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You will never convince an arm-chair-quarterback or someone who has never been in a life or death siutation.
Good. If that's what it takes to clean up this corrupt police culture. But you're just parroting a common RW talking point, playing with your emotions.
If you listen to the experiences of black people in the USA you will hear a dramatically different type of experience as a white person. Conservatism in the USA has a inherently biased perspective if you look at the lack of diversity in elected officials, to the lack of support republicans get from minorities. How minorities are treated in traffic stops in something that is widely recorded. Another example is prejudice from opportunity. Trump is known to have gotten into legal trouble by banning blacks from eating his units back in the 70's. This made him more attractive to white supremacists and conservatives.
Reminds me of when the GOP signed into law in Georgia the recent voter-repression bills, and that group was all white men with a picture of a slave plantation in the background.
Because requiring a voter ID is somehow racist. Being able to verify everyone’s vote is common sense. The real cheaters are the people yelling voter suppression when we have multiple weeks of voting, plenty of time to apply for absentee applications for a ballot or an ID. If people are unable to to this they shouldn’t be able to vote.
Are you serious? When one registers to vote for the first time, voter ID is required as no one is going to just take one's word for it.
Voter ID laws in 2016 had racist intent as numerous admissions by republicans that it would help them win elections. Today ID is accepted as the 4 years have given people time to get IDs as needed to vote. Now Republicans are trying other things by limiting poll access, requiring a photocopy of ID, setting times at polls unfavorable to those who can't take time off work during the day, etc. Don't forget the republicans in GA originally wanted to eliminate Sunday voting which would directly eliminate the Souls to the Polls events that black church goers do. They got massive pushback so instead made it optional for a county to offer Sunday voting. Note this isn't a guarantee of Sunday voting, just that a county has the option to open polls on Sunday. This was a compromise, but it has a direct and deliberate affect on black voters.
Just to let everyone know that the 2024 Presidential election will be November 5, 2024
Actually this is what republicans are counting on. But the problem is more systematic. To get an ID or license most states require specific documents, one of which is often a birth certificate. Trying to get these documents has been difficult and/or cost money that they just can't afford. This is why these ID laws have been deemed like a poll tax as there's a financial burden involved in being allowed to vote. In essence it doesn't matter that a person is as citizen and of age and qualified to cast votes, it matters that a person has ID. I wouldn't mind this if there was an exemption for those who could;t get ID for reasons outside of their control.
In 2016 a friend's 84 year old dad had no ID since he didn't drive and was retired, so had to get an ID to vote. They tried two days trying to get documents the state would accept but couldn't get it done. The guy was prevented from voting even though he had a history of voting. This was back in the Koback years when he claimed massive voter fraud. He prevented an estimated 10,500 citizens from voting. When he prosecuted fraud cases he only found 6. Five were people who believed they could vote in any county where they owned property, so just dumb folks. The one case was actual fraud. Koback never won an election in Kansas again.
You don't strike me as very objective, and what you claimed to be democrats being racist was your own imagination, not facts. So perhaps take your own advice.
Except for the fact that the new Georgia law is about much more than merely voter ID...
So then why do we give them less lethal options?
Recommend that everyone go ride with a cop on duty and see what kind of people (criminals) they have to deal with. It will change your mind.
Sure about that?
Yeah I’m sure about that
You have a funny sense of confidence. Even in the face of someone who has dealt with some crap from people. People have called me a piece of ****, an untrustable agent of the state, I've even been accused of kidnapping kids.
Some cops are jerks and are on a power trip, some corrupt as well, those need to be removed and shouldn’t be police officers. Not talking about those, was specifically talking about the young lady with the knife and the cops proper response.
Ride around for awhile and that's not likely to be a part of it. Ride around with a cop, chances are nothing that exciting happens. Sure, stuff happens, but they can cry me a river. They aren't they only ones who take crap for having the job they do (even in mental health it does sometimes happen that a clinician can be directly threatened by and in immediate danger of a client).