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Forums - Politics Discussion - Officer in Georgia says to woman during traffic stop: "We only kill black people"

Rogerioandrade on 31 August 2017

I think it was a stupid attempt to make a joke..... but his message was clear as water.

He was simply sarcastically joking about what the media says about him and his profession. It may not seem, but police people always suffer a brutal pressure when working. They have a risky job and they are always walking on the line of their own lives and the lives of the others (at least in my country, I say)

People these days.... never miss a chance to portray cops as the bad guys any little chance they have.



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TK-Karma on 31 August 2017
Mar1217 said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Obviously sarcastic. Is it acceptable to say? No. But this is what happens when you portray every cop as racist, violent, or bigots in power - ironically enough. 


JRPGfan on 31 August 2017

Bad Joke is bad.... lmao.
Its a form of sarcasm, and a joke to try and calm her down.

Still some would consider that bad form. I personally think this is okay.

Waste of money to investigate this sort of thing.



Superman4 on 31 August 2017
Brii said:
Superman4 said:
I think everyone is overreacting. He was attempting to make light of her comment and comfort her by joking about what the media has portrayed as fact and is clearly what was driving her fear of the police. This country is becoming a bunch of pussies that try and twist anything and everything into something that its not just so they can be outraged over something.

I don't think people are denying that the comment was made at least mostly in jest, but it is reflective of a pretty horrific and dissmissive attitude the police have to a group of people they are supposed to protect and serve. Those people already feel targeted and are wary of the police and this only validates a genuine fear that being stopped by a police officer might result in them being killed.

If the comment isn’t being denied as jest than the rest of your statement is clearly BS. Joking doesn’t make anything fact, it doesn’t mean that he won’t protect a black person or even make the same joke to them and change the race " We only kill white people ".  It doesn’t validate a fear, it validates the media portrayal of police violence against black people. 

 

I suppose you are one of those people who believe that the prison system is made up of a majority of black people because police are racist? That they didn’t actually commit whatever crime they are convicted of? 

There are definitely instances where the police act out of fear and kill someone for no reason, it happens to all races. When you look at high crime rate areas though, most of them are inner cities with a higher black population.  Take a city like Chicago, how many murders this week? How many of those murders happened in predominantly black neighborhoods? I suppose it’s some white guy going around killing people in black neighborhoods, or maybe the cops just targeting that area for no reason. I’m not saying that all races don’t commit crime or that all black people are criminals. I do however refuse to dismiss the fact that areas with predominantly black population seem to be areas with the highest crime rates, Baltimore and Chicago for instance.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers

 

 



Superman4 on 31 August 2017
VGPolyglot said:
Superman4 said:

And what is that?

They have weapons (gun, baton, pepperspray, etc.), they are in a position of immense authority (they can tell people to pull over, they can take away their freedom by arresting them, etc.), and there have been instances of them abusing their power.

Agreed, and that is why everyone needs to fight for gun rights and the right to defend themselves. We are giving police too much athourity over our lives and leaving ourselves defensless aginst them when they do decide to overstep their authority.  



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AngryLittleAlchemist on 31 August 2017
Superman4 said:
VGPolyglot said:

They have weapons (gun, baton, pepperspray, etc.), they are in a position of immense authority (they can tell people to pull over, they can take away their freedom by arresting them, etc.), and there have been instances of them abusing their power.

Agreed, and that is why everyone needs to fight for gun rights and the right to defend themselves. We are giving police too much athourity over our lives and leaving ourselves defensless aginst them when they do decide to overstep their authority.  

Jesus, not everything is about gun rights



Normchacho on 31 August 2017

So here's the thing, I am like 99% sure he was joking, but he still really shouldn't have said it.



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NobleTeam360 on 31 August 2017

Eh, sounds like he was being sarcastic. At most he'll probably be put on paid leave for a week or two; which I'm sure he'll love (getting paid and not working is the dream)



VGPolyglot on 31 August 2017
NobleTeam360 said:
Eh, sounds like he was being sarcastic. At most he'll probably be put on paid leave for a week or two; which I'm sure he'll love (getting paid and not working is the dream)

Actually, wouldn't being sarcastic make it worse? Because that'd mean he's just being sarcastic about only shooting blacks (i.e. they shoot non-blacks too), which would make her even more scared



Goatseye on 31 August 2017
Superman4 said:
I think everyone is overreacting. He was attempting to make light of her comment and comfort her by joking about what the media has portrayed as fact and is clearly what was driving her fear of the police. This country is becoming a bunch of pussies that try and twist anything and everything into something that its not just so they can be outraged over something.

I think pussies are people that bury their heads in the sand and trivialize lives of a whole group of people due to their prejudice. There are people out there that wear uniform and badge and have no fear of killing black people because they can say "I feared for my life".

I seen less inocent civilians being killed in Iraq in 1 year, in direct engagement, than in the US last year.