Air fresheners are illegal in Minnesota

[volinbham]

Are you saying people get angry when cops murder unarmed civilians?

the appropriate response is the loot a liquor store.

On a positive note, the leader of BLM will probably get another house out of this

 

[volinbham]

wonder how she felt about the National Guard protecting the Capitol?

 

[allvol123]

No more incarceration? Yeah that’s gonna work. What an idiot.

Minnesota should be the test site.

 

[volinbham]

snark aside - this is a tragedy for the victim and his family

 

[volinbham]

Minnesota should be the test site.

her neighborhood specifically

 

[Franklin Pierce]

BCA Identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting

Monday night, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension identified the officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center Sunday.

The BCA identified the long-time veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department as Officer Kim Potter.

BCA identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting

 

[Tyler Durden]

BCA Identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting

Monday night, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension identified the officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center Sunday.

The BCA identified the long-time veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department as Officer Kim Potter.

BCA identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting

I don't think this was an overtly racist act like we've seen with a lot of the other murders that cops have committed. This seems like the culmination in a series of events where someone who barely graduates high school and only has the options of working in a factory or becoming a cop, buckles under pressure, and ends up killing someone because they forgot where their taser was. A perfect example of why we need less and less cops. We are giving people on the bottom of the intellectual totem pole the tools to kill people and they can't even remember where their taser is.

 

[golfballs]

I've never understood this line of thinking. If you don't give a **** about other folks' problems, why go out of your way to comment that you don't give a ****?

Because too many people are trying to heap this at the feet of the rest of us.

 

[volinbham]

I don't think this was an overtly racist act like we've seen with a lot of the other murders that cops have committed. This seems like the culmination in a series of events where someone who barely graduates high school and only has the options of working in a factory or becoming a cop, buckles under pressure, and ends up killing someone because they forgot where their taser was. A perfect example of why we need less and less cops. We are giving people on the bottom of the intellectual totem pole the tools to kill people and they can't even remember where their taser is.

For the bolded - you know nothing about her intellect or options.

For the "less and less cops" it's easy to say from your privileged world but overwhelming majority of people who live in high crime areas want more not less.

 

[golfballs]

the appropriate response is the loot a liquor store.

On a positive note, the leader of BLM will probably get another house out of this

The summer of looting has returned.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

The summer of looting has returned.

Just getting started.

 

[zeppelin128]

Because too many people are trying to heap this at the feet of the rest of us.

"Rest of us"? Who is blaming you for this?

 

[golfballs]

"Rest of us"? Who is blaming you for this?

Please

 

[golfballs]

Boost Mobile and Dollar Tree BTFO

 

[Franklin Pierce]

the appropriate response is the loot a liquor store.

On a positive note, the leader of BLM will probably get another house out of this

BLM received at least $90 Million. Which crooks pocketed the rest?

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

I don't think this was an overtly racist act like we've seen with a lot of the other murders that cops have committed. This seems like the culmination in a series of events where someone who barely graduates high school and only has the options of working in a factory or becoming a cop, buckles under pressure, and ends up killing someone because they forgot where their taser was. A perfect example of why we need less and less cops. We are giving people on the bottom of the intellectual totem pole the tools to kill people and they can't even remember where their taser is.

Have they even told us what the warrants were for?

 

[508mikey]

Joe is talking Biden calls for 'peace and calm' in the wake of Daunte Wright's fatal encounter with police in Minnesota

 

[NEO]

Basic cultural geography, obviously.

Northeast is considered "the north," populated by yankees. MN, WI and the like are midwestern states with bigger differences from yankees than southerners.

Live in Ohio and West Virginia and both considered themselves northerners.

The northeast is the north. The midwest is the north. Two different cultures but both are the north.

Yankees are yankees.

It's like saying coastal south isn't deep south so they arent southern.

Both our southern but NC coast is very different than Mississippi.

We are both nitpicking here but that's what we do.

 

[lukeneyland]

Given the recently acquired information, who cares?

If he was wanted for murder or something heinous then it makes a difference but what is this information you are referencing?

 

[lukeneyland]

Live in Ohio and West Virginia and both considered themselves northerners.

The northeast is the north. The midwest is the north. Two different cultures but both are the north.

Yankees are yankees.

It's like saying coastal south isn't deep south so they arent southern.

Both our southern but NC coast is very different than Mississippi.

We are both nitpicking here but that's what we do.

Since when has West Virginia been considered the North?

 

[AM64]

I've said the entire time this is not a race problem... it is a police problem. Police are shooting the s#^t out of white folks, too. And POC cops are just as bad as non-POC. It has far more to do with the culture and the training... and maybe even with the personality traits of the individuals that are drawn to that line of work.

We need to demilitarize cops - back way up from the 9/11 kneejerk reaction that started an even more toxic culture in police departments. It's a tough job, not one I'd want, and apparently too many people become cops for the power trip. I'd start with cars brightly painted in the yellow and blue style like Europeans, and the reflective uniforms used there, too. Less equipment on the belt might help with the misidentification of weapons.

Another great example is the traffic stop of an Army LT in uniform in VA. I'd argue that his one transgression other than possibly speeding or whatever got their attention was the temporary tag behind a too tinted rear window. Other than that, he drove to a lighted spot and stopped, and the cops handled it completely wrong from there. No excuses for that kind of performance. The cops acted like rabid pit bulls.

 

[NEO]

Since when has West Virginia been considered the North?

Since it seceded from Virginia and starting shooting Confederates.

 

[AM64]

That right there seems to happen more often than police officers like to have happen .... it's a grave mistake.
Tasers are worn too close to their fire arms on their uniforms ..... that needs to change somehow.

Simplify the belt and equipment - quit trying to replicate the wild west. Sounds like it was all to complex for this one to handle.

 

[lukeneyland]

We need to demilitarize cops - back way up from the 9/11 kneejerk reaction that started an even more toxic culture in police departments. It's a tough job, not one I'd want, and apparently too many people become cops for the power trip. I'd start with cars brightly painted in the yellow and blue style like Europeans, and the reflective uniforms used there, too. Less equipment on the belt might help with the misidentification of weapons.

Another great example is the traffic stop of an Army LT in uniform in VA. I'd argue that his one transgression other than possibly speeding or whatever got their attention was the temporary tag behind a too tinted rear window. Other than that, he drove to a lighted spot and stopped, and the cops handled it completely wrong from there. No excuses for that kind of performance. The cops acted like rabid pit bulls.

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I’m torn. Some of the parts of town and incidents I’ve experienced the last 5 or so years has made me more understanding of why the cops are so violent sometimes. On the other hand I’ve seen my dad on the other end of a jerk cop on a power trip and it wasn’t fun and I’ll never forget it.

 

[lukeneyland]

Since it seceded from Virginia and starting shooting Confederates.

They still produced a fair few confederates themselves. Stone Wall was from what would become West Virginia. They sound more like us than the damned Yankees do