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  • blackHIPPY
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    #1016


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    • Bostongambler
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      #1017
      Savages
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      • GunShard
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        • 03-05-10
        • 10031

        #1018
        Confirmed: Officer Brent Thompson 43, was the officer gunned down on video.

        The identity of the Dallas police officer gunned down on camera by cop killer Micah Johnson, 25, on Thursday night can today be revealed as Brent Thompson, 43.
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        • SBR Breadman
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          • 09-04-12
          • 145

          #1019
          Cops Are Killing Everyone



          Sure, There Are More White people Than Black People Which Makes The % of Fatal Shootings on the Black Population Higher, But This isn't Just a Black Thing - Look At The Numbers ... Why The Hell Do So Many PEOPLE Get Shot By The Police (This Really Only Happens in America)?
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          • grease lightnin
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            • 10-01-12
            • 16015

            #1020
            Originally posted by SBR Breadman
            https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ice-shootings/

            Sure, There Are More White people Than Black People Which Makes The % of Fatal Shootings on the Black Population Higher, But This isn't Just a Black Thing - Look At The Numbers ... Why The Hell Do So Many PEOPLE Get Shot By The Police (This Really Only Happens in America)?


            The freedom we have enables us to wile out.
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            • Ted Sheckler
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              • 01-08-14
              • 1936

              #1021
              Originally posted by SBR Breadman
              https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ice-shootings/ Sure, There Are More White people Than Black People Which Makes The % of Fatal Shootings on the Black Population Higher, But This isn't Just a Black Thing - Look At The Numbers ... Why The Hell Do So Many PEOPLE Get Shot By The Police (This Really Only Happens in America)?
              If you're talking numbers and percentages. Why the hell do so many cops get shot by people? Policemen are 20X more likely to die from a gunshot. No wonder why they're always on edge. 1 in 33,000 die. 1 in 625,000 civilian die from police gunshot. (2016 so far)
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              • Jayvegas420
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                #1022
                The Guardian has built the most comprehensive database of US police killing ever published. Compare our findings to those from the UK, Australia, Iceland and beyond
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                • GunShard
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                  • 03-05-10
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                  #1023
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                  • chico2663
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                    • 09-02-10
                    • 36915

                    #1024
                    Anyone that has hates guns has never had the need of one. We had a wind storm that put out the power in cincinnati for 8 days. After returning from the bengals game we were stuck buying ice to save food. I was on next door neighbors porch. There was a group of kids that were breaking into homes. There was a group of 8 in my drive way who were discussing the way to break in my house. Now my neighbor had a screened in porch. Anyway after cocking my gun they scattered. I have a friend that is pretty high inthe democratic party in cincinnati. we argue about this all the time.
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                    • grease lightnin
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                      • 10-01-12
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                      #1025
                      Chico is the messican gran torino
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                      • JIBBBY
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                        • 12-10-09
                        • 83686

                        #1026
                        Originally posted by SBR Breadman
                        https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ice-shootings/

                        Sure, There Are More White people Than Black People Which Makes The % of Fatal Shootings on the Black Population Higher, But This isn't Just a Black Thing - Look At The Numbers ... Why The Hell Do So Many PEOPLE Get Shot By The Police (This Really Only Happens in America)?
                        Alot of crime and thugs committing violence in America, ever been to the hoods? Police should be shooting more IMO..
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                        • blackHIPPY
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                          #1027
                          if the evil white people had to grow up in the hood they would be killing each other too
                          stop acting like yall above shit
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                          • JIBBBY
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                            • 12-10-09
                            • 83686

                            #1028
                            Originally posted by blackHIPPY
                            if the evil white people had to grow up in the hood they would be killing each other too
                            stop acting like yall above shit
                            If ya all grew up in white nice hoods, you'd have a job, an education, big ass house and a pretty trophy wife.. Y'all wouldn't be killing people. Funny how that works right?

                            Hoods aren't a prison for black people, you can get out of dodge and change.. Black hood people have become very lazy people, always the victim.. Pathetic and weak if ya ask me.. Welfare generations are a curse for going NO WHERE in life.....

