Big D Bangston
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ON CNN right now
S. Carolina officer charged w/ murder of a black man after video footage released
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I keep saying we need more minority cops that don't just look at black people as some innate threat and people tried to act like it wouldn't change anything.
Well...yeah, it would.
Cops are going to police. You can't change that.
But representation matters.
Kobes Two Jerseys
8 or 24 best player of the era
Being Black is the reason. Oscar Grant did not run. John Crawford did not run. Stop trying to justify why people are getting killed for no reason.
thenatural
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I just moved to this bytch three weeks ago and from what I've seen of N. Charleston, the prejudice and 'cism is strong towards the residents. I knew this was fishy when I saw the report but damn, this is terrible. RIP to Mr. Scott.
for wanting to do the greater good but they would have corrupted you or got you committed for not following protocol at best. At worst, Chris Dorner. There's no fixing the police force with anything short of complete overhaul. shyt was built on systemic oppression and no matter what you would have done, it wouldn't have matter shyt. For every 1 good cop, there's 10 bad ones. And I say that having a cousin who's a police officer in Miami Dade.
Cat piss martini
Veteran
if his death wasnt recorded it would
be business as usual for them peices of shyt.
be business as usual for them peices of shyt.
You need to.
Kobes Two Jerseys
8 or 24 best player of the era
Because they were Black men.
Because of their skin color.
What is about south carolina i been hearing this for years?
s3ven_LvLs
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/u...-charged-with-murder-in-black-mans-death.html
WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting and killing an apparently unarmed black man in the back while he ran away.
The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, had said he feared for his life because the man took his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday. A video, however, shows the officer firing eight times as the man — Walter L. Scott, 50 — fled.
The North Charleston mayor announced the state charges at a news conference Tuesday evening.
The shooting comes on the heels of high-profile incidents of police officers using lethal force in New York, Cleveland, Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere around the country. The deaths have sparked a national debate over whether police are too quick to use force, particularly in cases involving black men.
A White House task force has recommended a host of changes to the nation’s police policies, and President Obama dispatched Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., to cities around the country to try to improve police relations with minority neighborhoods.
North Charleston is the state’s third-largest city with a population of about 100,000. African-Americans make up about 47 percent of residents, and whites account for about 37 percent. The city police department is about 80 percent white, according to data collected by the Justice Department in 2007, the most recent period available.
“When you’re wrong, you’re wrong,” Mayor Keith Summey said of the shooting during the news conference. “And if you make a bad decision, don’t care if you’re behind the shield or just a citizen on the street, you have to live by that decision.”
Aint no way you can switch this around its in HD. Trying to figure out how to post the video now.
Video Link
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000003615939/video-shows-fatal-police-shooting.html
WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting and killing an apparently unarmed black man in the back while he ran away.
The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, had said he feared for his life because the man took his stun gun in a scuffle after a traffic stop on Saturday. A video, however, shows the officer firing eight times as the man — Walter L. Scott, 50 — fled.
The North Charleston mayor announced the state charges at a news conference Tuesday evening.
The shooting comes on the heels of high-profile incidents of police officers using lethal force in New York, Cleveland, Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere around the country. The deaths have sparked a national debate over whether police are too quick to use force, particularly in cases involving black men.
A White House task force has recommended a host of changes to the nation’s police policies, and President Obama dispatched Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., to cities around the country to try to improve police relations with minority neighborhoods.
North Charleston is the state’s third-largest city with a population of about 100,000. African-Americans make up about 47 percent of residents, and whites account for about 37 percent. The city police department is about 80 percent white, according to data collected by the Justice Department in 2007, the most recent period available.
“When you’re wrong, you’re wrong,” Mayor Keith Summey said of the shooting during the news conference. “And if you make a bad decision, don’t care if you’re behind the shield or just a citizen on the street, you have to live by that decision.”
Aint no way you can switch this around its in HD. Trying to figure out how to post the video now.Video Link
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000003615939/video-shows-fatal-police-shooting.html
