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A lifetime of practice at being antisocial is finally paying off.

When used repeatedly until the victim is dead should at least deserve some consideration. More so when a physical interaction was entirely uncalled for in the first place. What 911 center responds to calls with the initial question "Is he black?". To me, he seemed confused but not intoxicated. Fully cooperated. He's then asked to walk a line that doesn't exist. Yet is does have an unstraight crack in the pavement along his path. Fully honest and open with the officers. Seems he is trying to understand his rights and whether or not to take a breathalyzer. Whic can easily be incriminating and why a lawyer typically advises you to not take, especially if you have been drink at all any time within the day. On probation, so he wants no part of a police interaction. THIS is where he changes his thinking. A black man, on probation. He's fucked in most places right here. The interaction alone, without any charges or consequence, can cost him dearly on the probation requirements. Depending on the jurisdiction, the minimal over the limit blow on the test, he could have received a minor citation and driven home if he left his car there. Which to some cops makes it a judgement call. IMO, he wasn't "drunk". He was fully interacting, direct, honest, eye contact, no slurring, no stumbling, no risk to anyone it would appear. Even addressed the officers by NAME. Fully aware. As soon as 2 cops take his hands, he flipping panics. This is where killed while being black comes in to play IMO. I don't personally understand or know this fear. I have friends that do. I at least can understand it. They had his ID, they knew who he was, knew he was on probation, and could have easily located and taken him into custody. Why did they need to kill him? He was no threat to them in any way when he was shot in the back and murdered. Most of the techniques cops use for restraint, work against the body. The body responds. It's not resisting when the natural human response is always to stop the pain the technique is causing. What it is, is the first charge of resisting arrest and justification of murder. 3 shots. In the back. Running away. With a useless piece of plastic. Taken from a clueless cop who doesn't understand how he just used his weapons. Anyway. Chokeholds should not be used either.

Well, a good start would be to require bodycams with audio on ALL cops. Make turning it off a firing offense. And one that revokes the qualified immunity (see my next point). Another good start would be to revoke the qualified immunity for any action that goes against department policy or regulation. For example, the cops on the scene at the McDonald shooting in Chicago falsified reports, changed witness statements and destroyed video from a nearby Burger King. Those actions should end up with the officers becoming personally liable. If the cops knew that they could be held personally responsible for what happened if they violate the rules, I would think the rules would be violated less.

it's relatively easy to have logs enabled on cameras to show when the power button is pressed. deliberately turning off a camera should be grounds for immediate dismissal. there are so many ways to handle this issue it is essentially just adherence to racist policies that is stopping progress. we have made some progress in the last 50 years, but not much. but hey, at least we don't have to look at that racist syrup any longer.

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When the police unions make officers believe they are immune from prosecution. airdvr, you need to look deeper into things. No one wants to have a fully neutered police force. Most folks want a smart, well qualified, well paid but smaller and demilitarized force. Unfortunately the "we can never give an inch lest the commie abortionist welfare queens who want to end Christmas" conservative faction, as always, don't want to give an inch.

I don't mind it when I see it. What pisses my off is people who post political stuff and then object when I comment in a way that disagrees. If you are going to post that stuff you should expect to have to defend it.

Stop thinking you are the best at everything and the whole world wants to be like you....and start learning from other countries.

So, there were no black men that could have played the part? Civil Activist Paul Robeson played Othello on Broadway in 1943. At that time it was said that no white man should ever play Othello again.