                            Grow a pair my self proclaimed brotha and sista victims in the hoods!!!... Stop making excuses and do something to break the chain I say.... Go to school and have a goal is a good start.. Raise your kids up right and take responsibility for them is another good start.. Teach them right from wrong and anything is possible in life if you work hard for it and want it bad enough..

                            Otherwise keep killing, robbing and stealing so that jail or early death is your end game. Oh shiiit I just got real!!
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                            • blackHIPPY
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                              #1029
                              and if you not black, and never been to the hood stop speaking like you know how to fix shit
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                              • Auto Donk
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                                • 09-03-13
                                • 43558

                                #1030
                                Originally posted by GunShard



                                i haven't bought a gun in 30 years.... I better step my game up
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                                • JIBBBY
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                                  • 12-10-09
                                  • 83686

                                  #1031
                                  Originally posted by blackHIPPY
                                  and if you not black, and never been to the hood stop speaking like you know how to fix shit
                                  I know the hoods well.. Been thru it all.. I'm west coast dog.. City of Compton and the LBC is my back yard....
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                                  • blackHIPPY
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                                    • 10-01-14
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                                    #1032
                                    what that niggga bush say? stop comparing yalls best with our worst
                                    yall dont know shit man
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                                    • Auto Donk
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                                      • 09-03-13
                                      • 43558

                                      #1033
                                      Originally posted by blackHIPPY
                                      damn.... quite a sniper's lair ol gary jules had there.....

                                      he shoulda shot those mimes down below.... they looked suspicious
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                                      • blackHIPPY
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                                        • 10-01-14
                                        • 3973

                                        #1034
                                        Originally posted by JIBBBY
                                        I know the hoods well.. Been thru it all.. I'm west coast dog.. City of Compton and the LBC is my back yard....
                                        then you would know those areas arent really ripe with oppurtunites to do shit to feed themselves besides trap
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                                        • blackHIPPY
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                                          • 10-01-14
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                                          #1035
                                          14 y old kids are trying to eat man theyre literally just trying to survive lol and yall out here talkin bout 5 year plans
                                          like its not that black and white bruh
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                                          • Auto Donk
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                                            • 09-03-13
                                            • 43558

                                            #1036
                                            I think the stats will back me up on this, but it seems as if the deaths of young black males began to spike about the same time all dem black hos started having the prefix "Sha" at the start of their names

                                            tho it speaks volumes of the greater problem in the hood, that being that 14 yr old kids are having to literally try to survive.... where's that daddy?

                                            the socioeconomic impact of single parent family with the grandparents generally having to play a parental role because daddy hit the road or momma doesn't even know who the fuk he is, and momma is a f'n crackhead doesn't help the "hood condition"
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                                            • blackHIPPY
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                                              • 10-01-14
                                              • 3973

                                              #1037
                                              Originally posted by Auto Donk
                                              I think the stats will back me up on this, but it seems as if the deaths of young black males began to spike about the same time all dem black hos started having the prefix "Sha" at the start of their names
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                                              • Auto Donk
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                                                • 09-03-13
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                                                #1038
                                                ultimate "White Devil":

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                                                • JIBBBY
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                                                  • 12-10-09
                                                  • 83686

                                                  #1039
                                                  Originally posted by blackHIPPY
                                                  14 y old kids are trying to eat man theyre literally just trying to survive lol and yall out here talkin bout 5 year plans
                                                  like its not that black and white bruh
                                                  Chruchs give out free food you can eat... Shelters everywhere.. Rehab clinics too..

                                                  The US GOV will always give you free housing and food stamps if you're starving, just gotta fill out the paperwork and wait in those long lines. .. Welfare checks and general relief.... Fake an injury and get on disability and then you really hooked up with fat monthly checks for life..

                                                  Get all that then you don't have to work or do anything , just have babies with all ya bitches, do drugs and drink 40's and Henessey all day.. Chill in your crib with our homies and shoot dice.

