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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI don't think people are generally out to get cops.
We just want them to be subject to the same justice system as the rest of us. Until this happens, yeah, there will be protests after every kangaroo court exoneration of a killer cop.
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I don't think people are generally out to get cops. (Original Post)
MoonRiver
Dec 2014
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maced666
(771 posts)1. I don't think, generally, cops are out to kill black people.
But that lie has been repeated over and over. Some actually believe it.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)2. Well, do you think that the police target blacks and other POCs disproportionally to race?
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)3. You're right "maced" 666.
They also like killing dogs
Elderly white people
Unarmed people running away
Beating Women
Killing the homeless
Some more unarmed people
And all these folks:
Michael Nida - Unarmed shot multiple times in the back by a downey cop after he tried to run away
Douglas Zerby - Cops snuck up on him and blew him away without warning just because he was holding a water nozzle.
John Winkler - Stabbed then gunned down by deputies as he was trying to flee his attacker
Frank Mendoza - Gunned down by deputies as he was trying to flee an armed parolee that had just broke into his home
Brian Beaird - Gunned down by LAPD cops as he was surrendering with his hands up.
Jose de la Trinidad - Unarmed and shot 7 times in the back by deputies
Jason Conoscenti - Unarmed, shot multiple times in the back as he was running away. His murder was captured on video.
Levar Edward Jones - Gunned down as he was getting his ID. Thankfully he survived unlike the other cases.
Kelly Thomas - Unarmed, beaten and strangled to death as he cried out for his Dad. The two cops who did it were found not guilty.
Hans Kevin Arellano - Unarmed, shot in the chest after calling a female officer a bitch. His killing was captured on video.
...wait, do you have a point "maced" 666?