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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
wraper:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 15, 2020, 01:46:38 am ---Nice strawman, where did you get him?
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There is no strawman. Look into PDF I linked. 2 out of 3 pictures from google, they are only for presentation purposes. Again look into that PDF before claiming strawman. About particularly killings by police, you could simply google for numbers.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/
http://www.cjcj.org/news/8113
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-more-whites-than-blacks-but-minority-d/
james_s:
It's possible that people not from the USA can't relate to the situation the police face here. It is not unusual in the least for them to encounter armed suspects and police officers are killed in the line of duty on a regular basis, around 100 per year as I recall and that's just the number that die. The husband of my mother's best friend was a police officer, he was shot in the line of duty by an armed suspect and paralyzed from the waist down, spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. I can only imagine what it's like to make that split second decision on whether to shoot a suspect or not. If they're holding or reach for something that looks like it could be a gun, there's a good chance you will end up dead if you hesitate to make sure.
I was taught from a young age to never, EVER touch a police officer or reach for anything. Just cooperate and in nearly all cases they will either send you free or take you to jail. The situations where this does not happen need to be dealt with, but the data I've seen suggests that is not often. This is why I'd like more accurate data if this is not the case.
Mechatrommer:
when suspect nailed down on the ground hand cuffed, there is no need 2 or 3 police "person" to kneel on "the person", esp on the neck (neck cant hurt anyone). teach them that (and it should in their physiology enrollment training in the first place). the rest of cases of shoot down armed suspects etc are understandable. normal people have senses too, this particular Floyd case seems nonsense thats why Americans SJW (not "not from the USA") raise. scumbag police officers exist in any countries including yours and mine, the difference maybe in the firearm enactment.
tom66:
Whatever the cause, this huge disparity in crime committed by black people is unique to the USA. While you see some difference in other countries, it is well within the range of explanation of black people preferring to live within cities which have higher crime rates or lower socioeconomic status. The legacy of slavery is one explanation, as is systematic racism. Why are black people 8x more likely to be jailed for possession of drugs, even though they are equally likely as their white counterparts to possess?
tggzzz:
This thread is descending into politics.
Let's hold a sweepstake on when it will be locked.
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