                                                  All good in the hood... Actually is a good time I can't lie... Not hating on anyone, change isn't happening either any time soon.. Just rap'n on the forums..
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                                                  • Ted Sheckler
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                                                    • 01-08-14
                                                    • 1936

                                                    #1040
                                                    Originally posted by JIBBBY
                                                    Chruchs give out free food you can eat... Shelters everywhere.. Rehab clinics too..


                                                    All those places...When the simple answer is just go to your parents house, food/shelter/etc...
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                                                    • Jayvegas420
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                                                      • 03-09-11
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                                                      #1041
                                                      If it were up to conservatives, there wouldny be any of those places!
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                                                      • Grits n' Gravy
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                                                        • 06-10-10
                                                        • 13024

                                                        #1042
                                                        Originally posted by JIBBBY

                                                        If ya all grew up in white nice hoods, you'd have a job, an education, big ass house and a pretty trophy wife.. Y'all wouldn't be killing people. Funny how that works right?

                                                        Hoods aren't a prison for black people, you can get out of dodge and change.. Black hood people have become very lazy people, always the victim.. Pathetic and weak if ya ask me.. Welfare generations are a curse for going NO WHERE in life.....

                                                        Grow a pair my self proclaimed brotha and sista victims in the hoods!!!... Stop making excuses and do something to break the chain I say.... Go to school and have a goal is a good start.. Raise your kids up right and take responsibility for them is another good start.. Teach them right from wrong and anything is possible in life if you work hard for it and want it bad enough..

                                                        Otherwise keep killing, robbing and stealing so that jail or early death is your end game. Oh shiiit I just got real!!
                                                        some valid points. conversely if white people grew up in rough housing projects and a bleak neighborhood they would likely be called "thugs".

                                                        Originally posted by blackHIPPY
                                                        and if you not black, and never been to the hood stop speaking like you know how to fix shit
                                                        100% true.

                                                        Originally posted by JIBBBY
                                                        I know the hoods well.. Been thru it all.. I'm west coast dog.. City of Compton and the LBC is my back yard....
                                                        driving through the hood and living in it are 2 completely different things.

                                                        i was raised in some of the worst housing projects around boston. my parents chose to put themselves through law and nursing school so it was either suck it up until their careers got on track or take a paycheck job and move to a slightly better area and struggle to get by. they sacrificed a lot to better themselves for us and i will always be grateful. we never took a single handout from the government. i could have taken the easy way and set up shop in my city and done well since our cousin was a kingpin in bronx. after a nice run in early 90's where he made millions and pretty much was the man in nyc he caught a ton of charges and is spending life with no parole and virtually zero ability to communicate with anyone on the outside world(including his family). he made his millions on the street and i'm making mine in the business world. had we all grown up in the suburbs we wouldn't have the work ethic we have. i appreciate what i have and know nothing was given to me. most suburban kids are soft and don't have an appreciation for the advantages they are born into.
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                                                        • daneblazer
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                                                          #1043
                                                          No matter where they're from in the US, people want shit handed to them. When you're poor, there's not much to hand. Can work your way up the ladder but the ladder is a lot taller from the bottom. i work with people who are fleeing from persecution and come to the US not being able to speak a lick of English. They learn it, get jobs, and become productive members of society. Usually within a year. They don't expect shit to be handed to them. It's weird how people in this country are. We just want to bitch about things and hope someone else fixes it
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                                                          • opie1988
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                                                            • 09-12-10
                                                            • 23429

                                                            #1044
                                                            Originally posted by SBR Breadman
                                                            https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ice-shootings/

                                                            Sure, There Are More White people Than Black People Which Makes The % of Fatal Shootings on the Black Population Higher, But This isn't Just a Black Thing - Look At The Numbers ... Why The Hell Do So Many PEOPLE Get Shot By The Police (This Really Only Happens in America)?
                                                            Ummm....who in the FUKK is this clown???
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                                                            • Jayvegas420
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                                                              #1045
                                                              Someone else used to type like that.....
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                                                              • clockwise1965
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                                                                • 10-01-13
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                                                                #1046
                                                                RIP.. Dallas Peace Officers.
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                                                                • brainfreeze
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                                                                  #1047
                                                                  " brother help me please, but he whines up knock me to my knees " ... - Sam Cooke




