What About Black Lives Matter?
For two years the protest movement called "Black Lives Matter" has caused demonstrations all around the nation. It was triggered by the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO in August of '14. It holds that racist police are the greatest threat to young black men. This has triggered riots, and the murder or attempted murder of police and an attempt to eliminate grand juries when police use lethal force.
The U.S. Justice Department has completely disproven that Brown was merely a Gentle Giant and was shot in cold blood while trying to surrender. Even though it was shown that Brown had just stolen from and intimidated a store owner and was charging at the officer who shot him, and had attempted to get the officer's gun, he is venerated as a martyr.As a result, officers are backing off in the face of the hatred which is relentlessly directed at them on the street and in the media. As a result, violent crime is on the rise. The question becomes do the police pose the greatest threat to young black men? Or is it the far greater threat of black-on-black crime?
The U.S. Justice Department has completely disproven that Brown was merely a Gentle Giant and was shot in cold blood while trying to surrender. Even though it was shown that Brown had just stolen from and intimidated a store owner and was charging at the officer who shot him, and had attempted to get the officer's gun, he is venerated as a martyr.As a result, officers are backing off in the face of the hatred which is relentlessly directed at them on the street and in the media. As a result, violent crime is on the rise. The question becomes do the police pose the greatest threat to young black men? Or is it the far greater threat of black-on-black crime?
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I would do whatever I needed to do to protect myself, and that would include killing the offender without losing a minute of sleep over it.
I am not suggesting that any of the current non lethal methods are as effective as blowing holes through the bodies of perps. BUT, it would seem that some research into more effective non lethal methods might result in fewer lethal shootings and the legal and political fallout from them.
My assessment of police shootings is totally non scientific, and probably the result of media attention. It makes me just not want to be around police, however. They advertise they are there to protect and serve, but it just seems they are they are to give out tickets and arrest people walking down the street and find laws that the people are violating (victimless crimes like possessing weed, or selling oranges on the streetcorner).
The cops seem to be cash registers for the cities and counties, especially when the fines go to the very agencies that pay for the police. Its crooked and should be stopped.
Until you find yourself in a confrontation with a dangerous criminal and have to make a decision to do anything to stop him or face death or injury, you can't possibly claim how much kinder and gentler you would be. As to the "less than lethal" solution, there are numerous incidents of tasers having no effect on violent offenders, and people dying from rubber bullets, so the technology is unreliable at best.
I've known enough good cops to verify the bad ones are a rare exception in the profession. The media always promotes and inflates the most outrageous incidents, and rarely do the acts of courage and compassion get much attention beyond local news.
My comment was a suggestion that we as a people find non-lethal but equally effective ways of stopping a dangerous situation than using guns.
The problem with guns is the legal consequences that follow their use. God forbid you killed a black person today who threatened you. What if you only wounded them and then had to pay them huge sums to compensate them. Plus the hassle of dealing with it all.
If there was some sort of better technological solution that would stop the threatening behavior, but left them permanently unhurt and you free of court proceedings, it would be a better solution so long as it was effective.
And the government trying to "help" the poor is indeed the biggest cause. Stop subsidizing single mothers to breed, and they'll stop breeding to "earn" a living.
Just a note that none of the violence and riots are grass roots. They are all started by paid agitators. The community wants peace and Police protection.
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