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KY_EnviroGuy

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18. Thanks for sharing. That's terrorizing a neighborhood.

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2020, 03:36 AM

Jun 2020

These days, when the word gun is mentioned in a trouble call, they go into a military response mode that's been drilled into their brains via some new right-wing training systems and it's especially bad post-9/11. They need to be de-programmed or replaced.

I hope you can share that story both to your local press and with your city council to insure it goes on record and also hope those recording it on their phones saved the videos.

KY

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] mysteryowl Jun 2020 OP

How does anyone recover from that? It's not okay. This bullshit needs to stop. onecaliberal Jun 2020 #1

Agreed! mysteryowl Jun 2020 #4

A call about a black man with a gun. How many of those damn RW gun nuts openly carrying guns at onetexan Jun 2020 #2

Exactly, AND, what if he happened to have had a legal gun? mysteryowl Jun 2020 #5

Yeah, that is so obvious it's absurd. rusty quoin Jun 2020 #11

We should ALL be scared spitless by this 12:1 assault. By now I believe that's how cops ... Hekate Jun 2020 #3

Thanks for reading my story and thanks for your comments mysteryowl Jun 2020 #7

K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Jun 2020 #6

What a scary situation MustLoveBeagles Jun 2020 #8

K&r Demovictory9 Jun 2020 #9

That poor man's incredible self control in staying calm probably saved his life. SunSeeker Jun 2020 #10

BLM are not the problem. Cops are the problem. rusty quoin Jun 2020 #12

+1, ... and its not just a couple of bad apples its the whole cop culture that accepts bad apples uponit7771 Jun 2020 #22

That's the problem I have with the whole thing. It's the entire cop culture, that comes from BComplex Jun 2020 #31

Bad apples spoil the bunch... PandoraAwakened Jun 2020 #32

There's something wrong with today's cops NJCher Jun 2020 #13

steroids perhaps? nt Grasswire2 Jun 2020 #15

that is one theory NJCher Jun 2020 #28

Militarized and Republicanized. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2020 #17

A "black man with a gun" has different second amendment rights than a white men with a gun. sop Jun 2020 #14

Philando Castile could tell you all about it misanthrope Jun 2020 #19

THIS malaise Jun 2020 #21

+1, 2nd amendments is a whites only law in practice uponit7771 Jun 2020 #23

If this really happened the way you described it then you should make a public records request for totodeinhere Jun 2020 #16

Thank you for the suggestion mysteryowl Jun 2020 #29

Thanks for sharing. That's terrorizing a neighborhood. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2020 #18

Did you film it? Tipperary Jun 2020 #20

Demilitarize the police. Iggo Jun 2020 #24

Every time we see a white man with a weapon we should call 911 and say that there is a white man marie999 Jun 2020 #25

For the police, a report of a "black man with a gun" MineralMan Jun 2020 #26

But we need more cops ??? SamKnause Jun 2020 #27

Needs kicked Wawannabe Jun 2020 #30