Jiggyfly
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Very true.
And the Dallas police department should be a model for all policing they are doing great things.
Which makes it all the more sad that this had to happen to them.
Very true.
Wow, just so damn sad. Those people will never ever be the same.Shetamia Taylor, the 37-year-old woman who helped protect her four sons from bullets during an ambush-style shooting on police at a protest march in Dallas, broke down into tears today as she told the story of how she survived the carnage of that night.
Taylor said she heard two gunshots when the shooting began Thursday night, and then saw an officer fall to the ground.
"He said, 'He has a gun, run,'" Taylor recalled, before choking up with tears.
"I was running behind them and I felt the bullet in the back of my leg," she said, pausing to gather her emotions. "My son went to grab me but I was already shot so I grabbed him and lay on top of him. Police asked was anybody hit, because he didn't know I was shot. I said yes, but not loud enough because I didn't want my son to hear. The officer got on top of me and covered me and my son. Another cop [was] at my feet and another [stood] by us and they protected us. I saw another officer get shot in front of me."
Taylor said that a the majority of the officers who shielded her were white, and said the experience made her "admiration for police greater," while acknowledging that she always admired the efforts of law enforcement.
Officials say Micah Xavier Johnson killed five police officers and wounded seven others during the shooting Thursday night. Johnson was eventually killed when police sent a bomb-carrying robot into the building where he was holed up, after negotiations to get him to surrender failed, police said.
"Why would he do that?" Taylor said, fighting tears.
"I've never heard anything like that before," she said of the shooting. "Hundreds of rounds. There were shots all around us. I'm thankful for the police because they had no regard for their life and protected us."
Taylor said that she decided to bring her children to the protest after speaking about the police shooting deaths of two black men, Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Throughout the press conference, she struck a balance between acknowledging the need to protest such incidents and expressing her gratitude to the police for their help in saving her life and the life of her children.
"I'm so thankful," she said, referring to the police. She said she "never stopped praying" for the safety of her four boys.
"Thank you for being heroes," she said to police today.
In one affecting moment, Taylor recalled being in the hospital, and hearing that her children had survived the shooting, only to overhear an officer tell another officer that a colleague had died.
"I saw an officer tell another officer that an officer didn't make it, and I [was] celebrating my kids," she said, stopping to hang her head and weep. "[Celebrating] my kids being alive.
"It hurt," she said, referring to news of the officer's death.
So, what...PTSD made him do it?The gunman who killed five police officers in Dallas, identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, displayed a noticeable change in behavior after being discharged from the U.S. Army in 2015, the shooter’s parents told TheBlaze in an exclusive interview set to air later this week.
So now I can go around and yell "WHITE POWER!" because, you know, it's just a slogan and stuff. It's not like it's tied to any hate groups or such!I never defended the group BLM I defended the slogan, your ability to understand that shows how hypersensetive you are.
No I didn't ignore you pussyfooting around the issue and refusing to call this so called "movement" what it really is: a hate group.I see you also ignored that I said several times the movement is currently a negative on the ongoing issue and should be replaced.
So actually debate something I actually said instead of accusing me of doing something I have not done.
I have already called out BLM how do you keep missing that?So now I can go around and yell "WHITE POWER!" because, you know, it's just a slogan and stuff. It's not like it's tied to any hate groups or such!
No I didn't ignore you pussyfooting around the issue and refusing to call this so called "movement" what it really is: a hate group.
Who's really the hypersensitive one here??
You're so damn sensitive about going against your own race that you can't even call them out for what they are!
In reference to your other reply, I know what she said. If you want to prove me wrong, you pull up the transcript of what she said.
And yes our president does weigh in on every matter concerning race. I don't need to see why he says the things he does because I already know why. It's because he's a race baiting piece of crap wh has done nothing but divide this country.
But yet you're gonna defend everything he does. Why?? Because you happen to share the same skin color!
Andrew Jackson was a white man from my home state of Tennessee but that doesn't stop me from calling him out on being a bigot who is responsible for the Trail of Tears and he damn near bankrupted this country.
See how easy it is?
Grow a set and call things what they are.
Why you have such an issue with here believing in the American dream is beyond me, she did not only use slaves as an example.Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come. (Applause.) That is how you will do your part to live up to the oath that you all will take here today –- the oath taken by generations of graduates before you to make your city and your world “greater, better, and more beautiful.”
More than anything else, graduates, that is the American story. It’s your story and the story of those who came before you at this school. It’s the story of the son of Polish immigrants named Jonas Salk who toiled for years in a lab until he discovered a vaccine that saved countless lives. It’s the story of the son of immigrant -- Jamaican immigrants named Colin Powell who became a four star general, Secretary of State, and a role model for young people across the country.
And, graduates, it’s the story that I witness every single day when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters –- two beautiful, black young women -– head off to school -- (applause) -- waving goodbye to their father, the President of the United States, the son of a man from Kenya who came here to American -- to America for the same reasons as many of you: To get an education and improve his prospects in life.
So, graduates, while I think it’s fair to say that our Founding Fathers never could have imagined this day, all of you are very much the fruits of their vision. Their legacy is very much your legacy and your inheritance. And don’t let anybody tell you differently. You are the living, breathing proof that the American Dream endures in our time. It’s you.
