[Days of Broken Arrows]

(07-08-2016 06:49 PM)Brian Shima Wrote:  

What do the following four dates have in common?

January 24, 2016
March 25, 2016
April 22, 2016
June 17, 2016

They are the only days this year that someone hasn't been killed by police. Out of the over 600 incidents so far this year, how many of them "deserved" it? How many were white/black/Hispanic/Asian? How many were men? How many were children? How many had a deadly weapon? How many had a toy weapon? How many resisted arrest? How many were women? How many had a warrant? How many were innocent? How many were mentally ill?
How many have you researched?

It's quick and easy to share videos, but takes time to have an educated opinion.

http://killedbypolice.net/

From what I can tell by going through the news stories linked on the site you posted (Killed By Police) most of the people killed were either armed, violent, resisting arrest, or led cops on a chase.

Sample sentence from one of these news stories (involving a white guy from Brooklyn): "According to the NYPD, that's when the driver of a 2016 Kia EX exited his vehicle -- with a 5-month-old inside -- and punched the officer's head through an open driver's side window."

Now here is my opinion: There is a subset of the population that treats people like shit and/or is out of control. We have to deal with these people every day and can usually avoid them.

But one day one of these rude, out-of-control people comes up against a cop. Then he (or she) winds up dead.

You can treat your fellow citizens like crap. You can get drunk and beat them up. You can steal from them. You can run over their kids with your car. But when you do that with a cop, it ends badly.

We no longer live in the polite, tip-your-hat society of the 1950s. This is not Donna Reed world. A lot of people are out of control for one reason or another. On top of that, there are more and more people. As the population rises, it stands to reason arrests from cops and, yes, killings by them will rise. Wonder if the rate of murders by cop fell per capita from 1950 till now?

Back to my main point, just the other day I saw some fat, bald guy doing spastic dances in the supermarket (with his moron girlfriend laughing like a hyena) trying to create a fuss. He was clearly very drugged out.

I left the scene. But the cop who was called in didn't have that option. He had to deal with this big, fat blob of a man who was stoned out of his mind and getting crazy.

As for racial breakdowns, this is the Washington Post's racial breakdown as to who was killed by police.