Charles Kinsey (c. 1969- ), a behavioural therapist and father of five, is an unarmed Black man shot by US police with his hands up. This was in North Miami, Florida on July 18th 2016. He was shot in the leg and is expected to recover.
The police say they got a call about an armed male who said he was going to kill himself. The caller and several witnesses saw a gun. They arrived and saw two men. They could not hear what they were saying.
“At some point during the on-scene negotiation, one of the responding officers discharged his weapon.”
Police found no gun at the scene. One of the men “was later identified as suffering from autism.” Police will not say who “discharged his weapon” or what his race is, just that he is from a SWAT team and had an assault rifle.
Kinsey says he thought he was safe: his hands were up! He feared for his patient, Rinaldo, a 23-year-old autistic man who was sitting in the middle of the street playing with a white toy truck instead of listening to police. When police shot Kinsey they said they did not know why. They handcuffed him and let him lie there to bleed for 20 minutes before taking him to the hospital.
Citizen video shows Kinsey lying on his his back with his hands up. At his feet is Rinaldo, sitting in the middle of the street, not seeming to understand what is going on. Some distance away behind a telephone pole is a police officer.
KINSEY (to Rinaldo): Lay on your stomach.
RINALDO (shouting): Shut up. Shut up, you idiot.
KINSEY (to police): Can I get up now? Can I get up? All he has is a toy truck in his hand. A toy truck. I am a behavioural therapist at a group home. That’s all it is. That’s all it is. There is no need for guns.
POLICE (shouting to Rinaldo): Let me see your hands. Get on the
ground. Get on the ground.RINALDO: *continues playing with his truck.*
KINSEY: Rinaldo, please be still. Sit down, Rinaldo. Lay on your
stomach.
The video cuts out, but when it comes back you can hear three shots.
Hilton Napoleon, Kinsey’s lawyer, says:
“As you can see in the video, he did everything he thought he had to do and then some …and still got shot.”
“That toy truck does not come close to looking like a gun. The officers had more than enough time to look and make a determination and not just base it on what they heard on the telephone.”
He notes that no one got up or approached the officers, that shooting three times shows it was “not an accident.”
He thinks the police may have been on edge because of the Dallas and Baton Rouge shootings.
Kinsey wants the police officer fired.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is looking into the case.
Thanks to Origin and Herneith for telling me about this shooting.
– Abagond, 2016.
Sources: mainly the Washington Post, Miami Herald, Heavy.com.
See also:
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I’m so damned tired…
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You know what…You probably thing that black people would be surprised at seeing this…..Nope!
What i find interesting is that the police was more interested in shooting and killing the only person that was following their orders and had hands raised with nothing in his hand, than the white looking man that wasn’t following their orders and insulting them the entire time.
Black people…The time has come for a mass exodus, out of America.
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The officer, needs to be fired and charged with attempted murder.
Everybody on the scene needs to be brought up on charges. Even those who did nothing in the man’s defense.
They allowed the therapist to be injured, abs brought harm his way, and endangered the young man with autism.
I think police when they break a law,should be punished to the fullest.
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Ugh, this is absolutely outrageous and vomit inducing. He was complying and these mofos still shot him. WOW!
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Update, cops say they were trying to shoot the autistic kid. Apparently they were trying to protect Mr. Kinsley from the autistic man sitting on the ground with the toy truck.
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@sparger…Yeah right {smmfh}.
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It’s official, if it has been already. Being black in America is hazardous to your health. SMH.
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@sparger:
I’m not buying that crap for one minute. that cop was aiming for the black man.
Black people, lets start leaving to where they’ve so often have suggested, back to Africa. @ : o x ) >
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@Joe
I deleted your comment about Ted Cruz. It is off topic here.
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It surreal.
“It took less than 24 hours for a police union president to spin the story of how a North Miami police officer shot a man with his hands in the air.”
“The cop was actually trying to kill the autistic man holding the toy truck in order to prevent him from killing his caretaker with the toy truck.”
(https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/07/21/north-miami-police-meant-kill-autistic-man-instead-injuring-caretaker/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Cop%20Block&utm_content=North%20Miami%20Police%20Meant%20to%20Kill%20Autistic%20%20Man%20Instead%20of%20Injuring%20Caretaker)
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It is all too easy to focus our ire exclusively on the police as an organization. I would urge everyone zoom out and look at how the media and the legal system are working with the police.
