LA - Officer fatally shoots Alton Sterling outside store, Baton Rouge, 2016

[tangelo]

Now you're just trolling, tangelo.

This isn't Reddit.

everything Ive posted is 100% accurate. take your personal attacks somewhere else

 

[katydid23]

Perhaps. We don't know. Could be a BLM activist. Could be an opportunist. The vast majority of BLM activists are peaceful, yet highly vocal and advocacy minded citizens of this country. Lets don't get it confused, or promote propaganda.

But if you march as a group, chanting 'FRY EM LIKE BACON' and EFF DA POH-LEES' then there are questions about the level of peacefulness that follows...

 

[tangelo]

Perhaps. We don't know. Could be a BLM activist. Could be an opportunist. The vast majority of BLM activists are peaceful, yet highly vocal and advocacy minded citizens of this country. Lets don't get it confused, or promote propaganda.

where do you get that blm is peaceful? looks like you may be confused, or pushing an agenda.

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

Perhaps. We don't know. Could be a BLM activist. Could be an opportunist. The vast majority of BLM activists are peaceful, yet highly vocal and advocacy minded citizens of this country. Lets don't get it confused, or promote propaganda.

I remember how peaceful in Ferguson.

 

[animlzrule]

I remember how peaceful in Ferguson.

Me too. The vast majority were peaceful. The media, however, had their own agenda.

 

[animlzrule]

where do you get that blm is peaceful? looks like you may be confused, or pushing an agenda.

From the hundreds of BLM demonstrations and rallies that have taken place in the country over the past year or so during which there have been no reported acts of violence. You know, the vast majority.

 

[animlzrule]

But if you march as a group, chanting 'FRY EM LIKE BACON' and EFF DA POH-LEES' then there are questions about the level of peacefulness that follows...

Well, we have an entire political party whose platform exists to spread inflammatory and provocatively violent and racist rhetoric and it is given a free pass. Free speech and all of that pesky stuff.....

 

[bluesneakers]

Me too. The vast majority were peaceful. The media, however, had their own agenda.

People like to lump protestors in with rioters. Because marching around with a sign and throwing molotov cocktails at police officers is the same thing to them.

 

[kimlynn]

Gang members and violent criminals have immense and deadly power as well. If a cop answers a 911 call and tries to detain a young male, then he is going to feel distrust and uncertainty, because of the many violent incidents perpetrated against the police, by the gangs , etc.

So the distrust might explain a hair trigger response by some in LE? Kind of makes it dangerous for young males to be around LE. IMO

 

[katydid23]

So the distrust might explain a hair trigger response by some in LE? Kind of makes it dangerous for young males to be around LE. IMO

AND, it kind of makes it dangerous for LE to be around young males...

 

[animlzrule]

So the distrust might explain a hair trigger response by some in LE? Kind of makes it dangerous for young males to be around LE. IMO

Sounds like someone is forgetting to inform the police that they have a potentially dangerous job, and that if you can't keep your wits about you in a time of crisis, perhaps this is not your particular milieu.

 

[scmom]

Seems common sense to me that if they were going to a call of a man with a gun that they would be in a state of high alert.

 

[Dionysia]

where do you get that blm is peaceful? looks like you may be confused, or pushing an agenda.

Speaking of personal attacks...

 

[kimlynn]

AND, it kind of makes it dangerous for LE to be around young males...

Um...that is their job. To protect and serve....and that means protect and serve all. IMO

 

[kimlynn]

Sounds like someone is forgetting to inform the police that they have a potentially dangerous job, and that if you can't keep your wits about you in a time of crisis, perhaps this is not your particular milieu.

Very true. Training and understanding seems to be missing from some in LE. IMO

 

[Irish_Eyes]

It saddens me so much that there is an empathy deficit in some ideological quarters regarding violence against police. The ideologues on both sides of this issue are part of the problem and not the solution. You'll see one group of ideologues rolling their eyes at the others, and acting smugly superior as they cling to their own biases and act in the exact same fashion as those they point fingers at. And the other side responds in turn.

You middle-grounders, and I'm SO glad there are so many of you here at WS - you are my people. Whatever your race, or religous or political affiliation, or nationality or sexual orientation or profession, or anything else. You are the people that our country is going to have to lean on to find solutions to violence, mistrust, and bigotry.

 

[Irish_Eyes]

Me too. The vast majority were peaceful. The media, however, had their own agenda.

The vast majority of police don't even shoot their weapons in a given year. Not even once. You can't have it both ways.

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

It saddens me so much that there is an empathy deficit in some ideological quarters regarding violence against police. The ideologues on both sides of this issue are part of the problem and not the solution. You'll see one group of ideologues rolling their eyes at the others, and acting smugly superior as they cling to their own biases and act in the exact same fashion as those they point fingers at. And the other side responds in turn.

You middle-grounders, and I'm SO glad there are so many of you here at WS - you are my people. Whatever your race, or religous or political affiliation, or nationality or sexual orientation or profession, or anything else. You are the people that our country is going to have to lean on to find solutions to violence, mistrust, and bigotry.

:goodpost:

 

[animlzrule]

The vast majority of police don't even shoot their weapons in a given year. Not even once. You can't have it both ways.

Sure I can. The police should be held to a higher standard of conduct. They are sworn in with the understanding that their role is to protect and serve. Not to shoot first, cover it up, and ask questions later.

 

[animlzrule]

It saddens me so much that there is an empathy deficit in some ideological quarters regarding violence against police. The ideologues on both sides of this issue are part of the problem and not the solution. You'll see one group of ideologues rolling their eyes at the others, and acting smugly superior as they cling to their own biases and act in the exact same fashion as those they point fingers at. And the other side responds in turn.

You middle-grounders, and I'm SO glad there are so many of you here at WS - you are my people. Whatever your race, or religous or political affiliation, or nationality or sexual orientation or profession, or anything else. You are the people that our country is going to have to lean on to find solutions to violence, mistrust, and bigotry.

I hear you, and it saddens me that there is such an empathy deficit on the part of so many who deny the fact that there is a deadly and growing problem with racial discrepancies in regards to how citizens are treated by police in this country. It's like the police have this enormous, glaring, impossible to not see disease in their culture, and they refuse to acknowledge it, or listen to the people for whom their conduct has become most dangerous. I don't know if it's pride, ego, a feeling of superiority when wearing a gun, or what. But the police are going to have to play a part in the solution to this mess. And they as of yet have refused to come to the table to talk.