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[OtterbatHellcat]

New thread topic......


What is Gmans time worth?

Too soon?

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[Gman]

Tree Fitty...

Sold!

[Bailey Guns]

Every journey begins with the first step. And the first step to fixing things is to make the shortcoming apparent.

And if that step is in the wrong direction it's counter-productive to completing the journey. Rioting and protesting, often based on an untrue media narrative isn't the answer.

There is no doubt that police (typically justifiably) are twitchy and prone to pulling a gun during a stop.

Uh...yes, there is some doubt. I would venture to say the total number of police contacts during a given day where a gun is drawn by an officer is probably statistically insignificant in relation to the total number of contacts.

And there has been a LOT of exposure to the public the past few years where said occurances lead to people (more often than not black) being shot to death.

Yeah...we hear about it all the time. We also see with our own eyes many rushing to judgment before the truth comes out. "Hands up, don't shoot" NEVER happened. It was a lie. A lie that has spawned countless riots and demonstrations all over the country.

From the Bureau of Justice Statistics Police-Public Contact Survey (based on a 2016 sample of 70,000 respondents):

Total number of police contacts in a year: Black men - 17.5%, White men - 20.7%
Average number of contacts by race: Black men - .32%, White men - .35%
Number of multiple contacts with police in a year: Black men - 1.5%, White men - 1.2%
Contacts resulting in use of force (force of any type): Black men - .6%, White men - .2% (The National Crime Victimization Survey suggests Black men were 3 times more likely than White men to commit violent crimes)

Again, sometimes this is justified. But there are also times where there's question as to whether or not that force was justified, such as Philando Castille, a man who was law abiding and polite with the cops right up until he was shot in the chest in the passenger seat of his car. And rarely does the officer involved see a courtroom so that they may be judged by a jury of their peers.

I find it ironic you're trying to make a point about officers not being charged in a shooting and you chose to highlight a case where the officer WAS charged with murder in a shooting...and then acquitted by a jury.

There are many reasons officers don't get charged. I'll concede that officer convictions for murder/manslaughter may be unusual in shootings but they ALWAYS get investigated. Just recently, according to CNN (you know...the highly partisan, conservative, anti-black/pro-white news source), there have been officers on trial for murder in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and South Carolina.

Needless to say I strongly disagree with your conclusions and your point of view. As a matter of fact, if anyone (as a group) is responsible for the racial tensions going on in the country right now I'd have to say it's more the fault of Blacks than Whites. Of course that's only my opinion based on what I see.

[OtterbatHellcat]

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