Eric Holder once asserted that we are a nation of cowards when it comes to talking about race. White-guilt wieners insist along with the race-hustlers that we must listen to black voices. But who are the real cowards when it comes to such discussions, and who is it who is not truly listening?
For years we've been hearing those black voices tell us all sorts of things with regard to why they're so downtrodden. For years we've been told it is the white people and their privilege that is the cause. Yet, where's the evidence? If we're to listen, why can we not question what we're told?
I think it's clear that for the most part, what is said is mostly a matter of what is perceived to be true rather than what is. Yet when we speak in response, when will the other side listen? It seems they don't want to. Here's an example:
Recently, Drew Brees reiterated his position that kneeling during the national anthem is something he can't support, that it is disrespectful to the flag. The response to this is that it's not about the flag. OK. But it is about the nation for which it stands, and the original kneeler who so much provoked the current "conversation" we're "too cowardly" to have said otherwise:
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
Clearly, it's about the flag and the nation for which it stands. Or isn't it? I guess when people say it's about the flag, then it no longer is. In any case, we hear what he's saying, and what he's saying is crap. No one is oppressing black people and people of color. Oh wait!!! Let me insert the caveat here: "Sure, there are still racists and always will be." There. Got that crap out of the way...as if it's in any way supportive of the "America is racist" bullshit!
To finish up the true objection to kneeling during anthems, it continues like this: Football (or whatever professional sport) is the job. The team owner, as well as the league, is the employer. The people in the stands and watching on TV are the customers. See where I'm going with this?
---No one comes to a game to see some schmuck protest, nor are they concerned with whatever it is he's protesting. It's not the time for it. Those that think one shouldn't get upset with a brief protest like kneeling during the anthem, that it's not too much to ask for one to be allowed to do so, can pound sand up their ass. How about if I show up to your birthday party and start preaching, or get up on a soapbox and pontificate about this, that or the other? It's not the time or place and regardless of my sincere concerns about whatever the hell it is that bothers me, it would be appropriate to be told to shut the hell up and keep it to myself for another more appropriate time.
---The right to protest does not give one liberty to protest absolutely anywhere at any time. The Constitutional right to free speech refers to that which critiques the government, and as such, the appropriate place to protest is at the local governmental office, like the city, state or federal capitol. Not a freakin' football game, concert or awards show. At those venues, no one cares.
---Asshat professional athletes have money enough to pay for other methods of expressing their ignorance and falsehoods, as well as legitimate grievances. They can form organizations to foment unrest and the perpetuation of falsehoods or they can contribute their big bucks to already formed organizations that are already doing that.
---Asshat professional athletes and entertainers can use some of that wealth they've accumulated by being citizens of such a depraved, oppressive and racist nation to learn a few facts, study the issue and get educated before the open their big mouths and prove just how freakin' stupid they are.
Our own false-priest turd, feo, tried to post an off-topic comment which was a quote from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:
""So, maybe the black community's main concern right now isn't whether
protesters are standing three or six feet apart or whether a few
desperate souls steal some T-shirts or even set a police station on
fire, but whether their sons, husbands, brothers and fathers will be
murdered by cops or wannabe cops just for going on a walk, a jog, a
drive."
Another stupid man, because this is exactly the lie believed by so many as if they need to do so in order to be in the club. Those who don't abide it are "Oreos", "House niggers", "Uncle Toms". Cops do NOT go around murdering black people, and they certainly don't do so "just for going on a walk, a jog, a drive". It's patent nonsense put forth as true, and it is no more than an excuse for other issues. "He only stopped me because I'm black."
Here's the thing: Because of such asinine assertions, white people, by and large, go WAY, WAY, WAY the hell out of their way to avoid giving any impression that they're racist. (Even racists likely do so!) But it's fruitless to make such an effort. Assholes will continue to accuse just as one of them, feo, does constantly. Yet it shows how much effort is already been put forth by most white people...that is, the vast majority of them. Some even go so far as to stupidly apologize for it despite never personally exhibiting any sign or symptom of a racist nature. OH, the assholes will say, YOU don't even KNOW you're racist. Very convenient. Very much a lie told by liars.
So this is the beginning of my conversation on race. There will most definitely be more to come. And we will see how it's not really a conversation they want. It's something far more insidious.
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You’re on the outside of sanity, screaming.