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                                                                  • MoneyLineDawg
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                                                                    • 01-01-09
                                                                    • 13253

                                                                    #1048
                                                                    Long read from a Facebook post of a Black cop....interesting though:


                                                                    I have come to realize something that is still hard for me to understand to this day. The following may be a shock to some coming from an African American, but the mere fact that it may be shocking to some is prima facie evidence of the sad state of affairs that we are in as Humans.

                                                                    I used to be so torn inside growing up. Here I am, a young African-American born and raised in Brooklyn, NY wanting to be a cop. I watched and lived through the crime that took place in the hood. My own black people killing others over nothing. Crack heads and heroin addicts lined the lobby of my building as I shuffled around them to make my way to our 1 bedroom apartment with 6 of us living inside. I used to be woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of gun fire, only to look outside and see that it was 2 African Americans shooting at each other.

                                                                    It never sat right with me. I wanted to help my community and stop watching the blood of African Americans spilled on the street at the hands of a fellow black man. I became a cop because black lives in my community, along with ALL lives, mattered to me, and wanted to help stop the bloodshed.

                                                                    As time went by in my law enforcement career, I quickly began to realize something. I remember the countless times I stood 2 inches from a young black man, around my age, laying on his back, gasping for air as blood filled his lungs. I remember them bleeding profusely with the unforgettable smell of deoxygenated dark red blood in the air, as it leaked from the bullet holes in his body on to the hot sidewalk on a summer day. I remember the countless family members who attacked me, spit on me, cursed me out, as I put up crime scene tape to cordon off the crime scene, yelling and screaming out of pain and anger at the sight of their loved ones taking their last breath. I never took it personally, I knew they were hurting. I remember the countless times I had to order new uniforms, because the ones I had on, were bloody from the blood of another black victim…of black on black crime. I remember the countless times I got back in my patrol car, distraught after having watched another black male die in front me, having to start my preliminary report something like this:
                                                                    Suspect- Black/ Male, Victim-Black /Male.

                                                                    I remember the countless times I canvassed the area afterwards, and asked everyone “did you see who did it”, and the popular response from the very same family members was always, “penetrate the Police, I ain't no snitch, Im gonna take care of this myself". This happened every single time, every single homicide, black on black, and then my realization became clearer.

                                                                    I woke up every morning, put my freshly pressed uniform on, shined my badge, functioned checked my weapon, kissed my wife and kid, and waited for my wife to say the same thing she always does before I leave, “Make sure you come back home to us”. I always replied, “I will”, but the truth was I was never sure if I would. I almost lost my life on this job, and every call, every stop, every moment that I had this uniform on, was another possibility for me to almost lose my life again. I was a target in the very community I swore to protect, the very community I wanted to help. As a matter of fact, they hated my very presence. They called me “Uncle Tom”, and “wanna be white boy”, and I couldn’t understand why. My own fellow black men and women attacking me, wishing for my death, wishing for the death of my family. I was so confused, so torn, I couldn’t understand why my own black people would turn against me, when every time they called …I was there. Every time someone died….I was there. Every time they were going through one of the worst moments in their lives…I was there.

                                                                    So why was I the enemy? I dove deep into that question…Why was I the enemy? Then my realization became clearer.

