Keith Lamont Scott (1973-2016), a disabled Black American man, married with seven children, was killed by police in Charlotte, North Carolina. That was at 3.54pm on Tuesday September 20th 2016. It comes right on top of news of the killing of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Police say Scott was armed, his family says not and they seem very certain of it.
Every day Scott waited for his son to get off the school bus.
His sister:
“He sits in the shade, reads his book, does his studies, and waits on his kid to get off the bus. He didn’t have no gun. He wasn’t messing with nobody. All they did, them jump-out boys, them undercover detectives, they jumped out their truck, they said, ‘Hands up! He got a gun! He got a gun!’ POW POW POW POW. That’s it.”
Police Chief Kerr Putney:
“The officers gave loud, clear verbal commands that were also heard by many of the witnesses. They were instructing the subject, once he got out of the vehicle, to drop the weapon. Despite the verbal commands, Mr. Scott exited the vehicle as the officers continued to yell at him to drop it. He stepped out, posing a threat to the officers, and Officer Brentley Vinson subsequently fired his weapon, striking the subject.”
The gun: His family says it was a book, not a gun. If so, it would hardly be the first time police imagined a gun – or planted one. Putney cannot say whether Scott raised his gun, whether it was loaded, whether it was registered to him. But he did say they found it “in close proximity” to Scott.
Open-carry: North Carolina law allows people to openly carry guns, even without a permit.
Officer Brentley Vinson, the killer cop, is Black, son of a police officer who was with the Charlotte-Mecklenberg police for 27 years. Vinson the younger has been with them for two years so far. Instead of being arrested, he has been given a paid vacation, a common police practice.
Video: Vinson did not have a body camera, but some of the other officers did. There is also video from police cars. None of it is (yet) public. The governor signed a law limiting the public’s right to see police video.
Protest: after two nights of violent protest, the governor has declared a state of emergency, which allows him to bring in the National Guard and state police. The same was done in Ferguson in 2014 and Baltimore in 2015.
Mayor Jennifer Roberts tweeted after the first night:
“The community deserves answers and full investigation will ensue. Will be reaching out to community leaders to work together @CMPD @ncnaacp”
The police are investigating themselves.
The district attorney determined that the first five police shootings for this year were “justified”. This is the sixth.
Randall Kerrick, the Charlotte police officer who shot Jonathan Ferrell, an unarmed Black man, in 2013, was charged with voluntary manslaughter, but got off.
– Abagond, 2016.
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May he rest in peace.
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This time it appears to be black on black violence and not a case of racism. Apparently the police brutality is far larger problem than just a problem of racism. Of course blacks are more frequently victims since there are a lot white racist officers but in this case the police officer was black himself. In the conditions where every guy can legally carry arms police are understandably quite nervous. If you hit a wrong man you may be dismised or get a jail term but if you not hit and the man is an “evil boy” and armed then you are dead.
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@gatobranco1
That is just so untrue. Tons of Blacks are racist against other Blacks, even against themselves. Blacks are subject to much of the same racist brainwashing as White people, not just from school and television and the largely White mainstream culture, but even from stuff embedded in their culture during slave times! The US is soaked in racism. No one completely escapes.
There is also structural racism, where racism comes baked into laws and institutions – “racism without racists”. Often Black cops are the worst and it is because of race, because it seems they feel the need to prove themselves to White co-workers and superiors.
Michael Wood talks about trying to be an unracist cop on a racist police force:
All that said, the police in the US are out of control and it affects Whites too, just not to the same degree.
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Same old shit, different day…
Black communities continue to suffer at the hands of a system that is more evil than JUST. We have $6 trillion dollars to kill Iraqis a million miles away and $13 billion a year for Israel to oppress Palestinian people but God forbid we take a sliver of that money and reconstruct our justice system.
May these men rest at peace and may their families be comforted…
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And of course, in America there is not just tradition of carrying arms, but also a tradition of brutality in general which does not exist in Europe – the lawless Wild West throughout the first 100-150 years of the American history, slave patrols, lynchings… Unfortunately such traditions die hard.