“‘Now is the time’: London’s Black Lives Matter rally looks like a turning point.
Many of those protesting about George Floyd’s death believe demands for racial justice now have a new and unstoppable urgency.
It was always likely that the months of lockdown would demand some kind of emotional catharsis. You imagined it would involve the usual British excesses of lager and sunshine. In fact, in the past week its primary expression has been a coming together of mostly young people in our cities under the banner of Black Lives Matter.
On Saturday, in by far the largest of the week’s demonstrations in London, many thousands crammed shoulder to shoulder in Parliament Square in the blustery rain and edged their way forwards toward St James’s Park. On Friday, police and government ministers had warned that such a crowd was not only unlawful but certainly dangerous with the virus still being transmitted from person to person.
As well as looking like the premature end of a shutdown spring in the capital, the protest also felt very much like the beginning of something; not a one-off outpouring of rage against the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis 12 days ago, but a sustainable expression of the need for change.”
“ North America: Large crowds have gathered in cities across Canada and in Mexico's capital, Mexico City. Protesters waved placards with the words "No justice! No peace!", "I can't breathe" and "Black lives matter".
South America: Big crowds took to the streets of Brazil's second largest city Rio de Janerio and Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires.
Europe: The European Union said it was "shocked and appalled" by the death of Floyd, calling it "an abuse of power" and warned against further excessive use of force. Thousands protested across several European cities, including Berlin, London and Amsterdam, defying coronavirus bans.
Africa: Sizable protests were held in Nigeria and Kenya. The African Union issued a strongly worded statement condemning the killing of Floyd. US embassies in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe also issued statements of concern over Floyd's death.
Middle East: Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv, Haifa and East Jerusalem demanding "Justice for George" and "Justice for Eyad" an unarmed, autistic Palestinian man killed by Israeli police.
Asia-Pacific: Rallies were held in several cities across Australia and New Zealand”
“ The U.S. Marine Corps on Friday issued detailed directives about removing and banning public displays of the Confederate battle flag at Marine installations — an order that extended to such items as mugs, posters and bumper stickers.
“Current events are a stark reminder that it is not enough for us to remove symbols that cause division — rather, we also must strive to eliminate division itself,” the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David H. Berger, said in a statement on Wednesday.
As protests across the United States have erupted over police brutality, pressure has grown on officials to remove monuments and flags seen as symbols of racism.
Dozens of statues were removed after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, and protesters demonstrating over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, are targeting some that remain.”
Ah, of course. The false priest shows up to post other people's words with no citation as he is without brains or understanding to argue against what I've written. But this time, instead of deleting his unattributed quotations, I'll simply shred them. From the top:
"You’re on the outside of sanity, screaming."
Nice projection, troll. Clearly the screaming is done by protesters pretending we're a racist nation. Indeed, their violent actions prove it is they who are on the outside of sanity. Their apologists try to insist there's some justification for looting, burning and assaulting. Even if their lies were true, that would not justify throwing a tantrum on those who are just going about their lives, many of whom are black people, too.
As to the rest of that comment, why in the HELL would anyone in the UK protest what happened here? Is the UK going to pass a law we'll have to obey? What asinine bullshit is that? Clearly, there's BLM agitators stirring things up there and spreading their lies internationally now. They have no evidence of what they say.
Regarding the false priest diaper stain's second comment:
When I need to give a crap about how the rest of the world views my country, that'll be the freakin' day. Which of these countries is as pure as the driven snow? Any of them have perfect governments, police departments, etc.? No. Talk about planks in eyes!!!
The whole world buying into the BLM lies don't make them true, except for false priest and fake Christians.
Regarding the ignorant troll's third comment:
How sad for our nation that high ranking members of our military are so spineless as to appease whiners in our nation. Clearly the "listen" admonition is a one-way street. It doesn't matter that military members of our southern states can't be proud of their heritage without asshats wetting themselves that their expressions are racist. I've lived in Illinois all my life and I feel like flying a Confederate flag because I plan to move south in a couple of years and it will make lefty heads explode.
Actually, I oppose flying that flag because I'm a citizen of what used to be the UNITED States of America, not the Confederate States of America. Democrats tried to divide us back then, and they're still trying to do so today. Here's the irony: they're still doing it over race!
"As protests across the United States have erupted over police brutality, pressure has grown on officials to remove monuments and flags seen as symbols of racism."
