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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Nov 12 14:24:28 2018, in response to Re: Midlothian, IL Cops Shoot First..., posted by Fred G on Mon Nov 12 14:04:53 2018. I don't see how Roberson ended up dead in this incident, at all. the police are trained in threat assessment and scene evaluation; by all accounts Roberson was not attacking, threatening, or provoking the cops in any way. He was, in fact, containing the actual threat present at the scene.I know the righties are gonna scream about this, but it is true that the police sometimes see a Black man, regardless of the context of the circumstances, and assume he is the bad guy. The cops are also taught how to couch their language for the investigation which follows, e.g., "I feared for my life/my partners's life", "He flailed his arms/made a furtive move/did not follow my commands/lunged at me", and so on (I've seen this in action firsthand). This is the standard metonymy when dealing with people of color after killing them under murky circumstances, yet (white) suspects like the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter can exchange a fusillade of bullets with the police, yet still miraculously get taken in alive. That's not "racist", it is too often the stark, cold reality we live in. |
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