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“Tons of Blacks are racist against other Blacks, even against themselves. Blacks are subject to much of the same racist brainwashing as White people”
@gatobranco1
Did you not see the Black man at the Trump rally pummel the protester, he kicked him, punched him and it appeared he would beat him to death until security stopped him. This man was extremely angry at someone protesting a Racist evil man, clearly Black racism in this country transcends skin color, which sounds odd but is true.
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Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
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@Abagond Yes, maybe you are right. I have heard such “joke” (of course if one can call it joke) – “a white man goes in a dark street. He hears steps, sees a black man thinks “he shall be a bandit since he is black” and runs away. Now a black man is going the same street. He hears steps, looks, sees a black man… and runs away just like the white man did and for the same reason.
I suppose you mean things like that when you speak about “black on black racism”?
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Lol, and even after all this, they still think (led to believe) that Muslims are terrorists.
No, it is quite blatant that police officers are the terrorists here.
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To say the truth, I am quite happy that I am not born in the USA and have not to live there. It would be very difficult to live in the society where firstly, a considerable part of the population still believes that humans shall be fundamentally classified according to their outward looks and secondly, where law enforcement institutions still perpetrate the lawless traditions of the frontier.
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Keith Lamont Scot’s’death marks and confirms the well know unwritten piece of Legislation in the US that any Afro-American is to be shot at as part of compulsory training of ever Law enforcement agent but well accentuated during Barack Obama’s’two terms in office which is far from being a mere coincidence. During Barack Obama’s’tenure the US has experienced the worst ever massacres of Afro-Americans closer to Garbage Rats. This chapter undergirds and debunks a mockery of the US Foreign Policy as Champions of: Freedom, Liberty, Moral values, and Champions of Peace. Would an American Diplomat be able to boldy lecture someone as: Presidents (Kabila, Museveni, Kagame, Mugabe, Zuma, Kiir etc…) With a clear conscience without being mocked upon with regards to the alarming genocide of Afro-Americans? Pan African Ambassador Leonardo Mulaja, and accomplished Polyglot Speakers of 18 Languages amongst which: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili and English. http://www.afrikaborwaservices.com
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And certainly, USA has no any moral rights to lecture the Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte who apparently has ordered killing some drug dealers, since the American police does exactly the same thing as Duterte wit their “war on drugs”.
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@gatobranco: There is no such thing as “black on black” anything it’s just murder of a black citizen by a law enforcement officer who happens to be black. There are many white supremacist in black bodies get it right.
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Man this stuff has to be planned. There’s no way this keeps happening and there’s no repercussions for the guilty cops. Someone behind the scenes is really trying to create some type of civil war/ martial law situation.
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One phenomenon in matters like Keith Scott or Terrence Crutcher or Philando Castile is that factual reality itself becomes ephemeral, yet without an established factual reality, there is no basis for discussing or debating the policy issues.
There are several contributing factors to the difficulty with factual reality. The events tend to unfold very quickly and unexpectedly. Sometimes (i.e. Philando Castile) there is partial eyewitness video recording, but often it is less than complete or less than perfect. The interwebs, which are hotbeds of agendas and racism and flaming and extremism of all types, combs through every bit of known detail, together with tons of assumption and surmise, turning the public discussion into a pea soup.
Meanwhile, the real problem exists where it always has: with the police. They control the scene the moment they are involved. They cordon it off and prevent anybody from entering. Any remaining forensic evidence that can be gathered, or planted, or fabricated, they control 100%. And then they use their “findings” as the basis for investigating themselves. No opportunities for corruption or dishonesty here, folks. Nothing to see. Move along.
Keep in mind that police are not just government, they are unionized government. There is possibly no organizational structure that is more of a petri dish for the Peter Principal, never mind outright corruption and featherbedding, than unionized government. Yet we entrust this structure with the authority and the tools to deprive citizens of their liberty, or their lives.
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gatobranco1
“I suppose you mean things like that when you speak about “black on black racism”?”
