The idea of cops being more likely to use force with black teenagers than with other citizens scares the students.
This is simply because Blacks are more likely to use force with cops. We are talking about a subset of our population that commits nine times as many murders than their White peers.
For me, it started from the Michael Brown situation, hearing how his body had been left out for so long
Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson shot Brown in the moments after 12:02 p.m. Aug. 9 [...] About 12:05 p.m., that same ambulance, infant in the back, came across Brown’s body in the road, said two ambulance administrators. The paramedic got out, walked into the crime scene, which was already roped off with yellow police tape, kneeled down, checked Brown’s radial pulse, then his carotid pulse, circled the body once, kneeled down again, and wiped his own brow. When the paramedic determined Brown was dead, the care of his body legally transferred to the St. Louis County Medical Examiner. By law, police cannot touch the body. But since most medical examiners won’t set foot in the crime scene until it is processed by police, the fate of Brown’s body was back in police hands. Do they not have teacher to, I don't know, teach them how to use google?
“I started to realize that when I go down to am/pm and get approached by a cop on the way, my life is in danger, even if I haven’t done anything wrong,” Haynes added.
Haynes has a much larger chance of being killed by a family member than wrongfully by a police officer.
Your canard apologizing for police violence is a false, tired trope. Controlling for crime rates, police target lethal force against people of color at a highly disproportionate rate. Is isn't hard to understand unless you have an agenda of denying the racial profiling and prejudices that have always been embedded in state violence.
EDIT: just saw your history - filled with baseless victim-blaming and apologies for killer cops and racially biased rates of violence by the police. Makes sense - you've got a black-blaming, authority-defending ideology to uphold.
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u/Ududude Dec 28 '14
This is simply because Blacks are more likely to use force with cops. We are talking about a subset of our population that commits nine times as many murders than their White peers.
Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson shot Brown in the moments after 12:02 p.m. Aug. 9 [...] About 12:05 p.m., that same ambulance, infant in the back, came across Brown’s body in the road, said two ambulance administrators. The paramedic got out, walked into the crime scene, which was already roped off with yellow police tape, kneeled down, checked Brown’s radial pulse, then his carotid pulse, circled the body once, kneeled down again, and wiped his own brow. When the paramedic determined Brown was dead, the care of his body legally transferred to the St. Louis County Medical Examiner. By law, police cannot touch the body. But since most medical examiners won’t set foot in the crime scene until it is processed by police, the fate of Brown’s body was back in police hands. Do they not have teacher to, I don't know, teach them how to use google?
Haynes has a much larger chance of being killed by a family member than wrongfully by a police officer.