And this whiny ass poster says I must be white, as if that has anything to do with what happened.
Particularly in cases where they can't see what they're facing.
Our personal perspectives are so dramatically different than the police officer. We know we're innocent, but they have to assume the worst, or they get shot. Especially in areas with high crime, high levels of gang activity, stolen gun possession, etc. etc.
I am well above middle class thank you very much. 100% self made as well. I already posted my age, so that was easy. Do you consider someone with significant hebrew and native american blood white? just checking. Come to vegas, we'll have a beer. You will see I'm not the devil you think I am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRKtflyhuec
Lotta videos of situations where there is "ZERO reasons to pull a gun". And these guys were suspected of traffic violations at the point they were pulled over.
A man washing windows on the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel building in downtown Milwaukee was shot yesterday when a drive-by gunman missed the parked car he was shooting at:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/c...ice/642951001/
Sounds like white guilt to me. On a technical argument, no one is self made. For intents of the term as it applies today....I came from nothing and achieved the Dream. Never handed a big education. Never handed a job. Never handed a thing. I had a good mother, that was worth everything to me.
Being perfectly judicious with the state's monopoly of force when milliseconds matter is not a great job for hairless apes to have to do. By whatever rational one can conceive of a legitimate police force, taking this fact into account will mean they must have considerable leeway for their situational judgement. There will always be comparable situations where one cop will use force while another tolerates more personal risk to deescalate the situation completely. This makes it tempting to move the goalposts on cops, expecting typical duty to include heroics and attributing the lesser outcome to officer prejudice.
Only if you tell me the airspeed on an unladen swallow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liIlW-ovx0Y
Don't forget the capital of Assyria
About a year ago there was a local Mke news story about an aide who struck a special needs child. One of the other special needs children had a cell phone out and was rolling, this being a Milwaukee public school, so we got to see the aide losing her temper and striking the boy. In the earliest reports you saw the whole thing. The aide was angry and frustrated and the students were being loud and disrespectful. She suddenly backhanded the boy, but it was clear that she pulled the punch, as it were. Think of the dad hitting John Travolta in the hair at the dinner table in Saturday Night Fever. It was a "What's the matter with you?" smack. [At this point I interject to say that the aide should have been fired. Violence is unacceptable in the classroom, and even such a minor smack as the one the aide delivered represents a failure in temperament that must not be tolerated or excused.] But the television stations, sensing their story about classroom violence was being undercut by the cellphone video's portrayal of the aide's "Leave it to Beaver" level of pugilism, began editing the video to pause at the moment of impact. This is the moment the student flinched and just before the aide's hand began to draw back. Eureka! Much more violenter!
Alas, the aide was black so the story lacked legs, and I doubt anyone even got paid by the MMSD, though there was some quick lawyering up. That doctored video would have been a pretty big deal had it been a white aide. Dang it.