I think it’s more like this…A Black child is raised in a society that constantly makes excuses for whites, while demonizing Blacks for the same actions. Coupled with a media that predominantly depicts Blacks as criminals, he grows up to believe Black people are the problem and that white people are the worlds knights in shining armor. Said Black man defends whites, votes against his own interests and believes that Black people should assimilate into white culture, instead of being so “difficult”. This man does everything he can to live among whites, ignores blatant racism and ambiguous racism when around whites but sees Black people as the race baiters and complainers and takes other racist positions such as, Black people are lazy, criminals, drug dealers, etc…After years of brainwashing this man can actually find himself at a Trump rally, beating the crap out of a Trump protester for standing up to Trumps hate and bigotry, he is now promoting “White Supremacy”…I believe that this is more like the Black racism from Blacks the article speaks of but I think the point was that not one person in this country is immune to the mind altering racist white culture we get exposed to from every angle and every institution each day.
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Williams says that couldn’t be further from the truth:
“It was not a black officer that killed him; it was a white officer that killed him. He was bald-headed. The black officer came on the scene 15, maybe 10 or 15 minutes later. And he was the one doing CPR on him … and I’m pretty sure by that time, the man was already gone. He didn’t die at [Carolinas Medical Center] at 4 [p.m.], he died out here at 2:30 [p.m.].
http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/09/taheshia-williams-charlotte-protest-keith-lamont-scott-shooting/
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With these police killings it’s lather, rinse, repeat. 😩😢😱
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@themelanatedman
“Someone behind the scenes is really trying to create some type of civil war/ martial law situation.”
I think about that all the time. Wars, wages, drugs, inequality, conspiracy theories, secret societies of wealthy, internet trolls, it definitely seems to be orchestrated sometimes…probably by several groups, each one independent of the other. One thing men have always thought they should do is control humanity, these bastards have damn near perfected it, almost like paint by numbers. Do this and this will happen, don’t do this and that will happen, they are the puppet masters and we are the puppets.
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@gatobranco1
Eye witnesses said he was white (The cop who shot Keith Scott)
Watch the video, She’s seems very, very collected and credible
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUjAd5WaS2w&😉
I wish her safety more than anything; we’ve seen how witnesses are handled? (e.g Ferguson, Staten Island)
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This is tiring. Sometimes I don’t have the energy to pay attention and I don’t have the conscience to ignore.
It’s not orchestrated to achieve some other objective, it’s just white people being their normal collective selves with the police playing the role of the colonizers and conquistadores of the past. Looking at all of history, how is white people murdering non-white people with the tacit or explicit sanction of their community unusual?
I have sometimes entertained the possibility that they can’t help themselves. We have seen “mirror neuron” studies which suggest that they automatically lack empathy in situations where other people do. And the unequal social and economic structures typically generated by their group would be consistent with a meeting of minds that lack empathy. In which case, echoing Bobby E Wright’s “Psychopathic Racial Personality”, there is no alternative for oppressed people but revolution. But I’m sure that they’d rather their targets die of quietly and are not actively fomenting revolution.
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@William the Conquerer
Yes. For example, someone had to make a decision to militarize the police. I don’t ultimately think it was Barama, though it happened on his watch. It was whoever is pulling the strings of this puppet. They are obviously gearing up for massive civil unrest. They create the conditions for a racial incident by hiring racist policemen and training them to react violently. Racial conflict is inevitable. And boy are they prepared.
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There is no such thing as protesting peacefully when you are pushed to the wall. You cannot protest peacefully when the people who are supposed to listen have blocked their ears.
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@Origin
” it’s just white people being their normal collective selves”
I know it certainly appears that all white people are the same but I can tell you this is not true. I would estimate that at least 30% are compassionate, empathetic, guilt ridden, human, loving, helpful, angry at their culture and genuinely good human beings. They have no loyalty to the pigment of their skin or those who have similar pigment, they see only people.
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“I would estimate that at least 30% are compassionate, empathetic, guilt ridden, human, loving, helpful, angry at their culture and genuinely good human beings.”
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I’ve known some NICE racists. But they were still RACISTS who thought they were very good people.. and in some ways they were. But they loved being WHITE and all the good benefits that’s attached to being white… good schools, better housing, good neighborhoods, better loan rates, great employment, networks, receiving the benefit of the doubt, second and third chances, etc They saw nothing wrong with the absence of Black people in their communities, or their places of work.
These nice white people said things to me like, “I don’t see you as Black.” And, “I don’t see color when I look at you, I just see a man.”
