| Goatseye said: Are you giving incompetent public servants a pass for endangering people's lives without making positive ID of weapons? Cops are still supposed to be accountable for their actions. Just saying "I feared mylife" doesn't cut it. I don't care about the media. I react to what I see, which is propably the opposite of what you do apparaently. You're too concerned with the media and not enough of with your own interpretation. People are not following the media but reinvigorating their conviction from ages ago. Before the pass of civil rights act, people like you were indiferent/didn't believe black people's claim of mistreatment by law enforcement until videos of military and police dogs getting sicced on them. Before Rodney King beating in early 1990's claims of reocurring police brutality wasn't believed until the video surfaced and this time same thing happened and even with videos, the opposition to brutality claims are more formidable and persistant. |
This is really true. Because of the prevalent use the camera phone and social media, these incidents could be taken on camera without the police being able to stop the videos and posted. A lot of these incidents were very local to where they happen and if there was no video the story a lot of times would be very different. I have to agree that a lot of white people have been indifferent because its not you or those situations could never happen because they never experience what it feels like to have entire police force against you because of the color of your skin (this is not just black people). Even within this thread peopel still feel like these are just isolated incidents that only occur irregularly. Black people have come out many times concerning these issues and were ignored and people think suddently this stuff just started happening. This is not the media sensationlize these incidents, its the act that these incidents are getting caught on camera a lot more often then in the past.
