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"I hope we all realize this." (Original Post) kpete Apr 2021 OP
well, realization is nothing markie Apr 2021 #1
That is most certainly true! BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #10
Sad, but accurate...nt Wounded Bear Apr 2021 #2
The truth malaise Apr 2021 #3
Not to mention, gab13by13 Apr 2021 #4
I've known that for very, very long time. rickyhall Apr 2021 #5
Well, that has been happening since the first dude who decided to lead pointed at his friend cayugafalls Apr 2021 #6
"A man with a briefcase can steal more money than a man with a gun." cos dem Apr 2021 #7
My cousin sent me two videos, which I did not finish watching because of the violence, but... Escurumbele Apr 2021 #8
Have any links to these 2 videos? KS Toronado Apr 2021 #11
Some of us do. calimary Apr 2021 #9
No truer words dalton99a Apr 2021 #12
We live in, and are witnesses to, systemic racism and militarized police. And whites skate. nt Evolve Dammit Apr 2021 #13
Another statistic I should have saved the source... LT Barclay Apr 2021 #14

cayugafalls

(5,739 posts)
6. Well, that has been happening since the first dude who decided to lead pointed at his friend
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 11:27 AM
Apr 2021

and said protect me...

Probably around some fire a couple hundred thousand years ago...

Escurumbele

(3,540 posts)
8. My cousin sent me two videos, which I did not finish watching because of the violence, but...
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 11:43 AM
Apr 2021

The two videos had to do with a cop stopping white guys.

On the first, the cop asked the white guy who was driving a big pick-up to get down for his safety. The cop never took his gun out, never yelled at the guy, nothing, very polite. The cop was standing on the side of the passenger, the guy came out from the driver's side with what seemed to be an AK-15, went around the pick up and shot the cop many times, then he walked towards the front of the pick-up to get back in his car, and took a last shot to an already dead cop on the head, I guess for reassurance. He got on his truck and left. All these was on video because the cop left the video on.

The second, another white guy on a pick-up. Not sure what happened and why he was stopped, but then again the cop was very polite while the guy was yelling at him and telling him that he fought in Iraq, etc. The guy came running towards the cop, the cop yelled at the guy so the guy went back to his track, while the cop was yelling at him to stop. The guy pulled what looked like another AK-15 and then the shooting started. The cop was not a very good shooter, the guy having a more powerful gun hurt the cop, the cop run out of bullets and went to the back of the car, hurting, to change the magazine as he had run out of bullets. While he was doing that the guy came around the police car and shot him on the arm, at which point the cop dropped the gun, then the last I saw was the guy getting closer to the cop and shooting. At that point I stopped the video.

Why am I telling these two horrendous stories? because if the drivers of those pick-up trucks had been black, Latino, Asian, non-white, the cops would have had their guns out, yelling for the driver to get out of the car with their hands up where they can see them and maybe even kill them if they made what they may have perceived as a strange move.

Two cops killed by white dudes, and the dangerous ones are black?

LT Barclay

(2,680 posts)
14. Another statistic I should have saved the source...
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 01:49 AM
Apr 2021

All property crimes in the US add up to about 265 million.
Stolen wages based only on what is REPORTED is 4 billion, both per year.
The biggest criminals in the country sit behind desks and commit their crimes with a pen.

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