Charlotte to pay $2.25m to family of black man shot dead by white officer

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  1. rightct

    rightct Well-Known Member

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    Too bad this needed to happen since the outcome is quite frank and noticeable and most of us. Like rainman said, we shall expect further lawsuits of this kind where people would try to leech money out of nothing and expect to become rich over night out of someone else's tormentings. Meh, and we call ourselves intelligent and sentient beings... anyway.
    I hope for the best.
     
  2. Jason76

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    One solution might be hiring black cops for black areas. This might seem like segregation to some people, but there is just way too much hate between blacks and whites. Of course, I wouldn't extend this idea to other occupations. For instance, black areas need well trained white teachers. Of course, it's true some racism against white teachers exists, it's nothing compared to the police thing.
     
  3. Fredrick Jones

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    When you sue a private company and they are forced to pay compensation it actually costs the private company money, so they will make changes. By contrast governments have an infinite sum of money, because they will just raise taxes. Even though the family won the case,besides bad publicity, it did not cost the police department anything. The police department just goes and gets a bigger budget next year which ultimately comes from your taxes.

    What needs to be done is real change. Start making the people running things accountable. So criminally charge the police chief and the politicians.

    The cop that shot the black guy, is probably just following department policy. Jailing him doesn't really do much.
     
  4. JR Ewing

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    In Baltimore, the majority of the police force is composed of blacks and other minorities. And the city council and much of the rest of the city's workforce is largely black as well.

    What we're now seeing is a push to "federalize" the police, which will be a huge tipping point in our country that will be disasterous.
     
  5. Fredrick Jones

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    The issue is not a white cops killing/abusing blacks, the real issue is cops in general are killing/abusing poor people because they know they can get away with it. There are countless cases where a cop killed a white unarmed man who was no threat, but it never gets in the news.

    Personally I think it is another form of divide and conquer. The news media only seems to publish questionable cases of white cops killing black guys. This serves two purposes, it gets the black community up in arms. The white community then assumes well the black guy deserved it (which is often the case) and they are only killing black guys so who cares.

    Also notice how the term Peace Officer has been replaced with Law enforcement officer this has been a gradual change over the last 25+ years. A peace officer is supposed to keep the peace, while a law enforcement official is supposed to enforce the law no matter how stupid it is.

    25+ years ago if someone was doing a none violent crime like shop lifting, and then a peace officer showed up on the scene. If the shop lifter was running away, the peace officer would not fire unless he was in actual danger. By contrast a law enforcement official will open fire at a fleeing shop lifter. This is unwarranted, the shop lifter is not an immediate danger to society. Eventually he will get caught.

    It seems the modern law enforcement is intentionally trying to escalate situations to justify the use of more force. And the federalization of the police is the objective of all police forces, not just USA. This also is extremely dangerous, that means the police have become a paramilitary organization.
     
  6. Sunflogun

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    I am just imagining what this money could mean in terms of rethinking the police force in order to avoid further of these tragedies. The police needs to have another preparation, a mentality change is clearly in order here.
     
  7. josuemilan

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    My response to this is not to focus too much on giving somebody money, but stopping the root of the problem. It is fair to be compensated but that sets the expectation for immoral behavior as being acceptable. The theme is you can kill an innocent person as long as you give there family a lot of money. You can not put a price on life, because that person who just had there life ended does not have the chance to reap the reward. Allocating money shows that we live in a vain society. I understand the concept but money can be seen as invaluable. All that money will not make the wrong doing go away, so it is important to prevent things like this from happening in the first place. There also should be awareness in the African American community about crime. Most of the time the victim is doing something suspicious. The African American community should not give the police any reason to be suspicious of them all the time.
     
  8. JR Ewing

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    I think the real issue is that when a black is killed by a non-black or a cop, it becomes national news. Then the media and the race hustlers like Sharpton (likely funded by guys like Soros) jump the gun and make all sorts of assumptions, and get mobs of people worked up unnecessarily. Then when the matter is actually thoroughly investigated by LE (all the way up to the federal level), it usually (not always) turns out that the race hustlers and the media were wrong in their assumptions - see Mike Brown in Ferguson.

    Then the people who were worked into a frenzy by the agitators riot more, "community organizers" funded by people like Soros bus in the professional rioters, cities get partially or largely destroyed, there's many millions or more in property damage, injuries, even deaths, etc.

    Then big brother comes in with "changes" to laws, more tax dollars spread around, fines and other punishments to local LE, etc. Social justice, social engineering, whatever you want to call it.


    Of course this never happens when the "victim" is white, because no one cares. And no one cares that the vast majority of murders of young black men are committed by other young black men. That's just not as sexy of a story, unfortunately.

    From what many in LE are saying these days, much of this type of thing would be avoided if not for the whole "gangsta thug" culture that has poisoned the minds of young black men. Any time you choose to try to prove your manhood or toughness by picking a fight with an armed cop just doing his job, it's probably not going to turn out so well. These incidents often start with a young thug mouthing off to a cop - usually in front of his "homies"... things tend to escalate from there.
     
  9. Fredrick Jones

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    Basically it is divide and conquer using race. There have been leaked videos surfacing of people in police custody, when they where retrained being abused by the police. In one case there was a white man tied to a chair, the prison guards decided to repeatedly spray him in the face with pepper spray. There was another one in Canada of a woman while handcuffed being repeated tasered. Police like tasers since they leave no marks, and unless it is caught on video there is no evidence it happened.

    I would say it isn't that people don't care, it is these news stories intentionally never make it to the front page. The cases that make it to the front page are ones where the police brutality is questionable, and they always seem to involve black vs white. I see it to a lesser degree with other racial groups, they do the same thing.

    It almost seems like a conspiracy.
     
  10. Onionman

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    Whatever the rights and wrongs with the convictions, the conversations need to be taking place. This kind of race vs. the establishment story has bubbled under the surface for years and it's the right time to debate both sides of the story. Otherwise, we'll find ourselves in an even more polarized environment. And society certainly does not need such tensions.
     

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