Sorry There Ain't No Better Way of Puttin' It:

[HughBeaumont]

Racism doesn't usually look like someone shouting slurs, it looks like people eagerly looking for a reason why a black kid deserved to die. - Lou Schumacher

[daleanime]

1. That's true....

been trying to deal with it on Facebook.

[Iggo]

2. Black Lives Matter...

...just as much as white lives.

And the quicker people get that, the less painful this will be.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. And that is the bloody tip of it

[onecaliberal]

4. White lives are not in jeopardy from the police at the rate black lives are.

Not even close.

[Rebkeh]

6. Yes. This. Nt

[Proserpina]

5. Or starve in frozen ignorance and want

[Enthusiast]

7. Yes, indeed.

[LiberalArkie]

8. Well when you take people that have reasoning problems and are not quick thinkers,

and then train them with targets with black faces on white paper, and teach them to quickly fire their whole magazine at the target, then reload as quickly as possible. What other outcome should one expect. They are only doing what they were taught to do.

There might be some racism sometimes, but mostly I think it is reflex training.

[jtuck004]

21. We have a more highly "educated" police force with more "schooling", certainly more college, than we

have ever had on our police forces. They have better than average IQ's, just like many of the scarier criminals they arrest.

Many of the members hired within the past 10 years - thousands? tens of thousands across the nation? - are veterans and are alive, as are the people who fought with them, precisely because they ARE quick thinkers.

But all that talent has been directed at dehumanizing people with dark complexions and then killing them. So you add in all the crap their parents and schools taught them them to do, and add in what we do as a country, then have a bunch of privileged white people hire them to police everyone...

ie, we have been training them to be this for a long, long time

So after your first sentence, you are right on, except it's not just a reflex.

We can make some changes at police departments, but I doubt we are gonna fix this without addressing the society built on racism around them. And since "hearts don't change", we might have a much bigger problem than we realize.

Don't make a mistake. They treat black folk very differently. It's racism, and not just at the police department. White folks do the exact same things, but are not being imprisoned or dying at epidemic rates from police bullets.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. This also proves publicity doesn't force an exception to the rule.

[valerief]

10. That's the unmitigated truth! nt

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, HughBeaumont.

[Omaha Steve]

12. I agree

K&R!

OS

[abakan]

13. There is no good reason...

Anyones child should die...The people who think there is live in a hateful miserable world. Are hateful miserable people and they deserve to be shunned by society.

[Rafale]

14. Absolutely

Absolutely right, Hugh.

[Jackilope]

15. I cannot wrap my head on recent verdicts.

WTF. Absolutely shameful.

[marble falls]

24. The bar that killer cops have to meet per the way the laws they are charged under...

were written, is very low indeed: were they in fear (legitimately, logically or not) of their lives or safety.

Its an all or nothing proposition. All the cops have to do is keep saying, "I was afraid" over and over and in absence of any other cop contradicting them, the jury (if it even gets to a jury) has no choice - reasonable doubt- but to find them not guilty. If the cop is only put in front of a shooting panel, its a slam dunk for him.

[etherealtruth]

16. That is the second best quote I have read today (r/t Tamir Rice)

I wish I could find who this should be attributed to:

The fear shouldn't be people will riot (following the announcement not to indict the officers) the fear should be that this could happen again.

[Dr. Xavier]

17. RIP Tamir

and also the Preamble to the United States Constitution...

[gregcrawford]

18. As in...

... "He was no angel." The filth at Fox News have a lot to answer for.

[HughBeaumont]

19. FILTH.

Apt description for these propagandists.

[Flying Squirrel]

20. Lou Schumaker, actually.

https://mobile.twitter.com/louschu/status/547676284290334720

[FourScore]

22. I think of Trayvon when I read this... n/t

[marble falls]

23. Yep, its a kinder, more polite sort of racism. Just as deadly, though.

[lark]

25. So very sad.

There is no justice in this country, there's only the powerful who have no consequences and everyone else who can die for next to nothing.