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Re: No Indictment in Chokehold Death
I think so.
The bottom line for me is that I think we're WAY too race-conscious in this society, and when I see stories like this one on the news I tend to react negatively toward it.
Some people, particularly in the liberal media and among black community leaders, look at any arrest made by a white police officer on a black man as a racial incident. We've seen a string of these stories in the media lately, and, frankly, it's been questionable whether the officers even did anything wrong at all.
I'm not saying police brutality, or police abusing their power isn't a problem. It most certainly is. I'm not even saying that blacks don't get unfairly profiled and harassed by white officers. I don't doubt that happens. I am just saying that these specific incidents aren't the best examples.
But maybe that's me seeing things through the eyes of a white man, that's where I come from.
The only fact I know for sure is this: white cops beat up blacks, black cops beat up whites, whites commit crimes against blacks, and blacks commit crimes against whites.
What seems disingenuous to me is that you only ever hear one side of the story.... you only ever hear about the white cops that target black men, or the white teens that do some hate crime against black teens. You never hear the other side, even though it happens just as often.
When I was researching this stuff, I ran across a youtube video of a large black cop who runs up out of nowhere and knees a white teen in the back, knocks him down, then proceeds to pummel him while yelling "move so I can beat your ass." Apparently the kid was skateboarding somewhere he wasn't supposed to, and he got lippy with the cop. Why wasn't THAT video on CNN? Why wasn't the race angle of the "knockout game" played up more in the media?
I just grow cynical of the agenda. If it's racial one way, then it's racial both ways. Both races have some bad eggs, sometimes they're cops, sometimes they're criminals. The sooner we all realize that and stop defending a bad person just because they share our skin color, the better off we'll all be IMO.
I heard on a news report that he died of compression to the neck area and I think his back, as it compressed his chest area. Cause of death. The report didn't say heart attack caused his death. But maybe the coroner found that it was the compression that caused the heart attack and so was the cause of death. Not sure. The coroner's report is probably on the internet somewhere.
Compression may not be the same thing as "suffocation," which is the word you use. I didn't hear "suffocation" being used by the coroner. But maybe it's just semantics.
I think so.
The bottom line for me is that I think we're WAY too race-conscious in this society, and when I see stories like this one on the news I tend to react negatively toward it.
Some people, particularly in the liberal media and among black community leaders, look at any arrest made by a white police officer on a black man as a racial incident. We've seen a string of these stories in the media lately, and, frankly, it's been questionable whether the officers even did anything wrong at all.
I'm not saying police brutality, or police abusing their power isn't a problem. It most certainly is. I'm not even saying that blacks don't get unfairly profiled and harassed by white officers. I don't doubt that happens. I am just saying that these specific incidents aren't the best examples.
But maybe that's me seeing things through the eyes of a white man, that's where I come from.
The only fact I know for sure is this: white cops beat up blacks, black cops beat up whites, whites commit crimes against blacks, and blacks commit crimes against whites.
What seems disingenuous to me is that you only ever hear one side of the story.... you only ever hear about the white cops that target black men, or the white teens that do some hate crime against black teens. You never hear the other side, even though it happens just as often.
When I was researching this stuff, I ran across a youtube video of a large black cop who runs up out of nowhere and knees a white teen in the back, knocks him down, then proceeds to pummel him while yelling "move so I can beat your ass." Apparently the kid was skateboarding somewhere he wasn't supposed to, and he got lippy with the cop. Why wasn't THAT video on CNN? Why wasn't the race angle of the "knockout game" played up more in the media?
I just grow cynical of the agenda. If it's racial one way, then it's racial both ways. Both races have some bad eggs, sometimes they're cops, sometimes they're criminals. The sooner we all realize that and stop defending a bad person just because they share our skin color, the better off we'll all be IMO.