George Floyd Profile Reads Like A Career Criminal

You’re the one making the claim....I knew you couldn’t or wouldn't with with a few quotes. You’d have to do some work, which is unlikely.

 

Your racist idea that blacks resisting arrest is not an issue is a massive part of the problem.

 

"African Americans in San Francisco are cited for resisting arrest at a rate eight times greater than whites"

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/African-Americans-cited-for-resisting-arrest-at-6229946.php

 

This part... "Perhaps because blacks are 8 to 10 times more likely to resist arrest".
Without a clue... just claim the skin color makes it so that some Americans resist more than others when arrested.
You're obviously part of the problem.

 

That's not my idea, but Heartburn's.

 

So you agree that a big part of the problem is that blacks are more prone to resist arrest when confronted by the police.

 

oh I find that racist that Americans are resisting arrest more due to their skin color.
Institutionalized racism is a fact. Statistics show it clearly.
And so your racist idea that you express now is part of the problem.

 

There was no lynching, there was a brutal and deadly arrest attempt.

 

How many?

 

I don't think any person of any ethnic group resists arrest based on skin color and I don't believe gets arrested based on skin color. The situation that cost Mr. Floyd his life was not based on skin color, it was based on a citizen calling about counterfeit money. What I wonder is why he didn't leave the area after the people from the store spoke with him in his car.

 

I agree with you - every other "civilized" nation in the world manages to get such folks into custody without shooting them.

What I also keep harping on is the bad legislation - Pot law in particular - which automatically turns 40 million "regular users" into criminals - never mind the vast number of occasional users.

How about we turn potential confrontations with 40 million criminals - into a non issue - legalize the stuff .. the world is going that way anyway.

Why does this not get more attention ? Reduce the number of criminals in this nation by 90+ % - and good things will happen - how can this be a bad thing .. unless one's job is on the vice squad .. we should legalize prostitution while we are at it - tax it - keep it clean like in Nevada.

This is how civilized nations police their societies. You don't have swat teams reigning down on some apartment - because someone is suspected of having a bag of weed - in civilized nations. I get the above is somewhat embellished but not by much - and this is a problem.

 

Statistics show that black unarmed people die like that far more often than other ethnicity. It falls in a wider pattern that the police and the US justice system are treating the black community harsher. The US has a history of slavery of black people and later apartheid rule against black people. Donald himself was raised up in a society that it was legal to discriminate black people. If he didn't dodged the draft, he would have experienced it first hand how white people were legally oppressing black people in the US army. Signing a law to change that, doesn't change the culture. The statistics show that. And that explains how a white cop gets to slowly lynch a black man in brought daylight in a very slow almost 9 minute long spectacle while knowingly he is being recorded for all to see.

 

So you're saying then that statistics are racist now.

 

That’s not the point. It’s your outrageous 8-10 times bloviating. It’s a con artist argu

One City ? That’s even worse. Be honest from the start.

 

The US militarization of cops is in no small way due to the proliferation of firearms. You get a training video from the FBI where the bad guys are always carrying high cap autos and Mini14s, bet your asteroid even local cops who never see a shoot out in their career are on edge.

You have swat teams and military vehicles with small arms protection as a direct result of firearms like the AR15.

Agree about legalization of some drugs would go a long way cutting down confrontations.

 

Irrelevant unfortunately.
What's going on is far bigger than BLM.
It's so frustrating when 99.99999% of people still really have no clue what's going on. GRRRrrr

 

Guns certainly do not help the issue - when you prohibit something that 12 % of the population uses on a regular basis - and a whole lot more on an irregular basis - you create a huge underground criminal market - and with that comes gangs and crime.

Do we have Al Capone's running around any more ? - nope - because we legalized Booze - and taxing booze is a huge revenue source.

How about we have less criminals ! - then we don't need so many cops - same thing with prostitution. This is not how "civilized" nations operate.

Our prison population is a global embarassment - never mind the cost .. I am talking just Pot here - I am against legalizing drugs like meth... and this is what the cops should be going after. Instead they spend 90% on pot - because there are 40 million citizens using on a regular basis.

 

Cops only kill black people don't you know......NEVER has a white person been unjustly shot by Police.....

 

10 years worth...you lose count. Vast majority are DUIs.

absolutely.....the biggest reason pot is not legalized federally is the influence of the drug companies. It should be a prescription drug.

I predict it will be over the counter eventually for topical use and liquid tinctures.

 

It already is in some states is it not ? The drug war was initiated primarily with the target of subversive groups such as the black panthers in mind. They wanted to expand police and other powers - and the drug war was the perfect foil.

Other influences such as the drug companies certainly play a role as well. Main one however is Gov't, Police, FBI, CIA do not want to give up their power.

 

I am saying that the statistics show that racism is institutionalized. For instance, the US keeps track on what ethnicity gets what kind of a punishment and taking into account prior convictions. It's also known what ethnicity does how much drugs and drugs dealing. While it's also know what ethnicity is stopped over it, arrested over it and convicted over it. Have a wild guess what people conclude looking at them statistics.

 

Everything revolves around congress and passing the laws. Law enforcement has little say other then their administratively appointed head priorities. The war on drugs is a failure because it and gun running are intrinsically combined. One is used as a commodity of exchange for the other and both have congressional support. Money talks.

 

One?

"in a misdemeanor drug possession case is 85.4% more likely to get charged with resisting arrest than a white defendant"


https://project.wnyc.org/resisting-race/

 

Perhaps start by resisting arrest and you might not get charged.

 

Be careful, that only works if you are white and privileged.