What's racism got to do with police brutality? Answer: the race-hustlers want us to believe it only happens to black people. They want us to believe that when it happens to them, each alleged case of it was cops brutalizing some innocent black dude who was doing nothing more criminal than minding his own business. They want us to ignore how often white people, are victims of wrongful deaths at the hands of police or other forms of brutality.
And worse, they want us to believe IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!!!!
It's. Just. Not. True. None of it is.
I've no doubt feo the false priest will crap out more bits that don't make the case. It's what he does.
Four plainclothes NYPD officers from what was known as the Street Crimes Unit at the time said they thought Diallo was a rape suspect, and that when they approached, they thought he was a firing a gun at them.
The four officers fired 41 shots, hitting Diallo 19 times as he stood in the doorway of his own home on Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx.
The 23-year-old's body was riddled with bullets. He even had a bullet hole in the bottom of his foot. Diallo didn't have a weapon, only a wallet.
NYPD officers approached Eric Garner on July 17 on suspicion of selling single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps. After Garner told the police that he was tired of being harassed and that he was not selling cigarettes, the officers attempted to arrest Garner. When Pantaleo placed his hands on Garner, Garner pulled his arms away. Pantaleo then placed his arm around Garner's neck and wrestled him to the ground. With multiple officers pinning him down, Garner repeated the words "I can't breathe" 11 times while lying face down on the sidewalk. After Garner lost consciousness, officers turned him onto his side to ease his breathing. Garner remained lying on the sidewalk for seven minutes while the officers waited for an ambulance to arrive. Garner was pronounced dead at an area hospital approximately one hour later.
New York City agreed on Tuesday to pay the family and friends of Sean Bell $7 million, four years after police officers shot and killed the 23-year-old black man the night before his wedding day. Bell’s two children will receive $3.25 million and the remaining $3 million will go to Bell’s friend Joseph Guzman, Bell’s friend who was also injured that night. Trent Benefield will get $900,000.
The New York Times reports that the wrongful death lawsuit also accused the NYPD of negligence, assault and civil rights violations. Five police officers were involved in the incident on November 26, 2006, that left Bell dead and injured two of his friends.
Bell was leaving a club in Queens the night before his wedding when NYPD officer Gescard Isadora thought he heard Bell and his friends refer to a gun in their possession. He alerted his fellow officers after Bell’s car hit an unmarked police car, and within seconds officers shot 50 bullets at Bell’s car. Three detectives who shot Bell were acquitted by a judge in 2008. The other two officers involved did not face criminal charges. Bell and his friends did not have a gun with them.
Police brutality is expensive. It’s tough to convict cops of misconduct in court, but city settlements for police misconduct is not uncommon. In the last three years, Detroit has spent over $19 million to settle police misconduct lawsuits. Between 2008 and July of this year, Newark paid $1.7 million to the victims of police misconduct. New York City already settled $35.2 million worth of lawsuits for police abuse in 2009 alone.
Insofar as payouts represent an acknowledgment of some culpability, they remain one of the only ways to wrest some justice from the courts for misbehaving cops. Still, it’s little comfort for families who’ve lost loved ones to police, when no amount of money will ever return their dead sons and fathers to them.
Sandra Bland was a 28-year-old African American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a pretextual traffic stop. Her death was ruled a suicide. It was followed by protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence against her.
Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation on July 10 by State Trooper Brian Encinia. The exchange escalated, resulting in Bland's arrest and charge for assaulting a police officer. The arrest was partially recorded by Encinia's dashcam, a bystander's cell phone, and Bland's own cell phone. After authorities reviewed the dashcam footage, Encinia was placed on administrative leave for failing to follow proper traffic stop procedures. Texas authorities and the FBIconducted an investigation into Bland's death and determined the Waller County jail did not follow required policies, including time checks on inmates and ensuring that employees had completed required mental health training.
In December 2015, a grand jurydeclined to indict the county sheriff and jail staff for a felony relating to Bland's death. The following month, Encinia was indicted for perjury for making false statements about the circumstances surrounding Bland's arrest and he was subsequently fired by the Texas Department of Public Safety. In September 2016, Bland's mother settled a wrongful deathlawsuit against the county jail and police department for $1.9 million and some procedural changes. In June 2017, the perjury charge against Encinia was dropped in return for his agreement to permanently end his law enforcement career.
