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blackspade

(10,056 posts)
Tue Aug 4, 2015, 03:54 PM Aug 2015

Another cop execution. This time a white kid in MI

African-Americans have been telling the rest of us for years, "your next."

And here it is; a white middle class 17 year old killed in a bullshit traffic stop.
Something that African-Americans have endured for decades (I'd say centuries in a general sense, but I'm talking specifically about traffic stops).

https://www.facebook.com/FilmingCops/videos/898894913478938/?fref=nf

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Another cop execution. This time a white kid in MI (Original Post) blackspade Aug 2015 OP
Please stop this NOW! nt. Stellar Aug 2015 #1
Let it go on too long HassleCat Aug 2015 #2
This will be at least the 61st unarmed white killed by U.S. police this year (2 were women). . . Journeyman Aug 2015 #3
WOW 683 total killed by police* this year at the link . This year it barely 1/2 over!! Person 2713 Aug 2015 #4
Absolutely needless and disgusting zebonaut Aug 2015 #5
Welcome to MI. roamer65 Aug 2015 #6
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
2. Let it go on too long
Tue Aug 4, 2015, 04:03 PM
Aug 2015

For years, black Americans told us we had a problem with cops. We mostly ignored them because, well, the cops were shooting them and not us. But now the situation is evolving. It's not cops against black people. It's cops against non-cops.

Journeyman

(15,031 posts)
3. This will be at least the 61st unarmed white killed by U.S. police this year (2 were women). . .
Tue Aug 4, 2015, 04:31 PM
Aug 2015

"at least" because data is hard to come by, the police being in control of it and all . . .

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
4. WOW 683 total killed by police* this year at the link . This year it barely 1/2 over!!
Tue Aug 4, 2015, 05:11 PM
Aug 2015


*Edit to add - in the United States

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
6. Welcome to MI.
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 05:54 PM
Aug 2015

Some of local backwater police and sheriffs are absolute nazi stormtroopers. You have to be very careful on traffic stops. Most are useless hacks who know very little about actual laws. They are about shakedowns and quota filling. In the more progressive areas of MI, they are sometimes a bit better but you still have to be careful.
I am not at all surprised one of them murdered this kid, not one bit.

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