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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PS I think we all owe it to George Floyd and our black and brown brothers and sisters to share this horrifying video and publicly condemn it.  It is stomach turning to watch.  We need our stomachs turned.  We need to get outraged.  We need to change this.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lirHz93qJ50[/quote]

I would show this video to my kid and say "Whatever you do, do not make the police get physical with you.  Do what they ask you to do and keep your hands where they can see them.  If they ask you for your license and registration and you have to reach into the glove compartment to get them, say "Officer, I need to reach into the glove compartment to get my registration.  I need to reach in my pocket to get my license."

In fact, I have already told my kid just that.

I am NOT defending that cop for kneeling on that man's neck until he died BUT this all could have been avoided if that man had been respectful and compliant from the get go.  Again - I am not saying that what this cop did was in anyway excusable.  I am saying that the man would still be alive today had he been respectful and compliant with the officers.

We need to get this message across to our kids somehow, someway.[/quote]

You are not black so shut the hell up. Men like him are pinned like that for being black, not for being disrespectful. You are just as bad as that cop. While people need to wake up and stop being so oblivious. Share this video in history class to all the white kids. You never see this in the damn history books[/quote]

You want your kid to live then you will tell them exactly what I posted above.  When you are resisting arrest/not complying your odds of being hurt or killed during an encounter with the police Go UP.

Being compliant is not a guarantee that a cop won't shoot you or physically harm you in some way but the odds are much lower that you will get hurt.[/quote]

So if you’re not respectful to or compliant with the police then it’s your fault if the cops kill you.  
Makes perfect sense.

If a white women who curses at a cop about a parking ticket gets choked out and dies - her fault.

If an ornery old white man who argues with a cop for not doing something about his neighbors’ uncut grass gets tasered and dies - his fault.

If a ten year-old white boy riding a skateboard gets shot and dies after he’s told to get out the street and he gave a cop the finger which the officer saw in his rear view mirror when driving off - kids fault.

DISRESPECT IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH!![/quote]

No.  If you physically resist an officer and/or act like you are going for a weapon DO NOT act surprised when they get physical right back with you.  I would say that the officers in this situation absolutely were justified in getting physical with the man.  They crossed the line when the one KNEELED ON THE MAN'S NECK.  Had the officer used proper restraint, cuffed him and put him in a vehicle as would be normal procedure then this would not have happened.  The man who is DEAD is the man who physically resisted the officers. As a mom, I want my kids to be aware that getting physical with a cop could wind up with you dead.

Do not play stupid with what I'm saying.  If a man simply yells at a cop that is of course not grounds to SHOOT him.  If a cop asks a man repeatedly to GET ON THE GROUND and the man resists doing so, then the cop can certainly make the man get on the ground.  As long as they are following proper procedure they are doing what they were trained to do.[/quote]
Well said.[/quote]

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