On November 22, 2014, Tamir Rice, a 12-year old African-American boy, was killed in Cleveland, Ohio by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old police officer. Rice was carrying a replica toy Airsoft gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
Blacks Are the Main Victims of Lawlessness
Among the nation’s most dangerous cities are Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Memphis, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Newark, Cleveland, and Philadelphia. These once-thriving cities are in steep decline.
What these cities have in common is that they have large black populations. Also, they have been run by Democrats for nearly a half-century, with blacks having significant political power. Other characteristics these cities share are poorly performing and unsafe schools, poor quality city services, and declining populations.
Each year, more than 7,000 blacks are murdered. That’s a number greater than white and Hispanic murder victims combined. Blacks of all ages are killed at six times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined.
According to the FBI, the police kill about 400 people a year; blacks are roughly one-third of that number. In Chicago alone, so far this year, over 2,000 people have been shot, leaving over 320 dead. It’s a similar tale of mayhem in other predominantly black cities. …
The primary victims of lawlessness are black people. To address this problem and most others, black people should ignore the liberal agenda. If civil authorities will not do their job of creating a safe environment, then black people should take the initiative. ...
Black residents of crime-infested neighborhoods should set up patrols—armed if necessary—to challenge thugs, gangs, drug dealers, and other miscreants, and make black neighborhoods safe and respectable.
No one should have to live in daily fear for his life and safety. Most Americans have no idea of—and wouldn’t begin to tolerate—the climate of fear and intimidation under which so many black people live.
Without self-initiative, there is not much that can be done about the high crime rate in black neighborhoods. Black and white liberals and their allies in the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as many libertarians, will not countenance the kind of tools needed to bring about civility. …
Black people have the capacity to run the criminals out of their neighborhoods. Let me put the issue another way. Suppose it were the Ku Klux Klan riding through black neighborhoods, murdering 7,000 blacks year after year. How many black people would be willing to wait for the Klansmen to behave themselves or accept political promises and wait for a government program?
Walter E. Williams, “The Primary Victims of Lawlessness Are Black People”
When the political left wants to help the black community, they usually want to help the worst elements in that community -- thugs they portray as martyrs, for example -- without the slightest regard for the negative effect this can have on the lives of the majority of decent black people.
Thomas Sowell, Random Thoughts, 12/30/14
Within the African-American populace, BLACKS and NIGGERS will forever be oppositional segments. BLACKS are the cream of the crop, upwardly mobile, productive, taxpaying, law-abiding, assets to society who characteristically don’t subscribe to the NIGGER subculture. Whereas NIGGERS are the dysfunctional, counterproductive, non-contributing, law-breaking, liabilities to society, who personify the negative stereotypes that plague the entire African-American community.
Taleeb Starkes, The Un-Civil War: Blacks vs Niggers, p.41. (Starkes is a black man)
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old African American man, was stopped while driving and fatally shot by Jeronimo Yanez, a 28-year-old Hispanic-American police officer from St. Anthony, Minnesota.
Castile was driving with his partner Diamond Reynolds and her four-year-old daughter when at 9:00 p.m. their vehicle was pulled over by Yanez and another officer in Falcon Heights, a suburb of Saint Paul, Minnesota. After being asked for his license and registration, Castile told Officer Yanez that he had a firearm (Castile was licensed to carry) to which Yanez replied, "Don't reach for it then", and Castile said "I'm, I, I was reaching for..." Yanez said "Don't pull it out", Castile replied "I'm not pulling it out", and Reynolds said "He's not..." Yanez repeated "Don't pull it out" and then shot at Castile at close range seven times, hitting him five times.
Reynolds posted a live stream video on Facebook in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which prompted the incident to achieve national notoriety. There were local and national protests, and five months after the incident, Yanez was charged with second-degree manslaughter and two counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm. After five days of deliberation, he was acquitted of all charges on June 16, 2017 in a jury trial,and was immediately fired by the City of Saint Anthony. Wrongful death lawsuits against the City brought by Reynolds and Castile's family were settled for $3.8 million.
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transittrain returning from San Francisco, BART Police officers detained Grant and several other passengers on the platform at the Fruitvale BART Station. BART officer Anthony Pirone kneed Grant in the head and forced the unarmed Grant to lie face down on the platform. While Pirone held Grant down in a prone position, Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant in the back. Grant was rushed to Highland Hospital in Oakland and pronounced dead later that day.
