A moment of peace amid Ferguson anger: Cop hugs emotional protester after befriending

[VikingKing]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tester-gesture-peace.html?ito=social-facebook

 

[FairShake]

I know a lot of White cops from my days boxing and working as an EMT. We have a lot of discussions about what it's like on the streets. I try to give them another perspective, one they don't usually get from their admittedly small circle of cop associates and supportive White family and friends who are usually close with other cops.

I tell them a little street smarts and compassion goes a LONG way with your average citizen. And most people they come into contact with are average citizens, they aren't all dirtbags. Every person I knows remembers the cool cops just as much as the bad ones even if they mostly complain about the bad ones. If more cops had the people skills and common sense to see people for who they are not what they might have done you'd see better relationships between the community and police.

I genuinely think community policing would get more done than militarization of policing. It's hard to talk, complain, dialogue, and, yes, inform to a police officer when they are wearing a face shield and pointing a gun at you.

 

[speed dawg]

The left doesn't want to see this. They are fighting for division and anger, which leads to advantages and entitlement for everyone except white men.

 

[FairShake]

The issue I see with this is, everyone seems to claim that Mike Brown was an angel. The community swarms to protect their own, regardless of how much they deserve what they get.

From everything I've seen and heard Mike Brown brought it on himself. Any person, regardless of race, who punches a cop, tries to steal his gun, and charges at him is going to get tased at the least and killed at the most. Unfortunately Ofc Wilson didn't have a Taser. That would've been a more appropriate usage of force against an unarmed man. But clearly the grand jury believes this is what happened and that it counts as legitimate fear and a legitimate and legal response.

The anger is not just over Mike Brown. This is where compassion and listening comes in. Unarmed Black men and women are killed and beaten with a disturbing regularity and have been for years. Even if it's a minority of interactions that end up this way it still exists and it exists disproportionately. History influences the current and means some people can't look at Mike Brown in a vacuum but rather the latest in a long long line of White police indiscretions. It's not unique to them btw, but it's the common reaction for minority populations with a history of persecution like Catholics in Northern Ireland, Turks in Germany, West Indians in England and on and on.

 

[Fatal Jay]

I'm still trying to figure out how your punching a cop, but yet the cop has no marks on his face

this is a white supremacy at it's finest, where people get rewarded for killing blacks.

calling blacks thugs is the new code word for being called the n-word. I know exactly how you feel because I feel the same about whites at this point.

it is inherently evil breeding inside the white race, just because of the color of someone skin or the fear you hold.

All over the world, the world is growing hatred for whites, you go to war with all these brown skin countries and think these people don't hate you for it.

You killed blacks, middle eastern, want to go to china, and hell even the Russians despise you.

 

[LiveFreeX]

This started as a Black on Chinese crime.

 

[FairShake]

Blacks are killing far more blacks in this country than police officers are.

This is true, and the Black community needs to address it better. However to shoot down accusations of police brutality by pointing out this fact is problematic in that:

1.) Black people who shoot Black people are pursued, caught, prosecuted, and jailed. There is no political power stopping it. Police who do so mostly are not.

2.) It's insulting to downplay the death of Black people in this manner just like when Leftists and other people around the world downplayed the murder of 3,000 Americans on 9/11 by saying "Americans are killing far more Americans in this country and terrorists are."

I see whites as being targeted by blacks, the MSM and even the executive branch of the US now.

I agree with this.

 

[VikingKing]

This is true, and the Black community needs to address it better. However to shoot down accusations of police brutality by pointing out this fact is problematic in that:

1.) Black people who shoot Black people are pursued, caught, prosecuted, and jailed. There is no political power stopping it. Police who do so mostly are not.

2.) It's insulting to downplay the death of Black people in this manner just like when Leftists and other people around the world downplayed the murder of 3,000 Americans on 9/11 by saying "Americans are killing far more Americans in this country and terrorists are."



I agree with this.

