100% this!
A cop NOT killing any suspect is a good thing. When did we forget that as a society? Now we need to get to the point where minimum force is used on all suspects and not just white people, but hopefully things will get better.
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Oh man. . . 103 comments, I’m late to the party, all the good jokes are probably taken.
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The jokes ended some time ago. We’ve moved on to people denying and/or making excuses for white supremacy.
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No, no one is calling for the naked perp to be shot; and that’s an intentionally disingenuous take.
We’re pointing out that LEOS seem to go out of their way to avoid shooting or man-handling White dudes who get arrested or detained, while everyone else seems to become instant “target practice.”
That disparity is NOT “okay.”
The self-induced delusion is real.
Fuckin A.
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Yes, this line.
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Where? Which one? Flag it. Or alternatively, stop lying.
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“Help me, Officer! My butt has been pixelated!”
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Well, now we know how to end police brutality, just run around naked.
…so long as you’re white.
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Has someone put out numbers on the percentage of interactions resulting in a shooting? I mean clearly there is an issue with this and a clear bias of the police. It is also reflected in arrest and charges after arrest numbers. But I haven’t seen numbers quantifying how bad it is. For example IF for every 100,000 interactions 1 white person is shot, vs how many black people? 10? 20? 100? I am curious as to the magnitude. Having that data would certainly be something to show someone who is poo-pooing BLM.
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His job is to take him into custody, without injury, so that there can eventually be a trial, not to fun away from an unarmed suspect.
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The suspect is white.
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These are not exactly the stats you’re after, but:
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He poked at him like you’d poke someone to wake them up, while he had a pastor in a choke hold!
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I am on hiatus from these kinds of arguments for a while.
I think we can all agree men of color are more likely to be shot by a cop. I can see how this video lends itself to that trend, but I also just want to make dick jokes.
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@Grey_Devil posted risk numbers up-thread:
Not per-encounter, but I’d say that’s the wrong metric, as police enforcement is disproportionately intense in African-American neighborhoods and against African-Americans, in general. The stats linked show lifetime risk of death-by-cop by gender and race. Cross-reference the almost-100 per 100,000 risk of African-American men to be killed by police against CDC risks of death by disease or accident, and it tells a very clear tale that police are an existential threat to black men.
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Maybe the suspect was somebody that he used to know?
Hah! That puts a fun twist on the “what’cha gonna do when they come for you” lyrics.
Yeah, that bugged me too. I get that he was likely concerned the guy would overpower him and take away his assault rifle, which would have made things much, much worse. And to me the officer looks on the older, paunchier side and his opponent was younger, leaner, unencumbered, and may have been tripping some form of substance that could make him resistant to pain and very tenacious (I’m guessing, because his behavior isn’t exactly “normal”).
I’m glad the suspect didn’t manage to kill anyone else and was thwarted in an attempted “suicide by cop,” if that was his goal at that point. Since he was just jogging after the cop, I feel as though it might have been what he wanted, but that’s just me guessing. He could have also thought he was playing tag with Martians for all I know.
Who? The only person he could hand his weapons off to would be another cop, and if there was another cop surely together they could have wrestled him down faster, or at least kept him from getting his hands on someone else. If he handed his assault rifle off to a civilian… I can picture that ending poorly in many ways.
Before reading the comments, I thought that too. Seems there’s some discussion to the contrary.
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First comment said it all. Thank you.
And that’s what happened. But the number of non-violent options available to an officer diminishes drastically when a suspect gets within grabbing distance of the officer’s weapons, so putting some distance between them (while keeping tabs on the suspect’s whereabouts to ensure he isn’t posing an immediate threat to anyone else) seems like a prudent move.
Again, to me the big takeaway from this video is “cops are fully capable of exercising restraint when they want to.” But they only seem to exercise said restraint against white suspects.
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Dude, loosen up.
