I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.

I know the thread has taken a different turn, but this relates to the original topic... and it happened five days before Ferguson.

If this was posted previously, my apologies.

http://www.news-record.com/news/demand-for-probe-into-greensboro-arrest-caught-on-video/article_952c87b4-2812-11e4-a7e9-0017a43b2370.html

 

And relating more closely to the direction this thread has taken.

http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2014/08/ferguson-missouri-is-not-strong-town.html

 

If it has a discriminatory effect - I'm talking about a scenario where there's a two-tiered minimum wage.

 

They weren't really in the road, but when they moved, it was to move "closer to the curb" -- not even all the way over to the curb.

Sounds to me like they were in the middle of the road.

 

Definitely worth beating the shit out of somebody for that.

 

Then why is there a higher poverty rate among African-Americans and Native Americans than among whites?

Of course race is a factor.

 

I didn't say that, and the video doesn't show it.

But, if you're walking in the middle of the street, I'd think you can expect a passing cop to tell you to move to the curb.

And, if instead of moving to the curb, you instead curse him out, you're inviting a longer interaction with the cop, and have escalated the situation.

 

It was Big Mike's fatal mistake, right?

 

Their fault for being shiftless.

 

Why? Prove it.

Based on your post, I could accuse you of thinking blacks are "shiftless" or have a lesser DNA.

More African-Americans are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. Even if you want to trace the origins of this all the way back to slavery, it doesn't mean that the inability to get out of this cycle 150 years later is due to slavery or race.

Are poor whites or Native Americans better at escaping this cycle?

Shouldn't that be the number we look at to determine if race is a factor?

 

What else could it be then?

 

Wasn't it?

Without choosing sides, or knowing all the details of what happened, isn't that just a fact? If he had followed Eugene Robinson's advice, or that of the cop who wrote the column, wouldn't he be alive?

(Was is Robinson who wrote the "Conversation" column in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin killing?)