Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread

[neil999]

"Hey everyone, let's stop perceived police brutality - by brutally executing the police!"

It's idiotic and tragic...but, I'm surprised it hasn't happened earlier

Be a backlash from the police next probably followed by riots, awful

 

[Tubey]

It's idiotic and tragic...but, I'm surprised it hasn't happened earlier

Be a backlash from the police next probably followed by riots, awful

Again, they'll consider this a race issue - but if the idiots didn't have bloody assault weapons it doesn't happen.

Nothing will change either. It's a tragedy - they're all actually 'stupiding' themselves to death.

 

[BlueLlama]

Just numbing the levels of hatred and stupidity displayed here. How do they think murdering officers who nave nothing to do with any race incidents will help the situation? As well as taking 6 lives you have just made every cop in the country's trigger finger even itchier.

All lives matter you utterly pointless murderers,

 

[neil999]

Just numbing the levels of hatred and stupidity displayed here. How do they think murdering officers who nave nothing to do with any race incidents will help the situation? As well as taking 6 lives you have just made every cop in the country's trigger finger even itchier.

All lives matter you utterly pointless murderers,

Angry mad people with access to guns

 

[anton66]

So having a tail light out on your car can lead to you being shot.

 

[matty1878]

Until they tighten gun laws and police/ people interacting rightly it's going to keep happening.

 

[hullefc]

It was only a matter of time before this happened. As it was only a matter of time before there was a 'Black Panther' movement that developed in the 1960s.

 

[Moomin]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Just numbing the levels of hatred and stupidity displayed here. How do they think murdering officers who nave nothing to do with any race incidents will help the situation? As well as taking 6 lives you have just made every cop in the country's trigger finger even itchier.

All lives matter you utterly pointless murderers,

We can around in circles here, if police didn't execute unarmed people, then they wouldn't been compelled to seek revenge.

It's called a vicious circle mate.

 

[zirc]

Again, they'll consider this a race issue - but if the idiots didn't have bloody assault weapons it doesn't happen.

Nothing will change either. It's a tragedy - they're all actually 'stupiding' themselves to death.

If more people had guns this wouldn't have happened, an armed society is a polite society.

F,ing absolute mentalists, the lot of them.

 

[Tubey]

We can around in circles here, if police didn't execute unarmed people, then they wouldn't been compelled to seek revenge.

It's called a vicious circle mate.

The key is social equality and greater access to opportunity. Blacks are killed more often as they are involved in more crime generally due to lesser education and wealth.

That then results in police assuming the worst when coming across them during an incident and reacting twitchier than they otherwise would.

It is a vicious circle, but it's helped to be so by people crying out "the police are racist" instead of looking at the deeper seated reasons for the way society is in America - namely prolific availability of guns, and social inequality.

 

[WycombeToffee]

The key is social equality and greater access to opportunity. Blacks are killed more often as they are involved in more crime generally due to lesser education and wealth.

That then results in police assuming the worst when coming across them during an incident and reacting twitchier than they otherwise would.

It is a vicious circle, but it's helped to be so by people crying out "the police are racist" instead of looking at the deeper seated reasons for the way society is in America - namely prolific availability of guns, and social inequality.

This has been my view all along, but it just gets dismissed. The police aren't "racist". They do kill proportionally more blacks than whites, but that is because the crime/incarceration rate amongst African-American communities is 5x higher. You're most likely to be shot during an arrest, which explains this trend.

Furthermore, twice as many whites are killed by police than black people (numerically), but we never hear about it because there aren't violent protests/riots connected with it. It is publication bias. Look up a guy called Dillon Taylor, shot by a black cop with his headphones in. No-one has heard of him or multiple other white victims because it isn't really a big story. There aren't campaign groups and violence associated with them. Making it into a race issue just exacerbates the situation. It is a problem with poor training of police officers and wide availability of guns, complemented by nervousness whilst doing their job (because of events like these). As a result, a small proportion of cops are trigger happy.

 

[Steve0]

"Hey everyone, let's stop perceived police brutality - by brutally executing the police!"

Not supporting their actions buuuuut if this makes a few cops think, "hey he's on the floor, three cops are leanin on him, he's unarmed....let's not kill him!" Then maybe it's worth it the long run.

The truly amazing thing about this is that it hadn't happened sooner.

 

[Steve0]

This has been my view all along, but it just gets dismissed. The police aren't "racist". They do kill proportionally more blacks than whites, but that is because the crime/incarceration rate amongst African-American communities is 5x higher. You're most likely to be shot during an arrest, which explains this trend.

Furthermore, twice as many whites are killed by police than black people (numerically), but we never hear about it because there aren't violent protests/riots connected with it. It is publication bias. Look up a guy called Dillon Taylor, shot by a black cop with his headphones in. No-one has heard of him or multiple other white victims because it isn't really a big story. There aren't campaign groups and violence associated with them. Making it into a race issue just exacerbates the situation. It is a problem with poor training of police officers and wide availability of guns, complemented by nervousness whilst doing their job (because of events like these). As a result, a small proportion of cops are trigger happy.

When white rapists get lesser sentences than black marijuana users then there's probably an element of racism in the legal system.

 

[Tubey]

Not supporting their actions buuuuut if this makes a few cops think, "hey he's on the floor, three cops are leanin on him, he's unarmed....let's not kill him!" Then maybe it's worth it the long run.

The truly amazing thing about this is that it hadn't happened sooner.

That's not how they'll think - if anything, they'll shoot quicker now to further ensure their own safety. This will be perceived as blacks declaring war on the police.