Who said social media was not good for something. You should link the article next time as I was wondering where you got that number from.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/a...ice-homicides/

I still do not think its a statistically big enough number for me to fear death by cop, even if all of them were unwarranted.

It's got to be 1-2 orders of magnitude more likely that you're killed by a cop than by a terrorist.

My bad, it's from this website.

http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/


It's more about police violence. Sure, "only" 1100 died, but how many got the **** beat out of them for a no reason or shot 6 times and lived?

I've read a lot about this stuff since Michael Brown.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hundreds...ics-1417577504

Plenty. I hiked the AT 4 years ago and made a pit stop in SC for 3 weeks. (The AT doesn't go through SC; I was visiting friends) I also have relatives that live there and spend probably about 20 days a year from the time I was 3 or 4 until I graduated HS. The rural parts of SC, GA, FL, MS and AL are extremely racist. All in all, I would say I have spent 10 years or so in these states. You are being extremely ignorant if you are assuming all 12 jurors will not be racist.

That is fair but then I think we have to consider who was justly killed because obviously some deaths were warranted giving the circumstances involved. I think a civilian review board of police activity would be great. Almost like we have congressional oversight on most federal activities.

Fleeing jaywalker. Waistband pistol. Feared for their lives. Stolen gun at a scene. This one has it all.

http://m.ajc.com/news/news/judge-gra...#__federated=1

Dude must be some sort of ninja. It is seriously difficult to point a weapon prior to drawing it.

I'd guess an American is more likely to be killed by an animal than a terrorist.

This guy died today. Beaten to death by a ghost.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...418-story.html

Somehow this was deemed news worthy where Im from;

They won't even disclose his alleged offense? How in **** is that even legal.

legal? don't you know LEOs are above the law?

I think its a pretty dramatic video, and certainly newsworthy. Basically, it exposes as cowardly scum all the police officers who "just couldnt help it" and had to shoot and kill everyone who didnt perfectly comply with every single order they gave and who "could have had a weapon who knows."

I think we'd be sadly not surprised by the amount of people who are ok with the cops pulling the trigger in the scenario where the criminal is clearly pulling for suicide by cop.

Yeah i guess you're right.
If that is freddie gray,then the vid below ure post has a link to the video.
People were screaming that freddie greys legs were broken while being carried to a police van WTF.
Cops caught in a lie again, with the lack of info that is given out, guess there trying to get better story to match that timeline. F..K*** A******

spoiled for NSFW language that are facts of a matter.



So how much is too many for it to be just a few bad apples?

Lolol "committed no crime and was savagely beaten" blah blah blah irt to Gray. You'd think people would've learned in the Mike Brown case not to go HAM right off the bat when they have no clue about the facts of the case, but I guess that's to be expected.

OK, why did he deserve to die?

That's a very reasonable question. At no point did I see anybody use any force on him. Take a deep breath, bro.

If you read the timeline offered up, another prisoner was picked up by the same wagon while Freddie was inside. Perhaps that individual's account is something people should wait for?

Source?

I'm on my phone but I think it was the Baltimore sun that has a timeline laid out. Gimme a minute

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/20/us/fre...more-timeline/

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/20/us/fre...more-timeline/

So, video didn't show any use of force, he was up and yelling when he was put into the wagon. Reports are, aside from the spinal cord injury, there was no other sign of injury to Gray (no leg injury despite people claiming it appeared it was broken on video). So, either he already sustained a major spinal cord injury prior to being loaded in the wagon (I think we can agree that's unlikely), in the four minute window where another unit was requested the officer driving the wagon stopped, removed him, and at that point he was beaten and sustained that injury (perhaps that's reasonable to people like PoundingTheUnder), or his injury happened inside the wagon, where he was by himself. The van wasn't involved in an accident, so I guess the other guy's account is pretty important.