A subsequent internal investigation conducted by an outside law firm retained by BART found that Pirone lied when he claimed to have confirmed with the train operator that the men the BART police detained on the platform were involved in the reported train fight. The train operator recalled informing Pirone that she was unsure whether those detained had been involved in the fight.
A cell-phone video broadcast on local television station KTVU on January 23 showed what appeared to be Pirone rushing towards one of the detained men and punching him in the face, multiple times, two minutes before the shooting. Grant's family alleges in their civil claim against BART that an officer threw Grant against a wall and kneed him in the face.Videos captured by bystanders contradicted Pirone’s claims to investigators, showing Grant, a 22-year-old Hayward resident, never tried to punch or kick Pirone. To the contrary, the internal investigation report found that Pirone struck Grant in the head and kneed him, likely causing injuries documented in his autopsy, including head fractures and a hematoma. Until the report became public in May 2019, Pirone's attorney had maintained that Grant provoked Pirone by trying to knee the officer in the groin and by hitting Officer Marysol Domenici's arm when she tried to handcuff one of Grant's friends.
Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against BART on behalf of Grant's family. BART settled with Grant's daughter and mother for a total of $2.8 million in 2011. It also settled with several of Grant's friends who had sued for damages because of police brutality.
Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot on September 20, 2016, in Charlotte, North CarolinaUnited States by Brentley Vinson, an African-American city police officer. Police officers had arrived at Scott's apartment complex to search for an unrelated man with an outstanding warrant. According to police, officers saw Scott exit a vehicle in the parking lot while carrying a handgun, and he refused to comply with their orders. Scott's wife was also present and disputed that account.
The shooting prompted investigations by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Department of Justice. As is customary for the department, Vinson was placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. The shooting sparked both peaceful protests and violent riots in Charlotte over two nights. One person was killed by a civilian, and multiple officers and civilians were injured in the unrest.
In November 2016, county prosecutors decided not to charge Vinson, concluding that the shooting was justified.
On January 18, 2016, Daniel Leetin Shaver of Granbury, Texaswas shot dead by police officer Philip Brailsford in the hallway of a La Quinta Inn & Suites hotel in Mesa, Arizona. Police were responding to a report that a rifle had been brandished at the window of Shaver's hotel room.
After the shooting, the rifle, which remained in the room, was determined to be a pellet gun. Following an investigation, Brailsford was charged with second-degree murder and a lesser manslaughter charge and found not guilty by a jury.Prosecutors argued the shooting was unjustified. In March 2018, it became known that the United States Department of Justice has reopened the case and is looking into a possible civil rights violation by Brailsford. Brailsford was reinstated to the Mesa Police Department in August 2018, then over a month later was granted retirement on medical grounds, as well as a pension of $2,500 per month. Brailsford's lawyer has said that Brailsford suffered from post traumatic stress disorder due to his shooting of Shaver and the resultant criminal trial.
Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old African-American man, died from multiple gunshot wounds after being shot by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers in Florence, Los Angeles, Californiaon August 11, 2014. In the weeks and months that followed, Ford's shooting triggered multiple demonstrations and a lawsuit by Ford's family claiming $75 million in damages
According to LAPD commander Andy Smith in August 2014, Wampler and Villegas saw Ford walking on the sidewalk at 65th Street and left their vehicle. Wampler said he knew Ford, but did not recognize him at the time. The two officers confronted Ford as part of an "investigative stop" at around 8:20 p.m. They told investigators that though they carried a Taser in the patrol car, neither took it out, and Villegas instead drew his gun. Villegas said he believed Ford may have been armed because he was in "a gang area". Villegas soon put the gun away and repositioned himself as the "cover" officer while Wampler approached Ford. After the release of Ford's autopsy, LAPD chief Charlie Beck said Ford walked away after Wampler and Villegas left their vehicle to speak to him. An earlier press release said Ford looked towards the officers but kept walking and "made suspicious movements, including attempting to conceal his hands". According to Beck, Wampler and Villegas told detectives Ford concealed his hands as they attempted to stop him. According to Beck's account the officers then followed Ford to a driveway where he crouched between a car and some bushes. Wampler and Villegas said they believed Ford was trying to dispose of drugs that were in his possession, which Wampler felt was sufficient evidence to arrest him. No drugs were found in the vicinity, however.
