We are heading towards an Idiocracy!

[Premmy]

HAW HAW HAW I GOT A BINGO

[Dual Destiny]

You've proven nothing up to this point. You have no credibility and no validity to the accusation. Former Modship gives you neither and the corruption of your obvious bias only hinders what little credibility you might have had by actually engaging in a discussion. There was no racism to point out in the first place. Nothing I said violates forum rules or falls under any definition of the word racism.

Continually calling me a racist won't make the it true. If popular belief worked like that, then religion would be undeniably true instead of based entirely on faith, the Earth would be flat and civilization would have crumbled ages ago from all of the sin.

Go on and continue to mock and deride me. You've done nothing up till now but defeat your own claims by refusing to back them up.

[pochercoaster]

One black man is killed every 28 hours by cops, security, or self-appointed vigilantes.

While African-Americans constitute 13.1% of the nation's population, they make up nearly 40% of the prison population. Even though African-Americans use or sell drugs about the same rate as whites, they are 2.8 to 5.5 times more likely to be arrested for drugs than whites. Black offenders also receive longer sentences compared to whites. Most offenders are in prison for nonviolent drug offenses.

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Police recruitment, training, policies, and overall racism within society conditions police (and many other people) to assume black people are violent to begin with. This leads to police overacting in situations involving African-American suspects. It also explains why so many police claimed the black suspect "looked suspicious" or "thought they had a gun". Johannes Mehserle, the white BART police officer who shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant in January 2009, claimed Grant had a gun, even though Grant was subdued to the ground by other officers.

Of the 313 killings, the report found that 275 of them or 88% were cases of excessive force. Only 8% were not considered excessive as they involved cases were suspects shot at, wounded, or killed a police and/or others. Additionally, 4% were situations were the facts surrounding the killing were "unclear or sparsely reported". The vast majority of the time, police officers, security guards, or armed vigilantes who extrajudicially kill black people escape accountability.

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The adoption of military tactics, equipment, training, and weapons leads to law enforcement adopting a war-like mentality. They come to view themselves as soldiers fighting against a foreign enemy rather police protecting a community. Nick Pastore, a former Police Chief of New Haven, Connecticut from 1990 to 1997, turned down military equipment that was offered to him. "I turned it all down, because it feeds a mind-set that you're not a police officer serving a community, you're a soldier at war," he told the New York Times. He said "tough-guy cops" in his department pushed for "bigger and more hardware" and "used to say, 'It's a war out there.'" Pastore added, "If you think everyone who uses drugs is the enemy, then you're more likely to declare war on the people." Mix this war-like mentality with already existing societal anti-black racism and the result is deadly. Black people, who, by default, are assumed to be criminals because of their skin color, become the victims of routine police violence.

The fact that a black person is killed by a police officer, security guard, or vigilante every 28 hours (or less) is no random act of nature. It is the inevitable result of institutional racism and militaristic tactics and thinking within America's domestic security apparatus.

Community violence does not correlate to police violence; that is, police choose to be violent.

Among this larger statistical breakdown of police violence, Campaign Zero also discovered that there is no direct correlation between police violence and violence that occurs within a given community

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“This myth that people have created that community violence is the cause of police violence is absolutely false,” said Brittany Packnett, another member of Campaign Zero’s planning team, who also sat on Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s (D) Ferguson Commission. “This is an issue of policy, of accountability and of culture inside of departments.”

Law enforcement officers have killed at least 1,152 people since January 1, according to Campaign Zero’s report. The data also found that police departments in America’s 60 largest cities were responsible for around 25 percent of these deaths and that black people accounted for 41 percent of those killed, despite only comprising 20 percent of the population in those jurisdictions. In addition, 14 of these departments only killed black people this year, while five jurisdictions solely killed white people.

Mapping police violence.

[shiney]

Are we talking about Philando Castile? The guy that was pulled over because he looked like someone else? The guy who had a felony? Who had a gun and wasn't suppose to? Who was told not to reach for anything and did so anyway and got blasted? Maybe I'm getting my incidents mixed up.

I live 3 miles from where Philando died. It was outside an entrance to the Minnesota State Fair, across the street from the University test farm fields. I see his memorial at least 5 times a week if not more. It's still there, untouched, and nobody has torn it down.

Your character assassination of Philando says all I need. It doesn't matter what his past held because the cop was not privy to a single thing about that when he pulled the man over. Also, driving while black should not be grounds for "fit the description".

I'm not happy about the big pile-on from everyone, but it was richly deserved. Take care.

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Token

the correct term is "cotton picking" dd not cherry picking

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Token again.

.

[shiney]

Like, we don't need someone like that who only recently came back and immediately started stirring shit up. I don't appreciate the disingenuous arguments, the needless hostility, or the general behavior.

[POS Industries]

Good work, literally the entire forum community.

You never let me down.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Dunno why you gotta lie like that POS.

[POS Industries]

What if I added "today" at the end?

[Token]

You'd still be full of shit.