As the police target Black people with greater and greater violence, the media has been pushing a narrative of the “heroic” cops under threat. What is the desired end result of this propaganda push? I think the end game is to demonize and discredit non-violent protesters while the police continue their deadly rampage.
This came to mind today when I saw a news segment on ABC news about “hero” cops on Times Square. Some dimwit threw a bundle of junk into a police car and the police freaked out. The police used this incident to promote a propaganda line of themselves as victims and saviors of the general public.
This image captures the smug satisfaction among the police about the way the media was handling the story:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/nypd-cops-hailed-heroes-bomb-scare-nyc/story?id=40764475
Then there is the role played by the legal system. The continued lack of legal consequences for the police in the legal system for their crimes have pushed the rule of law over a cliff. Trust and respect were shoved over a long time ago. It is an indication of how degraded our society is that no one at the top sees that as a problem.
Unfettered violence supported by propaganda as a means of control can work for a long, long time. Yet, even violence has its limitations. The same goes for even the most sophisticated propaganda. I am reminded of the East German Stazi who ruled East Germany with ruthless violence, intrusive surveillance and smothering propaganda. When their system collapsed, all of their means of control were powerless to prevent the collapse.
John Whitehead, a rightwing, Christian writer that I rarely agree with made the the observation that changing the behavior of militarized police and government officials would take more than anguished reactions and words. According to Whitehead:
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/there_will_be_no_second_american_revolution_the_futility_of_an_armed_r
I wonder what it will take for the American people to have a change of heart?
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“The cop was actually trying to kill the autistic man holding the toy truck in order to prevent him from killing his caretaker with the toy truck.”
This is bizarre. Why should the cops be trying to shoot anybody in a situation like that? Is that intent supposed to be more morally justified than shooting an unarmed black man with his hands in the air? If the sniper’s aim is that bad why is he even attempting the shot? He must be deaf (couldn’t hear the guy say it was a toy truck) as well as blind.
And the lawyer! I hope he said after ‘ the police may have been on edge because of the Dallas and Baton Rouge shootings’ that that is absolutely no excuse whatsoever. Were they on edge when they shot Castile, Sterling and a host of others? If so these shaky jakes have no business in this line of work.
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@sondis
‘Black people, lets start leaving to where they’ve so often have suggested, back to Africa. @ : o x ) >’
Do you think these bloodthirsty moneyhungry people are going to leave us alone when we get to Africa? Have you seen what they are doing in Africa? They kill us with police here. There they’ll kill us with drones.
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You say that police will not name the officer who discharged his weapon… Is that legal?
Your police force needs a complete overhaul and retraining. The words I keep hearing in my head are “Protect and Serve”. It seems they do neither.
@ Sondis, no way should you leave, it’s your country. You must fight to make it safe and equal for your children. A place they can be proud to say they are from.
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They won’t mention the officers name probably because it’s a white officer, which is probably going to add salt to America’s wound.
As I’ve said before, they should fire the officer, abs charge him with attempted murder.
We should hold police to higher standards, and when they do wrong be even more strict with them, after all, they are upholding the law.
They did not protect or serrated in this Case,or any other of the cases, so they should be consisted as criminals.
In fact police very rarely protect anything,they are usually called after the fact.
And who do they serve?
They only serve people who pay them, such as high profile people or groups.
Tax payers pay their salary, and often times they are selective of the tax payers they protect, which are often white.
You don’t need a degree in statistics, just go into your districts and surrounding districts, and that will show the truth.
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I listened to Trump’s speech last night and he wants to vamp up of the level of policing in America. He is the Law and Order canidate. His favorite words are enforcement and safe.
He will increase domestic survellince, to keep both Americans and the police “safe”. He specifically mentioned the two shooters in Dallas and Baton Rouge as well as characterized all police as being under hightened attack. He says he will be hiring 1000’s of law enforcement “professionals” to fight this war against the police and against terror.
Of course no mention of the police violence against American citizens. Law and Order is his code for an increased war against people who are not white and who are not born here.
Last night Trump laid out the ground for politicale facisim and nobody in the media noticed. They called parts of his speech “dark” and thought it’s tone was “serious” and non inclusive. They asked rhetorical questions like “How is he going to accomplish his plan?” The answer was clear to me. FORCE.
The press lives in a bubble and are blind. They have no idea what working class people are going through. It’s all cerebral to them.
After polls show that Americans overall liked his speech. His can do attitude resonates. His economic protectionist nationalism is the patriotic answer to a weak economy. Americans know that it was NAFTA and free trade agreements that took their jobs away. They belive Trump when he says America is going to make things again.
