until our representatives can figure out, what the hell is going on. Unarmed cops are polite cops.

I was held at gunpoint by cops and I wasn't even involved in whatever it was they were trying to do. I'm pretty lucky to be here still. I think a lot of them are being driven by the same thing that's driving Trump votes.

atmosphere? Murder runs riot in the streets and you find the strength to face it down.

It is an act of inestimable bravery just to step out into a society that considers you as potential targets.

I am genuinely humbled.

And the same way we got through slavery and Jim Crow I guess.

have my sincere and humble admiration.

We can only fight this battle together with linked arms and in total solidarity.

Actually in that case, it was the policeman NOT respecting the right of a black man to bear arms.

Heads would explode if the militia folks could even receive that, lol.

You'd think they'd jump on these cases of extra-judicial execution of gun owners.

Hum, why aren't they rushing to question this gross miscarriage of justice?

What's keeping them silent? I wonder...

I'm the first to oppose lifetime bans on gun ownership based on felony convictions, but I doubt most of the RKBA orgs share that view.

Why would you jump to that conclusion?

people reside in blue states (MN for starters.)

They train police like they are operating in Iraq or Afghanistan. Many of the Police are combat veterans and act accordingly. Then you add PTSD and other emotional problems. It's a disaster waiting to happen.

We are seeing, in real time, the murderous effect of militarizing our police.

It makes it a lot easier to make someone whisper: "I can't breath."

hate of black people is the driving force that has emboldened them and has been been encouraged by their fuhrer running for POTUS as a republican. NO DOUBT IN MY MIND. The rising tide of racial hate in this country makes me understand what the Jewish people must have felt at the ascension of Hitler to chancellor of germany. The brown and blue shirts of trump are already on the march. They will not be meeting a person here who will fear them. I detest a cowardly racist hiding behind a badge or a presidential nominee.

We've been hearing it for decades. But the cold-blooded killing seems new. Am I just now paying attention? Has it always been this way for AAs? I'm horrified at what is happening and want to know what to do.

Take an increasingly militarized police force, add more and more guns, plus a dangerously charged, racist environment, and you've got a recipe for mayhem and murder.

And I can tell you that not only has it always been this way, it will always BE this way. I am convinced that America is incapable of change when it comes to citizens who are not white.

Now starting to see. I want to make it better and don't know how.

Does it always have to be like this? The under- 30s are cause for a little optimism, no? They don't see color the way their elders do.

Tell me there's reason to hope?

and I confirm your observation of our past, present and future.

is what's new. Now the larger society can see what the cops , the racist, murdering ones, not all, have been getting away with for forever.

Go to Tim Wise's page.

He has a link linking to 'Eve' -

It becomes VERY clear in that video that -

Cop #1 - What did you do that for man?

Cop #2 (Shooter) - It seemed like he shot fire , so I shot fire . . . FUCK!


So Cop #1 asks Cop #2 why he did that?

I hope Cop #1 turns against him and saves himself.

One thing you can bet on--they'll be trying to save each other's asses.

Two cops on top of him, one with gun drawn and pretty much pressed up against his chest.

You then see the shooter fire several times, and then you get to watch Alton die as blood pools up on his chest.

You can't un-see that, and I wouldn't recommend it.

Will try later

They want to carry guns and have power over others. Those people are the worst choice as cops. You rarely ever hear of any state policeman doing these types of things. Sometimes we do, but rarely. The screening process used for those positions weeds out the people I first described.

Aggressive personality tendencies and certainly PTSD should be immediate reason for elimination.

Waiting patiently for Obama to acknowledge to need to address this epidemic of police openly murdering AA's with little or no ramifications, other than being put on "administrative" leave, i.e. vacation.

the AA community once he's a free agent.

Every time he's tried to express his outrage and grief at the present situation, he's been excoriated by the rabid right for being partisan and "playing the race card".

just paint him as the fearful "angry black man". Something he has not shown to these clowns in america who were hoping to debase his character and integrity by labeling his actions as thuggish or worse. America sucks sometimes and lately, for me, all the time. It was created by white people for white people and white people are trying and have tried their best, for generations, by murder and worse, at all levels of society, to hold on to that legacy. America will never be rid of it's slavery, segregationist and racist past, present and future.

Fear of PoC is driving a lot of these clowns crazy.

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new outrage in Dallas.

Trump and his racist, concealed-carry rabble have a lot to answer for.

If his public incitement to riot continues, I question whether the center can hold.

I posted about this in general discussion in the afternoon. A few recs, no replies. Posted about it again this morning. No replies.

Everyone's busy posting about what's on television now - the shooting in Dallas. Dozens of new threads full of inane speculation.

I abhor all violence. My heart goes out to the families & loved ones of those murdered in Dallas. But it saddens me that most here get so entranced with whatever is the ongoing story that it seems like they forget all the pain and sorrow of the families of unarmed victims killed by police.

Dozens upon dozens this year and every year previous.

that America's predominantly white, gun-loving culture has nothing to do with the present climate of murderous violence against the AA and other ethnic minorities.

Ignorant, armed racists can and will do serious damage, whether they're wearing a badge or not. How hard is that to understand?

This is the kind of cognitive dissonance we're up against.

I too am in despair today.

like you and others here who are aware of sensitive to these matters. As someone mentioned in another thread here, I read other parts of DU for entertainment & often bemusement. This is where my friends are and we always have good discussions.

I'm taking my girlfriend to surgery this morning. She's mixed race (as I think so many people are not only here in the USA but all over the whole wide world). So I'll be praying for her and for peace all throughout the day. Take care. There are many many good people out there!

terms with that reality, the happier and healthier we'll all be. I live in France, and it too is getting browner by the day.

are killed outside of these recorded high profile events of murder and extrajudicial executions? I bet a lot.