                                                                    I spoke to members of the community and listened to some of the complaints as to why they hated cops. I then did research on the facts. I also presented facts to these members of the community, and listened to their complaints in response. This is what I learned:

                                                                    Complaint: Police always targeting us, they always messing with the black man.
                                                                    Fact: A city where the majority of citizens are black (Baltimore for example) …will ALWAYS have a higher rate of black people getting arrested, it will ALWAYS have a higher rate of blacks getting stopped, and will ALWAYS have a higher rate of blacks getting killed, and the reason why is because a city with those characteristics will ALWAYS have a higher rate of blacks committing crime. The statistics will follow the same trend for Asians if you go to China, for Hispanics if you go to Puerto Rico, for whites if you go to Russia, and the list goes on. It’s called Demographics

                                                                    Complaint: More black people get arrested than white boys.
                                                                    Fact: Black People commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime. Data from the FBI shows that Nationwide, Blacks committed 5,173 homicides in 2014, whites committed 4,367. Chicago’s death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined. Chicago’s death toll from 2001–November, 26 2015 stands at 7,401. The combined total deaths during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2015: 4,815) and Operation Enduring Freedom/Afghanistan (2001-2015: 3,506), total 8,321.
                                                                    Complaint: Blacks are the only ones getting killed by police, or they are killed more.
                                                                    Fact: As of July 2016, the breakdown of the number of US Citizens killed by Police this year is, 238 White people killed, 123 Black people killed, 79 Hispanics, 69 other/or unknown race.

                                                                    Fact: Black people kill more other blacks than Police do, and there are only protest and outrage when a cop kills a black man. University of Toledo criminologist Dr. Richard R. Johnson examined the latest crime data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports and Centers for Disease Control and found that an average of 4,472 black men were killed by other black men annually between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2012. Professor Johnson’s research further concluded that 112 black men died from both justified and unjustified police-involved killings annually during this same period.

                                                                    Complaint: Well we already doing a good job of killing ourselves, we don’t need the Police to do it. Besides they should know better.

                                                                    The more I listened, the more I realized. The more I researched, the more I realized. I would ask questions, and would only get emotional responses & inferences based on no facts at all. The more killing I saw, the more tragedy, the more savagery, the more violence, the more loss of life of a black man at the hands of another black man….the more I realized.

                                                                    I haven’t slept well in the past few nights. Heartbreak weighs me down, rage flows through my veins, and tears fills my eyes. I watched my fellow officers assassinated on live television, and the images of them laying on the ground are seared into my brain forever. I couldn’t help but wonder if it had been me, a black man, a black cop, on TV, assassinated, laying on the ground dead,..would my friends and family still think black lives mattered? Would my life have mattered? Would they make t-shirts in remembrance of me? Would they go on tv and protest violence? Would they even make a Facebook post, or share a post in reference to my death?

                                                                    All of my realizations came to this conclusion. Black Lives do not matter to most black people. Only the lives that make the national news matter to them. Only the lives that are taken at the hands of cops or white people, matter. The other thousands of lives lost, the other black souls that I along with every cop, have seen taken at the hands of other blacks, do not matter. Their deaths are unnoticed, accepted as the “norm”, and swept underneath the rug by the very people who claim and post “black lives matter”.

                                                                    I realized that this country is full of ignorance, where an educated individual will watch the ratings-driven news media, and watch a couple YouTube video clips, and then come to the conclusion that they have all the knowledge they need to have in order to know what it feels like to have a bullet proof vest as part of your office equipment, “Stay Alive” as part of your daily to do list, and having insurance for your health insurance because of the high rate of death in your profession. They watch a couple videos and then they magically know in 2 minutes 35 seconds, how you are supposed to handle a violent encounter, which took you 6 months of Academy training, 2 – 3 months of field training, and countless years of blood, sweat, tears and broken bones experiencing violent encounters and fine tuning your execution of the Use of Force Continuum.

                                                                    I realized that there are even cops, COPS, duly sworn law enforcement officers, who are supposed to be decent investigators, who will publicly go on the media and call other white cops racist and KKK, based on a video clip that they watched thousands of miles away, which was filmed after the fact, based on a case where the details aren’t even known yet and the investigation hasn’t even begun.

                                                                    I realized that most in the African American community refuse to look at solving the bigger problem that I see and deal with every day, which is black on black crime taking hundreds of innocent black lives each year, and instead focus on the 9 questionable deaths of black men, where some were in the act of committing crimes.

