Running racism in America thread

A proud white supremacist works as an EMT. On white power podcasts, he's bragged about "torturing" Blacks he was treating. Oh, and the ambulance service that employs him is named for JEB Stuart.

White Supremacist EMT In Virginia Cleared Of Any Wrongdoing By State Investigation | HuffPost

 

Leaked Video Exposes George Floyd's Death As Tragedy And Race Hoax Used To Divide Us

 

I’m not clicking that.

 

A big dose of empathy and patience training would help.

I don't want to condemn the cops too much in that video, but, c'mon. The fuck are the kids handcuffed for? Because they were squirming around and getting emotional?

Yes, we live in a culture that embraces sheer display of emotion as a solvency mechanism - it rarely solves anything - but those are the times we live in. People are freaked out by the police right now. They're not stoic and understanding. Just the opposite! So stops have to be conducted with some understanding that it will not be a 9-minute stop that maximizes efficiency and doesn't irritate cops. People will get emotional. Emotions do not immediately respond to your pedantic command to move a foot, a hand, to stop crying, or whatever. There's no rule that says police work must be efficient. I can't think of any other way this situation happens or the Elijah death happens if the cops were just a little more fucking patient.

In the recently released Floyd videos, impatience - basic, irritable, come-on-let's-go-I'm-annoyed impatience - starts a domino chain that leads to a true monster, Chauvin, showing up and killing the guy. If the initial Minneapolis cops on the scene had waited, say, five more minutes, just waited out whatever moment Floyd was going through with the drugs and the paranoia and the immediate certitude of death, Floyd is likely still alive. It's not clear why the first cops are in such a big hurry...probably because they're annoyed cops in a big hurry.

And if you want to point to something about policing that does need to change - that must change - it's probably that above all. Cops have to learn to stop acting like annoyed, late-for-work dads, as if the world exists to do whatever a cops says in the three seconds after he says it, and start acting like they work for the person they're arresting. Because, they do. They don't just work for the people whom don't get caught breaking the law.

 

Did John T Reed write that?

 

They've got five kids from 7 to 17, at least three of them handcuffed, belly down on the asphalt in July/August. Jaysus. No excuse for that.

 

This is it in a nutshell. The public needs to demand that the police administrators/overseerers/supervisors pull back the lens and say the following needs to stop IMMEDIATELY:

sleeping dude in car to 50 shots;
expired car registration to unarmed killing of occupant;
jaywalker to shot to death;
unarmed person in car to killed on street; or
butter knife wielding mentally unstable person to shot 60 times and killed.

The escalation simply because the cops don't like the "disrespect" needs to stop.

 

Not to mention loose cigarette or alleged fake $20 to knee on throat.

 

Hell, let’s go back a couple of decades in Miami and add “motorcyclist pops a wheelie and is beaten to death.”