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okay?
again, at the 1:50 mark in the link *you* posted. she states the cop never asked if he was armed, didnt know he had a gun, until *philando* told him. you still on pain meds, man?
"The gun never came out, it could never be a threat. He didn't ask about it, he didn't know it was on his person," Diamond Reynolds said in an exclusive interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."
okay?
again, at the 1:50 mark in the link *you* posted. she states the cop never asked if he was armed, didnt know he had a gun, until *philando* told him. you still on pain meds, man?
nope. She said both. First she said they told him, then she said the cop didn't know he had a gun.
Bottom line is if the cop told him to keep his hands in sight and he dropped them towards the gun the shoot was justified even if it was a big mistake.
I'm looking forward to the dash cam and audio being released.
YOU'RE RIGHT, maybe she was in on the whole thing.
This conversation is pointless Trill.
Every single time you are going to assume the cops are racist and out to kill innocent blacks and every single time I am going to assume the cops were innocent until they are proven guilty.
Is that what you think I was suggesting?
At least 1/3 of the jail deaths occurred in the first 3 days of being locked up.
No, but I have always thought it was bull when people second guess other people's reactions to a tragedy involving a loved one.
RIP Deravis
Atlanta cop fired after shooting black man dead in botched car theft investigation
the Atlanta Police Department identified the officer fired for fatally shooting a 22-year-old black man, WXIA-TV reported.
The department determined that James Burns used excessive force when he shot and killed Deravis Rogers last month. Burns was asked to investigate an alleged auto break-in at a local apartment complex when he saw Rogers driving away from him and fired, hitting him in the head. But according to WXIA, there was no indication that Rogers, who was unarmed, had either broken into or stolen any vehicle.
that Burns was notified by an off-duty officer working security at the complex.
Officials said Burns’ actions violated policy because there was no indication that he was in any danger at the time. However, they added that race was not a factor in the incident because Burns “had no idea” who he was shooting at.
“The officer simply acted in a way that we cannot support,” said a spokesperson, Sgt. Warren Pickard. “He had no idea who was in the vehicle, he had no idea if that was the vehicle he should be concerned with, he just discharged his weapon.”
He should be charged with murder.
Funny that your post was ignored.
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A recently released Harvard study suggests there’s no racial bias in police shootings.
The study—which was released on Monday in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of two black males and five Dallas, Texas police officers—is said by the author to be “the most surprising result” of his career, according to Lifezette.
Roland G. Fryer Jr., the African American author of the study and a Harvard economics professor, examined shootings and use of force incidents in 10 major police department in Texas and Florida, as well as the Los Angeles Police Department.
"In the most extreme use of force--officer involved shootings--we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account," the report's abstract states.
"We cannot reject the null of no discrimination in officer-involved shootings," the study goes on to report, though it earlier warns that there are "several important caveats" with its results.
"First, all but one dataset was provided by a select group of police departments. It is possible that these departments only supplied the data because they are either enlightened or were not concerned about what the analysis would reveal. In essence, this is equivalent to analyzing labor market discrimination on a set of firms willing to supply a researcher with their Human Resources data!"
Blacks and whites were equally likely to have been carrying a weapon, and the study found police didn’t use racial bias to dictate whether or not they shot. The study did find, however, that police were more likely to use other forms of force, such as pepper spray, the use of hands, and pointing their weapons, on black civilians.
"It is plausible that racial differences in lower level uses of force are simply a distraction and movements such as Black Lives Matter should seek solutions within their own communities rather than changing the behaviors of police and other external forces," the conclusion states.
Fryer, who was troubled by the shooting deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, launched the study to better understand what was really “going on when it comes to racial differences in police use of force”.
After focusing on Houston specifically, Fryer also found that officers were nearly 24 percent less likely to shoot if the suspects were black as opposed to white. Examining the timing of the shootings and the number of bullets discharged revealed "no detectable racial differences."
"You know, protesting is not my thing," Fryer said. "But data is my thing. So I decided that I was going to collect a bunch of data and try to understand what really is going on when it comes to racial differences in police use of force."
welp, another lawsuit on the way
Don't you think all of that could've easily been avoided?
yup, cop should have just asked for an ID
"What's your name?"
