2 officers shot at Dallas Texas police protest

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  1. bodyman5000 and 1

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    Being a certain skin color shouldn't make you seem more dangerous, but it does.

    Except it really doesn't. What does is riding around in an 83 cutty on hydraulics with weed smoke billowing out of the car. That is what seems to trigger the cops.
     
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    If that were true, a lot of my (white and Asian) high school classmates would be long dead.
     
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    Yes sir! And may I add, and do the confrontation in a way to reduce the probability of resistance. The resistance and the fear of resistance is getting these people shot.
     
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    I didn't do anything other than share a report.
     
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    The cops are not so judicious. The black folks have this legitimate complaint.

    All that BLM is really asking for is fair treatment.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tim-scott-pulled-over_us_5786bfffe4b08608d332eaa0

    Black GOP Senator Talks About Being Pulled Over By Police 7 Times In One Year

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/13/politics/tim-scott-police-racial-profiling/

    Black senator describes facing unfair scrutiny by police

     
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    I guess it was the picture you painted, the glutes in the air working the hammies! It might push aside all other thought.
     
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    You labeled it "startling," which means you found the comparison meaningful.
     
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    She wasn't very attractive, I can sneak a pic of some of the good ones but I just saw that playmate story, don't wanna be famous.
     
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    I guess we will not agree today. While I agreed changes should be made, the BLM is getting people riled up and the result is cops being killed.
    Their tactics do not target change by the powers that control the police they have an grievance with, they are simply out the raise hell in the street where ever they are.
     
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    Black senators are 18.5 times more likely to kill police officers than white senators.
     
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    Ah! click bait. But it is rather startling to think any people are 18.5 time more likely to kill a cop than anything else, don't you think?

    How likely are you to kill a cop vs anything you can think up? Any thing that gets you higher than .00x?
     
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    Despicable stuff! Get the changes to the Mayor and the Police chief immediately. But stop the bull shit in the streets getting the loonies wound tight!
    Cops are getting shot.

    Geez, I may pass the Senator this year. I have had six encounters with law enforcement already this first half the year. Probable the only reason for not more is the MarAzul is in the shipyard. I bet I pull even at least, with the trip to Port Townsend come up.
     
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    Well, it's a profession that includes combat at times. It's not very surprising to me that cops face death much more than any other group of people, possibly outside of military deployed to combat zones.

    Also, it bears noting that American society is among the most violent among Western democracries, which raises the risk factors for cops.
     
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    With the 10s of millions of criminally inclined black people and BLM inciting them to kill cops, there's not much cop killing going on. Looks more like not so criminally inclined (like the Black senator), and not inciting to kill cops.

    Especially with the absurd number of confrontations due to (black senator) being black.
     
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    Yes but 18.5 times! Perhaps they should just completely avoid the area where blacks are, faced with that stat.
     
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    I don't follow you sir. Far too many the way I would characterize it.
     
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    http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/data-police-racial-bias

    WHAT THE DATA REALLY SAYS ABOUT POLICE AND RACIAL BIAS
    Eighteen academic studies, legal rulings, and media investigations shed light on the issue roiling America.


    1. A study by a University of California, Davis professor found “evidence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Americans, in that the probability of being black, unarmed, and shot by police is about 3.49 times the probability of being white, unarmed, and shot by police on average.” Additionally, the analysis found that “there is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias observed in police shootings in this data set is not explainable as a response to local-level crime rates.”

    2. An independent analysis of Washington Post data on police killings found that, “when factoring in threat level, black Americans who are fatally shot by police are, in fact, less likely to be posing an imminent lethal threat to the officers at the moment they are killed than white Americans fatally shot by police.” According to one of the report’s authors, “The only thing that was significant in predicting whether someone shot and killed by police was unarmed was whether or not they were black. . . . Crime variables did not matter in terms of predicting whether the person killed was unarmed."

    (Hell, read the article, it blows MarAzul's statistics out of the water).
     
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    You don't follow, ok.

    If BLM is inciting black people to kill cops, you'd think there'd be hundreds, thousands, or even more cops killed by blacks.

    Or blacks aren't interested in killing cops. Including BLM.
     
  20. bodyman5000 and 1

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    Find me an article or study that takes into account that guns are black for the most part. So, cops would probably have a harder time being able to recognize a gun on a black guy.

    Black guys should all buy silver or chrome guns so they are more visible. It would be safer.
     

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