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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently the police officers body cam caught the suspect raising his weapon.  The officer was justified in shooting Smith.  The actions of the local community - if you want to call them that - is horrible.  There's unedited video of them actively planning and attacking people for being white..its digusting[/quote]Based on what I've heard, the shooting was justified.  However, what has been happening in places like Milwaukee is that a shooting that may be justified sparks off years of built-up resentment of the community to abusive practices by the police.  That's pretty much what happened in Ferguson after years of police milking the community for multiple fines and charges in order to fund the government.  And in Baltimore, while the cause of Freddy Gray's death may be unclear, it's clear that the police have also been abusing that community for years.  The DOJ reports on police practices in both communities identified many questionable practices used by the local police departments.

Yes, people should not riot.  It hurts them and their community more than it hurts the police department.  But the police also need to be held responsible for years of abuse that are only now coming to light.[/quote]

But to attack whites?  Baltimore has a sizable group or blacks in their force.  Multiple officers in Gray's case were black.  This officer in Wisconisn was black.  My question is - and it's an honest question - why the anger over cops but not each other.  The stats show black males are killed by other black males 95% of the time.  It would take cops 40 years of killing just black males to equal the amount of times black males killed each other in 2012 alone
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DqQNfjf4zKAJ:www.forcescience.org/forcepresentation.ppt+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

4,472 black males were killed between 2009-2012 annually, by contrast both justified and unjustified shootings in black men by police offers was 112.
[/quote][i]Did I say *anywhere* in the above post that it was *okay* to attack people, especially based on their race??!![/i]

That said, what makes you think that poor black people walk around their neighborhoods NOT complaining about black people hurting black people?  Did you not get a press release, is that your problem?  I've got news for you.  People talk about this among themselves.  They don't love what is going on in their neighborhoods.  Maybe if you actually had some experience in these neighborhoods you'd understand this.

And if you read the DOJ reports on Ferguson and Baltimore you would realize that this isn't just about some loser like Michael Brown getting killed.  This is about widespread soaking of the community for money, which has been invisible to many white people until we've reached the age of cell phone video and body cameras, basically forcing the DOJ to investigate.

Finally, you might recall, the police are supposed to be trained professionals. They're supposed to know better how to de-escalate a situation in order to avoid getting into a shootout.  Sorry, but it wasn't 12-year-old Tamir Rice's responsibility to manage the emotions of a grown ass cop who was supposed to know better and to stop at a distance from him and figure out the situation without driving his damned car up and shooting a clueless kid.[/quote]

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