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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. 
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Yup. How is it "racist" when they're both the SAME race???

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I hate stupid so much it makes my stomach hurt.
Yes you can be racist against your own racial group, ethnic group.
Oh my God what world, what schools did you people attend that you don't understand this????[/quote]

I posted the Atlantic article to show one side. I didn't add a response b/c I'm not sure how I feel.

ButiIf a black cop,in the heat of the moment - shoots at a black person brandishing a gun (loaded or not), is s/he thinking that the black buy with a gun is scum b/c of some institutionalized belief shaping his/her perception?  Or is s/he shooting at the person just to protect him/herself?

I'm sure the police thought about his family during that moment.  Maybe he has kids, a partner, parents, siblings.

I would imagine that self-preservation would probably cross your mind first during a moment like this - and not necessarily skin color.

But if skin color subconsciously plays a role, then we pay more taxes to create anti-bias training programs for police.  Expect to pay more, however, b/c trainings - especially nationwide - don't come cheap.  And let's not forget the monitoring, which is the data-collection.  "Did the training make a difference?"  [/quote]
Yes, we need to address subconcious bias that might play into a police encounter with a black person (usually male). But to be fair, we need to acknowledgr WHY there is or may be that bias. I'm hearing a lot about systemic racism, but nothing about the fact that black people commit a disproprtionate amount of crime, and that, knowing that, a cop may feel more threatened when approaching a black guy. Blacks make up only 13% of the population but commit 52% of the murders. So while it's not PC to point it out, some of the subconcious racism is perpetrated by the high rate of crime in the black community, disproprtionate to their numbers.

So it's a two-way street. Police need better training on how to de-escalate a situation (which is NOT always possible), but blacks need to realize that the high crime rates within their own community are exacerbating the problem.  Both sides need to take responsibility for their role in this situation.[/quote]

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