I am becoming more sympathetic to the victims in these cases as time goes by, but I don't get the outrage here. Cops aren't allowed to take note of and make IDs based on unique facial features because of their association with stereotypes? Have you seen the guy's nose? It is pretty wide by any standard.And here we go again.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/07/08/confirmed-philando-castile-was-an-armed-robbery-suspect-false-media-narrative-now-driving-cop-killings/
This was the mindset of the officer when he pulled over the guy in Minny.
Discrimination!!!I am becoming more sympathetic to the victims in these cases as time goes by, but I don't get the outrage here. Cops aren't allowed to take note of and make IDs based on unique facial features because of their association with stereotypes? Have you seen the guy's nose? It is pretty wide by any standard.
How old are you and when were you specifically suffering these historical ills? At some point we need to recognize history and then work to get over it. I understand years of police treated minority people poorly and I also know the history of minorities in police work. I can't do anything about the historical past other than acknowledge it existed, same with slavery and segregation. But for most black people to wallow in the sorrow of history and make as if they are owed anything other than the same chance as other to make something of themselves is BS. None of us were promised happiness by living in this country, only the pursuit of it.That's not the only concern it was one example.
And if you don't understand how enslavement and then 100 years of segregation and systematic discrimination and oppression would affect my life I don't know what to tell you.
I guess in your mind once the Civil War was over everybody was playing under the same rules.
Hey man. Why ya gotta be so hypersensitive??How old are you and when were you specifically suffering these historical ills? At some point we need to recognize history and then work to get over it. I understand years of police treated minority people poorly and I also know the history of minorities in police work. I can't do anything about the historical past other than acknowledge it existed, same with slavery and segregation. But for most black people to wallow in the sorrow of history and make as if they are owed anything other than the same chance as other to make something of themselves is BS. None of us were promised happiness by living in this country, only the pursuit of it.
My outrage mostly is with the overall attempt to paint this guy as a thug from that blog.I am becoming more sympathetic to the victims in these cases as time goes by, but I don't get the outrage here. Cops aren't allowed to take note of and make IDs based on unique facial features because of their association with stereotypes? Have you seen the guy's nose? It is pretty wide by any standard.
Even still there's some leeway there. I know a guy who is about my height and weight, but it's all muscle and he has the jawline of a Disney prince. Good guy overall, but people trip over themselves to do stuff for him. I think being a handsome and athletic looking dude is an advantage on par with whiteness, in some ways. Plenty of non-white members of Baylor football program can attest to that.I would be interested to see stats for average wages and conviction rates for white males over 5'10" and under 200 lbs versus everyone else.
That about sums it up, no need to add anything.. That's the whole point of it and it's been shrouded in this whole BLM thing. Going back to Rodney King and before, If a black person's action are the same as a white persons, police will treat white person will more patience and less physical aggression. Police supposedly enter encounters with black people more amped up, causing police to escalate reaction quicker.
police interaction just a small piece of it and less significant piece of it. However, it's one that dominates social attention because it's so tangible. The bigger piece of it is general perception, education and gentrification. In the workplace, the black person (or woman, for that matter) has to be awesome to compete with a so-so white male. For Asians, it's become accepted to be a doctor or computer engineer, but it's 'who are you kidding' if Asian wants to be something else. In a hoity toity restaurant, don't put black couples by the window cuz its bad for business.
Then em you get into dark-skinned black people vs lighter-skinned black people. Kerry Washington, Halle Berry considered more readily acceptable beautiful while darker actresses (can't think of one right now) don't get the makeup and shampoo ads. Will smith and Denzel Washington get the big paycheck, etc etc.
Not saying I agree with any of it, all of it, but what's public discourse now has completely bastardized the original intent and more fundamental discussion.
I think this 1984 Eddie Murphy SNL skit is more effective than anything BLM. "What a silly negro" LOL
http://www.hulu.com/watch/10356
The scary part is the whole thing is an escalating situation. White officer shoots black man during investigation. So then black people start acting more hostile during investigation encounters. Which then causes officers to approach investigation with black men as hostile in advance. Wash, rinse and repeat. The situation just sort of gets worse and worse.. That's the whole point of it and it's been shrouded in this whole BLM thing. Going back to Rodney King and before, If a black person's action are the same as a white persons, police will treat white person will more patience and less physical aggression. Police supposedly enter encounters with black people more amped up, causing police to escalate reaction quicker.
This has been a point of mine all along. How about let's just fix police brutality? Not just police brutality against black people.The scary part is the whole thing is an escalating situation. White officer shoots black man during investigation. So then black people start acting more hostile during investigation encounters. Which then causes officers to approach investigation with black men as hostile in advance. Wash, rinse and repeat. The situation just sort of gets worse and worse.
I wish people would stop injecting race into the issue but clearly it is too late for that now. I think the insertion of race into the issue is what really causes things to escalate. I also despise the fact that people need to feel like they have to pick a side. Like you either support black lives matter or blue lives matter. It's ridiculous. No one is right when innocent people are being murdered and I don't think you should be valuing one innocent person's life over another.