The left is more about liberal arts, which is fiction and politics. This is different from math and science, which is about reality. If you look at the police data, from the POV of a scientist, and not from the POV of a liberal artist writing a story, it appears that the racist claim against the police is not consistent with the data.
If the police were driven by pure racism, then black women would be attacked as much as black men. To be fully racist, skin color alone, according to the Democrats, regardless of sex and age would be the trigger. However, this is not the case. There appears to be no large police data set connected to police assault on black women of any age. On the other hand, there are way more white and latino men shot and beat up by police, than black women being shot or beat up. This is not racist, rather the data says sexist. Democrats are running a scam to hide the police sexism they have instituted.
If you recall, not too long ago, the Progressive tried to portray men as brutes, rapists and Neanderthals. This characterization appears to have permeated the leftist cities and created parallel police policies. Now after screwing things up, there is the cover up and distraction.
This whole BLM thing is mis-directed. Last time I searched
for statistics, 95% of the victims were men. And the movement
entirely ignores the greater number of white men murdered by
cops.
For example....
It's a much bigger problem than racism.
Note that Freddie Gray's killers included black cops.
The whole system is rotten through & through....
Recruitment, training, job conduct, departmental corruption, criminal
court corruption, civil court corruption, & media treatment of cops.
What both of you have missed is
fear.
The OP is, to me, trying to talk around the truth. Racism is about ignorance and fear. We fear what we don’t understand, and for most, when we don’t understand something and fear that thing.....we destroy that thing.
Cops are not afraid of black (or any race) women. They are afraid of black men. Many white people admit to fearing a black man who gets on the elevator with them alone. Or when passing on the street, etc.... To be fair, many blacks report the same feeling when near whites.
As to
@Revoltingest post. Truly, when I watched that video, I knew that man would be shot. The cop was acquitted and all experts in the field who reviewed the video agreed with the officer. All of them.
Even this recent shooting of a black man (still alive at the hospital) will likely be declared justified, even though it has already resulted in rioting with 2 more people shot.
In both situations the person is ordered by an armed officer with gun drawn, to not move. Do not reach anywhere I cannot see your hand. Yet both “victims” went out of their way to do exactly the opposite. The man in the hall reached to his right back hip, while the man outside, ignored the officer, walked away, opened the car door and reached in. *bang* bang*bang*.
The officers are trained (rightly so) to expect the other person to be reaching for a gun. Period.
So. Should they just let the person reach back and see if they produce a *BANG*.
Too late. The officer is dead and his 3 children will never see their father again, because some doped up ****head couldn’t follow a few simple commands and figured (correctly) that he could kill an officer before getting shot.
That’s what you’d like to see?
Both of these seem justifiable.
That said. Yes, much of police training needs to be overhauled. The weapons that they have available should be reviewed and much taken away. Yes, there are many examples on tape of excess police brutality and racism that is in no way justifiable.
But please never forget that these men and women in blue are faced with wartime combat situations wherein a split second means they die there and then. If they give you an order, like they did to the man in the hallway of
@Revoltingest video, then they are fearing for their own life, and taking whatever actions are needed to be alive to see their own families at the end of that day.
Most of the officers who die each year are not ambushed, or in a SWAT situation. Many are just in the process of cuffing a suspect, more are pulling people over for drunk driving, or responding to a domestic violence call.