They saw me as an exception, not as a NORMAL everyday Black person.
That told me a lot about how they viewed Black people in general. I learned first hand that the more I talked to them about racial issues, the less they would understand. Their ability to empathize with Black people: ZERO PERCENT. They can’t believe Black people when it comes to relating OUR BLACK experience because it doesn’t jibe with their personal white experiences. Whites generally don’t believe Black people about anything because superior people don’t believe supposedly inferior people. White people are the masters of all knowledge!
Your 30% is a gross over estimation from where I sit. But like our episode regarding the Clintons and patriarchy/condescending attitudes, you wouldn’t believe me. I’m definitely learning that it’s a waste of my time talking to staunch clueless white people. I guess I’m a little slow.
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@William the Conquerer
I would put it at 5%.
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This will never end until those in power develop some empathy, but it’s often the case they are lacking. People with power and money no longer need to depend on others and so have less empathy than those that rely on a community to survive.
@gatobranco1
If you believe Europe is not racist, you are sorely mistaken. I am not Black and I am even half white, yet I have faced a huge amount of racism. I have also either spoken to or met other POC who were either born and raised in European countries, or who lived there for a period of time. All of them have tales of racism. Even my Japanese teacher, who once lived in Germany, spoke of how people would say `Ni hao’ to her and, no matter whether she said the same back or `Konnichiwa’, they would mock and harass her. A Korean colleague of my husband was endlessly hounded about assimilating to the local white culture when she lived in the Netherlands. My mixed Black/white friend learnt to hate everything about his Blackness and decided he was doomed to be a horrible person because `Black people are just no good’. My mixed Pakistani/white friend got told to f*ck off back to P*kiland and had people pretending to be friendly then acting disgusted that they spoke to a P*ki. If that’s not severe enough for you, physical assault for not being white was a common occurrence growing up, even when I was a CHILD. The saddest tale I heard was from a girl, half Southeast Asian, half white, who was a decade younger than me and spent half her time in Spain and half in the Netherlands. People would throw stones at her and yell at her to go back to China. One decade younger, and the exact same experience I had weekly during my teenage years in a different country.
As for your comment about law enforcement: Black people still get murdered by police in Europe. The only difference is, it’s not so often with guns, but other violence. But it isn’t the type of news they want the public at large to hear; you have to really search for it to read about Black victims of police brutality because they want to sweep them under the rug. Racism is alive and well across Europe.
@Fan …
Brilliant post. I think it can be applied universally and not just to white Americans. I would say my white European in-laws match this description perfectly and hold this view towards all POC. I’ve had the exact same comments from them, and heard racist jokes after which the whole lot of them turn to stare and grin at me and I have no idea what on Earth they expect me to say in response.
Any POC they like is an exception because if they believe there are good individuals among us, it destroys their worldview. They can’t see us as beneath them or a subhuman monolith any more, when that is what has been subconsciously taught to them all their lives.
This is why I never even bothered trying to talk about racial issues with them. I think it would be futile and only hugely stressful for me, adding further strain to the relationship and needless arguments from more than just my stubborn-as-a-mule mother-in-law. I once mentioned how, in moving to East Asia, my husband and I might need to live a little differently and try to fit in. My mother-in-law got all offended and started ranting about how when `they’ come over to their country, they don’t assimilate at all. Which I’m sure you know is untrue. Every POC faces pressure to stop using their language and leave behind their culture in favour of the dominant white one. Especially in her home country, locals get offended if they cannot eavesdrop on all conversations around them, so you WILL get a talking to if you speak another language too much in front of local white people.
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@ Iris
Being white English I can tell you that there are many racists here. Lots of people I know don’t think they are racist but they are. Some are blatantly open of course and to be honest I prefer that, at least I know straight away I don’t want to associate with them. With the ones who pretend they’re not or think they’re not I usually don’t find out until I get involved in an argument with them.
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“They have no loyalty to the pigment of their skin or those who have similar pigment, they see only people.”
I would put it at one in a thousand and that’s probably low. Whites who grow up as a minority in non white communities are likely to absorb the culture around them follwed by bi-racial whites. Whites who grow up in predominantly white areas are a lost cause. Some interacial relationships work and some are racially dysfunctional.
