn't get it. The other problem is that most cops are afraid to fight people because they have become dependent on using tazers for the last 15 years. |
Anonymous
The point is that it doesn't matter. You can do everything right, and a trigger happy bully can still murder you and call it your fault. There was no freaking reason to fight here. The man had his hands out the window and was asking questions. Open your mouth and talk to him like a freaking human being. For too long cops have been on the wrong side of history when it came to treatment of Black people and respect for their rights. Now, in this supposed post racial era where Black people are supposedly equal, we're all just supposed to forget how things were as recently as our parents lifetimes. Black people don't trust police and they are rightfully terrified. We've done absolutely NOTHING to address the sins of the past, NOTHING to reform police forces that a mere generation ago were hosing down black children with fire hoses and attacking them with dogs. And yall want to act like everything would be okay if we just properly submit to your authority??? Come on. Get real!! Nothing will change until police acknowledge THEIR responsibility in all of this. You have an entire race of people that do not trust you and for damn good reasons. |
Anonymous
If he had reached into that car to open the door, he would be dead. Get over yourself. You sound ridiculous. Cops are not Jesus. They clearly escalated this unnecessarily. Something tells me you've never been disrespected by a cop. When you are, you come back and tell me how that feels. |
Anonymous
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As someone from that area, this is sadly not surprising.
It's best not to argue with the police, but if they are out to get you, it's going to be a hard situation. |
Anonymous
If Black people never assert our rights or questioned people in positions of authority, we'd still be sitting in the back of the bus. If a police office pulls you over, they're supposed to have cause. You're supposed to be able to ask what that cause is, and police officers need to get over themselves and answer the question. |
Anonymous
It sounds like you have some type of obsession with racial issues and are becoming a victim by living vicariously through other people. You might want to educate yourself so that you have a more balanced view of these encounters. Start by looking up UCR data, which is compiled by the FBI. You will see that more white people are killed by police than black people. Black people are disproportionately commiting violent crimes and assaulting police officers, per UCR data. |
Anonymous
WHat are you, a modern day Rosa Parks posting on DCUM??? You can ask those questions after the scene is safe. |
Anonymous
My point is that Black people will never get equal treatment from cops is every time one of them acts up we just demure and let them stomp all over the right we know we have. So this whole "just cooperate" stuff is nonsense, when it is clearly the cop who didn't do what HE was supposed to do. |
Anonymous
Yes, you’re right. You can do everything right and still get shot. But that is extremely, extremely rare. Just look at the statistics at how many interactions police have with people per day and how many people were unjustifiably shot. It is minuscule. Your best bet by far is to comply. I’m not sure if you saw the video this guy took from his cell phone but he was clearly setting up the officers and tempting them to do something wrong. I assume he was looking for a pay day. The fact is, when a subject becomes non compliant it is a huge red flag for police and gets them raised up. They are human beings and a lot of the reaction you are seeing from them is fear about what that guy was up to. Maybe they were wrong and I agree their instructions were unclear, but it is a natural human response to want to control the situation rather than some racial victimizing thing. Try walking a day in their shoes and you will understand why these situations (late at night, tinted out SUV with who knows what in the back, bizarrely non-compliant subject, etc). It’s not to say their actions were perfect but it is a complete stretch to say they were driven by race. Also I believe the cop who deployed the spray was Hispanic. |
Anonymous
Excuses, justifications, and deflections. Also, Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. For example, I am Puerto Rican. I am also Black. I have a friend who is Cuban. She is white. Hispanic countries and people are not immune from white supremacy. You're so quick to empathize with the officers. "Walk a day in their shoes." Why not also empathize with their victims for a change? Walk a day in their shoes. The officer is the professional. The burden on getting things right, even when they are afraid, should be on them. Not on the civilian. |
Anonymous
Right, so you admit you are not trying to see things from the perspective of officers at all. You have no interest in actually understanding why they behave they way they do but would rather see things only from your perspective and ignorantly criticize. If you really wanted to address the problem you would try to get to the bottom of it rather than being happy to continue playing the victim. Officers make mistakes just like civilians do. Just because they do does not make them racist/ethnicitist/whatever woke categorization you want to use. Officers deal with life or death situations constantly and I don’t think it’s shocking that they sometimes make the wrong call. Believe it or not, they make mistakes with white subjects all the time, too. And believe it or not, lots of officers are minorities, especially in DC, NYC, etc. Frankly I prefer that they err on the side of keeping themselves and the public safe. When a civilian interacts with an officer they have the burden to comply - that is unquestionably on them. When a subject is being deliberately non compliant they are taking a huge unnecessary risk to themselves and the officers. And guess what - each one of us walks in one of these “victims’” shoes every single day so it is easy to emphathize there. Any day any one of us could be approached by an officer, and the vast majority of us would COMPLY regardless of race. |
Anonymous
This is misleading. Yes, roughly twice as many white people are killed by police annually than black people. But that doesn't take into account that white people in the United States outnumber black people by nearly 5:1. Per capita, black people are killed nearly 3 times as often as white people annually in the US. Additionally, poverty plays a much more significant factor in the determination of crime, especially violent crime than race. And blacks are significantly more likely to be raised in poverty. In the US, roughly 21% of children are raised in poverty, but when you take race into account, 46% of black children are raised in poverty, and 40% of Latino children are raised in poverty. Only 9.6% of white children are raised in poverty. In addition, the UCR data does not take into account racial bias in the system. For example, white offenders are much less likely to be convicted under virtually identical situations as black offenders. White offenders are much more likely to be offered plea bargains the black offenders. And white offenders are often charged or convicted of lesser chargers under the same circumstances. Due to the voluntary nature of the reporting by local LE, the FBI has admitted that there is room for a lot of manipulation of the UCR data. Black and Latino middle class and higher are about equally likely to commit violent crimes as their white counterparts. So the chances of a black suspect in a vehicle in a suit or uniform being violent are about the same as their white counterpart, but LEO are like you and because poor blacks in poverty have such a high rate of violent crimes, they'll treat the middle class black person in a suit and a vehicle the same as a black teen from the inner city. You can make statistics say whatever you want and people like you, PP, make it show your racist bigotry. |
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Question to the defenders of the two cops' actins. Did you ever experience being pulled over by two cops in the dark of the night in a rural town and you have no idea why you are pulled over. As if that wasn't enough to scare you, they pull out their guns and point them at you, and scream on top of their lungs demanding you simultaneously obey totally contradictory orders. To grant you a slack, let's suppose the cops are of the same race as you.
If you didn't have such an experience, you are commenting from your rear end. Show pity on your rear end, use your brains and make thoughtful comments. FWIW, I never had such an experience with cops. |
Anonymous
| Give it a rest, fascist. The cop had no justification for his behavior. The Lieutenant never said or did anything that was the list bit threatening. The lunatic cop should not be a cop and should not be allowed to possess a weapon. |