Smith said as they were walking towards him Ford "whirled around and basically attacked the lead officer." Wampler told investigators he had approached Ford from behind and pulled back his shoulder with the intention of handcuffing him.
Wampler and Villegas told detectives that Ford had been on top of one of the officers and reaching for the officer's gun when they both opened fire. Wampler told investigators he had been tackled by Ford and had landed on top of Ford, but Ford rolled over immediately and took the top position. Villegas responded by pushing his knee into Ford's back and attempting to handcuff him. Wampler said he then felt Ford grasping at his holstered pistol. Villegas said he feared for his life and that of his partner and shot Ford in the arm, then at Wampler's urging fired a second round into Ford's side. Wampler said Ford continued to resist, causing him to retrieve his backup gun and used it to reach around Ford and shoot him in the back.
Harrison, who said he saw the shooting from a second-story window, said Ford had put his hands in the air when he was tackled to the ground and shot three times. Harrison said that while on the ground Ford "was struggling like he didn't want anyone on top of him, didn't want anyone holding him down". Two women who were in the home adjacent to the driveway said Ford had not been on top of one of the officers, and had instead been face-down with the officer on top of him.
“Hopefully, George is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing that’s happening for our country,” Mr. Trump said. “This is a great day for him, it’s a great day for everybody. This is a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of equality.”
A ‘misclassification error’ made the May unemployment rate look better than it is. Here’s what happened.
When the U.S. government’s official jobs report for May came out on Friday, it included a note at the bottom saying there had been a major “error” indicating that the unemployment rate likely should be higher than the widely reported 13.3 percent rate.
The special note said that if this “misclassification error” had not occurred, the “overall unemployment rate would have been about 3 percentage points higher than reported,” meaning the unemployment rate would be about 16.3 percent for May. But that would still be an improvement from an unemployment rate of about 19.7 percent for April, applying the same standards.
A ‘misclassification error’ made the May unemployment rate look better than it is. Here’s what happened.
‘I don’t know if that counts as a job’: Fewer hours, less pay and more anxiety greet returning workers.”
feo seems to think listing cases of police error/misconduct adds to a conversation that never claims such doesn't happen.
On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency medical technician, was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department(LMPD) officers. Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Brett Hankison, and Detective Myles Cosgrove forced entry into her apartment in Louisville, Kentuckyunder the authority of a search warrant. Gunfire was exchanged between Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, and LMPD officers. Walker said he believed that the officers were intruders. The LMPD officers fired over twenty shots, Taylor was shot eight times and Mattingly was injured by gunfire. Another police officer and an LMPD lieutenant were on the scene when the warrant was executed.
The LMPD investigation was searching for two people who were already in police custody and suspected of selling controlled substances from a drug housemore than 10 miles (16 km) away. One of the people in custody, Jamarcus Glover, had a prior relationship with Taylor. The search warrant included Taylor's residence because it was suspected of receiving drugs in the case and because a car registered to Taylor had been seen parked on several occasions in front of Glover's house. No drugs were found in the apartment.
Walker was licensed to carry a firearm and fired first, injuring a law enforcement officer, whereupon police returned fire into the apartment with more than 20 rounds. According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the police by the Taylor family's attorney, the officers entered the home without knocking or announcing that they were police officers, and allegedly opened fire "with a total disregard for the value of human life.
The shooting of Walter Scott occurred on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina, following a daytime traffic stop for a non-functioning brake light. Scott, an unarmed black man, was shot and killed by Michael Slager, a white North Charleston police officer. Slager was charged with murder after a video surfaced that showed him shooting Scott from behind while Scott was fleeing, and that contradicted his police report.
The case was independently investigated by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED). The Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina, and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Divisionconducted their own investigations. In June 2015, a South Carolina grand jury indicted Slager on a charge of murder. He was released on bond in January 2016. In late 2016, a five-week trial ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury. In May 2016, Slager was indicted on federal charges including violation of Scott's civil rights and obstruction of justice. In a May 2017 plea agreement, Slager pleaded guilty to federal charges of civil rights violations, and he was returned to jail pending sentencing. In return for his guilty plea, the state's murder charges were dropped.