There has to be a personal connection or something that ties the individuale to the other community other wise “racism” is just mental trivia that whites think about in a detached way.
Yes race is a problem but if he had just followed the police man’s instructions, and then they turn into the totally not racist Internet statistics man.
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* one in a thousand and that’s probably low (meaning it might be one in 3000)
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First I would like to offer my condolences to the families. I think when referring to the US, we should say “white male led US” because up until very recently women and people of color had no say in how the US conducts itself here or abroad.By saying this, it places the blame correctly where it belongs…..white males.
The problem is white males. They run the government, they run the banking system and they run religion. Virtually everything they have come into contact with death and destruction follows. They are the most psychopathic group on the planet
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@ Iris
‘As for your comment about law enforcement: Black people still get murdered by police in Europe. The only difference is, it’s not so often with guns, but other violence. But it isn’t the type of news they want the public at large to hear; you have to really search for it to read about Black victims of police brutality because they want to sweep them under the rug. Racism is alive and well across Europe.’
I cannot speak for the rest of Europe but in Britain this is not true. When black people have died in police custody it is immediately widely known. The officers involved become accountable, independent inquiries are made and the people react (See 1995 Brixton riots for example)
The number of black people dieing and being beaten up in police custody has lessened in recent years because we hold those responsible accountable for their actions and on the whole, they become vilified by the press and the citizens. Anti racism is a part of police training here.
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@ Zoe Jordan
Who makes the independent inquiries?
Abagond just put up a new post on Killer Cops that describes how the U.S. system works and why that usually leads to the cops getting away with murder. If possible, could you let us know how the UK system differs from this (if it does in any other ways besides the independent inquiries and the attitude of the press)? The comparison could be instructive.
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@ Zoe Jordan
Also, do you know any more details about the anti-racism training the police receive in the UK? Is it mandated by the government or up to the individual jurisdictions? Is there a set amount of training received each year?
My spouse has done anti-racism training sessions for both university police and municipal police in the U.S., but he says the trainings are held too infrequently to make enough impact. Also the police heads often think a half-day training session will magically fix everything and is all the attention they need to pay to racism instead of incorporating anti-racist policies into the daily proceedings of the police department.
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Abagond….
“I would put it at 5%.”
Well at least there is hope.
I will never give up trying to make myself a better person, whether it be relations with other people or controlling my anger, learning what is offensive to people and removing such vocabulary from my speech or actions from my behavior.
I will not give up hope….but I am also aware that I have the privilege of hope, of choice. I realize that many in this country and the world don’t have these luxuries. Hope has long since been crushed by subversive forces, a millennia of arrogance and deeply embedded hate.
I am certainly not defined by my skin color but I am realizing that I am defined by my cultural improprieties.
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@gatobranco1
That is just so untrue. Tons of Blacks are racist against other Blacks, even against themselves. Blacks are subject to much of the same racist brainwashing as White people, not just from school and television and the largely White mainstream culture, but even from stuff embedded in their culture during slave times! The US is soaked in racism. No one completely escapes.
WELCOME TO INDIA!
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Wife’s video
(https://youtu.be/glVRwRtdE4g)
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Solitaire
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is a government body. this is their website. You may find it interesting. Here we can find out anything we want to know including clear statistics of deaths by police or in police custody. They fairly investigate any complaints against the police and anyone can make a complaint.
https://www.ipcc.gov.uk/
The anti racism training the police receive is called ‘Diversity Training’. I’m not a cop so have no idea how effective it is and some people argue that it isn’t effective at all as racism is institutional within the Met (London police force) and other forces. However they do have to do it. Police who act in a racist way will be investigated by the IPCC and risk prosecution.
http://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Support/Equality/Pages/default.aspx
In Britain we make new laws and policies based on prior mistakes that have occoured. For example look up Steven Lawrence. And also Victoria Climbie and how we made whole changes to child care and child protection laws and policies because of her death whilst she was under the care of social services. (reading about her case is harrowing but good came from it in the end)
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Wow. I thought the police were going to do a Friday afternoon news dump of the videos. They must be pretty bad.
