Police Union President Calls Black Lives Matter Protesters 'a Pack of Rabid Animals'

[Aeolus451]

palou said:

Aeolus451 said:
Ugh... BLM should learn to protest cases of legitimate unjustified shootings and perhaps focus on things that are actual threats to black people. Rioting and protesting justified shooting is just making them look really silly.

Some would argue that US cops shoot MUCH more than necessary. In 2015 (latest stats), US cops killed around 342 people per million. In Germany, that's 12, 5 for the UK and 4 for France.

 

Though I'd agree that it's unproductive to make the issue race-related.

The US has alot higher levels of crime (there's guns too) in comparison to germany or france so that comparison is useless in this. The main reason why people get shot by cops is because they do things that justify that reaction from a cop. There's alot of misinformation about cops and laws that leads to the situations. Somewhere idiots got the idea that cops are out to get them and that resisting cops is a good idea. Romanticizing the "resist the cops" is what is getting people killed.