"Uh...........Patrick?"
Smh
Probably just because he was black.
but his name was, patrick
how about, "may i see your license?
why did the cops lie and say they asked for a license 4 X
but his name was, patrick
how about, "may i see your license?
why did the cops lie and say they asked for a license 4 X
I didn't say the cop did nothing wrong, but a little common sense would've kept that dude from being tased.
So you don't think knitters should be scared less, panic even, when multiple cops come after you at your house?
Why the increase in number of Texans shot by police?
The number of people who die while being arrested by a Texas law-enforcement officer nearly doubled between 2005 and 2015, according to data compiled by the Dallas Morning News, with police shootings accounting for nearly all of the increase. For context, the total number of arrests over the same period declined by 20 percent, so not only are more people being shot, more are being shot per police encounter. An extraordinarily pregnant Brandi Grissom reported that:
More than half of the deaths from 2005 to 2015, 511 cases, were considered justifiable homicides, instances in which police used deadly force on a suspect because they feared for their own lives or the lives of others. And those numbers have been rising, from 32 justifiable homicides in 2005, to 61 in 2014 and 54 last year.
The bottom DMN graphic at right depicts the leading causes of deaths in police custody, with a significant e in deaths that agencies reported as "justifiable homicides."
Charley Wilkison, executive director of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, attributed the rise in violent confrontations largely to increasingly aggressive suspects who refuse to cooperate with officers.
Officers are “facing a new kind of lawlessness,” he said, “a sense that police are not necessarily on the side of the public that’s being broadcast far and wide.”
The only problem with Charley's analysis is its utter falsity. Far from a "new kind of lawlessness," crime in America has declined overall since 2005 and police are safer on the job today than they've been in many decades.
The folks who collect your garbage are much more likely to die on the job. Indeed, the recent tragedy in Dallas makes it easy to forget that most on-the-job police deaths stem from traffic accidents, exacerbated by an officer culture that disdains seat belt use.
To the extent the increase does represent a meaningful trend, however, let's hypothesize other possible causes.
Could increased militarization of law enforcement equipment and training have anything to do with it? Military tactics have migrated to even the most common points of interaction with the "non-criminal suspect" population - traffic stops and event security.
One recalls that Round Rock PD officers used "Points of Domination" techniques adapted from military methods when removing Slade Sullivan from his pickup face-first, resulting in his paralysis and ultimately his death. How widespread are such tactics and to what extent have they contributed to deaths in custody (besides Sullivan's)? ¿Quien sabe?
In a related development, might hiring preferences for Iraq and Afghan war veterans have infused law enforcement with new, young officers schooled in military approaches and conditioned by training and combat experience to shoot more quickly than perhaps is appropriate in peacetime settings?
Another thought: Could pro-police sentiments among the public after 9/11 have shielded police from accountability in ways that discouraged criticism or discipline of bad cops?
Or, here's one I seldom hear discussed:
Perhaps increased access to criminal history records contributed to the trend? One of the biggest changes to front-end policing in the last ten years has been expanded access to real-time criminal history data.
A police officer who pulled someone over at a traffic stop 15 years ago might assume a driver was guilty of nothing other than running a stop sign or driving 50 in a 40. Today, that officer may know before they even get out of the car whether a driver has a prior criminal record. And that knowledge could influence how they approach the stop, making them more prone to be nervous and jumpy.
Texas has dinged millions of people with criminal convictions in recent decades.
The vast majority are otherwise indistinguishable from anyone else until the moment the officer runs their plates or their checks their drivers licenses. Has that added knowledge needlessly amped up some encounters? It would only take a few to explain these data.
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.co...xans-shot.html
Ok, that one is extremely ed up. I hope this guy sues and becomes a millionaire.
all these vids are ed up, totally indefensible. I suppose Tamir Rice's murder, Freddy Gray's broken back, Eric Garner watched as he gurgled to death, etc, etc, etc are not ed up?
No they're not. A lot of them are frauds.
holyyou racists
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