Trump got standing ovations for his plans at expanding the police state.
Unless Hillary Clinton can change the game somehow, I think Trump has a good chance of getting elected.
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Does anybody besides me know or realize that one of that fool “Donald Ducks” profession is entertainer?
That is what he is doing, entertaining. He had no skills in running a country, and America being as ignorant,and blind as it is, is being entertained,and eating it up.
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What I find ironic is that there was probably STILL a man with a gun roaming around North Miami threatening to kill himself.
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No, nobody was roaming around with a gun.
It is very easy, for anybody to call the police, and say that somebody is roaming with a gun.
The thing is, it is legal to carry a gun, if you are licensed to do so, and unless it’s being pointed at you, you should not be calling the police. That brings up my next point,they should trace the call, and also charge whoever called and reported the man with a gun, as an accomplice, or assistant to attempted murder.
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@Stallion. A general held belief over here is that all your politicians are entertainers. We tend to feel that that you vote on personality whilst we vote on policy. I’m not saying this is true, it’s just how we tend to see it over here.
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You are right, That is how America does things, they don’t take this country seriously, and it will soon be the laughing stock.
But I’m only one person, and here common sense is hard to find, due to all the ignorance we have here.
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Thank god that the police did not kill this man. I am not happy he was shot, but I am thrilled he is alive and out of the hospital recovering.
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@Zoe Jordan
While UK politicians may not act like entertainers, they are leading the British people down the same dark path as US politicians: corporate control, public austerity, curtailment of civil liberties and an all enveloping surveillance state.
In fact, all of the Five Eyes (US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) are on the same path. It is called Fascism.
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I think you’re right. These “heroic” stories are fabricated…or at least exaggerated, as is most of the news broadcasted on television.
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@ Afrofem.
Yes that’s unarguable. I’ve not heard the expression ‘”Five Eyes” before but it is true what you say: Corporations and financial institutes have more authority than government in a lot of cases. They make their own laws and are not answerable to the law of the land.
We, the British, have always hero-worshiped the US and tried to assimilate it into our culture. Now our youth are adopting pseudo American accents and lingo, they try to recreate the whole “Gangster Culture”.
We follow very closely in your footsteps with regard to international relations. And if our government leads us down the same path as yours it is because media has convinced us it is what we want.
We have some strong, trustworthy politicians, like Jeremy Corbyn, the current leader of the Labour party but he will never govern the country. He is too outspoken and renegade.
At least our police aren’t armed unless they are specially trained and in the firearms unit, It’s pretty easy to get a gun if you try but it is still illegal and on the whole people don’t want it legalised.
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@Zoe Jordan
Even unarmed, the police in the UK still manage to harrass the dickens out of African descent citizens. That is the same everywhere.
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Acting presidents. It’s the American way. Reagan showed us. And was there ever a better acting president than Obama? His performance has been Oscar worthy.
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Who are the dolts calling in false reports to the police?
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Who is making these calls? These police are not only trigger happy racist beast they are imbeciles as well. This stupid officer needs to be fired. Even if one complies and does what they are told one could still get shot.
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It could be anybody.
For example the man selling cd’s in front of the store.
He was approached by a homeless person for spare change.
When the man selling cd’s, tools the homeless man he doesn’t have spare change, the homeless man pulled out his cell phone, and called the police.
What homeless person has a cell phone?
And nobody is obligated to give the homeless any change.
So, not only should the officer(s) be fired, and charged with murder, but the homeless man should be charged in assisting/aiding the 2 police in murder
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Needs to be fired, and charged with murder or attempted murder.
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Just wanted to give a nod to Origin, who also posted about Charles Kinsey early on:
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@ Solitaire
Thank you. In the post I thanked Herneith but did not thank Origin, who posted about it first!
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-miami-cop-who-shot-unarmed-man-charles-kinsey-i-n614766
Article highlights:
* Police describe the officer who fired the shots as a 30-year-old Hispanic male
* Police describe the autistic man as white, not Hispanic
* The officer who fired the shots is quoted as saying “I did what I had to do” in order to protect Kinsey from Rinaldo
* Kinsey’s lawyer counters that if the officer was aiming at Rinaldo to protect Kinsey, why was Kinsey then handcuffed?
* Kinsey states that not only did he ask the officer why he was shot but that he heard another police officer ask the same question at the scene; both times the answer was “I don’t know” (and not “to protect him from the guy with the toy truck”).
