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[quote=Anonymous]I just don't get the attitude of some posters to absolve and excuse police brutality as "part of the job" or "collateral damage" or something people should learn to live with...
I get the fatigue of the racial factor.  That's understandable, but even without that component y'all still want to argue that it's okay for cops to just do whatever.

Let's step away from James Blake for a second and look at Zachary Hammond in South Carolina.
He was shot and killed by police during an undercover marijuana sting and his family’s attorney said evidence shows the 19-year-old was shot twice in the back from near-point blank range AND a witness reported to the FBI that an officer got something out of his patrol car’s trunk and placed an object beneath Hammond’s corpse, which is most likely the “white powdery substance” allegedly found at the scene.  And, more disturbingly, the witness reported seeing officers lifting Hammond’s dead hand and high-fiving it.

Nothing racial about this incident, the victim was white.  Yet even in this case posters still see it as sacrilegious to criticize cops or hold the authorities accountable for their errors in protocol and judgement.  If the race elements of James Blake's incident irritate you to where you can't focus on the facts then explain to me why Zachary Hammond's death doesn't rile you up and warrant some much needed attention toward the topic of police brutality and crooked cops.[/quote]

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