Milwaukee Rioting

What, you guys dont pose with guns and burner phones sitting on your shoulder???

 

this is my go-to selfie pose

 

Of course not, I was being sarcastic.

Edit: of all members on this site, do you really think I'd be concerned with a non issue like systemic racism. Don't be silly.

 

I think if someone is armed then there is a probability that they will use that weapon and officers are within the law to shoot. If someone flees then it is an impression of guilt that they are giving. I do not expect an officer to gamble with their own lives and the lives of others on the off chance it is some nice guy who suddenly decided to jog. Not a reasonable expectation.

If the person stops, does not move, drops their firearm or states I have one and I am licensed to carry and it is in the car, my pocket and does not move then there is no probable cause for shooting them.

In the case we are speaking of,, it was a warranted shooting.

 

I firmly believe that cops should have more non-lethal options. However, what you're suggesting has a serious flaw. Aside from the fact that aiming for a leg is more likely to miss and hit someone else down range, if the bullet does hit the crook in the leg, it could just as easily hit an artery which would kill in minutes anyway. While not every shot from a gun results in lethality, every bullet is fully capable of killing no matter what part of a person you shoot at.

 

Also, as primitive as this may sound, there are only so many prisoners we can hold. Seems to me the majority of you are borderline atheists anyway, so from an evolutionary standpoint, shouldn't culling come into play?

 

In general I think cops should be less aggressive and use force as a last resort.

But when you're pursuing a suspect with a gun and he refuses to drop it, I think at that point the officer is in last resort territory.

There was a police officer who was killed in the line of duty here a few mmonths ago for pursuing an armed man. The officer's gun was still in his holster after he was shot. Admirable, also sad because he could have saved his own life.

 

Why in the world would you want to save the life of a person who is trying to kill you?

 

I don't recall even remotely suggesting such a thing.

 

I shouldn't have quoted you. It was more pointed toward comments upthread.

 

Bit of a jump there. Atheism and believing in evolutionary theory isnt the same thing

 

Please don't go off topic from this news story.

 

For over 300 years blacks have been enslaved, oppressed by whites, denied basic civil rights, terrorized by the government, the police, government sponsored organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, and the majority have been relegated to permanent underclass status, and yet, whites live in fear of blacks?

Give me a fucking break.

The thug/gangsta/hip hop culture grew out of the fear of whites


Hotwater

 

On topic of this news story please.

 

Looking at those pictures posted it couldn’t be more on topic



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Tonight, the police closed off Sherman Park, in the center of the neighborhood where the shooting occurred and a 10 PM curfew was set for teenagers.

Hopefully, there won't be anymore violence.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-police-idUSKCN10P06W

 

Smith doesn't look afraid of anyone in those photos.

 

See, at times it is important to take a breather and see things in a holistic perspective.

If you look at the part separated from the whole, you will not be able to properly understand the issue or diagnose it.

When the blacks were freed from slavery in the nineteenth century, they were eager to embrace learning and culture, as you can see by the likes of Booker Washington , who suffered numerous privations and hunger to get an education at the new Hampton University, and himself became an educator and social leader, establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, eager to bring about the upliftment of his community.

This is very well described in his book ,'Up from Slavery'.


But then again you see the likes of KKK coming up and systematically burning up schools and churches built by the hard labour of the freed african-americans who were eager to educate and culture their children.


The famous french author Victor Hugo stated thus , " He who opens a school door, closes a prison.'


Now if you burn schools and churches, you are actually creating a generation of criminals (instead of civilized gentlemen) who pass on their traits to the next generations by example. And this is what is being witnessed now.


There was also a vital leadership deficit as Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while in office or else he could have ensured that the diabolical activities of the kkk was nipped n the bud and secured the transition of the freed slaves from an illiterate lot to a well-educated and cultured lot within a few decades. Other presidents later on failed to show the necessary statesmanship.

Malcolm X's father, who was a Christian pastor, was killed by the kkk. Malcolm excelled in junior high school but dropped out after a white teacher told him that practicing law, his aspiration at the time, was "no realistic goal for a ******".


Martin Luther King, the apostle of non-violence was shot dead and his assassin was never found or brought to justice.

The black community was exposed to lynchings and brutality for decades even after their freedom. The hard message sent out repeatedly was that the violent man with the gun is the dude, and not the gentleman with the pen . Compounding this is the very poor gun controls in the U.S., and this could be the reason why blacks are into armed crime in large numbers disproportionate to their population.

Just because Obama has been elected as the first black president is not going to change viceful habits accumulated over a period of time.

Sound Secular and spiritual education, and providing a durable and reliable sense of security so as to ease fears, and creating a pipeline of good black leaders , can help fasten the transition of the black community to an educated and cultured one which can provide fine upstanding citizens to the American nation. It's also a fact that the number of black policemen are very low in proportion to their population. Addressing this is also a key factor in building up a civilized black community, who would be more subservient to the law seeing more blacks in uniform .


Otherwise these riots will keep on taking place making America the laughing stock of the civilized world eager to point out its flaws and ineligibility as a world leader.

 

Ever wonder why everyone in this country (myself included) are locked and loaded.

Sure some people like to hunt, others like to collect or sell guns for profit, others are simply fascinated with guns, but the majority purchase guns to alleviate the fear of the unknown.




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Dude, that comes of sounding pretty racist

"key factor in building up a civilized black community, who would be more subservient to the law seeing more blacks in uniform"