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nomad:
“Do you think these bloodthirsty moneyhungry people are going to leave us alone when we get to Africa? Have you seen what they are doing in Africa? They kill us with police here. There they’ll kill us with drones.”
Well, we would have an army to protect ourselves from white people.
For those who say the cop was trying to shoot the autistic man and not the black man, why did the cops hand cuff the black man, after the shot him?
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I have mentioned the need for police reform before. War on police lynching I called it. I was thinking radical reformation, actually. I mean, the killings are just the tip of the iceberg. Do we really need a police force that thinks its job is to brutalize the people they propose to serve? And steal their money through civil forfeiture, AKA highway robbery. Literally.
Actually, what we may need is abolishment of the police force. Of the American form Matt Dillon policing, at the very least. We could abolish American policing and adopt, perhaps, the Swedish style. We would certainly do well to send our cops there for retraining.
This, Matt Dillon, is how you defuse tense situations:
(https://youtu.be/FClTiYY3CCg)
Ted Rall makes some valid points about how to rescind the police state.
“First, the police should stop carrying guns.
…
Second, cops shouldn’t be writing tickets.
…
Third, we need a federal agency to appoint independent federal prosecutors to replace the current system of local district attorneys.
…
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/18/how-to-fix-the-broken-relationship-between-the-people-and-the-police/
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@Afrofem:
Yes the police force here is a solidly racist institution. Racism and xenophobia, particularly Islamophobia at the moment, is rife here. You are much more likely to be stopped and searched and beaten up by the police if you are a young black male than if you are white or any other nationality. I don’t know the exact statistics but they are high.
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Abagond,
this is my neck of the woods and I can tell you that the assisted living/long-term care community down here in South Florida, is pretty close.
I don’t know Mr. Kinsey personally but I have spoken to a few people who do
and I can say, everyone down here is mad as h’ll !
Anyone who has ever owned or worked at a long-term care facility, can tell you that “runners” like Rinaldo, are normal and the cops know this as well. They are typically called to help bring them back home.
The governor has already been called and meetings have been arranged — mainly because of Rinaldo (whose care is government funded) and the fact that Mr. Kinsey is a licensed care giver — that’s why the police are coming out with their BS story… trying to do an after-the-fact CYA
but it’s too late, heads will roll on this one… that is a given, they shot the wrong black man. (and they also filed false reports)
I can’t say much online on this situation because I don’t want to say anything that can lead back to me in real life, because some info has not yet hit the media.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I also believe in being careful… eyes are watching more than just God, especially since the recent police shootings. I’ve read that people have been fired and arrested for things they wrote online (even anonymously)
Most employers and the government have been hyper-vigilant in watching social media sites. My company just sent out a memo warning all of us about not posting anything online that can connect us to our place of employment.
They basically just told us to stay the h’ll off social media because there will be zero-tolerance for anyone who gets caught writing anything they consider a breach of policy.
(Also, the minute they said “North Miami” or Miami period, first assumption should be that the policeman is Hispanic– they are the majority in Dade county)
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Also, Charles Kinsey is a member of the Circle of Brotherhood.
As an organization, they work closely with the local government on different programs and projects (community service, crime prevention)
https://www.facebook.com/Circle-of-Brotherhood-1424892721091102/
and according to the local papers, the North Miami police have already mentioned giving Mr. Kinsey a cash-settlement
I hope he doesn’t take it but sues the beJesus out of them for way more money that is being offered
and demands real policy changes that will start hitting police officers personally in their pockets, if they fire their weapons unjustly.
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Predictable post about yet another allegedly perfect innocent black victim.
Maybe if african americans showed more self respect instead of passive summision we would be treated with more respect.
instead every time a white male police shots a black suspect its news and there is videotape.
but thousands of black on black crime victims,no video no interest.
I regularly encounter african americans who think nothing of calling me themselves and every other black person a n—r with emphasis and passion
and many are ready to do the most vicious violence for the merest slight.
nary a peep in mainstream media about this ,you think at least in a place like this you might get more insight ,but nope ,its follow the white media ,if a white cop shoots a black person ,its news.
black person killing another black person – not news, black lives only matter if white people are involved.
And I regularly have interactions with the police,in fact I was just recently arrested – no abuse and obviously I’m not dead.
Not that I’m a fan of police its just that there are certain things no self respecting person will do around the police.
