DEVASTATING: The Videos That Are Putting Race and Policing Into Sharp Relief

[kpete]

The Videos That Are Putting Race
and Policing Into Sharp Relief
By DAMIEN CAVE and ROCHELLE OLIVER JULY 30, 2015

Raw video has thoroughly shaken American policing. Grainy images of questionable police behavior, spread through social media, have led to nationwide protests, federal investigations and changes in policy and attitudes on race.

“A lot of white people are truly shocked by what these videos depict; I know very few African-Americans who are surprised,” said Paul D. Butler, a law professor at Georgetown University and a former prosecutor. “The videos are smoking-gun evidence,” he added, “both literally because they are very graphic, which generates outrage, and figuratively, because people believe their own eyes.”

These videos include graphic scenes of violence.
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[tblue37]

1. K&R, and to the greatest page for you. nt

[rhett o rick]

2. k & r. Thanks for posting. nm

[JDPriestly]

3. So true. Used to work for a Black woman, an amazin woman. She told me a little about

this kind of thing, but of course even she was not subjected to all this. She dressed extremely well. I didn't understand then why she dressed so formally, but now I do after seeing these videos.

What a horror. This is worse than the lynchings in the South of long ago. (At least I hope they aren't done any more.)

It is very, very shocking. No police officer would have ever treated me the way that Sandra Bland was treated. No way. They would not even have thought of it. They would see the color of my skin and fear me or my lawyer. I would not have to tell the officer that I might sue. He would take it for granted.

And a judge would more likely side with me than with Sandra Bland.

This is not the country we want. This is wrong.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[LordshipLadyship]

5. horrible

If any good at all can come from this carnage, maybe we as a nation will finally wake up. I for a long time have wondered who declared war against black human beings, and I feel electing Obama brought more of these bastards out from where they were hiding under rocks. This is nothing new. We have to stop it.
For what it's worth, my wife and I are white, and we are sorry that these people have done these things to your race.
Let me tell you a story. I was rushed to the er in horrible pain a while back and of course you're seen in triage, meaning patients most in need are seen to first. I was sitting waiting for hours, in tears.
A woman came up and tried to comfort me and went to the nursing station telling them I'd been waiting so long. She did this twice for me. I reached out and openly embraced her. I thanked her.
She was black.
Not for a moment did she notice a white person. She just saw a person in pain.
Don't ever tell me black lives don't matter.
My heart goes out to everyone that has to deal with the violence.

[Stellar]

6. thanks for sharing. n/t