                                                                    I realized that they value the life of a Sex Offender and Convicted Felon, [who was in the act of committing multiple felonies: felon in possession of a firearm-FELONY, brandishing and threatening a homeless man with a gun-Aggravated Assault in Florida: FELONY, who resisted officers who first tried to taze him, and WAS NOT RESTRAINED, who can be clearly seen in one of the videos raising his right shoulder, then shooting it down towards the right side of his body exactly where the firearm was located and recovered] more than the lives of the innocent cops who were assassinated in Dallas protecting the very people that hated them the most.

                                                                    I realized that they refuse to believe that most cops acknowledge that there are Bad cops who should have never been given a badge & gun, who are chicken shit and will shoot a cockroach if it crawls at them too fast, who never worked in the hood and may be intimidated. That most cops dread the thought of having to shoot someone, and never see the turmoil and mental anguish that a cop goes through after having to kill someone to save his own life. Instead they believe that we are all blood thirsty killers, because the media says so, even though the numbers prove otherwise.

                                                                    I realize that they truly feel as if the death of cops will help people realize the false narrative that Black Lives Matter, when all it will do is take their movement two steps backwards and label them domestic terrorist. I realized that some of these people, who say Black Lives Matter, are full of hate and racism. Hate for cops, because of the false narrative that more black people are targeted and killed. Racism against white people, for a tragedy that began 100’s of years ago, when most of the white people today weren’t even born yet. I realized that some in the African American community’s idea of “Justice” is the prosecution of ANY and EVERY cop or white man that kills or is believed to have killed a black man, no matter what the circumstances are.

                                                                    I realized the African American community refuses to look within to solve its major issues, and instead makes excuses and looks outside for solutions.

                                                                    I realized that a lot of people in the African American community lead with hate, instead of love. Division instead of Unity. Turmoil and rioting, instead of Peace. I realized that they have become the very entity that they claim they are fighting against.

                                                                    I realized that the very reasons I became a cop, are the very reasons my own people hate me, and now in this toxic hateful racially charged political climate, I am now more likely to die,... and it is still hard for me to understand…. to this day.
                                                                    Last edited by MoneyLineDawg; 07-14-16, 02:10 AM.
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                                                                    • brainfreeze
                                                                      SBR Hall of Famer
                                                                      • 05-13-14
                                                                      • 5689

                                                                      #1049
                                                                      Originally posted by MoneyLineDawg
                                                                      Long read from a Facebook post of a Black cop....interesting though:


                                                                      I have come to realize something that is still hard for me to understand to this day. The following may be a shock to some coming from an African American, but the mere fact that it may be shocking to some is prima facie evidence of the sad state of affairs that we are in as Humans.

                                                                      I used to be so torn inside growing up. Here I am, a young African-American born and raised in Brooklyn, NY wanting to be a cop. I watched and lived through the crime that took place in the hood. My own black people killing others over nothing. Crack heads and heroin addicts lined the lobby of my building as I shuffled around them to make my way to our 1 bedroom apartment with 6 of us living inside. I used to be woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of gun fire, only to look outside and see that it was 2 African Americans shooting at each other.

                                                                      It never sat right with me. I wanted to help my community and stop watching the blood of African Americans spilled on the street at the hands of a fellow black man. I became a cop because black lives in my community, along with ALL lives, mattered to me, and wanted to help stop the bloodshed.

                                                                      As time went by in my law enforcement career, I quickly began to realize something. I remember the countless times I stood 2 inches from a young black man, around my age, laying on his back, gasping for air as blood filled his lungs. I remember them bleeding profusely with the unforgettable smell of deoxygenated dark red blood in the air, as it leaked from the bullet holes in his body on to the hot sidewalk on a summer day. I remember the countless family members who attacked me, spit on me, cursed me out, as I put up crime scene tape to cordon off the crime scene, yelling and screaming out of pain and anger at the sight of their loved ones taking their last breath. I never took it personally, I knew they were hurting. I remember the countless times I had to order new uniforms, because the ones I had on, were bloody from the blood of another black victim…of black on black crime. I remember the countless times I got back in my patrol car, distraught after having watched another black male die in front me, having to start my preliminary report something like this:
                                                                      Suspect- Black/ Male, Victim-Black /Male.