On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot dead at close range by two white Baton Rouge Police Department officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The officers were attempting to control Sterling's arms, and Sterling was shot by them after reportedly reaching for the loaded .38 caliber handgun in his pocket. Police were responding to a report that a man in a red shirt was selling CDs and that he had used a gun to threaten a man outside a convenience store. The owner of the store where the shooting occurred said that Sterling had started carrying a gun a few days prior to the event as other CD vendors had been robbed recently. He also said that Sterling was "not the one causing trouble" during the situation that led to the police being called. The shooting was recorded by multiple bystanders.
Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old man, was fatally shot on November 20, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, by a New York City Police Department officer. Two police officers, patrolling stairwells in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)'s Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, entered a pitch-dark, unlit stairwell, one of them, Officer Peter Liang, 27, with his firearm drawn. Gurley and his girlfriend entered the seventh-floor stairwell, fourteen steps below them. Liang fired his weapon; his shot ricocheted off a wall and fatally struck Gurley in the chest. A jury convicted Liang of manslaughter, which a court later reduced to criminally negligent homicide.
Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, a 28-year-old woman, was fatally shot in her home by a police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, in the early morning of October 12, 2019. Police arrived at her home after a neighbor called a non-emergency number, stating that Jefferson's front door was open. Police body camera footage showed that when she came to her window to observe police outside her home, Officer Aaron Dean shot through it and killed her. Police stated that they found a handgun near her body, which according to her 8-year-old nephew, she was pointing toward the window before being shot. On October 14, 2019, Dean resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department and was arrested on a murder charge. On December 20, 2019, Dean was indicted for murder. Jefferson was black and the officer who shot her is white.
In the late evening of March 18, 2018, Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old African-American man, was shot and killed in Meadowview, Sacramento, California by Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, two officers of the Sacramento Police Department in the backyard of his grandmother's house while he had a phone in his hand. The encounter was filmed by police video cameras and by a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department helicopter which was involved in observing Clark, on the ground and in directing ground officers to the point at which the shooting took place. The officers stated that they shot Clark, firing 20 rounds, believing that he had pointed a gun at them. Police found only a cell phone on him. While the Sacramento County Coroner's autopsy report concluded that Clark was shot seven times, including three shots to the right side of the back, the pathologist hired by the Clark family stated that Clark was shot eight times, including six times in the back.
Hey false priest! There's something like 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the United States. Listing the few bad apples...even if all of them were just itching to kill somebody...doesn't mitigate the point: the problem us nowhere nearly as bad as liars like you need to believe it is so you can justify your racist support for looting, arson and mugging. No one is saying no such incidents occur. No one EVER says no such incidents occur. Post your list at your own blog. This post ain't the place for it.
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Brown was accompanied by his 22-year-old friend Dorian Johnson. Wilson said that an altercation ensued when Brown attacked Wilson in his police vehicle for control of Wilson's gun until it was fired. Johnson stated that Wilson initiated a confrontation by grabbing Brown by the neck through his car window, threatening him and then shooting at him. At this point, both Wilson and Johnson state that Brown and Johnson fled, with Wilson pursuing Brown shortly thereafter. Wilson stated that Brown stopped and charged him after a short pursuit. Johnson contradicted this account, stating that Brown turned around with his hands raised after Wilson shot at his back. According to Johnson, Wilson then shot Brown multiple times until Brown fell to the ground. In the entire altercation, Wilson fired a total of twelve bullets, including twice during the struggle in the car; the last was probably the fatal shot. Brown was hit six times, all from the front.
I stopped deleting when I came to this last one, because it may be more typical of the reality than liars like feo would want us to believe. Brown was clearly a thug. A tough guy...or so he thought...who strong armed a smaller shopkeeper rather than pay for an item or two. When confronted Wilson, who was doing his job, Brown thought he'd be a tough guy and paid for that idiotic decision with his life. For most "death by cop", this is how it comes to happen. Assholes thinking they're being harassed try to be hard-asses with the cop, or in other ways become combative and escalate tensions.
feo, who has mental problems, thinks he's making some kind of point in listing these cases in order to prove something about which there is no opposing side. But he has no outlet to indulge his idiocy because no one cares what he has to say, him being a boorish asshat with a superiority complex. Ironic since he's clearly inferior.
So, since none of his betters has anything more to say on the topic of this post, and clearly feo has nothing of intelligence to say...as usual...I again close comments.
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