If they keep the focus on "white oppression" and falsely accusing the police officer of being a racist, the real issue of blacks killing each other will be ignored, and blacks will kill each other off.

There is no more white oppression, only self oppression.

 

[speed dawg]

I'm still trying to figure out how your punching a cop, but yet the cop has no marks on his face

this is a white supremacy at it's finest, where people get rewarded for killing blacks.

calling blacks thugs is the new code word for being called the n-word. I know exactly how you feel because I feel the same about whites at this point.

it is inherently evil breeding inside the white race, just because of the color of someone skin or the fear you hold.

All over the world, the world is growing hatred for whites, you go to war with all these brown skin countries and think these people don't hate you for it.

You killed blacks, middle eastern, want to go to china, and hell even the Russians despise you.

Lulz

 

[Peaks&Valleys]

I'm still trying to figure out how your punching a cop, but yet the cop has no marks on his face

this is a white supremacy at it's finest, where people get rewarded for killing blacks.

Hey, don't let a thing like facts get in the way of an opportunity to accuse people of being a racist or white supremecist!!

 

[speed dawg]

Hey, don't let a thing like facts get in the way of an opportunity to accuse people of being a racist or white supremecist!!

Ha, no doubt. I could not even come with anything to reply to him with, his post was so predictably ignorant. People like him see only what they want to see. They must stay angry. Fatal Jay is a lost cause, but at least he is predictable.

 

[speed dawg]

I know exactly how you feel because I feel the same about whites at this point.

Well when your emotion gets the best of you, and you just HAVE to go out and beat up or kill whitey, make sure it's a typical sh*t-lib millenial.

All over the world, the world is growing hatred for whites, you go to war with all these brown skin countries and think these people don't hate you for it.

I bet if you asked all these different people which neighborhood they would rather live in, Watts or Orange County, you'd find out real fast what race they hate. Which country is safer for a random Asian dude, Germany or Somalia?

You killed blacks, middle eastern, want to go to china, and hell even the Russians despise you.

Just curious, if any of these people came over here to conquer the US, you think they will spare you because you are black, meaning they hate you less?

 

[Fatal Jay]

Why wouldn't they when blacks haven't done a single thing to them, if you look at all wars that blacks was involved in for the U.S

the native americans didn't want to harm blacks, the Vietnamese people didn't want to hurt blacks, and also can be said the same about middle eastern, because they know at the end of the day who is the true evil in this world

and your logic about living in watts is idiotic, black people in the ghetto don't want to live in the ghetto you stupid f*ck

same was trailer park trash whites

 

[YawataNoKami]

There is a certain form of race politics being formulated and perpetuated mainly on the American left, generally speaking. In some cases, it can be a response to rhetoric on the right side of the political spectrum... but not always. In fact, it's not even strictly reacting to specific injustices in American society today. It has become self-perpetuating dogma which depends on the notion that there is an inherent, insidious, ever-present, crippling, stifling, ominous and pervasive specter of "White Racism/Privilege."

This colors how narratives are presented in the media and how people internalize information about certain scenarios. There are now unwritten rules about how these stories are covered - with racial prioritization and hierarchy. So, for example, if a black cop kills a black man in a particular scenario or confrontation, it can't be deemed "racism" so it is just labeled "police brutality." However, if the cop is White or non-Black, it is labeled racism. Thus, White men (which can include Latinos of dark complexion) are racists by default when there are specific scenarios in place. It is mostly binary at this point (Black and White). When it has to do with various other racial representatives, the coverage doesn't become a cultural flash point or major "issue." A Latino cop can kills a White man or a Native man and it doesn't blow up. It is found on page 3 in local news and then drops of the medias radar completely. A Black cop could kill anyone (of any race) and it would never be attributed to racism, ever. Race also trumps gender and other socio-economic issues in the current social climate.

This case is very similar to the Martin-Zimmerman coverage. Basically, a tri-racial man with a non-White phenotype and even Afro-Peruvian roots was deemed to be officially a "White man." For political expedience, and to further the expected narrative, that was his label.