Another unarmed black teenager shot by police

[Uzumaki Macho]

Wow so many racist police.

 

[Ōkami]

Ah yes one of America's most celebrated trends continues.

 

[Penguin]

First off, Michael Brown was Eighteen years old and was getting ready to go to college. Not seventeen.

Secondly, we don't know what happened. The officer said Brown reached for the gun. Tens of other bystanders said Brown got shot as an innocent man with his hands up. There was even a video of a woman recording Brown's dead body as a police officer, not the one who shot Brown, lay a blanket over him.

Thirdly, none of that shit justifies ****ing up a Quick-Trip, Chinese restaurant, and multiple other small businesses that had nothing to do with the damn shooting. Not only did they **** up those places, they looted them blind. They stole sodas from the Chinese place, money/drinks/gas from the Quick-Trip (lit the ****ing gas station on fire with people inside). These ****s are beyond help.

Fourthly, we don't know if the cop who shot Brown was white or black.

I live in Missouri, about an hour away from what's happening. Shit is getting kinda scary. z.z

 

[~Sky~]

Fiddstx is right. I've lived in Greece and Japan; I have also visited countries like Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, etc.

Never have I seen anyone freak out over the color of one's skin than I have in the U.S. Keep playing your victim cards.

 

[WolfHaley]

Fiddstx is right. I've lived in Greece and Japan; I have also visited countries like Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, etc.

Never have I seen anyone freak out over the color of one's skin than I have in the U.S. Keep playing your victim cards.

As a black person, I can say, black people love pulling the race card. Any shitty things happen, it's about race. Does racial prejudice lead to things like this? Yes. But black love to assume that it's it the very first time, they play this victim card that brings down the effect of actual racial prejudice. I remember this tumblr post that said the fact that people calling Iggy Azalea or whatever the queen of rap is proof of racism because people also make fun of Nicki Minaj.

People need to realize this may not be an issue of a racist cop, but an incompetent cop.

 

[Jazzy Stardust]

Fiddstx is right. I've lived in Greece and Japan; I have also visited countries like Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, etc.

Never have I seen anyone freak out over the color of one's skin than I have in the U.S. Keep playing your victim cards.

Yeah exactly. I didn't notice till I left the US and came back. Which made me a bit sad honestly to realize it.

 

[Keyboard Uchiha]

These cops were corrupts, corruption is rising like a plague. All we need to do is hope that this don't spread in other states.

 

[Blackwatch]

This is why I always hated St. Louis despite it being my hometown. Tensions are tight, people are jerks, and the city just sucks.

Even our athletic teams are garbage. Rams, Cardinals, Blues... honestly, I'm all for plowing that shithole to the ground. Only good thing we ever produced was Nelly and the St. Lunatics, but even he's garbage now.

 

[the unforgiven]

So in anger people decided to break into stores and rob it cause they were mad at the police cause an unarmed kid was shot for shoplifting?

Now the innocent store owners have to buy a new door,maybe windows,whatever else was broken,clean it up,replace the food or whatever was stolen,and deal with lost profit.

That's quite the genuis way to handle the situation.

hmm so you are trying to say some goods are > life? are u serious ? moreover im sure things like this are under insurance like theft / loss of good.

OT : it is sad killing a teenager over some cigars's

 

[HornyPanda3]

Would it be on the news if it was a white kid?

 

[Captain Jimjam]

Yay. Humanity. Makes me so happy. -_-
It's like ISIS out in Iraq... they're leaving marks on the doors of Christian households so they know when they come back to that village which family to kill. It's sickening.

 

[~Sky~]

This guy really just compared a random policeman to ISIS. ^

 

[Zolo]

Would it be on the news if it was a white kid?

Finally somebody logical posts in this thread.

 

[Uzumaki Macho]

Would it be on the news if it was a white kid?

It wouldn't have happened in the first place.

 

[Aim64C]

17 year old Mike Brown , Saint Luis , Missouri, was shot 9 times by Ferguson police officer while being unarmed just a couple days ago. he was reported for shoplifting a cigar from a local gas station and when the police found him on the street they shoot him multiple times.