But then I did say self respecting,I had a brief encounter while I was detained in which I witness the behavior of another african american male and now that I think of it ,the type of behavior he displayed ,i would not find it surprising if he was beaten or killed while in custody nor would I have much sympathy.
probably nothing happen to him but you encounter this type of behavior again and again and its something we,I don’t control and do not have nor have I read anything that would penetrate the pathology in the african american comunity which is an intergral part of the european american community.
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@Mbeti
What!?
Of course it’s news when agents of the state, shoot, kill or otherwise maim innocent citizens for no justifiable reason. Do you also feel that it’s no big deal that Daniel Holtzclaw, a police officer, raped those black women because there are also black rapists?
Furthermore, why are you here falling into the trap of racializing intraracial crime only when black people are involved. Most white people who are victims of crime were victimized by other white people as well!
Also, why do you even go further to suggest that black people do not care about crime in their communities? Is that why the Charles Kinsey, who was shot in this instance was a member of a community organization to help combat crime?
Not sure if serious.
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Do you also feel that it’s no big deal that Daniel Holtzclaw, a police officer, raped those black women because there are also black rapists?
Not particularly ,when numerous other crimes occur and I rarely get the sense from people outside of speciziled blogs that most black people care much less anyone else.
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,Furthermore, why are you here falling into the trap of racializing intraracial crime only when black people are involved. Most white people who are victims of crime were victimized by other white people as well!,
Totally unesscary point I know whites and every other group ,s criminals prey primarily on their own,no thing new there.
I just don’t like to feel manipulated by the media large and small – and being constantly told that the worst thing in the world is to be killed by a racist cop or that its even likely for me a low income/poor African american male.
“Also, why do you even go further to suggest that black people do not care about crime in their communities?”
When you say black people do you mean some most or all, because if all you would be wrong – as many including the blog owner have found when applying it to any large group ,try some or most – better basic reasoning.
Is that why the Charles Kinsey, who was shot in this instance was a member of a community organization to help combat crime?
Wow you seem to know a lot about a dude I never heard of before.
Not sure if serious.
Uh yeah I am serious.
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People have autism. They are not “suffering” from it.
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I would hate to see anyone get shot; but I am puzzled:
the guy with the “gun” was not shot, the guy without the “gun” was shot. The officer said he “shot kinnsey to protect him, that he did not know why he did it, and the shooting was a mistake.”
If he gets that nervous with a gun in his hands he needs to be relieved of his duties.
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@Mbeti re not caring about a police officer who’s a serial rapist
Ok. I’ll leave you to this bizarre opinion.
So why are you selectively bringing up “black on black” crime as a way to downplay or dismiss police brutality?
It’s a sad fact that crimes take place all the time in the United States. Last summer a white family in Broken Arrow Oklahoma was slaughtered by two of its own. The father, mother, and three siblings were stabbed to death while one was critically injured. I only recently learned about that and mostly from local news websites yet the shooting of unarmed Dylan Noble by police was very visible in the national news.
But Why? What about white on white crime? Because police have a significant amount of and power and discretion vested in them by the state and they are not supposed to be even compared to criminals. You can legally resist a civillian agressor or attempt to flee and they’re likely to be punished if caught. Police, OTOH, have the power to justifiably detain you and even kill you. That’s why a policeman using his position of power to sexually assault over a dozen women is newsworthy despite the fact that civillians also commit rape. However, you didn’t even concede that so I can already tell that further engagement with you will be futile.
I won’t respond to the rest of your post playing semantics with collective nouns and wondering how I know publicly available information (because you don’t know it). I’ll just leave it at that.
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@ Mbeti
It’s already well-established that black self-respect has no bearing on how majority-white police forces and the majority-white power structures behind them treat black Americans. Even the most self-respecting, spit-shine polished Talented Tenth of a black person is fair game.
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@ nomad, Afrodem & sondis
Seems like there’s no winning, is there? When we stay, we’re persecuted. When we leave, we’re persecuted. Carving out our own nation on U.S. soil (or at least creating a nation within a nation) will invite only more persecution. Let’s be honest here — it won’t end until we’re ended, as a people.
At this point, all it seems we can do is remain evergreen, resilient and vigilant while waiting for Mother Nature and Father Time to clear a path for us. Nothing lasts forever and neither will this.
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@Mack Lyons
Indeed.
Mbeti echoed the ancient clarion call of respectability politics.
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@ Mack Lyons
I so agree with your statement. This state of affairs will not last forever. That is why learning African history helps. Once you realize that we were once a free and sovereign people, it is easier to envision a future of freedom and self-determination.
We have to do our best to survive in the near term. I also believe Mother Nature and Father time will clear a path for us to thrive in the future. I love that imagery.
