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DorthyDandridgeEyesHudson Hongo
7/06/16 12:27am
This is exactly what Jesse Williams was talking about smh people out here trying to get him fired for a “racist” speech but cops are out here killing us. I’m crying right now because I’m so frustrated! Why don’t people believe us?? Are we not human? Do we not bleed just like everyone else??
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  HighCharityDorthyDandridgeEyes
  7/06/16 12:30am
  Nope. Statistically you bleed more :(
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  BobbySeriousDorthyDandridgeEyes
  7/06/16 12:38am
  A few hundred years of the white man teaching their kids that dark people are dangerous, violent animals has had its effect. While things are obviously better today than they have been in the past, the white man’s fear of the black man still permeates our society.
  
  As such, a sizable portion of the white ruling class is just fine with the police being overly aggressive with dark people, even occasionally killing a few innocent ones, if it means keeping them and their communities in line.
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PoodletimeHudson Hongo
7/06/16 12:27am
Jesus Hoverboarding Christ! How many more times do we have to see this?While the guy is pinned to the ground, the cop shot him multiple times in the chest at point-blank range? WTF?

When does this end? The policy wonks and computer people and policy analysts and consultants have got to come up with some way to deliver consequences to these cops so that they refrain from killing our citizens at the drop of a hat. Certainly, any natural sense of responsibility, humanity, or rectitude is not going to stop this. That has been made clear.

We’ve to to find a way to deliver consequences to these cops so that they have a stronger, a strong-enough disincentive to murder members of the citizenry. Damn.
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  Mary-GracePoodletime
  7/06/16 12:36am
  There’s got to be a way to screen out these types of people before they become cops, right? And then continue screening at frequent intervals to weed out the ones who have fallen into the Stanford Prison Experiment mentality.
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  dgstanMary-Grace
  7/06/16 12:39am
  I kinda think that the only people who want to be cops are these types of people. It doesn’t pay well, so there has to be another reason to do it. Maybe they really want to help people. Maybe they want to lord over them.
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HakeemTheDreamHudson Hongo
7/06/16 12:27am
America: where everyone should have a gun until someone has one, then we have to shoot him for having a gun.
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  chubbhughesHakeemTheDream
  7/06/16 12:36am
  Fuck 😞
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  GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHakeemTheDream
  7/06/16 12:37am
  This applies even more to black and brown people, it must be specified. Plenty of white people with guns are reasoned with. You’re even suspected of having a gun while black, and it means death much more often.
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jrfunkensteinHudson Hongo
7/06/16 2:29am
‘...police say both officers’ body cameras fell off during the confrontation, but at least one dash camera and one surveillance camera recorded the incident..’

Oh...so BOTH police body cameras just happened to ‘fall off’ and become utterly useless, while the dash cam and surveillance cam just happened to catch the action by sheer dumb luck?

Not buying it.
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  CasualCrabjrfunkenstein
  7/06/16 3:25am
  You think a body cam is bolted on an officers body? It clips on their fucking shirt dumbass. Of course it's going to fall off during a fight.
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  jrfunkensteinCasualCrab
  7/06/16 4:20am
  They’re designed to be stationary and functional under a remarkable variety of circumstances, yet manage to be found ‘malfunctioning’ or simply not activated at an increasingly suspicious rate, which may explain why police unions have long fought adopting them as standard law enforcement tools and why most major US cities and their PD’s STILL don’t employ them, Dumbass;
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-b…
  
  ‘Americans overwhelmingly support equipping police officers with body cameras. Police reform advocates and law enforcement officials say such cameras can deter cops from using unnecessary force and protect them from false abuse complaints. But in most major cities, you’re still not likely to run into a cop wearing a body cam.
  
  The Huffington Post analyzed police departments in 27 large U.S. cities and found that only two — Albuquerque and New Orleans — have finished equipping their officers with body cameras. Most are waiting for funding, comparing different devices or testing the use of cameras with a small portion of their officers.’
  
  http://www.ibtimes.com/what-happens-w…
  
  ‘“Just as courts often instruct the jury to presume that intentionally destroyed evidence was unfavorable to the party destroying it,” he wrote in a May report, “so they could instruct juries to presume that a gap in video footage of a police confrontation is unfavorable to a police officer who has turned off a body-worn camera or dashcam, unless that officer can supply a justification for turning off the camera.”
  
