Re:Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council
by pjc50 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:44AM
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> charged with murder/manslaughter
.. and then acquitted. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/white-tulsa-officer-is...
> the US' entire justice system to be racist against black people
I believe that's a key part of the BLM argument, yes.
Re:Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council
by fastball on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @10:46AM
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The Tulsa County District Court jury of eight women and four men, including at least four black jurors
Jury decisions need to be unanimous, so at least four black people thought this woman was not guilty of manslaughter. A truly outrageous verdict from a truly racist justice system.I'd also like to point out that, although unarmed, the victim was high on PCP at the time of the shooting, and PCP is nothing to joke about. It causes erratic and often dangerous behaviour.
Case in point: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-high-pcp-shows-s...
The idea that there are cops on safari hunting black people is a fundamentally absurd notion. When it is clear that the officer was involved in a "bad shoot", those officers are removed from duty and charged with murder/manslaughter. If you can point me to one that was not, I'd be very interested to learn more. However, it is often difficult to determine a bad shoot from a "good" one, which is the primary issue.
Cops disproportionately target black Americans because black Americans commit a disproportionate percentage of the crime in America. And you don't need to stop at the overall crime rate, you can look at how black Americans kill a disproportionate number of cops.
And according to the 2010 US Census [2], the racial split in the US was: I think the numbers speak for themselves. Do these numbers justify cops killing unarmed civilians that pose no threat? OF COURSE NOT. But that is almost never the case. Remember, cops are not the military (they are not tried in internal military tribunals), and they do not have immunity. At the end of the day, it is up to the DA to bring charges against a police officer, and the DA will usually not bring said charges if that DA does not think he/she can prove in a court of law that it was a bad shoot. So yes, there are racist cops. But that should only be a crisis if you believe the US' entire justice system to be racist against black people.[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/01/...
[2] - https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf