Apparently realizing they had failed to kill an innocent black man in Baton Rouge, police course corrected quickly.

[wrenchjockey]

The narrative is that *white racist voter-protected* police shoot *minority* victims. That's why Jeff Sessions is pushing to gut federal oversight of badly behaving local police deparments.

I think what he's trying to say is that Officer Yanez is Hispanic, which unless I'm mistaken, is also a minority (California and/or Texas notwithstanding). So in this case, a minority shot a minority. But I get your point.

[FPS_Russia]

[NaturalBornHustler]

For comparison.

Guy *with actual gun in hand* is running from police. Guy TURNS AROUND WITH GUN and points it at officer. Officer executes a perfect slide into 2nd base on the steal attempt, STILL doesn't shoot.....gets up and continues the chase, where he FINALLY shoots the guy.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...629-story.html

How the fuck this cop didn't unload the clip into this dude when the gun was pointed at literally point blank range I will never know. Yet we have some soft ass scared punk in Minnesota executing some dude while he sat in a car posing no threat.

[Hockey Guy]

For comparison.

Guy *with actual gun in hand* is running from police. Guy TURNS AROUND WITH GUN and points it at officer. Officer executes a perfect slide into 2nd base on the steal attempt, STILL doesn't shoot.....gets up and continues the chase, where he FINALLY shoots the guy.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...629-story.html

How the fuck this cop didn't unload the clip into this dude when the gun was pointed at literally point blank range I will never know. Yet we have some soft ass scared punk in Minnesota executing some dude while he sat in a car posing no threat.

Yeah, nobody here has any issue with officers shooting/killing guys who are posing a real threat. Guys like DrkStr make it sound like we're all against any use of force which we're obviously not. What I'm against is the blatant lies being put into official police reports that have no basis in fact when compared to actual video footage of the incident.

[MumblesBadly]

The narrative is that *white racist voter-protected* police shoot *minority* victims. That's why Jeff Sessions is pushing to gut federal oversight of badly behaving local police deparments.

I think what he's trying to say is that Officer Yanez is Hispanic, which unless I'm mistaken, is also a minority (California and/or Texas notwithstanding). So in this case, a minority shot a minority. But I get your point.

I got his point, but it is a strawman characterization that is disingenuously used to dismiss the motion of systemic racism in policing in too many places in America. It may not be intentional by most white folks, but the deleterious effect on the folks on the wrong end of the selective application of racially-tinged laws and policies is unquestionable.

[ErickAA]

As long as 6% of the population (that can be readily identified by their age/sex/melanin content/ clothing) is committing 50% of violent crimes, then guess what, there is going to be systemic profiling of that population. That is the essential part of the equation that everyone who talks about "systematic racism" conveniently leaves out.

If police officers are systemic racists, where are all the young dead Asian, Indian, Middle Easterners? Do you think a true rascist that is looking for an excuse to kill a black man isn't racist against Indians or Asians? The truth is there is no (or very little) overt systemic racism. Instead, there is a reptilian brain which takes over in high intensity fight or flight situations. And that reptilian part of the brain does the simple math, and knows from the information it has (mainly from looking at the person and seeing they are a young black male) that the risk to themselves is increased exponentially by this fact, and acts accordingly.

The truth is there is probably some systemic problems with policing in America, that leads to way too many police officers shooting way too many people. But the issue isn't "white racist cops killing young black men." You are just all fooled into thinking that because you are drinking the kool-aid the media is giving you.

[The_Lurker]

As long as 6% of the population (that can be readily identified by their age/sex/melanin content/ clothing) is committing 50% of violent crimes, then guess what, there is going to be systemic profiling of that population. That is the essential part of the equation that everyone who talks about "systematic racism" conveniently leaves out.

If police officers are systemic racists, where are all the young dead Asian, Indian, Middle Easterners? Do you think a true rascist that is looking for an excuse to kill a black man isn't racist against Indians or Asians? The truth is there is no (or very little) overt systemic racism. Instead, there is a reptilian brain which takes over in high intensity fight or flight situations. And that reptilian part of the brain does the simple math, and knows from the information it has (mainly from looking at the person and seeing they are a young black male) that the risk to themselves is increased exponentially by this fact, and acts accordingly.

The truth is there is probably some systemic problems with policing in America, that leads to way too many police officers shooting way too many people. But the issue isn't "white racist cops killing young black men." You are just all fooled into thinking that because you are drinking the kool-aid the media is giving you.

I hope you understand that as soon as you make made up statements like this, that everyone above the age of 12 instantly knows you are retarded.

[ErickAA]

As long as 6% of the population (that can be readily identified by their age/sex/melanin content/ clothing) is committing 50% of violent crimes, then guess what, there is going to be systemic profiling of that population. That is the essential part of the equation that everyone who talks about "systematic racism" conveniently leaves out.

If police officers are systemic racists, where are all the young dead Asian, Indian, Middle Easterners? Do you think a true rascist that is looking for an excuse to kill a black man isn't racist against Indians or Asians? The truth is there is no (or very little) overt systemic racism. Instead, there is a reptilian brain which takes over in high intensity fight or flight situations. And that reptilian part of the brain does the simple math, and knows from the information it has (mainly from looking at the person and seeing they are a young black male) that the risk to themselves is increased exponentially by this fact, and acts accordingly.