                                                                      I remember the countless times I canvassed the area afterwards, and asked everyone “did you see who did it”, and the popular response from the very same family members was always, “penetrate the Police, I ain't no snitch, Im gonna take care of this myself". This happened every single time, every single homicide, black on black, and then my realization became clearer.

                                                                      I woke up every morning, put my freshly pressed uniform on, shined my badge, functioned checked my weapon, kissed my wife and kid, and waited for my wife to say the same thing she always does before I leave, “Make sure you come back home to us”. I always replied, “I will”, but the truth was I was never sure if I would. I almost lost my life on this job, and every call, every stop, every moment that I had this uniform on, was another possibility for me to almost lose my life again. I was a target in the very community I swore to protect, the very community I wanted to help. As a matter of fact, they hated my very presence. They called me “Uncle Tom”, and “wanna be white boy”, and I couldn’t understand why. My own fellow black men and women attacking me, wishing for my death, wishing for the death of my family. I was so confused, so torn, I couldn’t understand why my own black people would turn against me, when every time they called …I was there. Every time someone died….I was there. Every time they were going through one of the worst moments in their lives…I was there.

                                                                      So why was I the enemy? I dove deep into that question…Why was I the enemy? Then my realization became clearer.

                                                                      I spoke to members of the community and listened to some of the complaints as to why they hated cops. I then did research on the facts. I also presented facts to these members of the community, and listened to their complaints in response. This is what I learned:

                                                                      Complaint: Police always targeting us, they always messing with the black man.
                                                                      Fact: A city where the majority of citizens are black (Baltimore for example) …will ALWAYS have a higher rate of black people getting arrested, it will ALWAYS have a higher rate of blacks getting stopped, and will ALWAYS have a higher rate of blacks getting killed, and the reason why is because a city with those characteristics will ALWAYS have a higher rate of blacks committing crime. The statistics will follow the same trend for Asians if you go to China, for Hispanics if you go to Puerto Rico, for whites if you go to Russia, and the list goes on. It’s called Demographics

                                                                      Complaint: More black people get arrested than white boys.
                                                                      Fact: Black People commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime. Data from the FBI shows that Nationwide, Blacks committed 5,173 homicides in 2014, whites committed 4,367. Chicago’s death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined. Chicago’s death toll from 2001–November, 26 2015 stands at 7,401. The combined total deaths during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2015: 4,815) and Operation Enduring Freedom/Afghanistan (2001-2015: 3,506), total 8,321.
                                                                      Complaint: Blacks are the only ones getting killed by police, or they are killed more.
                                                                      Fact: As of July 2016, the breakdown of the number of US Citizens killed by Police this year is, 238 White people killed, 123 Black people killed, 79 Hispanics, 69 other/or unknown race.

                                                                      Fact: Black people kill more other blacks than Police do, and there are only protest and outrage when a cop kills a black man. University of Toledo criminologist Dr. Richard R. Johnson examined the latest crime data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports and Centers for Disease Control and found that an average of 4,472 black men were killed by other black men annually between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2012. Professor Johnson’s research further concluded that 112 black men died from both justified and unjustified police-involved killings annually during this same period.

                                                                      Complaint: Well we already doing a good job of killing ourselves, we don’t need the Police to do it. Besides they should know better.

                                                                      The more I listened, the more I realized. The more I researched, the more I realized. I would ask questions, and would only get emotional responses & inferences based on no facts at all. The more killing I saw, the more tragedy, the more savagery, the more violence, the more loss of life of a black man at the hands of another black man….the more I realized.

                                                                      I haven’t slept well in the past few nights. Heartbreak weighs me down, rage flows through my veins, and tears fills my eyes. I watched my fellow officers assassinated on live television, and the images of them laying on the ground are seared into my brain forever. I couldn’t help but wonder if it had been me, a black man, a black cop, on TV, assassinated, laying on the ground dead,..would my friends and family still think black lives mattered? Would my life have mattered? Would they make t-shirts in remembrance of me? Would they go on tv and protest violence? Would they even make a Facebook post, or share a post in reference to my death?