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Was waiting for your post on this guy. He seems like the first completely innocent potential black martyr I have seen thus far in these shootings. No relevant negative criminal record. No suspicion that he was doing anything illegal. No resisting arrest or disobeying officer’s instructions. He was actually trying to help a guy–noble and selfless actions. Brings a tear to my eye. Left to bleed on the street for no apparent reason for ~20 minutes.. Only a few things damaging the perfect narrative: (1) he wasn’t killed or seriously injured (physically), and he will likely get a multi-million dollar settlement that he and his family can retire off of (no blaming him for that–I would absolutely take what I could get from the city for that); (2) cop he was shot by was Hispanic and not white. Why are non-white cops several times more likely to shoot someone than white cops? Really disturbing statistic there. Finally, (3) cops say they were trying to protect him and shoot the autistic guy but they just missed… yeah, definitely questionably.
Glad he’s ok (seriously) and glad BLM will keep raging to help elect the Donald. He’s over 40% at fivethirtyeight now, but still needs a lot of help from BLM and terrorists to push him over the edge. The terrorists are definitely doing their part. I trust abagond and his team will keep the rage up on their end too. Thanks, all!!!
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Israel has been involved in the training of various US police forces. It has had years of experience in bringing the Palestinians to heel. Lots of articles on the net about this. Samplers:
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-trained-police-occupy-missouri-after-killing-black-youth
http://www.rawstory.com/2011/12/report-israeli-model-underlies-militarization-of-u-s-police/
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sondis
“Well, we would have an army to protect ourselves from white people.”
Yeah, that worked out real well for the last most powerful nation in Africa.
Heaven help us if we decided to have economic independence
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Why are non-white cops several times more likely to shoot someone than white cops?
They had the best teachers, the white cops! As for rage, it is the rage of white supremacists such as yourself that has propelled that bouffant laden clown to get to where he is now.
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@biff: You are atrocious. Under Donald Trump this will be made way more common and that’s what you want. You say how “good” it is they are “innocent” but the rest of your post shows you could care less. You HATE Black people and you should get out!
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The police searching through mugshots, arrest records and any dirt they can find on Charles Kinsey to justify him being shot
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-99b15364feac6f5cb587e8884b4361cc?convert_to_webp=true
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“You HATE Black people and you should get out!”
@ Mike4ty4
I think Biff secretly loves darker folks and instead of getting out, he’d rather have Black people moving to either side and across the street from him.
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^^^^^^^^^^
Not to mention he secretly lusts after Black men! You secretly love what you hate!
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Biff
Do you think a 4 year old child should have to witness murder in the case of Philando Castille?
Biff you also make the comment that the Hispanic cop is not white. This seems significant to you, why is that?
Underlying in your commentary there seems to be an acceptance that killing black males is justified. You don’t say it explicitly but you sure as hell imply it.
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Biff: You are a reprehensible swine.
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@ Mbeti
That is pretty rich coming from someone who repeats Fox News talking points.
It is bigger news when the police act like criminals than when criminals act like criminals. And so it should be since the police are the ones who are supposed to protect us from the criminals!
In this case I did not know the race of the officer when I wrote the post. It turns out he is Latino.
I have repeatedly done posts on non-White officers who took part in raping and killing Blacks:
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@ Mbeti
So how should Black people act with police officers? What did Kinsey do that was wrong?
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@ JDLC
Thanks for the links.
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So how should Black people act with police officers? What did Kinsey do that was wrong?
Maybe they should just start singing and dancing, you know, the old shuck and jive! That way the police officer will not be threatened. Maybe they may even join in the jollity as part of community engagement with the police!
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@Herneith
LOL
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I’m glad he lived and I hope he gets justice. He was shot for no reason at all other than for being a Black person.
How many times will white people have to see it, hear it and read about it before they believe it’s true? So many still deny it and defend the police even in such cases where it seems so clear the police were in the wrong. I think more white adults believe in fairies than in police murdering Black people.
@ Zoe Jordan and Afrofem
Police do not only harass Black British; they also murder them. Sean Rigg, Mark Duggan, Mzee Mohammed… It may not be at the same volume as it is in the US due to firearms being illegal, but it still exists.
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@Iris
Good point. I was aware of the murder of Mark Duggan a few years back.
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http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/07/29/911-tapes-released-in-charles-kinsey-shooting-pokes-massive-hole-in-police-narrative-of-what-happened/?utm_content=buffer29835&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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