Columbus police fatally shoot 13-year-old boy carrying BB gun

The fact that his killers were not convicted [[and probably got their jobs back) and the killer of Akai Gurley was found guilty but sentenced to six months of house arrest and five years of probation, prove that the system is stacked. It encourages them to be overly aggressive, knowing that they will face minimal consequences for the spilling of blood.

As one person tweeted the other day, they could fix this if they wanted to. Look at how quickly they reacted to heroin once it made its way into the suburbs and affluent children started getting strung out. They still criminalize crack and meth users but are treating opioid abuse as a medical issue. If this was them getting killed [[news flash: a lot of poor White people suffer the same fate at the hands of cops, just not in the same numbers) then they would correct it in a heartbeat.

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The fact that his killers were not convicted [[and probably got their jobs back) and the killer of Akai Gurley was found guilty but sentenced to six months of house arrest and five years of probation, prove that the system is stacked. It encourages them to be overly aggressive, knowing that they will face minimal consequences for the spilling of blood.

As one person tweeted the other day, they could fix this if they wanted to. Look at how quickly they reacted to heroin once it made its way into the suburbs and affluent children started getting strung out. They still criminalize crack and meth users but are treating opioid abuse as a medical issue. If this was them getting killed [[news flash: a lot of poor White people suffer the same fate at the hands of cops, just not in the same numbers) then they would correct it in a heartbeat.

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The cop, Daniel Panteleo that strangled Eric Garner has been given raises and plenty of overtime since the killing:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-demotion.html

One of the cops, Kenneth Boss, that killed Amadou Diallo has been promoted:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.2467811

I wonder what happened to the cop who tackled James Blake after mistaking him for a fraud suspect? Is it now standard operating procedure to tackle people before arresting them? They apologized for it since it was on tape but they never explained why it was okay to violently take down someone before he knows what's going on. He wasn't resisting arrest because he didn't know that they were arresting him.

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Originally Posted by Jerry Oz

I wonder what happened to the cop who tackled James Blake after mistaking him for a fraud suspect? Is it now standard operating procedure to tackle people before arresting them? They apologized for it since it was on tape but they never explained why it was okay to violently take down someone before he knows what's going on. He wasn't resisting arrest because he didn't know that they were arresting him.

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Was he the guy they tackled on the NYC subway platform and then shot him in his back and killed him?

No, he's the former tennis star who was checking his cell while waiting for a ride. Some cop mistook him for a suspect in a fraud case and tackled him without even speaking to him. I'd think that such aggressive behavior would be reserved for people who resist arrest. Even if it was an honest mistake, the cop should have tried to arrest him without force. It turned out that the cop had a very long list of complaints raised against him but never received effective corrective action.

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Originally Posted by Jerry Oz

No, he's the former tennis star who was checking his cell while waiting for a ride. Some cop mistook him for a suspect in a fraud case and tackled him without even speaking to him. I'd think that such aggressive behavior would be reserved for people who resist arrest. Even if it was an honest mistake, the cop should have tried to arrest him without force. It turned out that the cop had a very long list of complaints raised against him but never received effective corrective action.

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Oh yeah I remember now. That happened in Mid-Town and he was standing in front of his hotel.

Killer Cops Get Rich More Than They Get Punished

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPspMFDteIQ

Well, the cops who killed Freddie Gray were treated like heroes at a right wing gala recently. They have them a standing ovation.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...g-ovation.html

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Well, the cops who killed Freddie Gray were treated like heroes at a right wing gala recently. They have them a standing ovation.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...g-ovation.html

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Incredible......incredibly warped that is. You mean we have people in this country today that celebrate those that took the life of a young man? Why are they heroes? Is it because they got away with it or that plus the fact that Freddie Gray was black?

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Incredible......incredibly warped that is. You mean we have people in this country today that celebrate those that took the life of a young man? Why are they heroes? Is it because they got away with it or that plus the fact that Freddie Gray was black?

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Both. If you watched the "debate" last night, you heard Trump say that in his world "law and order" would prevail. What's law and order? Being able to stop anybody on the street, detain him, and frisk him to see if he's breaking a law. Typically, stop and frisk is not done in the suburbs, just like drug sniffing dogs don't sniff all of those drugs in suburban cars and high school lockers.

Nope. They concentrate on Black men and although the rates of finding things is the same as with Whites, by checking us eight times more frequently means that we get arrested eight times as much. And that is why we have nearly as many people in prison as the overlords even though there are four times more of them in the population.

Of course, that can then be spinned into suggesting that Black people commit more criminal acts, so stopping and frisking us is justified. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. When ever you hear statistics about incarceration rates, ask yourself two questions:
1. Who is being investigated? Lord know that if they focused on Wall Street, things would balance out quickly. But they pop low level brothers [[most of whom deserve to be popped, but not all) instead of more influential and wealthy crooks because the latter can afford attorneys capable of getting them out of charges.
2. Where's the money? If there is ever an injustice and something seems "off", you can always trace it back to loot. Private prisons. Civil asset forfeitures [[Google that one). Preserving property values. It ALWAYS links back to money and there's a lot of loot to be made off of putting a third of us into jail when barely a fifth of us can go to college.