Well, not many people want to be policemen now, why would they? That’s pretty much what you’re going to get, we have to have them… It, like nursing, is a pretty much thankless job, and people are leaving by the droves… as GenX we are probably going to be all taking care of ourselves in the hospitals and assisted livings at some point.. we morbidly joke about it a lot
No offense LadyVol but if those five 200 lb trained cops had wanted to cuff the 150 pound skateboarder when they first pulled him from the car, they could have easily and put him in a car and it would have been over. Didn’t matter if he resisted or not. From what I saw he was on the ground for a good while before he got up and ran. For whatever reason, they wanted to punish him and they did. I think we’ll eventually find out what that reason is. Personally I think they were keeping an eye out for him near his mother’s house and found him. The location is pretty coincidental.
Not sure. I think they would have probably finished the job when they first had him down but he somehow got up and away from them. If that’s the case, the cops were careless. That just made them madder than they already were. Or they let him up to run so they had some excuse to use more force when they got to him the second time. Hard to say. Personally I don’t think they were smart enough to come up with the latter theory that quickly. We aren’t dealing with rocket scientists here.
I don't think your a smartbutt at all and appreciate the discussion. As Delmar said.....why was he not cuffed in the beginning? Who knows. Something else running around my head, alot of space in there so.....lol. if this scorpion unit is to take violent criminals off the street, wouldn't they know who those criminals are? At least the major players? Did they have Tyre under some sort of surveillance before hand? Not in ANY way saying Tyre was doing anything illigal! But wouldn't they have a list of suspects to watch for? If not and this was a random incident, then why escalate it to beating someone to death? Just watched the mom on CNN and the pain she feels in overwhelming! No way this should happen like it did.
Race is the easy lazy answer, because certain subsets of American society want to live in the past instead of moving into the 21 century. Its hard to move forward when you hold yourself back.Just throwing this out there, but it seems to me a lot of the time, problems and situations are less race driven, but more socioeconomically driven, and that may be a less charged angle to look at things? Idk…the article I saw where they were accusing the black police officers of being racist…I don’t really know because I’m not black…but, I was the only white person at my job ,with the exception of one other person in Louisiana for eight years, and my step father in law was black (he died), while I don’t think it gives me any type of qualifications lol, I think it does give me some interesting perspective.. I felt hostility from some, not all, on the job initially, and that’s a fact… with my FIL there were never any issues, except when we would all go somewhere, and it was usually from… get this…black women lol.. but nothing major
Last night we watched ‘You People’.. Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy.. produced and directed Jonah Hill, normally not my cup of tea lol… but the movie did have some really interesting points.. one analogy was that for some black people it was kind of like they were the wife who was cheated on, they wanted to perseverate, know the details, pick at the scab, but could never go forward because they really had not healed from it.. I thought that was interesting.. some of the movie was like really?
but overall it was a pretty good movie (and just confirmed my previous theory as a GenXer, it’s really better to not dwell on it all of the time and make it such a big deal and just treat people the same and really try to not see color)..so simple, yet we have been told that is wrong lol… and now it is right again
You have to wonder though, all parties know you are recorded.. and this happens? Doesn’t make sense