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@nomad: Watched the video the wife filmed and Keith Scott had a traumatic brain injury we hear the wife inform the cops if Scott had a brain injury the cops should have defused this situation better than what they did which they ended up killing the poor man. If he had a brain injury he was confused and agitated so this was so poorly executed. And as far as him having a gun I feel the cops planted the gun because they are dirty that way.
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@ Solitaire
2 years ago I did a one year teaching assistant course. Almost half of the training was on equality and diversity and child protection. It is taken very seriously and at interviews any prospective educator will be tested on their knowledge and understanding. We have ‘whistle blowing’ policies so bad attitude will be reported. Any form of prejudice will lead to instant dismissal. We have to be culturally responsive and respect and value all differences. Culture, race, religion, sex, LGBT. disabilities and so on. Acts of intolerance, including verbal, will lead to prosecution.
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@ Zoe Jordan
Thanks for the information; it was very helpful. Yes, it’s also called diversity training here. As far as I know, there aren’t any federal requirements that each police department must have x number of hours of diversity training annually. Perhaps some states have requirements, but it seems to mostly be left up to the local jurisdictions.
I think even a couple hours of anti-racism training is better than none, but there is such a huge amount of institutionalized racism in most police departments that it’s a drop in the bucket.
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Mary Burell
“And as far as him having a gun I feel the cops planted the gun because they are dirty that way.”
Absolutely, you know darn well if these videos didn’t exist, each and every incident would have been spun differently each time, I do not trust the police at all.
During some research into incidents where video evidence proved an officer was lying, each and every time the officer reported the incident so completely different than what the tape showed it made me lose most of my faith in our system. Well for example just look at the man who ran from an officer only to be shot in the back 6 times, all for a broken tail light. The cop actually planted his tazer next to the mans body, do you think the department would have believed a witness telling them that the officer planted the gun. That cop would have got away with another murder if it wasn’t for the brave guy filming the entire experience. None of these indictments would be happening if it weren’t for video.
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I’m skeptical that diversity training would have any effect on the number of people the police shoot or abuse.
It seems to me that if you want to reduce police violence then you start with taking away their privileges like the “law enforcement bill of rights” as well as limit the power police unions have and take away there ability to lobby for criminal laws, contribute polical donations and influence who gets to be the D.A.
Police unions hire the best lawyers possible and have the resources to pick juries and spend a ton in “discovery”.
if the police knew they would be accountable for there actions then that will directly affect the choices they make in the field. Right now they know that can get away with murder because the Unions have there back and juries rarely convict police.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Officers%27_Bill_of_Rights
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“Charlotte has a population of nearly 800,000 people, and while black residents make up only 35 percent of population, they account for 50 percent of stops by police, 68 percent of searches, and 74 percent of cases involving the use of force, according to data compiled by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.”
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Re Diversity Training
It is only useful if the individual understands it and takes it on boArd. It is tge same as positive discrimination, many have been trained to understand how it works and why it is bad but the people who don’t aspire to this will just find different ways to get round it
I think Iris is right and I think it is misleading to act as though we have things all sewn up on the UK because of some laws. I still see discrimination. Sure it is not overt but that is probably more challenging and harder to address for that reason
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*Why it is bad not to apply it* ie to ensure fairness
Sorry all, that post looks like nonsense, hope you get the general gist
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Chirp chirp. Obama’s made no great speech on CharlotteTulsa yet?
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On ABC he didn’t say “thugs” this time.
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Omnipresent
If I said we have ‘things all sewn up’ I would be a moron. Of course we don’t, There is still a long way to go, but I feel there are enough people trying to make positive changes for that to be a possibility one day.
I definitely agree with you that much prejudice is covert and this is the worse kind.
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This is definitely the case of The Phantom Negro weapon. And this cop killed a man who was disabled from a brain injury and it doesn’t matter that the killer cop who murdered Keith Scott is a black man all police no matter what racial group or gender is apart of that blue fraternity and they share the same hive mind. They are nothing more than a modern day version of the slave catchers during slavery in America.
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@William The Conquer: I agree with your post it’s definitely the case of Phantom Negro weapons and have no faith or trust in the system.
