‘Act Like a Thug, Die Like One’ -New Orleans Police Officer

[pokerfan]

What about when police act like thugs?

This certainly isn’t going to do much to help the reputation of police in the black community:

A New Orleans police officer under investigation in a recent police-involved fatal shooting has been suspended indefinitely without pay for posting intemperate remarks on an online news story, suggesting that a young man wearing a hooded sweatshirt deserved to die because he “acted like a thug.” Officer Jason Giroir posted “Act like a Thug Die like one!” on an online WWL-TV article posted Sunday about local citizens rallying to protest the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old Florida boy who was killed Feb. 26 while wearing a hooded sweatshirt and walking through a gated community.

Anyone wondering why African Americans don’t think they’re treated fairly by police?

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40119_New_Orleans_Police_Officer_on_Trayvon-_Act_Like_a_Thug_Die_Like_One

[freshwest]

1. It's 2012. Let it all out hang out folks. Don't hold back. Tell us who you really are.

[pokerfan]

4. Obviously walking while black is thuggish behavior (nt)

[Rex]

5. Walking? It seems like for some just breathing

is too much! This is the worst coverup I've ever seen.

[freshwest]

6. Black thuggery goes back to the womb according to them. Why else call their moms welfare cheats?

Unworthy and unloved throughout life, after birth, before birth, from conception, you get the idea. Or they should not exist.

When I was kid, I heard this mantra,'They should all be shipped back to Africa.' Since I didn't want to be 'shipped back to England,' that never made much sense to me, instead I advised people to learn to live with it.

The black race has been made the eternal boogeyman. That's just projection. All the sins that imaginable, are laid at their door.

This is a youtube version of an violent racist incident. The voice sync is all off. According to comments of youtube's critics, it stinks, too politically correct, etc. I thought it delved into the emotions pretty well:

The Twilight Zone: Shades of Guilt

Part 1

Part 2

It's a Hollywood version, faster than the 1961 book, Black Like Me. That wasn't violent, but was a character study.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me

I found this on youtube. I watched a little, but couldn't watch it all, as it was too close to memory and hurtful:

Shame AKA The Intruder is a 1962 film from the public domain that stars William Shatner. a man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up racial trouble, trouble he soon finds he can't control...

Okay, I'll leave these for you.

[CakeGrrl]

2. Sounds like Geraldo's soulmate.

But let them all keep outing themselves as they trip over each other trying to excuse Zimmerman.

[likesmountains 52]

3. He did get suspended for his post. That is a glimmer of hope.

http://www.wwl.com/pages/12654356.php?contentType=4&contentId=10268135

[BlueIris]

7. Just once, I would like a police officer to behave properly. nt