Running racism in America thread

No, if we write down policies it will look like the police are doing it. That’s much better than actually act like a follower of Jesus and be a human being.

 

I don’t recall your answer in May. I’ll have to look it up.

I’m insincere. Got it. Anyone can judge my posts over the years for what they are and are not.

You presume you’re only acting the way you do toward me. I’d disagree.

 

Insincerity is just about the last thing Alma can be accused of.

 

I'm not presuming anything.

And I didn't say you were insincere.

Your repetitious questions are.

 

One of my favorite exchanges from a high school wrestling match: coach to ref - that’s a stupid call. Ref to coach - did you just call me stupid?
Coach to ref: I didn’t call you stupid, stupid. I said your call was stupid, stupid.
The ref didn’t get it, so he probably was stupid.
Full disclosure, I wasn’t there. Story relayed to me by joe zedalis, the legendary scholastic writer at the Asbury park press. I think he works for advance media or the star ledger now.

 

Wasn't sure of the best thread for this.

Settlement for Breonna Taylor's killing.

No charges or arrests. Six months.

 

Now fired.

Rochester Mayor Fires Police Chief and Suspends Two City Officials Over Daniel Prude's Death

 

Joe Friday is WOKE!

 

Officials in Rochester, N.Y., tried to withhold information about Daniel Prude’s death, documents show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/15/daniel-prude-death-documents/

Law enforcement and other officials in Rochester, N.Y., worked for months to withhold information about the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man whom police hooded and pinned to the ground in a graphic video that has drawn a national outcry, documents show.

Prude’s family has accused authorities of a coverup amid growing fallout from the case, one of the latest to spark outrage over police treatment of Black Americans. Rochester Mayor Lovely A. Warren fired the city’s police chief Monday after an internal investigation concluded that police commanders and city officials did not take Prude’s death seriously enough and may have sought to mislead the public. Prude, who was detained by police March 23, died a week later. A medical examiner ruled his death a homicide caused by “complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint.”

The documents, which the city released Monday, capture repeated attempts by officials to prevent the full picture of Prude’s death from getting out — with authorities’ citing an ongoing investigation and privacy laws among their justifications — as they worried about a public backlash in a climate of growing scrutiny of police.

“We certainly do not want people to misinterpret the officers’ actions and conflate this incident with any recent killings of unarmed Black men by law enforcement nationally,” Deputy Police Chief Mark Simmons wrote to Chief La’Ron Singletary in June as protests over the death of George Floyd swept the country. “That would simply be a false narrative, and could create animosity and potentially violent blowback in this community as a result.”

Singletary wrote back about 20 minutes later: “I totally agree.”


shocked, etc.

 

heroes

 

This is classic case of incidents where police don't need to be anywhere near the situation. A guy who a danger only to himself, not armed. Send trained crisis intervention experts, people who are mental-health experts, etc., to situations such as this. If there's a domestic issue that involves violence, but not weapons, send the cops but keep them well back until people who know how to defuse situations get a chance to do their thing.
Plus, quit letting police departments in Bumfuck, Georgia buy surplus military-grade weapons, uniforms, tac gear and vehicles. There's a reason we don't let the military police the country but when we let police departments buy that shit and strut around like Special Forces wanna-bes, that's exactly what you get, but worse. For one thing, they don't get one-tenth the training the military does with that kind of hardware/weapons, etc., if they get any training at all.