The truth is there is probably some systemic problems with policing in America, that leads to way too many police officers shooting way too many people. But the issue isn't "white racist cops killing young black men." You are just all fooled into thinking that because you are drinking the kool-aid the media is giving you.

I hope you understand that as soon as you make made up statements like this, that everyone above the age of 12 instantly knows you are retarded.

You missed the part where you show some sort of statistic showing I am wrong. Here I will go first.

According to polifact if you crunch the numbers black men, at around 6% of the population, account for only 45% of homicides in 2012/2013, so I guess I need to retract my 50% down to 45%.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact...ested-violent/

-I originally had some other links which came to the same conclusion, but this is simpler, and just as accurate.

[ErickAA]

So you are right.

It appears 6% of the population commits 45% of homicides, not 50% as earlier suggested.

So we are good?

Full disclosure, the website I just posted for the murder stat actually says that blacks commit 37% of violent crime, where violent crime is defined as murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. I have seen stats where it is as high as 50%, but I am guessing they are defining "violent crime" differently. According to that webpage, blacks commit the majority of murders and robberies in the US, but a smaller % of total rape and aggravated assault.

[gimmick]

So you are right.

It appears 6% of the population commits 45% of homicides, not 50% as earlier suggested.

So we are good?

Full disclosure, the website I just posted for the murder stat actually says that blacks commit 37% of violent crime, where violent crime is defined as murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. I have seen stats where it is as high as 50%, but I am guessing they are defining "violent crime" differently. According to that webpage, blacks commit the majority of murders and robberies in the US, but a smaller % of total rape and aggravated assault.

Commit is not the same as getting arrested. Because reasons they still to this day keep adding a % hispanics to the number of blacks and whites so the 6% number isn't correct either.

According to that web page blacks even with the help of hispanics do not commit or even get arrested for majority of murders. With the help of hispanics they get arrested for majority of robberies. I have no idea how that relates exactly to the number of crimes committed nor does anyone else for that matter.

Also none of this has got anything to do with this thread.

No one has claimed that white's have monopoly on racism. Racism played a minimal role in this case. Proper good ol' boy racist cops would have almost never done what Yanez did. What he did was mostly just incompetence.

[MumblesBadly]

So you are right.

It appears 6% of the population commits 45% of homicides, not 50% as earlier suggested.

So we are good?

Full disclosure, the website I just posted for the murder stat actually says that blacks commit 37% of violent crime, where violent crime is defined as murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. I have seen stats where it is as high as 50%, but I am guessing they are defining "violent crime" differently. According to that webpage, blacks commit the majority of murders and robberies in the US, but a smaller % of total rape and aggravated assault.

Commit is not the same as getting arrested. Because reasons they still to this day keep adding a % hispanics to the number of blacks and whites so the 6% number isn't correct either.

According to that web page blacks even with the help of hispanics do not commit or even get arrested for majority of murders. With the help of hispanics they get arrested for majority of robberies. I have no idea how that relates exactly to the number of crimes committed nor does anyone else for that matter.

Also none of this has got anything to do with this thread.

No one has claimed that white's have monopoly on racism. Racism played a minimal role in this case. Proper good ol' boy racist cops would have almost never done what Yanez did. What he did was mostly just incompetence.

Not quite. Yanez' fear of Castile was almost surely driven in large part to the American right-wing pop culture narrative that dreadlocked smelling-like-pot black men are likelu tk "dangerous drug dealers". And cops in the US overwhelming subscribe to the right-wing narrative, given their self-selection bias of choosing a job in law enforcement. So, there is this much of a percent chance that Yanez would have reacted so quickly out of fear if Castile had been a white guy of the same age and demeanor.

[gimmick]

Commit is not the same as getting arrested. Because reasons they still to this day keep adding a % hispanics to the number of blacks and whites so the 6% number isn't correct either.

According to that web page blacks even with the help of hispanics do not commit or even get arrested for majority of murders. With the help of hispanics they get arrested for majority of robberies. I have no idea how that relates exactly to the number of crimes committed nor does anyone else for that matter.

Also none of this has got anything to do with this thread.

No one has claimed that white's have monopoly on racism. Racism played a minimal role in this case. Proper good ol' boy racist cops would have almost never done what Yanez did. What he did was mostly just incompetence.

Not quite. Yanez' fear of Castile was almost surely driven in large part to the American right-wing pop culture narrative that dreadlocked smelling-like-pot black men are likelu tk "dangerous drug dealers". And cops in the US overwhelming subscribe to the right-wing narrative, given their self-selection bias of choosing a job in law enforcement. So, there is this much of a percent chance that Yanez would have reacted so quickly out of fear if Castile had been a white guy of the same age and demeanor.

I dunno, but i'd guess there's a pretty long list of things officer Yanez is afraid of. His own shadow might be on the list or not.

Racism isn't really a debilitating medical condition. I have heard of people with crippling racism performing adequately at their jobs. By today's standards pretty much all of our grandparents had it.

As a random questimation i would say there's something like a few 100k officers that are as racist as Yanez and somehow they are still capable to get by most calendar years without killing someone.