That picture of the lady was taken in Baltimore. CVS didn't deserve it either. But you understand it, so explain it to me, because I don't. How did it help? Was anyone persuaded to listen to the grievances of criminals burning and looting CVS?
Instructions...like thr behavioral scientist shot on thr ground with his hands up? Or the instructions given to Tamir Rice in that drive by shooting?
Even though the head of the feds - DOJ - was Eric Holder, who worked for and was appointed by Obama. You bet, those guys ALWAYS take the side of the police.
It didn't help. People of all persuasions act irrationally when angry and more so when you add hopelessness.
not necessarily as the guy may be having a psychological episode, again...does he deserve to die when the option of shooting to wound is there but not taken? its like cutting off the hand of a shoplifter...
He's a clown?? Why? Is the Charlotte police chief a clown also?
That justifies nothing.
Well I have been disappointed by this administration on a number of points and this is certainly one of them. The failure to end the drug war as promised which is responsible for a large portion of the bad police and community relations.
Who is justifying? Understanding is not the same as condoning.
I watched the Pastor video it touched me he's right all lives do matter and this is how I was raised but all the instances he speaks of shows the injustice we as black oeople are talking about. Racism has no color I understand all this but why can't people just acknowledge what we are saying about no one being held accountable. How come police can save a dog from storm drain, save a horse about to drown in a river but yet a black and life doesn't matter. Tulsa man could've been saved if they treated him like a human but we have been dehumanized. We just want people to acknowledge that this is wrong and something be doneI went there. Here's what the N Y Times says in that very article:
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But the video, which was given to The New York Times by lawyers for the family Friday, does not include a view of the shooting itself. Nor does it answer the crucial question of whether Mr. Scott had a gun, as the police have maintained.
One of the lawyers, Justin Bamberg, who is representing the family along with Eduardo Curry, said in an interview Friday that the video did not prove whether the shooting was justified or not. Rather, he said, it offered “another vantage point” of the incident."
Where did the rallying cry "hands up, don't shoot" come from? In your opinion, did Michael Brown say that?
Thanks, amigo, for giving my "core" a pass.
But why are they hopeless in Baltimore? They've been ran by liberal democrats for decades. You know, the party that claims only they 'get' the race issues. The mayor is black. The failed district attorney is black. Yet you say the citizens feel hopeless?
This is where I am. Amos you have my email bro. I am happy to continue dialogue on thr issue, but we dont need Sunni shutting down this thread.
Let's imagine the hypothetical; Cops are now trained to go for the legs. First, this diverts attention from the suspects face/arms/torso. He may be offering "Surrender" at this point, but the officer has his focus on a single leg. Shot fired, suspect still dies because his femoral artery was severed.
Then why use it as a point of discussion?
I've spent time incarcerated. I was busted, and guilty of breaking the law. I know that if I'm caught breaking the law again, I'll go back. The 'prison population' is a tangent to what we're discussing, amigo.
Much thanks for taking the time, amigo. It's how I'm raised, as well, and though I stumble, it's what I strive to be.
Wanna do the hug thing? Reminds me of my favorite Chris Rock bit. About OJ, he talks about how OJ was incensed about Nicole screwing a guy on the sofa OJ paid for, in the house OJ bought....etc. Rock's punch line was: "I ain't sayin' he was right to kill the b****....but I understand.
i do not know the chances of death of a leg shot over a body shot but im guessing it would be less, also i think that if a person is brandishing a bottle/knife as a weapon the chances are he doesnt have a gun in his belt, the weapon he holds is only lethal max 6ft around him, the scenarios im talking about are when there is 1 guy & is in no way a threat to other people except the police(more than 1) surrounding him, personally ive found watching an opponents body movements more an advantage than watching their eyes, i believe if possible he should be wounded & disarmed before lethal measures are used
