I'm not sure how you think he is completely missing anything other than you don't agree with what he stated. I'm not sure I totally agree with blindly obeying all law enforcement. Seems it would kind of depend if they were trampling on my constitutional rights or not. As this story isn't clear everything that happened that led up to the shooting........I will wait till it call comes out.
"Blindly" following law enforcement is what you do when the cops are telling you things like, "sit down" or "stay in the car" or "don't punch me."
If you think that the police have "trampled your constitutional rights," then talk to a lawyer. Your method involves a battle in the streets, which leads to people getting shot, which leads to dumb people doing dumb things.
Go to court for **** sake. Our entire goddamn system is built on protecting rights through a process, not lighting a car on fire or grappling with police. You want to know the one process referenced more than any other in the bill of rights? The process of going to court to assert or defend your rights.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans are now so woefully ignorant of the Constitution and the process for protecting rights that scuffling in the street is seen as a valid alternative.
It's not. Seriously, the country is 130 years removed from gunfights in the street to assert or protect rights, and now we have a bunch of people, you included it seems, that want to return to that way of doing things.
So, only black males resist arrest......or they are mostly the ones resisting arrest? No defense for resisting.......yes, it can be taken up with the judge and I know several people that have had the charges thrown out because of what the cop called "resisting"
First off, why don't you tell me the last time cities burned and businesses were looted because of what happened to a white guy during an arrest. Oh, none. So I focus on the actual issue, not a make-believe, i.e., anybody other than black suspects getting injured, shot. If and when cities burn, businesses are looted, citizens are attacked and killed, because of the arrest of a white guy, let me know.
Or do you want to argue fictional situations instead? Okay, sure. When I flap my arms and fly, I need a loose-fitting tee shirt. How about you?
Second, you talk about people you know who went to somewhere and had rights vindicated. A parking lot for a brawl? A boxing ring? A cage match? Huh, seems like somewhere else. Let me see ... nope, can't think of anywhere else to resolve these issues. Wait, did one of the participants wear a robe? Like this?
Why can't police be criticized? Are they above this? The population at large isn't looking at criminals as victims. Of course the media is feeding this to the public that way and certain people are lapping it up on both sides. Again, only black males ignore "commands" from the police? Them being glorified for it is your opinion. Most black people aren't glorifying those types of actions.
Some key black leaders commenting well after the rioting, burning and looting started:
“When the fires were burning, and people were chanting, I just felt liberated for a brief moment, and I felt for one of the only times in my life that the government had no control over me," said [BLM leader] Newsome.
“You look at the protests and that was a far more representative cross-section of America out on the streets peacefully protesting who felt moved to do something because the instance they had seen injustice,” Obama said. “That didn’t exist in the 1960s, that kind of broad coalition.”
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MadMax: "We talked about this state of mind and atmosphere people find themselves in. Then on top of that, you get this very, very unsettling display of a police officer using the power of that gun and that badge to literally kill somebody in plain daylight with people watching and begging him to stop, on top of all of what we’ve been experiencing in last few months: Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, then that incident with what they call Karen [Amy Cooper calling the police on Christian Cooper in Central Park in late May]; the first thing I thought about that was Emmett Till, and all these stories of white women who have accused men of being sexually aggressive and been hung and been killed. The stories of blacks incorporate that story; and we all learn very early on, it’s talked about a lot in the black community. There is all of that frustration, and yes, we remember what happened to Eric Garner who died from a choke hold, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and on and on and on."
"So you have young people who have decided that they’re just not gonna take it anymore, and it’s not just young blacks. It’s young whites deciding to defy their mothers and fathers and families to be out in these streets. That’s telling us something — that it’s not only black people fed up with the police Establishment."
I said it before and I will say it again..........both sides acted stupidly, and this probably did not need to end with this guy getting shot in the back in front of his kids. One can think that the guy shouldn't have fought and went to the car, as well as question the cops actions and how they handled it and if it could have been handled better.
Oh for **** sake, any situation where somebody ended up dead "could have been handled better."
I am going out on a limb here and say you have never lived a day in your life where you could not have done something better. Neither have I.
But these Monday morning QB comments about how cops should do this or do that or wait to see what they guy takes out of the car or should have tackled him (they tried) or should have tazed him (they did) and all the rest are the tinder for the fires now burning across America. You of course have ******* right to criticize and say basically anything you want, but maybe you should think about whether or not because you can do something means that you should.
You and a ton of others are certainly comfortable heaping disdain on cops. You are front-and-center as to what the cop did wrong.
While sitting at a computer, comfortable, protected by those police - until you're not because the hatred directed at police, the violence they face every day, the risk of injury or death, of being in a wheelchair at age 45, of now being prosecuted, means a whole lot less very good people who wanted to be cops are no longer going to be cops.
Finally, if you think BLM gives a flying **** about anything other than destroying police and then getting paid billions for mob protection - the modern, government and media-backed Cosa Nostra - you are not living in reality.
