US Cop problems

arsedocmd

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/us/baton-rouge-shooting-alton-sterling/

My initial thread title was 'the motherfuckers in blue' . :ffs: 🙁 Check out the very graphic video above and you'll know why.

Edit: another link for updates http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database

Klaus

597 people have been shot dead by US law enforcement this year and we're barely halfway through it: http://killedbypolice.net/

Life is cheap.

flobaba

There's no cop problems. Just racism and dehumanization of black and brown people.

Protect and serve.

Who do you protect? Who do you serve?

Meatwad

they protect and serve non-black people and that's why i protect myself.

if i'm ever in a photo like this there are are going to be some pigs laid out with me. i'm not going alone. they might think my life isn't worth shit, but their's isn't worth shit to me either. words cannot express how much i hate these racist fucks man. i'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

i had to edit my post from "protect and serve white people" to non-black after asians for the 2nd time in recent memory decided to join the party. all we got is us, they've all declared war on us and the stupid ones who won't fight back will be exterminated like the vermin they think we are.

Burnwinter

I don't know what you say really.

The police employed alleged Klan members and gun nuts, who deliberately murdered another black man on the job.

If this was some sort of "counter-terrorism" initiative, then police departments across the US would be subjected to a thorough, preemptive review that either removed or scrutinised anyone with any links to racism or recreational gun use from employment at every level.

Meatwad

back in 2006 the fbi warned about these white supremacists infiltrating police departments. although chief william parker of the LAPD was recruiting klan members long before that in the 50's. i'm at the point where i would support a ban on all unions in america just to get rid of the police union.

Savz

Klaus wrote:
597 people have been shot dead by US law enforcement this year and we're barely halfway through it: http://killedbypolice.net/

Life is cheap.

So about 100 per month in a country with a population of about 360,000,000.

Not that outrageous compared to many countries.

Oh and has anybody seen the other killing... a woman has recorded herself post shooting of her partner? Ignorance on twitter everywhere.

Savz

Meatwad wrote:
. i'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Calm down 2pac.

Burnwinter

Savz wrote:
So about 100 per month in a country with a population of about 360,000,000.

Not that outrageous compared to many countries.

Imagine if there were twenty Mark Duggans a month in the UK? Twenty. A month. That's what it's like.

Gazza M

another black man killed in the last 24 hours after being pulled over for a malfunctioning tail light

watch?v=zgtvop59kRI

it's pretty graphic, his girlfriend caught some of it on camera

Claudius

I sit here and think about when I got into a heated argument 5 years ago with a Chicago cop because i was double parked while waiting for valet service at a nightclub. Ours was the 4th car in line. He ignored the rest and came to tell us to move. I was enraged but realize now how reckless that could've been. Back then we weren't making iPhone movies of policemen executing us. I could've been just another dangerous, lawless black. There is no recent movement of KKK members entering the police force. They've BEEN executing us with impunity and leaving our children fatherless. I think back to my childhood when white politicians like Dan Quayle ours complain about the thuggery of street poetry like Fuck the Police by NWA. Ice Cube was bemoaning the same harassment and profiling we see now. Except back the, before camera phones, the hood was just as dark and inaccessible yo the mainstream as the heart of the Congo. They been killing us, we're just more aware of it now

Mirth

Savz wrote:
Klaus wrote:
597 people have been shot dead by US law enforcement this year and we're barely halfway through it: http://killedbypolice.net/

Life is cheap.

So about 100 per month in a country with a population of about 360,000,000.

Not that outrageous compared to many countries.

The record for police violence in the US is significantly worse than any other comparable country.

Rex

USA is such a fucked up country on so many levels, and this is one of them.

jones

Meatwad wrote:
back in 2006 the fbi warned about these white supremacists infiltrating police departments.

It's not just the US, even Germany which has a big Nazi problem but less so a "pure" white supremacy ideology (little difference, I know) has KKK members in their police force. I didn't even know the Klan had a chapter (or whatever the fuck they call it) here before I read about their implication in a series of nine murdered immigrants and one German policewoman over more than a decade. They are still employed to this day of course.

Klaus

Savz wrote:
Klaus wrote:
597 people have been shot dead by US law enforcement this year and we're barely halfway through it: http://killedbypolice.net/

Life is cheap.

So about 100 per month in a country with a population of about 360,000,000.

Not that outrageous compared to many countries.

😆 How many people do you think the cops shoot in a normal country? They kill more people in the US each week than they do in a year in Europe.

There have been less than 60 fatal police shootings in the UK in the last 25 years. American law enforcement killed 100 people last month alone.

Jens

That front page posted above is pretty gruesome.

Savz

Only because in the UK people aren't allowed to have guns and the people aren't armed.

Savz

Klaus

Savz wrote:
Only because in the UK people aren't allowed to have guns and the people aren't armed.

Earlier you accused people of being dismissive and sticking to baseless opinions in the Other Football section. If you're going to discuss real-life topics, especially serious ones like this one, you should similarly read up on them. A quick google on "Why do american police kill so many people" will throw up a lot of links. As this article concludes:

"The US has two to three times as many guns per capita as places like Denmark, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, and. But the number of police homicides per capita is staggeringly high. Twice as many guns means 70 times as many people killed by the police?"

est

Rex wrote:
USA is such a fucked up country on so many levels, and this is one of them.

Yep.

And it looks like it's getting worse and worse.