Last night people from all over the city gather around for a calm prayer and memorial which quickly esceladed to protests and riots. Shots were fired at civilians and police officers and numerous stores were broken into with people carrying out armloads of goods. 38 people were arrested and 2 cops were injured.

I'll take a moment to say that part of my job in the Navy was pier side security. Technically 'expeditionary' security - but that just meant we got to wear Type IIIs and get confused with Seabees.

As such, I am generally critical of police departments and their practices. While protocols can differ - there is a lot of commonality and many of the people I served beside and who trained me were police officers in their non-military careers.

What I see in this case is a failure of the department to properly train their officer. I don't care how long he has 'been on the force' - there is a substantial lack of training in many police departments.

Now, people will be quick to show me videos of police in 'kill houses' - but that is not the type of training I am talking about. That is 'easy' training. We take kids fresh out of highschool and train them to kick in doors in preparation for soaking bullets. But that's not what a police officer is.

The -moment- a perpetrator yields and begins complying with the officer's orders - it's done. If I am an officer and a guy punches me in the face and yields before I recover - I can't beat the snot out of him. If someone makes a grab for my firearm and the contact is broken - distance is placed between us and he is complying with orders... it's done - the justification for force is no longer there.

And that takes an immense amount of discipline to be able to go from a life-or-death struggle where any means to survive are justified to a the righteous paragon in a mere moment.

Was this kid doing something stupid? Quite possibly. It's hard to say what happened. Perhaps he panicked and did attack the officer in a very bone-headed move before he realized he was only setting himself up for more trouble and yielded. While the exact number of rounds fired has not been released - the police chief stated it was "more than a couple."

This indicates to me that the officer was not able to break from the "life or death struggle" mode of thinking - and probably wasn't even in control of himself during the struggle. We call this "in the black" on the scale of stress response. Essentially - when presented with a level of stress that we can't operate within, we enter the 'black' - for some people, it is simply freezing. For others, it involves acting without awareness or memory.

It would be interesting to review the dispatch recordings - which will likely back up the notion that the officer was 'coming out' of a black-out state.

This is improper training and improper force evaluation. While it is still the responsibility of the officer - it has been my observation that exceptionally few police departments properly train officers for the types of scenarios that require judicious use of power. The focus has shifted towards a militarization - more gear, 'officer safety,' and 'greater capability' over the principles of law enforcement.

all of this could've been avoided if the cops just arrested the boy instead. It was just petty theft. No need to shoot him. Especially 9 times like he's some wild animal the kid is a human. Out off all the things on a police officers belt from mace,pepper spray, tasers, handcuffs, he decides topull out a gun?! That's ****in ridiculous

Now hold up a minute.

All of -what- could have been avoided?

The heart-ache of the family?

Yeah.

The loss of a kid? Yeah.

The riots?

I must disagree, here.

Do you know what else happened recently? Thousands of illegal immigrants were released into the country. The churches are getting paid -billions- of dollars by the federal government to house these 'unaccompanied minors' and to find them 'sponsors' (this is why the churches have started supporting amnesty - it's got plenty of pork attached). For all intents and purposes - the Church is one of the prophesied heads of the beast.

Do you see me burning down churches or torching Vicky Hartzler's local office? Or am I shooting up the local Tyson factory?

No.

I'm angry. I'm pissed. I feel horribly betrayed and as if the fools in charge of things are going to wreck any future my kids might have had.

But would that really solve anything? If I were to do those things - would you suddenly feel the need to try and understand why?

No.

You would reject my actions out of hand as the product of some conservative lunatic with whatever popular labels the media could make stick.

At what point do we begin to hold people accountable for their actions?

You said something that upset me - I'm going to go rape my cat. When asked why - my answer will be that it's your fault.

This could have been avoided if people would have taken a step back and said: "No. Those are not the people we wish to become."

This idea that it was somehow the fault of the police for the riots is like saying it is the fault of the carrots that rabbits ate the garden.