                                                                      All of my realizations came to this conclusion. Black Lives do not matter to most black people. Only the lives that make the national news matter to them. Only the lives that are taken at the hands of cops or white people, matter. The other thousands of lives lost, the other black souls that I along with every cop, have seen taken at the hands of other blacks, do not matter. Their deaths are unnoticed, accepted as the “norm”, and swept underneath the rug by the very people who claim and post “black lives matter”.

                                                                      I realized that this country is full of ignorance, where an educated individual will watch the ratings-driven news media, and watch a couple YouTube video clips, and then come to the conclusion that they have all the knowledge they need to have in order to know what it feels like to have a bullet proof vest as part of your office equipment, “Stay Alive” as part of your daily to do list, and having insurance for your health insurance because of the high rate of death in your profession. They watch a couple videos and then they magically know in 2 minutes 35 seconds, how you are supposed to handle a violent encounter, which took you 6 months of Academy training, 2 – 3 months of field training, and countless years of blood, sweat, tears and broken bones experiencing violent encounters and fine tuning your execution of the Use of Force Continuum.

                                                                      I realized that there are even cops, COPS, duly sworn law enforcement officers, who are supposed to be decent investigators, who will publicly go on the media and call other white cops racist and KKK, based on a video clip that they watched thousands of miles away, which was filmed after the fact, based on a case where the details aren’t even known yet and the investigation hasn’t even begun.

                                                                      I realized that most in the African American community refuse to look at solving the bigger problem that I see and deal with every day, which is black on black crime taking hundreds of innocent black lives each year, and instead focus on the 9 questionable deaths of black men, where some were in the act of committing crimes.

                                                                      I realized that they value the life of a Sex Offender and Convicted Felon, [who was in the act of committing multiple felonies: felon in possession of a firearm-FELONY, brandishing and threatening a homeless man with a gun-Aggravated Assault in Florida: FELONY, who resisted officers who first tried to taze him, and WAS NOT RESTRAINED, who can be clearly seen in one of the videos raising his right shoulder, then shooting it down towards the right side of his body exactly where the firearm was located and recovered] more than the lives of the innocent cops who were assassinated in Dallas protecting the very people that hated them the most.

                                                                      I realized that they refuse to believe that most cops acknowledge that there are Bad cops who should have never been given a badge & gun, who are chicken shit and will shoot a cockroach if it crawls at them too fast, who never worked in the hood and may be intimidated. That most cops dread the thought of having to shoot someone, and never see the turmoil and mental anguish that a cop goes through after having to kill someone to save his own life. Instead they believe that we are all blood thirsty killers, because the media says so, even though the numbers prove otherwise.

                                                                      I realize that they truly feel as if the death of cops will help people realize the false narrative that Black Lives Matter, when all it will do is take their movement two steps backwards and label them domestic terrorist. I realized that some of these people, who say Black Lives Matter, are full of hate and racism. Hate for cops, because of the false narrative that more black people are targeted and killed. Racism against white people, for a tragedy that began 100’s of years ago, when most of the white people today weren’t even born yet. I realized that some in the African American community’s idea of “Justice” is the prosecution of ANY and EVERY cop or white man that kills or is believed to have killed a black man, no matter what the circumstances are.

                                                                      I realized the African American community refuses to look within to solve its major issues, and instead makes excuses and looks outside for solutions.

                                                                      I realized that a lot of people in the African American community lead with hate, instead of love. Division instead of Unity. Turmoil and rioting, instead of Peace. I realized that they have become the very entity that they claim they are fighting against.

                                                                      I realized that the very reasons I became a cop, are the very reasons my own people hate me, and now in this toxic hateful racially charged political climate, I am now more likely to die,... and it is still hard for me to understand…. to this day.

                                                                      Wow... Strong post! Each word just as important as the next... Food for thought.
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