I'm told that Philando Castile was
stopped by the police about sixty times over a period
of 14 years, and the
only thing that resulted was a few minor traffic
tickets. But the police stopped
him and stopped him and stopped him, over and over
and over, because he was black.
And
then
they stopped Mr. Castile because he had "a wide
nose" similar to
the suspect in a recent robbery, and so the police
killed him.
Maybe the answer is to require the police to catch
criminals rather than create and kill them them on
a whim.
=Lefty=
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P Ellen
Okay Lefty . I have a business idea for you. Make some of those peel off decals to go over tail lights so everyone looks like they have a broken one. Target market them to the black communities just like cigarettes and malt liquor and junk foods. Just use your phone to take a time stamped picture before and after the cop stop to show the tail light is fine. Easy peasy false arrest money to boot.
(P.S. I converted 2 conservatives to you using this one, one an ex-Chicago cop no less)
(Are you gonna show Hillary on a Kaiser roll? Kaiser roll? Get it?)
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morpher
It's the different and it is profiling. As a respectable, middle-aged journalist in Australia, I used to ride a motorcycle to work. I was working shifts and was stopped a number of times for minor traffic violations (real or imaginary) when on the way to or from work in the ealry hours of the morning or the late hours of the night when the roads were empty. I learned to get my helmet off quick so they could see me as an ordinary guy with hair starting to gray. Not on a big Harley or whatever, not on big bike at all, just an ordinary bloke on an ordinary bike with an ordinary, conservative leather jacket. I remember particularly one morning when I was stopped at about 5am in the dark, and one of the two cops, nearing the end of their shift, jumping around with his hand over his gun, almost willing me to make a false move. Driving my car over the same roads at the same times, at the same speeds, I was NEVER stopped, not once, not ever -- and neither were all the car drivers who drove over those roads at peak hour 10-15 kph above the speed limit. You never saw a cop around then. No-one black to target in that part of Melbourne, so the motorcyclist would do. There were good cops, as a journalist, I had contact with some, but there were lots of nasty cops around -- always were and always will be.
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jerrywww
In 1970 as a long haired hippie I was stopped in Oakland California at 7 a.m. on a Sunday driving to sell stuff at a swap meet, the cop said there had been a robbery and the suspect was described as driving a similar car. My car was a 1941 Chevy pick up truck painted robins egg blue, the cop managed to keep a straight face for 30 seconds and then he just waved me on and said "keep out of trouble", I kept my mouth shut and drove away, I guess my nose wasn't all that wide...
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Edward
How close does one have to be to determine the width of a nose? Is it as close as one has to be to see the whites of the eyes?
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TrulyTexan
Reminds me of the "Judge Dredd" movies. I used to think all the apocalyptic movies were just to scare you with a what if scenario. Now can anyone deny the possabilities of a Hunger Games or Purge type future?
It has taken the republikkkans longer than expected, but they may finally have started their race war. Not hard to do when you spend decades telling everyone that minorities are ignorant and violent. Then institutionalize the racism. Deny jobs and opportunities, encourage hatred, make no apologies and hold no one accountable for violence against anyone with brown skin. Keep poking and pinching, beat a man for being in the wrong neighborhood, rape his wife at a traffic stop, shoot his child dead in the street, then say it was all his fault because of the color of his skin. Then when he has finally had enough and acts out, answering violence with violence, say "See, that's how those people are, they need to be stopped."
I would ask all those who say "we can't hold all cops accountable for the actions of a few" to sit and think about the irony and hypocrisy. If we can't hold up all cops as evil killers (who are never tried for their crimes), then why can you hold all blacks, or Muslims, or Mexicans accountable for the crimes of a very small segment of their groups? Ask them that and see what their answer is. Most I've seen just say "it's different" but can't come up with a reason why.
Do blue lives and white lives matter? Sure, and they always have. Kill a cop or white person and you will be held accountable. But black lives have never mattered as much, and until they do, people will keep getting pushed too far.
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Lurker111
That comic comes with sarcasm sharp enough to make the monitor bleed.
Alas, a few years from now, no one will know what you were talking about. :(
Of course, that might be _good_.
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