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It’s eerie that last year in the same city and state Walter Scott while running from the police for a traffic violation was gunned down and if my memory serves me correctly a phantom negro weapon in this case a taser was placed near his body.
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Oops, my mistake a mix up about the cities and states of the two deceased Mr. Scotts. But I still believe they used the same tactic of planting a weapon near the bodies of the dead men.
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Watching the news it’s being reported that the dead man’s fingerprints and dna were found on the gun is it possible they could have somehow tampered with the evidence of the crime scene?
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Keith Scott’s wife captured her husband being murderd and was calming trying to inform the officers that her husband had a traumatic brain injury and that he just took his medication. She is trying to be calm knowing they are going to kill her husband. It reminds me of Philando Castille and his girlfriend and her young child witnessing their loved ones being murderd at the hands of a cop. It’s not just white cops it also black cops doing the killings as well.
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black president. black attorney general. not enough? maybe if we just had black police chiefs… maybe that would help
https://thinkprogress.org/charlotte-police-chief-scott-footage-release-8ac52aea3784#.ajntwaxps
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Watch. First there’s no gun on the ground at :57. Then at 1:00 there’s a gun on the ground, apparently dropped by the officer standing over Scott’s body. Bet this is standard procedure. This is a damning slice of video between :57 and 1:00.
(https://youtu.be/DG3wKRWieHI?t=57s)
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^^^^
Maybe Black mayors, city managers, city council members, county supervisors …
maybe the elected local dogcatcher could stop these UNTOUCHABLES with uniforms, badges and guns that are acting like packs of wild dogs!
It seems very odd to me how no one has apparent jurisdiction (power) over the police to compel/force them to use body/dash cams and to turn over video footage whenever it’s requested.
The police are just half the problem. Their halfway hidden enablers (bosses) are the other half.
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What the police do is the same for all functionaries. Of all trades. Mistreatment of blacks. Except in these other professions these aggressions are usually micro and don’t result in death. Except for the medical profession. The blacks who operate in these systems seem to wear white coats. That is, they operate by the white code. The same as any servant of white supremacy.
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btw looks like it was a white cop that shot scott. not that it makes any difference
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[…] heard already, two more Black people were killed by the police. On Tuesday, 9/20/2016, Keith Lamont Scott was shot in Charlotte, North Carolina. On 9/16/16, Terence Crutcher was shot and killed in Tulsa. […]
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@nomad
The story keeps changing..
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^^^Yes, this changing story is very strange. Setting aside the race of the cop, it really is odd they keep saying he had a gun when in all the released videos there is none. His “holster” looks like a black sock.
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Can someone please understand the mindset of the white race? How can you a group of people mock and celebrate the death of unarmed black people.
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@nomad: I was on another social media site and read that too I still think they are lying about the dead man having a gun.
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Something definitely stinks and it’s the cops as always.
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@Rabab
‘Can someone please understand the mindset of the white race? How can you a group of people mock and celebrate the death of unarmed black people.’
Yeah, its terrible. Fortunately they’re not all like that. Watch below.
@Mary Burrell
He didn’t have no gun.
(https://youtu.be/NcRqQC5zN-Y)
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Am I off the mark that the police know what they are doing and all parties involved right up to the corporations and government know that certain types of Black people will be killed as part of the lynching posse, and the rest of young African American men will be arrested on phony charges to be incarcerated long term for modern day slavery and genocide? This looks like strategy used in war and not merely policemen who are trigger happy.
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@Taotesan
No, you are on the mark as far as I a concerned. They kill to keep blacks in fear and in line. The ones that are able are incarcerated. The more blacks pull away from dependency on whites the more they feel that have to knock them back down.
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@nomad
Thanks for the video. I saw similar yesterday, but with media commentary. I asked the simply question to a naysayer about where the gun is and his response “they say it is in his hand.”
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taotesan and sharinalr
“Am I off the mark…” Genocide. No you are not.
This could have been another one. Look how they approach a black man simply sitting in his car. Luckily this guy had some expertise in dealing with these slave catchers. Approach with gun drawn! I’m a witness that they do that.
http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/09/l-sheriffs-deputy-pulls-innocent-man-working-car/#
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look at the evil in this officer’s eye. he wanted so bad to kill this man. for no reason! he just wanted to kill.
