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And for those who are saying "…but the cop is Asian", white supremacy can be performed through people of color. #FalconHeightsShooting
— Black Magic Woman (@jananamirah) July 7, 2016
* I was listening to NPR and they literally referred to him as a “white cop.”
I guess now that World War T is through, transracialism is next.
* It should be pointed out that both of these black guys were armed. The first guy, in Louisiana, shot by two white cops, in a manner reminiscent of the Fruitvale shooting a few years ago (suspect shot dead while on the ground), had been waving a gun around in front of a convenience store.
The second guy, in Minnesota, had a concealed weapon, but I don’t know why he informed the officer of it at that point. This shooting reminds me of the notorious South Carolina shooting a couple years back where the officer shot the black driver when he turned around to get his license.
Both of those officers got into big trouble. And at least the Minnesota guy will.
The thing the public misses in stories like this is that it’s obvious to me that a lot of police officers are scared. And I can’t blame them. Remember two officers were assassinated in NYC after the Eric Gardner death. Remember also that just 4 months after the Oscar Grant (Fruitvale) shooting, 4 Oakland policemen were killed by Lovelle Mixon. This definitely contributes to these spates of shootings. (Mixon was a black pimp wanted for multiple rapes, he died in the firefight.)
You can say that police officers should be better qualified, and better trained, but who are these guys anyway? The guy who killed Tamir Rice never should have had that job. When there was that riot at the Trump thing in San Jose a couple of months ago, I noted that most of the officers appeared to be either Asian or Latino. Apparently, fewer and fewer white guys want to be cops. Pretty soon, we can expect that the white population of the US will be involved in one of three jobs: managerial (including agriculture), office work (including academia, finance, and media), and retail. That means all the cops will be Asian, Latino, or Black.
I note that the shootings are being blamed on “racism.” Well, that’s always a possibility, and the reason is that most non-Blacks are afraid of Blacks. But this can’t be blamed on Whitey. This was an Asian guy. If you think that the interactions between Blacks and Whites involves some level of incomprehensibility, wait until it’s Blacks and Asians. They are like from different planets culturally.
However, the final bit about “racism”, which mentions the fact that “Blacks are more likely to be arrested for violent crimes”, etc. is not about racism, it’s about violent crime in the African American community. By extension, the more likely a group is to be arrested for violent crime, the more likely the members of that group are likely to be shot by jittery cops.
Four years ago I would have been a lot more upset about these two shootings. Since then, I must have read about dozens of shootings, many of them videotaped, of both whites and blacks (and frequently unarmed) being shot by police officers. So being aggrieved, hashtagging, venting my spleen, etc. just doesn’t cut it anymore. We have to work on that two way street so the public is educated how to react to officers on the one hand, and to inspire some confidence in police officers so they are less likely to unholster and shoot under the slightest pretext.
* Tom Winter NBC News: Philando Castile was pulled over 31 times by law enforcement and all of the charges were misdemeanors and none for violent crimes.
* Makes me think of Eric Garner, the guy who died in a police chokehold. There was a useful fact withheld by Rachel Maddow et al namely that he had been arrested 35 times.
The point being that these guys knew how to act when confronted by the police and should have known how to avoid problems.
* I’m disturbed at how the federal “Justice” Department starts “investigating” these events before the bodies are even cold. The same “Justice” Department that just let Too Big to Jail Killary skate. What convenient timing.
* Let’s see if I’ve got this right.
A non-White kills a non-White so you shouldn’t blame the Whites.
I just want to be sure I’ve got this right.
A non-X kills a non-X so you shouldn’t blame the X’s.
A non-X kills a non-X so you shouldn’t blame the X’s.
I think I’ve got it.
Its just that I’ve been reading some of the other articles and commenters around here and I’m still a little hazy on this.
But I’m working on it.
* (Reuters) – Already beset by a public outcry over the high-profile death of a black man in police custody and a rising murder rate, Baltimore’s police department is facing another headache: it’s shrinking fast.
The number of uniformed officers in the mid-Atlantic city fell 6.1 percent last year and has shrunk by even more in the first half of this year, according to police data seen by Reuters and not previously reported.
Shrinking budgets have pressured police recruitment in many U.S. cities, including Baltimore, where police officials say they also face steep competition from neighboring Washington to recruit and retain cops. Baltimore’s most recent budget slashed municipal government, reflecting a declining tax base, the city’s tepid economy and high unemployment.
* Trigger-happy cops will shoot white people in a heartbeat, too. It’s just that whites getting murdered by cops doesn’t provide useful propaganda to advance the left-wing racial/communist agenda.
* Yeah, Cops make mistakes. I’m more worried about the other 15,000 homicides -including those caused by illegal aliens who shouldn’t be in the country.
But evidently, I’m almost alone on this. People seem fascinated by white cops killing black crooks, even though it only occurs about 200 times a year, in a nation with 40,000,000 blacks.
* I saw the video. The woman victim — and she is a victim — quite clearly described the cop as Chinese. I suspect that if she had not been in shock she might well have used the more inclusive term Asian, or perhaps Oriental. One aspect of these instances of police violence that needs to be addressed is how often they involve various types of sub-par police recruits, e.g., politically motivated or affirmative action hires.
* The St. Anthony Police patrolman who shot and killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop has been identified as Jeronimo Yanez.
* If you consider losing your job, and having your name and face plastered all over the media as a target for retribution a mere “slap on the wrist”, I congratulate you for your ironclad level of financial and physical security. Darren Wilson, who shot the Ferguson Gentle Giant in a textbook example of self-defense, is now stocking shelves in a WalMart and will never work in law enforcement again, despite acting in perfect accordance with any police use-of-force continuum I have ever heard of.
What these “slaps on the wrist” DO accomplish is de-policing. Any cop with any time on the job at all is extremely reluctant to engage ANY black suspect, because the cop knows that he is automatically in a lose-lose situation. Proactive patrolling goes by the wayside, as most white cops know that a long career is inversely proportional to the number of contacts they endure with African-Americans. If Darren Wilson had been sitting in the substation watching SportsCenter, he wouldn’t have seen the Gentle Giant lumbering down the middle of the road after the strongarm robbery, and he wouldn’t have found it necessary to make contact. Several years ago, the President of the Seattle Police Guild told the rank-and-file (in writing) to “sit under a shady tree and do crosswords”, and limit their actual policing to answering 911 calls (which cannot be ignored).
Far from being an occupying army of avenging angels, police officers (at least on the Left Coast) want to avoid contact with POCs and NAMs at all costs — not out of physical fear, but out of concern for the legal and administrative consequences of doing their job.
* Eric Garner did not die in a police choke hold. So found the coroner. People in choke holds to not exclaim they cannot breathe, because they cannot breathe. He died of obesity, high blood pressure, asthma, heart disease, and bad judgement.
* I wonder how long the Minnesota man had been driving his car with a broken taillight. If you don’t want to be pulled over by police ( with all the hassle and risk that can involve) keeping your car in proper running condition is important. I’ve been stopped by police twice this century. Once for making a U turn where I had often done it before only to discover a freshly planted no U turn sign in the median strip. The cop was snotty about it but let me off when I pointed out the sign still had fresh dirt around its base. The second time was when I moved to Florida and made a left turn in front of a stopped highway patrol car who ( I thought) was yielding to me to make my left. I even said I thought he was being a nice guy not attempting to entrap me with a violation of right of way. He too let me off when he noticed my Florida driver’s license was all of one hour old. That’s it as far as my interaction with police. I don’t drive aggressively, my vehicles are kept in running order and my paperwork is up to date. Easy Peasy and you meet no policey.
