Posted by:
caffiend
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Date: November 09, 2019 04:30PM
Several ugly trends are involved here.
The blanket assumption that it's all racism. Racism, racism, racism. If a cop isn't accused of it outright, it's assumed. It's "implicit." Or "systemic." Or "unconscious." In a white-on-black shooting, the cop is assumed to be racist, and in the wrong, until and unless he can prove himself otherwise. Heck, my Harvard-affiliated junior Senator has stated that Law Enforcement is "systemically racist!"
Two years ago, two white plainclothes officer stopped a known gangbanger. He got out of his car and shot one officer wounding him, then was killed by the other. IMMEDIATELY, the BLA crowd was out there, pressing against the crime tape, inciting the neighborhood and demanding action be taken on the officers. As it was an active crime scene, the thug's corpse was on the street, covered, and they wanted his body removed. Boston command was able to round up some black clergy and showed them the dashcam video. The ministers were then able to quiet down and disperse the crowd, but this demonstrates the-cop-is-racist-and-wrong mindset at work. Suppose the shooting occurred outside the camera's lens? The officers would have been in a legally perilous situation.
Even black cops are assumed to be racist, like it's contagious. Or they're Uncle Toms serving at the behest of "the Man." Advance minorities into supervisory and command ranks, never mind, cops are racist, with trigger fingers just itching to shoot some black kid.
Second police are neither respected, and often not obeyed; routine police/civilian encounters frequently escalate to confrontational levels. People believe they can just refuse to obey police instructions without consequences.
"Please get out of the car."
"No."
"You have to get out of the car."
"I didn't do anything wrong. You can't tell me what to do. I won't."
(I've had that happen several times."
Let's consider the Vietnamese doctor's event.
1) Plane crew told him to get off the plane. Maybe they were wrong but they're in charge. He had other remedies, but he refused.
2) They call security. He still refuses.
3) Security has a choice: Allow him to defy their (and by extension, the airport's) authority or bodily remove him. What would YOU do? "That's all right. The person who's properly ticketed for this seat will just have to book another flight."
4) In a very confined space, he resists, flailing his arms and kicking, putting other passengers in harms way. It's tough enough cuffing a fighting suspect on a sidewalk--but in an airplane aisle?
5) having fought security--oh, my, poor guy got hurt!--Never mind risk to others) he's a VICTIM!! Time to sue for damages!
6) Airline can't endure the publicity, settles up and THROWS THE EMPLOYEES TO THE "SOCIAL JUSTICE" WOLVES (the "punitive measures" you mentioned). The jerk delayed the flight, and worse, showed the world that if you don't like what's going on, you can get your way if you're a big enough a**hole and create a major stink. And win big money, too!
This demonstrates the "de-policing" I was describing, above.
Further, the media is all-too-eager to assume the worst about police, contributing to the myth of L.E. racism. In 2018 the NY Slymes covered the shooting of an "unarmed teenager" in East Pittsburgh, whom they extolled as being in his school's honors program, a basketball player, "a very good boy," as mothers like to insist. He was shot in a car "that matched the description" of a car "involved" in a shooting nearby. Obviously, a victim a racism.
What the Slymes did not say was that the vehicle WAS the very car in the shooting (riddled with bullets--more than a 'match'), that a victim (and other witnesses) identified the boy as the shooter, that the gun was found in the car, that the empty magazine was found in his pocket, making the suspect and vehicle an exigent danger in a still-unfolding crime.
But the gun was found in the BACK seat, making him "an unarmed teenage," according to the Slymes. The cop was charged and tried, only to be acquitted by by a mostly black jury. But what about HIS trauma, lost wages, legal expenses, blackened (pun intended) reputation?
"Hmm...should I pull that car over? Frisk that shifty-looking guy on the corner? No, not worth it, I'll just write a report."
Lastly let's not overlook the fact that urban minorities account for violent crime rates disproportionate to their demographic. Here, racism is a valid consideration--the racism that has broke up the black home, fostered single-mother households, inculcated a victim mentality, disparaged the work ethic and steered all too many of then away from traditional values and middle-class lifestyles.
LW, please don't hit "Quote" and intersect my essay with line-by-line rebuttals--this will just go on and on and get the thread deleted. You're one who blames "the system;' I'm one who blames individuals. But advise your Black professional friend that, when he's stopped by a cop, to politely say "Excuse me officer, but first I need to call a Community Organizer."
Well, let's finish on a bright note: Black unemployment is at it's lowest in a half-century!