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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Its not an issue of black, white, yellow, or whatever. People are people. If they say 'black lives matter", I say "white lives matter just as much".
All this has made me just want to NOT live around the entitled culture, whether black or white. There must be someplace in the world that is nice to live in that doesnt have entitlement (other than an uninhabited desert island)
If the government would stop trying to "help" the poor, this whole issue would eventually die. Sure, we'll still have racism and bigotry, but on a substantially smaller and more manageable scale.
Accurate and profound.
As mega methods of communication take over and electrons deify words through easy and speedy sound and image, truth, lies, and nonsense are spewed out with equal gravitas, making the rational and the inane seem equal.
In 2015, 13 police died from gunshot and so far this year, 18. Though that number includes accidental, fraudulent suicides, and friendly fire incidents. See: http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-f...
In my opinion, the skin color of those deaths is the least significant data of all. I'm personally tired of any side in this issue trying to advantage their group or beliefs based on an individual case, culture, ethnicity, inequality, or any other "ity".
The fact is that we hire, train, and license police for the avowed purpose of protecting the individual rights of all residents of this country at all times in all circumstances. That includes the license to use force after a crime (initiation of force against another) to apprehend the guilty person to stop the force and/or bring the guilty person before a court. Our judicial and criminal system is predicated on the requirement that the state has the duty to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that an accused is guilty in court before he is punished, not based on the perception, mis-perception, error in home address, or mis-deed of an LEO in the heat of the moment.. The reason for all of that is to protect our freedoms against tyranny and/or misuse of that very judicial and criminal system.
In recognition of the potential danger to the individual LEO, we provide extensive training in why and how to contact and/or apprehend an American resident accused of a rights violation, offensive (both lethal and non-lethal) and defensive equipment, and even the use of psychological techniques. All of that is so effective that of some 900,000 to 1,000,000 LEO's with innumerable public contacts per year, the mortality is less than that of roofers. LEO's don't even rank in the top 10 of dangerous jobs.
However, we've allowed our Constitutional protection of individual rights legal and justice system to be so inverted, subverted, and perverted that the most insignificant basis for LEO contact (walking in the street by a teenager. selling a cigarette, 12yo child playing with a toy gun, your address being invaded in error in the early hours of the morning, a broken taillight, even a rude response to the LEO, etc., etc.) can and does result in the use of excessive and deadly force against the citizen. Yet the state, the agency, and the individual LEO will face no repercussion in some 96% or more of cases.
And we're discussing whether LEO's or other black men are more dangerous to black men? How easily we are led by our noses into trivial nonsense and away from the real danger facing all of us. Our life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and our unalienable rights are no longer a matter of concern to those that we elect, hire, and license to only protect those rights which we all possess by virtue of our birth. They actually fight us to further limit them if not outright eliminate our belief in them. I fought and killed and watched friends die within a foot of me halfway around the world, came back to public ridicule and hate, and still made an Objective success of my life--all to be labled a potential terrorist by those we've made responsible to protect my individual rights. And now at this stage in my life, every time I see a Police Cruiser I watch to see if he turns around and comes after me.
How ignorant, simple minded, and propagandized have we become that instead of seeing the reality in front of our faces, we look where we're told at what is of little or no significance, while the reality we're no longer seeing is our liberties and rights being boxed and locked away to leave us as no better than compliant slaves.
That's it folks, come one-come all, watch my left hand wave in your face while my right takes your wallet out of your pocket. Ta-Dah.
Only those that had a halfway decent upbringing have escaped it.
Don't know about you but I never realized this until the last 20 years or so...before that, we rightly criticized their behavior...not the color of their skin.
We fell for the ruse of the left also...
In the time period 1/09 to 12/31/12 police shot and killed, justly and unjustly 112 black men and during the same time period black men killed 4472 other blacks according to the DOJ.
This fact should provide a reasoning individual the answer. It should also cause that type of individual to realize the damage the "great society" has done to the black community. It has destroyed for the most part the 2 parent family. The lack of role models , education is not valued , a victim based mentality , no work ethic , riot and loot when a perceived injustice occurs. The flame of anger fanned by civil rights leaders and the president in the case of Michael Brown. These so called leaders never telling their constituency that their behavior has consequences. Oh and gangs kill more Americans than terrorists likely ever will.