Single mothers in predominantly black neighborhoods doing an awful job of raising male children and leaving the problem to the cops.
Yeah... I hear you. I know enough to understand the issue of the harm this causes on society and the burden it puts on cops. Some of these young women just keep pumping out kids without any regard for society when these kids grow up to be less than stellar individuals.
All that does is underscore the need to adjust the police force accordingly. Like I said before... more training... better screening... more accountability... more use of non-lethal, incapacitating weapons... mandatory body cams for every cop. Like you said... education (on both sides).... more controlled interactions between police and civilians.... etc. All good and worthy ideas.
By the way, I saw the Larry Elder video on Kaepernick and Nike. Interesting fellow, this Elder guy. Obviously it all depends where we get our information/videos from, doesn't it. Elder obviously has a VERY big bone to pick with Kaepernick, for whatever reason. I care not that he's black. He can be just as biased as any white guy. But again.... I saw ONE video of Kaepernick speaking and all he said was what I've seen written over and over again. He's protesting the tragic incidents between white cops and black young men. Oh... and the studies cited. Well... I don't need to see a study to tell me that shooting a black guy 16 times, most of them while he's lying on the pavement..... (and then LYING about the whole damn incident).... is MURDER. Oh wait... the guy had a knife in his hand. I guess that changes everything.
The cop shot from about 10 feet away (imminent danger from a guy NOT walking towards him with a knife in his hand). The first shot dropped him... so I guess the other 15 were just to make sure.
I don't know all the other incidents by heart, so I'll just stop there. I do remember the guy who got shot in the back while RUNNING AWAY from the cop, who then shot him several times, killing him. Thank God for the bystander with the phone camera, huh?
Before you list the "other" incidents where the cop was probably justified in using lethal force, I really don't want to go there. ONE incident is more than enough to show there is a problem within some of the police forces in the U.S.
But back to Kaepernick. Excuse my ignorance, please. But until I see a video of Kaepernick HIMSELF calling for communism or any of the other "demands" you listed as BLM demands..... I guess I'll just have to go by what I myself hear and see. Until I see or hear a video of Kaepernick asking Nike to remove the Betsy Ross flag from its tennis shoe, I guess I'll keep on believing that Colin Kaepernick is just a young black guy fed up with all the same stories I'm fed up with.
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