Posted by MikeT23 on 4/8/2015 4:18:00 PM (view original):
Perhaps, this time, people will understand that the man with the gun and the authority to shoot you might not be a good person. He might be ****** at his job and he might not like the way you look or act. Therefore, it might be a fanfuckingtastic idea to do what he says and not fight/run.
That's something people of all color need to learn.
That said, he'll get what he deserves. And, if that's life in a state prison, probably more. I can't imagine prison will be a lot of fun for a cop who gunned down a black man who was running away and posed no threat.
From the conservative site,
Redstate (emphasis added):
More to the point, these issues play an important role in understanding the disconnect in terms of why white people often can’t understand the way black people react to the police. Most white people – particularly middle class suburban ones – have been taught that, when encountering the police, you should follow orders, the police are there to help, and if there is some misunderstanding you can clear it up after you hire a lawyer later. The experience of the black community has been flatly inconsistent with these hopes and expectations for decades. Understanding that for many people, encountering a police officer is not encountering someone who is there to help but rather someone who is there to cause trouble and possibly plant evidence on you later to justify the trouble he caused you, informs why you see things like Eric Garner “resisting arrest” and Walter Scott “resisting arrest.”
That’s what makes it so troubling to me when I hear white people saying, essentially, “Why didn’t you just do what the cops told you, dummy, then you’d still be alive today.” I don’t want to live in a country where that’s the price of staying alive for anyone – black or white.