TheVirtualMind
Master Don Juan
Allow me to correct you on a few points...I am fully behind Colin Kapernick and am glad to see that mixed race people such as him, and Obama (who is also mixed race) is taking leadership in these issues and taking a stand. It must be that white part of them (just kidding). A whole movement is being started as other sports teams are following suit. Recent police shootings in Tulsa and North Carolina substantiate this cause. Look at what happened in Tusla. That was a clearly wanton shooting from that lady officer. The man's hands were in the air the whole time. Suspects in NYC for terrorism had their life spared while his was taken? Their lives had more value than his?
Police should not get paid leave whenever someone dies in custody or under their care. They should just get fired and charged with murder. Until that happens there is going to be issues. It is too long that videos are circulating where this type of stuff has been happening and nothing is really being done about it. I don't know how anyone can truly disagree with a simple and straightforward message like that. As far as the delivery of the message, there is no proper way to deliver a message like that because nobody wants to hear it. It's not a popular message to those who benefit from white supremacist system because it exposes people. That is what he choose, and that is what Veterans fought and died for. In fact, Veterans are just as liable as being racially profiled and shot by police for nonsense, as has probably happened before. That's a true insult to risk your life for the country and end up dead by the police in the country over nonsense.
There is a GIANT difference between Tulsa and Charlotte, and even NYC. Tulsa was a huge mistake. There is no real defending it, only ways to learn from it. Charlotte still has information coming out, but there isn't anything that is bad so far, other than people wanting free stuff apparently. For NYC, they did shoot the guy. Sometimes people die from gunshots, sometimes they don't.
So, let me get this straight...I'm a cop. I stopped you and arrested you because you were speeding down the road at 80 mph in a 35 mph zone, and you had 2 warrants. You've been cool, there was no physical issues or anything. On the way to jail, you have a heart attack and die. I should be fired and charged with murder because you are under my care and custody, right?
I'm a cop. I see you selling drugs on the street corner. As I go to approach you, you run. While running, you swallow your stash of cocaine and heroin before I catch up to you and I don't know about it. You still have other stuff on you and I arrest you. On the way to jail, you slump out and go comatose because the drugs just really hit your system. You die on the way to the hospital because of how much you ingested. I should be fired and charged with murder because you are under my care and custody, right?
Those two things happen a lot, across the country (and in other countries too.) There have been several "in custody" deaths in our agency during the past 2 years alone, from people having heart attacks and other medical issues, ranging from right after being in custody to while talking to the nurse at jail. Should all my coworkers be fired for someone having high blood pressure and the person stopped taking their medication 6 months ago?
As far as being fired and charged with murder ASAP, I guess cops don't get due process too, right?
If I see you standing on a street corner, should I just arrest you and charge you with various drug distribution charges, without seeing why you were there or what was going on? What about stopping you for speeding and you don't have your license with you? Should I just arrest you and charge you for not having a license, without seeing if you really did have it or left it at home?
Home burnt down? Must be you committing arson. Someone in your family died at your house? You must have killed them.