White privilege?????

[Mr Dixon]

Now i just wanted to point out that i would have probaly been shot within seconds, he lasted an hour


SAN DIEGO - A possibly suicidal man waving what appeared to be a gun was wounded Wednesday in an officer-involved shooting near De Anza Cove, authorities reported.
San Diego police got a report that an armed man was making threats and comments about killing himself in the 2800 block of North Mission Bay Drive in Mission Beach shortly after 11 a.m., SDPD public-affairs Lt. Kevin Mayer said.
Officers tried in vain to persuade the man to drop the weapon and surrender.
The photographer who captured video of the man waving the gun spoke with 10News about being in the line of fire.
"I knew he was going to do something," said local photographer Ed Baier.
Baier was one of the first on the scene and one of the only ones to capture every minute of what would turn out to be a standoff that would last for more than an hour.
http://www.10news.com/news/san-diego-police-respond-to-possibly-armed-man-in-mission-bay

[HipChick]

1. Whites are allowed to standoff, blacks are shot on sight..unarmed

[el_bryanto]

2. That is a pretty shocking contrast

I mean it's also possible that the San Diego Police are better trained at defusing situations, but . . . still pretty glaring difference.

Bryant

[Mr Dixon]

3. maybe

SDPD maybe different but that is a risk I'm not prepared to take .

[JTFrog]

4. I should probably go to the atm before the usual deniers show up.

FREE MONEY!

[cyberswede]

7. *snicker*

[Starry Messenger]

8. We need to set up a PayPal.

[Marrah_G]

5. Notice they negotiated with him for an hour as he pointed the gun at police and civilians

A black man with a BB gun he took off the store shelf to look at was shot dead in a second.

Yeah, white privilege.

It's the assumption that white men can be negotiated with and black men are just thugs.

[Mr Dixon]

6. Agreed

Well said

[leftyohiolib]

9. perhaps the police force there is there is just a better police force

does sd pd have any history of racial abuse?

[Dreamer Tatum]

11. You're right. They should have blown his fucking head off tout suite.

So tired of racist cops.

[Mr Dixon]

12. IMO

They should handle all people like this, take the time to talk instead of just shooting people.

[Dreamer Tatum]

13. Most police forces do. nt

[Mr Dixon]

14. IMO

black man with a BB gun, would begging to differ

[BklnDem75]

15. Posted the same thing yesterday, but it got shut down...

Pointing a gun at children and cops in a very active park in the middle of the day. Very different response compared to the guy with a knife taken down in less than 60 seconds.

[Mr Dixon]

16. Agreed

Is pretty Clear to me, always has been.