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“look at the evil in this officer’s eye. he wanted so bad to kill this man. for no reason!”
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Blanket hate is a powerful motivation. Just look at Kiwi!
Don’t underestimate the lure of an automatic month’s long (shooting death) investigation that yields matching time off of the job – with pay! For these klansmen in uniform it’s an automatic win – win. Or a win – win – win if they get a GoFundMe page for lawyer fees yielding even further profits.
Let all wrongful death settlements come from their retirement funds, and police station budgets – instead of from the taxpayers. Then watch how quickly these deaths end!
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@nomad
Thanks for linking to that video and article in Counter Current News.
While chilling, I’m not surprised at the contents of video 1 (showing the out of control deputies) or video 2 (showing them fabricating charges after their illegal actions).
I think what Black people are enduring at this point in American history is Obama Derangement Syndrome, writ large. White people are so terrified that Black people can outpace them that they are determined to eliminate Black people. Police actions are just one aspect of their collective dread and bloodlust. White public approval of police excesses against Black people is another aspect.
Brutalizing Black children in school, closing majority Black public schools, mass water shut offs in many urban areas, refusing admittance to hospitals, stuffing Black people into 13th Amendment slavery (prisons) and extreme anger against Black acts of resistance are also part and parcel of their collective derangement.
The irony is that Black people in this country are so passive that we put up with this low intensity warfare for generations with no resistance. Black people literally have to be backed against a wall to respond to White derangement…and White people are too stupid to stop harassing Black people.
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@Fan
“Let all wrongful death settlements come from their retirement funds, and police station budgets – instead of from the taxpayers. Then watch how quickly these deaths end!”
So. Very. True.
As long as they get paid to murder with impunity, they will continue.
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@Afrofem
Have you ever pondered on what actions blacks should take? I’m curious because my mind has been so jumbled with the events being back to back that I don’t know what to do. I can’t clear my mind enough to see anything.
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Mary Burell
“I was on another social media site and read that too I still think they are lying about the dead man having a gun.”
I cannot see a gun and how on earth is a Black man going to go everyday and pick up his son at school, each day waiting patiently outside and reading day after day and then one day when cops pull up with guns drawn he is going to get out of his car with gun in hand…BULLSHIT! No sane Black man would do such a thing and his loyalty and consistency to his son day after day proves this man was anything but insane or depressed. This man was doing what all the racist out there claim Black men don’t do, take care of his family and what does he get for it, shot down in the street by the Gestapo.
This is what I believe may have happened. The police get a call about, of course, a Black man in a car doing drugs but really it’s just fucking weed. They run the license plate and find out he is a security guard and may be armed. The police then get out with guns drawn, ready to kill him for any reason, even smoking a plant. They ask him to get out of the car and he complies but keeps his arms at his sides, moves slowly backwards as they command. One of the officers is scared because he can’t see his hands all the way and when he moves his arm or hand in a normal motion they shoot the shit out of him. They come up on him and search him quickly finding the gun in the holster around his ankle, they pull the gun out of his holster and throw it to the side. Funny how after he gets shot we don’t get a lot of video or it’s too close to see whats going on.
This is what I know, I did not see any gun in the video, I did not see anything threatening to the cops, he was not acting aggressive at all and the fact the gun didn’t appear in plain site until he was dying on the ground is another reason to distrust what they are saying…remember, they ALWAYS deny everything until the point where they are presented with irrefutable evidence showing the contrary, then they clam up and let the lawyers handle it.
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@Sharina
I think the Movement For Black Lives ideas about Invest-Divest is worth considering. They want a shifting of resources from harm and exploitation to public goods. On their website:
https://policy.m4bl.org/invest-divest/
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@Mary Burrell
“…the killer cop who murdered Keith Scott is a black man…”
I found this four day old article from The Root. According to eyewitness, Taheshia Williams:
The media has deep sixed Ms. Williams account, but it does raise interesting questions, like were the police giving Scott’s killer a black face to shield the real murderer?
The article ends with:
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@William The Conqueror: I agree that this whole thing is corrupt.
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@Afrofem: A line from Erykha Badu’s Soldier: “The dirty cops them the ones you need to watch.”
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