  Interestingly, shortly after last year’s shooting, an independent Louisiana review of police-worn body cameras in New Orleans looked at how often police were actually using the cameras. They found that “out of 145 ‘use of force events’ logged ... only 49 reports clearly indicated the event had been recorded.” In other words, police were wearing the body cameras — but they weren’t turning them on.’
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RealAmurricanHudson Hongo
7/06/16 12:28am
Why the hell do we give officers 24 hours before they’re interviewed? They are uniquely equipped to handle a police interview. Why are they afforded that opportunity when no one else is? If it makes their interviews more accurate, why wouldn’t that apply to anyone else?

I’m having an impossible time coming up with any reason other than an opportunity to ‘get their story straight’.
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  Mary-GraceRealAmurrican
  7/06/16 12:30am
  Although 24 hours is plenty of time to get your stories straight, in Louisiana they get 30 days.
  
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  RealAmurricanMary-Grace
  7/06/16 12:30am
  I saw that - although the police spokesperson said that they would be interviewing these two officers within 24 hours. It’s insanity.
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Emily_8361Hudson Hongo
7/06/16 12:39am
Can we please finally get some moderating of the blatantly racist comments. God the trolls move quickly.
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  DorthyDandridgeEyesEmily_8361
  7/06/16 1:23am
  I am flagging all of them I have zero tolerance for bs
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  DeebauchEmily_8361
  7/06/16 1:29am
  Also hoping people use the power of the dismiss button rather than responding to fuckheaded cop apologist replies.
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BobbySeriousHudson Hongo
7/06/16 12:23am
What exactly do these cops learn in training?
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  Last Burner, I SwearBobbySerious
  7/06/16 12:25am
  What training?
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  NorbsBobbySerious
  7/06/16 12:25am
  “Stop resisting!” *unload into target dummy*
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potahhhtoHudson Hongo
7/06/16 12:48am
In the seven year period from 2004-2011, 2718 police killings led to only 41 indictments, and of those, only 11 convictions.

This year police have killed 558 people, most of them black or native American.

Police officers even in training simulations are more likely to shoot black ‘suspects’ than white.

In 2015, 100 police killings were done by officers who had previously shot someone.

Law enforcement is a broken, racist mess.
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  Ole Slew Footpotahhhto
  7/06/16 1:57am
  fuck the 261 white’s killed by cops am i rite?
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  That offends me!potahhhto
  7/06/16 2:00am
  I look forward to your post when you add up the amount of people killed by Muslims, in the name of Islam, in the past few years, and then close with “Islam is a broken mess.” I know I’m punching a brick wall here and I’ll eventually give up, but the willingness to label groups on here is nuts. It’s just as bad as idiots who blame an entire religion, or an entire political party, etc.
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Skipping along to our shared destructionHudson Hongo
7/06/16 7:37am
Once again, why do we need police?

To keep order, we’re told. That we’re a simmering cauldron of imminent criminality and anti-social behaviors. That without this ever more militarized and heavy blue barrier society would simply crumble. That we need to be kept in line.

The only order they are keeping is the established one.
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  ANDOVA BEGARINSkipping along to our shared destruction
  7/06/16 12:13pm
  This is out and out murder, but your take is insane. It's equivalent to asking why we need laws.
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  Skipping along to our shared destructionANDOVA BEGARIN
  7/06/16 12:35pm
  Naw, I think there are other ways. I don’t think an omnipresent force is helping.
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HypnoCatHudson Hongo
7/06/16 12:31am
“Police say both officers’ body cameras fell off during the confrontation”

Funny how that happens.
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  qdanielsHypnoCat
  7/06/16 12:45am
  Yeah, I didn’t know what to make out of that detail other than Hmmm. There was a report on the radio that said the body cams were operating but “dangling” from the officers’ uniforms at the time because of the physical confrontation. So at this point I guess there’s no way to know if those body cams will show much of anything, or at least anything that will make sense or show what happened in any coherent manner. I don’t know what the store’s surveillance video (I assume the surveillance video was the convenience store’s?) will show. But if this cell phone video didn’t exist, there’s no telling how this story would be being reported.
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  thethinwhitedukeqdaniels
  7/06/16 1:31am
  They confiscated the store video immediately after the shooting.
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