Originally Posted by
KVB
Yeah, but there will always be the bad cops and there are institutional issues in some places.
But even then, why the hell is there absolutely no discussion about how to behave when a cop has a gun pulled on you?
It seems like everyone, including a ton of people at SBR, want the phrase "stop or I'll shoot" to be a bluff.
I advocate situations where they don't have to say that at all, but that's not where we are now. So in light of that, why is there no discussion on how to behave now. It's pretty clear, injustice or not, excessive or not, the a common thread of resisting arrest and putting the police in dangerous situations is never, ever addressed.
There isn't even a common thread from the police perspective. There's little evidence of racism in any of these videos. Floyd wasn't racism, this recent jacob shooting wasn't racism. Sometimes it's a power tripping cop, sometimes it's a situation that never should have been, sometimes it's outright self defense for the cop. Sometimes it's jsut the cops fault, sometimes it's shared responsibilty, and sometimes it's a shootout.
But it's almost always resisitng arrest. The few situations where it is not are even more horrible, even more tragic, and even more avoidable.
So what the fuk? Even the black community, including pro athletes, have given up on black men, completely given up. No fatherly advice on how to watch out for cops, no education on how the constitution works, nothing.
They've left there own people for dead.
So sad.