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originally posted by: ColdChillin
a reply to: UnifiedSerenity
Except African Americans ARE targeted by the police doing things we take for granted. Like, walking down the street, minding their own business. Or, committing the terrible, horrific act of making eye contact with a cop. Some of it is race baiting but most of it, is not. They deserve equality and like the 60's, they aren't going to back down. It took them 50 years to organize. Name one other ethnicity that didn't strike back immediately after being pushed down repeatedly. OH that's right. It seems to only happen to their community.
America has a race problem. Period.
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1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015.
"Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal force," writes MacDonald.
MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that blacks "commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime" in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the city's population.
2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. According to Mac Donald, 12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the result of police officers.
"If we’re going to have a 'Lives Matter' anti-police movement, it would be more appropriately named "White and Hispanic Lives Matter,'" said Mac Donald in her Hillsdale speech.
3. The Post's data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man...but this does not tell the whole story.
The “unarmed” label is literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly tried to grab the officer’s gun, or had been beating the cop with his own equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post’s “unarmed black victims” category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then racism could have played no role in their deaths.
4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Greg Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.
5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black. According to Mac Donald, the police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person.
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Take 22-year-old Alexander William Burkart for instance, who recently crashed his car after being stabbed in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Burkart ultimately died from his wounds, and police successfully arrested two 18-year-old black males for their involvement. Burkart was simply doing his job and delivering pizzas at the time of the incident. And his story is only one of seven pizza delivery slaying we’ve seen this year. These are repeated, aggressive murders of white men and women at the hands of minorities. And they cannot go ignored.
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“I walk out of the station and there’s these guys starting at Jessica saying sexual comments,” he told reporters. When he tried to tell the group to back down, they jumped him. Desperately, the two managed to make their way back to the car—but the violence did not end there. One of the thugs threw a bass pipe through the passenger side window, hitting Jessica in the face. “I looked down and say my teeth in my hand,” Jessica told reporters. The pipe broke and damaged 12 of Jessica’s front teeth and ripped half of her top lip from her face. Ultimately, Jessica will need 4 tooth implants at a cost of $2,000/each.
originally posted by: ColdChillin
a reply to: UnifiedSerenity
Except African Americans ARE targeted by the police doing things we take for granted. Like, walking down the street, minding their own business. Or, committing the terrible, horrific act of making eye contact with a cop. Some of it is race baiting but most of it, is not. They deserve equality and like the 60's, they aren't going to back down. It took them 50 years to organize. Name one other ethnicity that didn't strike back immediately after being pushed down repeatedly. OH that's right. It seems to only happen to their community.
America has a race problem. Period.
originally posted by: UnifiedSerenity
a reply to: jimmyx
The latest shooting of officers is reporting the truth. These were assassinations of cops. What do you call that but a war on cops?
Right after Dallas shooting, Obama has BLM to the white house. He doesn't support the police. Hell, he lit the white house up in gay pride colors and purple for Prince, yet no blue for our police who were murdered. Obama is the reason we have the downward spiral in race relations.
Of the four charged at the state level, three (Letalvis D. Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, and George Thomas) had multiple prior felony convictions. After a jury trial, Lemaricus Davidson was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Letalvis Cobbins and George Thomas were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Vanessa Coleman was convicted and sentenced to 53 years in prison for facilitating the crimes, and Eric Dewayne Boyd was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for being an accessory after the fact to carjacking
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
originally posted by: ColdChillin
a reply to: UnifiedSerenity
Except African Americans ARE targeted by the police doing things we take for granted. Like, walking down the street, minding their own business. Or, committing the terrible, horrific act of making eye contact with a cop. Some of it is race baiting but most of it, is not. They deserve equality and like the 60's, they aren't going to back down. It took them 50 years to organize. Name one other ethnicity that didn't strike back immediately after being pushed down repeatedly. OH that's right. It seems to only happen to their community.
America has a race problem. Period.
No...YOU have a race problem and so does the black community. You are also lying that police target and stop people for JUST walking down the street and JUST minding their own business. Maybe, while walking down the street a cop notices what appears to be a weapon in the black mans pocket and stops him or while minding their own business the police notice a hand off of case for a baggie. But no...there isn't a race problem FROM America, just FROM blacks. PERIOD!
Hispanic Gang History: Hispanic gangs began forming in California during the early 1920s. They started as looseknit groups banding together for unity and socializing in the barrios (neighborhoods) where the same culture, customs, and language prevailed. Gang members were male youths ranging from 14- to 20-years-old. Property crimes such as burglary, strong-arm robbery, and vandalism were their crimes of choice. These gangs had no formal structure nor leadership. They were very defensive of their barrio, and they would protect it with a vengeance. Gang fights occurred between rival gangs as a result of disputes, turf differences, or transgressions-whether real or imaginary. Often, their weapons included knives, zip guns, chains, clubs, rocks, and bottles.
African American Gang History: African American gangs began forming in California during the 1920s. They were not territorial; rather, they were loose associations, unorganized, and rarely violent. They did not identify with graffiti, monikers, or other gang characteristics. These early gangs consisted generally of family members and neighborhood friends who involved themselves in limited criminal activities designed to perpetrate a "tough guy" image and to provide an easy means of obtaining money. From 1955 to 1965, the African American gangs increased with larger memberships and operated primarily in south central Los Angeles and Compton. This was partly due to more African American youths bonding together for protection from rival gangs. It was not until the late 1960s when the Crips and Bloods-the two most violent and criminally active African American gangs-originated. The Crips began forming in southeast Los Angeles by terrorizing local neighborhoods and schools with assaults and strong-arm robberies. They developed a reputation for being the most fierce and feared gang in the Los Angeles area.
White Gang History: White gangs have been forming in California for decades. Early white gangs were oriented around motorcycle gangs like the Hells Angels. Today's outlaw motorcycle gangs are not considered street gangs but, rather, organized crime groups. It was not until the late 1980s that the Skinheads were identified as the primary source of white street gang violence in this state. They were characterized by their shaven heads and white-supremacy philosophy and, for the most part, were factionalized and unorganized. Skinheads formed as racist gangs and were not turf oriented nor profit motivated. Their crimes ranged from vandalism and assaults to murders. Generally, targets of their crimes included non-white, Jewish, homeless, and homosexual individuals. Confrontations between the Skinheads and their targeted victims were often random, but they usually culminated in serious injury or death to the victim. The age of the Skinhead gang members varied from early teens to mid-20s. Both males and females belonged to the gang; and their weapons included baseball bats, knives, fists, and steel-toed boots.