Re: Racist cops do it again
Originally Posted by
bakerman
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Zaphod, you mention using the law. That would be a great thing... provided it worked. Unfortunately, thus far, the law is not working.
Enormous changes must be made:
1.) A complete overhaul of the law. Specifically, the end to "qualified immunity"
2.) Civilian review boards. No more police investigating themselves.
3.) Whenever a cop is found guilty of violating the police dept policy, he must be fired, and never again be hired in any police dept.
4.) If a cop is found guilty of ANY felony, he should loose his pension.
5.) New law is needed allowing victims of police brutality to go after any and all of the cops assets: house, car, bank account etc.
Then Americans should protest by only voting in politicians devoted to making such changes instead of allowing the current situation to continue.
The USA is supposedly a democracy in which case the people should decide which things matter most and then vote accordingly.
No country is perfect as you know (I've read before of why you live where you don
) but only the people can make changes.
That however all too often takes time as well as the will to do so.
As we here in the UK know only too well.
Originally Posted by
bakerman
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To be clear, I am NOT advocating that blacks should ambush police. However, I do foresee the day when that will come. There is a limit on how much injustice any people can tolerate, before the people become extremely violent.
History is overflowing with examples of revolution when the people are fed up with being oppressed.
Living where you do your stance is more than a little surprising since you can see what
real oppression is.
And it's not the very, very occasional episode of a cop picking on a black guy.
If the limit for such alleged injustice really is such a minute number of instances whereby
whatever it is could incite people to violence then it becomes obvious that the real reason for violence is not really the alleged injustice but rather the desire to cause trouble.
That is more akin to anarchy.
Apart from the rabble-rousers, people generally are more perceptive than to actively engage in such actions.
Again I say the the number of incidents to which you refer are minutely small when compared to the huge number of police and the number of things which they deal with every single day.
I wonder how many of the average anual 100+ deaths of US cops while on duty are attributable to black people, one way or another?
Or of injuries and caused by say gunshot, stabbing or even vehicular assault?
I imagine
that is why cops are so careful.