Darkoz, perhaps what you look at as plenty of good cops who have a history of racial profiling may actually, in fact, be a grudge. I cannot speak for what went on in the state of New York but in Massachusetts court-ordered state mandated laws required quota systems requiring one minority hired for every white that was hired in civil service jobs like police and firefighters. This went on for decades, and higher test scores were no longer relevant in the decision-making process. Until the percentages of minorities of the population itself were also an equal representation of the civil service jobs within the large cities the quota stayed in effect. Many white civil servants with better scores were often hired a year or two after others because of that quota system. How did they look at the situation? They most likely thought that they themselves had nothing to do with the early jim crow laws from their ancestors and that two wrongs do not make a right. Thus animosity developed.Originally Posted by Darkoz
Originally Posted by Bob21Thank you for posting Darkoz! That's hard to watch. It's interesting that both races were trying to get the cop to take the knee off George. There was a white girl constantly telling the cop to stop it. Even the store owner, who called the cops, came out to try to get the cops to stop. It almost seemed like the cops became more resistant, the more the people on the street were yelling at them.Originally Posted by Darkoz
My guess is the cops get yelled at by people on the street in these neighbors so often they almost become tone deaf to it. You got to remember the liberals have made these places hellholes, so everybody - cops and civilians - have become insensitive to each other in these areas. It's hard for most of us to understand, because we don't live there and encounter this kind of stuff on almost a daily basis.
And just like we have laws to deal with civilians who commit crimes, we have laws to deal with this. I still don't take an isolated case by a cop doing something wrong and type cast all cops. The stats still show cops are at a much greater risk of being killed by blacks, than the other way around. Why don't liberals care about all the cops who've been killed by criminals. Where is that outrage?
I do think it's interesting that when cops do bad things they are convicted by the liberal media immediately, and you'll never hear the media say "innocent until proven guilty". But when there is footage of a criminal committing a crime, the media immediately comes to their defense, saying remember he's "innocent until proven guilty".
However the protests are about a long history of minorities being treated as suspicious. NYC had a "stop and frisk" policy where officers could stop you simply because you looked suspicious (ie you didn't have to be observed committing a crime). Problem was they saw black people as suspicious so 80% of the stops were for black people just walking down the street.
I myself am a white male, mother of my children is black and I have two mixed kids.
One day I came home from the airport to my single unit home and saw my teenage son against the wall being frisked. I asked what was going on. They informed me they were looking for drugs because he was observed standing suspiciously in front of the building.
That's my son waiting for his father to arrive home so I could let him in!!! Imagine if you came home to your son being frisked because it was suspicious he was in front of his own house?
That is not the only story of cops doing racist things. I have seen a lot. My son has been stopped and frisked over a dozen times while I have never been stopped and frisked. BTW my son is a college graduate with an art and engineering degree. He has no criminal record. He gets stopped for one reason. He's black
that constant treatment can only lead to mistrust and anger.
There are plenty of good cops but they have a history of racial profiling. They kinds brought this on themselves
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