Pray for Charlotte, NC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone like Keith Scott be able to own a gun in the first place?? He had a criminal past, including a conviction for assault with a deadly weapon when he shot someone - for which he was sentenced to prison. Aren't background checks required for a purchase of a gun? Don't tell me that ex-cons with a gun assault conviction gets to buy another one? Assuming the gun on the scene wasn't a plant (I'm adding in that possibility because some of you will jump in with it), I'm guessing the police will trace back how he got his hands on a gun at all.

Yes he criminal record was quite extensive and included several violent offenses. Police look up up or record when they look up your license plate. They May have looked up his record and that's why they were concerned he was going to be violent and especially was there a school bus.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/us/charlotte-shooting-keith-scott.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone like Keith Scott be able to own a gun in the first place?? He had a criminal past, including a conviction for assault with a deadly weapon when he shot someone - for which he was sentenced to prison. Aren't background checks required for a purchase of a gun? Don't tell me that ex-cons with a gun assault conviction gets to buy another one? Assuming the gun on the scene wasn't a plant (I'm adding in that possibility because some of you will jump in with it), I'm guessing the police will trace back how he got his hands on a gun at all.

Quite extensive violent criminal behavior.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/us/charlotte-shooting-keith-scott.html

[Anonymous]

I think lots of people will feel silly for damning the black police officer for doing what he did.

[Anonymous]

10 minute video but worth watching all the way through.

Great breakdown of the shooting and the protest/riots.

[Anonymous]

so..i think i see what could be the gun they recovered in his hand in this picture. note: this picture may bring the "it was a book" argument up again, but police said no book was found.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day these cops out here are way too preoccupied with pulling triggers than preserving lives, way more inclined to instigate conflicts than deescalate them and that comes down to training.
If you're fine and dandy with police being indoctrinated to shoot first and investigate later so long as it primarily affects black citizens in impoverished areas then I warn you...those tendencies to take extreme action won't be limited to just underclass very long.
Eventually those bad habits of handling situations are going to make their way into the suburbs and before you know it, it's going to be more than just poor black families pressing police for answers after a loved one has been killed.
History has shown that plagues - whether viral or moral - don't restrict themselves to single areas.
They spread.
That's what diseases do and this sickness of senseless overaggressive policing is steadily spreading throughout law enforcement agencies.
We can act now to address it in the interest of preserving humanity and protecting the rights of all citizens or we can allow ourselves to be distracted by petty nuances concerning race and class and allow the disease to fester and grow and ultimately put all of our lives at risk.

This is such BS. Cops preserve lives, deescalate conflict, and work to help others every day. You don’t see this because it happens hundreds of time, every day, all year long, and it is so routine that nobody takes the time to record it (and it doesn’t fit into the narrative that cops are evil).
The very few incidents that result in the deaths of people are taking up all the oxygen to the point that too many people are forgetting all the good the cops do.
The above post is an example of that.

Exactly. There are close to a million cops in this country, and I'm sure millions of traffic pullovers every day - with cops dealing with drunks, people high on drugs, very agitated and aggressive people, etc. Instances like Tulsa and Charlotte, as tragic as they are, are exceedingly rare. I think it's important that we keep in mind the very fine job that 99% of the police do.

They are not exceedingly rare. And if they were , it still needs to be addressed. Oh my God people!!
It's ok for cops to extrajudicially kill people in the streets??!!!
You are more concerned about their reputation than their actions??!!!
Shame on you
Shame on you
Shame on you

[Anonymous]

Almost every other day there are stories of cops bending caught planting evidence and/or planning to do so and some if you people still take for gospel every word ANY cop says.
Every one is not lying but at least have common sense to think, examine and question .
Dangggggggggg!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost every other day there are stories of cops bending caught planting evidence and/or planning to do so and some if you people still take for gospel every word ANY cop says.
Every one is not lying but at least have common sense to think, examine and question .
Dangggggggggg!!!

Dangggggggggg. Every other day? Really? So you think every cop in America goes to work every day with an extra unregistered gun, wiped clean of fingerprints, just in case they need to plant it at a crime scene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost every other day there are stories of cops bending caught planting evidence and/or planning to do so and some if you people still take for gospel every word ANY cop says.
Every one is not lying but at least have common sense to think, examine and question .
Dangggggggggg!!!

1.1 million in law enforcement
765k full time
Assuming your comment is accurate it shows that it isn't a major problem. So, should one assume there is fraud on every case?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost every other day there are stories of cops bending caught planting evidence and/or planning to do so and some if you people still take for gospel every word ANY cop says.
Every one is not lying but at least have common sense to think, examine and question .
Dangggggggggg!!!

