Black Lives Matter is an honorable movement and is in no way racist

And yet you're still nervous at every pull over and ready for a confrontation. These were your words, not mine.

Nice story though. For someone who supposedly works with cops, you sure have a funny image of them as bloodthirsty murderers.

 

Plenty of off duty black cops have been shot.

 

It must really irk you to find someone who was an officer who believes the LE community is NOT INFALLIBLE.

 

Plenty of people have been shot, period.

It doesn't excuse the behavior of bad cops or anyone carrying fire arms irresponsibly, it also doesn't make it a nationwide police conspiracy against black people.

 

Stop beating a straw man. Who the **** suggests that there is a nation wide conspiracy by the LE community purposefully targeting Blacks? No, it's mostly subconscious preconceived notions that are responsible for the disproportionate targeting of African Americans. Many black people do not get the 'benefit without the doubt' treatment that white people do in most cases. It's ingrained within American Culture. What? You thought a piece of legislation in 1964 solved this subconscious bias?

 

You going somewhere with this?

 

Just calling you out on beating up a straw man and taking the time to actually define the position that you are arguing against to make yourself look less like a fool.

 

You saying that I think all cops are bloodthirsty murderers is like anybody saying you're a reasonable debater. You lose, son. Now go walk this ish off. Your stinch is palpable and your .02 has been devalued -- considerably.

 

I'm a 40 year old white guy with no criminal record and I got a bit nervous when the cops pulled me over recently. Of course, I was doing nothing wrong, it was the first time it had happened in 12 years and they had glocks pointed at my head.

 

You come out here telling everyone how terrifying it is to speak to a cop every time you get pulled over and then turn around to claim you hang around cops all day, then what?

Sorry, your heartfelt blog solved and revealed nothing in the end. You expected D&D to give a standing ovation every time someone told a story?

 

So why do you believe he shouldn't be nervous then?

 

So now they're protesting because the guy who shot at cops was shot back. Another reason why this movement is a joke no one will take them seriously.

 

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Mistaken identity, on the wrong highway at the wrong time. They were looking for a guy in a white F250 ('cause those are scarce in the Hill country), potential sexual assault. After about 30 minutes in handcuffs, they realized I was not the dude they were looking for.

 

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I don't think there should have been outrage at all. Couldn't be bothered about the Cecil incident, and the fact that there was international outrage over that, considering the conditions the people in the same country live in, was kind of gross to me.

Absolutely people that are anti-rape (which is hopefully everyone) should be against rape regardless of the gender of the victim. This specific example is evidence that Feminism is sexist.

Why are black people more susceptible to police brutality. As a black cop, did you treat suspects differently based on their skin color?

You are worrying needlessly. The chances that you are going to be a victim of racist violence from a police officer are far less, statistically speaking, than the chances you are going to be killed in a traffic accident. Do your hands sweat every time you get behind the wheel of the car?

I am sad that you think people being responsible for their own actions is simplistic partisan rhetoric. I think it is the entire basis of our collective legal and moral codes.

Sure, it was largely a cheap and easy method of risk limitation that cast too wide a net. Certain communities would have poorer loan repayment performances than other communities (or were perceived to have such) and thus people from those communities would over time become less desirable as customers. So what are the personal acts? Failure to repay loans in a timely manner. Certainly others were affected that did not fail to repay loans, but that was likely not as a result of racism so much as a result of the cost benefit of assessing everyone individually vs. by neighborhood. A friend of mine worked at a bank in the 80's and they found that sending credit cards through the mail to certain zipcodes resulted in increased fraud. They stopped sending credit cards to those zipcodes and the problem abated. They changed management and discontinued those practices, and the bank went under.

Historical evidence to support the idea that the government should treat everyone equally? How about the fact that you are here decrying the government's history of treating people unequally. Do you think the government should respect property rights, contracts, and treat people equally? Do you believe in private ownership of property (not that such exists, but that it's existence in a positive thing)? Do you think two people should have the freedom to make an agreement between themselves for valuable consideration? It seems like your problem was not so much with the text (or at least the textual sections I am referring to) and moreso with the application of that text to minority groups. Since you were against the discriminatory application against those groups before, shouldn't you be for equal application now?

No, you provided a definition of rain in response to the imagined query "why is it raining?" while I, when asked what the cause of (for example) unplanned pregnancy is, responded that it was the result of unprotected sex. An analogous response to the imagined rain query would be, "The evaporation of water from the earth's surface in combination with particulate matter in the air and certain temperature and pressure conditions formed clouds which, under certain atmospheric conditions result in precipitation which based on the ambient temperature in this (made up) instance took the form of rain.

I am familiar with the definition of woe. I fail to see it expressed on my own behalf in any of my posts, but see a "woe is me" attitude in abundance in the rhetoric of identity politics movements.

 

Once you are actually pulled over those chances go up.

 

I was in the military, I was trained in Spain to be a base police officer by NY State Troopers (Along with the Marines). I haves friends who are police officers, yet I still get nervous anytime I am pulled over.

 

Certainly, because on of the preconditions is met. What percentage of black Americans pulled over by police become victims of unprovoked violence during that encounter?

 

So you can't even trust yourself to not do anything stupid and follow the officer's demand? wow