1.1 million in law enforcement
765k full time
Assuming your comment is accurate it shows that it isn't a major problem. So, should one assume there is fraud on every case?

I said question, you cannot assume that because anyone says something it is true.
You thing putting on a cop uniform , going to law school, going to medical school, being a teacher magically makes that person perfect and unable to lie and/ or make mistakes?
You live in a fantasy world?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He had a gun in a location whew kids bus comes and he was smoking pot. Of course police are concerned. He got out of car with gun. He should have dropped the gun. Also wife shouldn't let him go sit in a car and get stoned. Someone must have reported him. It's a side street. Too bad though they couldn't have just shot him in the leg to disable him. I certainly don't want anyone to die.

What about the TBI - or traumatic brain injury? any more news on that?

I agree - shoot to disable, not to kill. But I'm no cop and in s a life-threatening situation, it's hard to know exactly how anyone would react.

[Anonymous]

DP. The hatred displayed by some of you who are bending over backwards to blame the police, and accuse them of planting evidence, is quite sad.

First, we have a man who defiantly pulls up in front of police and rolls a marihuana cigarette. Illegal, and stupid.
Second, the police are dealing with an ex-felon who was sent to prison for assault with a deadly weapon, and who appears to be holding a gun in his hand, and near a school.
Third, they yell at him to drop the gun, and he refuses to comply.
Fourth, they keep yelling to drop the gun, and he continues to defy police commands.
Fifth, they yell again to drop the weapon, and he still refuses.
Sixth, his wife is yelling "Keith, don't do it"! What was it that he was doing that had his wife so desperate for him to stop?

And yet, with all this, it's automatically the "racist" black cop's fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost every other day there are stories of cops bending caught planting evidence and/or planning to do so and some if you people still take for gospel every word ANY cop says.
Every one is not lying but at least have common sense to think, examine and question .
Dangggggggggg!!!

1.1 million in law enforcement
765k full time
Assuming your comment is accurate it shows that it isn't a major problem. So, should one assume there is fraud on every case?

I said question, you cannot assume that because anyone says something it is true.
You thing putting on a cop uniform , going to law school, going to medical school, being a teacher magically makes that person perfect and unable to lie and/ or make mistakes?
You live in a fantasy world?

OK. So let's say the cop did make a mistake. He was faced with a man holding a gun (or he thought it was a gun), and the man refuses many times to obey police instructions to drop it. He thought he was in danger of his life, and shot. But let's say the mistake, in the heat of the moment, was that he didn't shoot to maim, or he missed the shot to maim, and instead killed the guy. That would be a horrible mistake. Still, is that any reason for thousands of black people to destroy a city, loot stores, destroy innocent people's livelihoods, injure innocent people, and, in one instance, kill an innocent person? Of will you have excuse for that behavior, too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP. The hatred displayed by some of you who are bending over backwards to blame the police, and accuse them of planting evidence, is quite sad.

First, we have a man who defiantly pulls up in front of police and rolls a marihuana cigarette. Illegal, and stupid.
Second, the police are dealing with an ex-felon who was sent to prison for assault with a deadly weapon, and who appears to be holding a gun in his hand, and near a school.
Third, they yell at him to drop the gun, and he refuses to comply.
Fourth, they keep yelling to drop the gun, and he continues to defy police commands.
Fifth, they yell again to drop the weapon, and he still refuses.
Sixth, his wife is yelling "Keith, don't do it"! What was it that he was doing that had his wife so desperate for him to stop?

And yet, with all this, it's automatically the "racist" black cop's fault.

Yup. How is it "racist" when they're both the SAME race???

[Anonymous]

I feel sorry for for so many of you who truly don't understand the difference between saying someone is racist and saying racism/implicit bias is a factor in an incident. The cop in the situation does not have to hate black/brown/purple people .
What folks are saying is that systemic, institutionalize racism causes implicit buss whereas as now the black/brown/purple person is automatically seen as more dangerous, criminal, etc.
Case in point , the Tulsa shooting, no way in hell could those cops in the helicopter ascertain that Crutcher 'looks like a bad dude' from their vantage point. Why? Just because he as big and black ? And don't give me the be about training, they were talking about how he "looked" and they were hundreds of feet in the air . That could have been Michael Myers and they could not tell.
And yes, geniuses black folk, Asian folk can be implicitly bias, even racist against their own ethnic group.