Oh look, itshot deflecting again. Do 99.9% of black people also not experience discrimination in the hiring market? Or did you pivot away from Wookie's point because it doesn't quite go with your narrative?

Again, another reaction with perfect hindsight. It's like seeing a guy is bluffing on TV and saying you can't believe the other player didn't call. Yes, that is a high pressure/alert situation - all they know is a car with dark windows is just sitting there in the middle of a drive-thru for who knows what reason - with no idea who or how many people are in the car doing what. They are trained to be on alert in these scenarios and to not assume the safest of situation - that's the uncertainty part these guys deal with.

The officers seemed pretty relaxed - even friendly - until Brooks went on the attack. Actually they may have been too nice - if the one cop had tased him immediately instead of saying he was going to tase him, maybe the situation gets under control at that moment.

Well, I guess so. You assault an officer, steal their weapon and point it back at them, you may very well get shot.

That still doesn't make entertainment/sports the easiest path to get ahead.

The first part is undoubtedly true, and the example I always give people who think there isn't racism in 2020. All thing's being equal, in the situation above you should always award the job to the black candidate, as on average they have had to work harder and overcome more barriers to get to that situation.

However, it's also true that black students do not do as well as white students at pretty much every level of assessment. This is almost certainly down to structural inequality, and something that will take generations to resolve, if ever.

So the system is what exactly? Maybe there should be laws and government regulations to make it illegal for the “system” to discriminate based on race, Oh wait Federal Protections Against Discrimination! So what system are we talking about exactly?

It is more complicated than what you make it here. TeflonDawg post basically stated what the problem is that led to this shooting. I will try to find the link again but the Atlanta Police procedures basically can be read to justify the shooting and isn’t just based on the fear of the cops.

The shooting seems very wrong. They could have arrested him at some other time as they had his car and they knew who he was. There were no good outcomes after the guy escalated the situation and escaped. He would have been on the loose with the cops taser. That is obviously not good but balancing the outcome of letting him get away with the taser with shooting him in the back it seems clear that they should have let him go at that point and arrest him later.

Is that good policing in the public interest?

This was an intoxicated man who was just driving under the influence, who just fought police officers and swung on them, who just stole one of the their weapons, and who just pointed the weapon at the officer presumably in an attempt to incapacitate him.

Any reasonable person would conclude that such a person has a higher probability of being more dangerous than a person who was merely jaywalking.

Since you constantly show yourself to be a racist, I wouldn't expect you to possess good critical thinking skills, but this really isn't very difficult to comprehend.

An oldie but goodie, the blue eye segregation exercise showed that when the kids were on the wrong side of segregation their test scores immediately dropped. (26:30).

This is for you muppets who live in a fish bowl, and are utterly lost and confused about the protests and anger. Be warned your attention span will have to last abt 3 minutes to read it, so I do expect it to get lost in this thread. Which is a shame because many of you should be learning more and posting less

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...edge?_amp=true

I don’t know. I don’t want anyone to die.

This was a bad situation.

Atlanta cop could face felony murder charges accord to DA. Decision likely by wednesday

https://www.foxnews.com/us/da-in-ray...harge-on-table

Well technically...

Ya bro, that's the point. #abolishPolice

How disgusting. Imagine a United States where someone can drive while intoxicated and endanger others, refuse to cooperate with police and resist arrest, fight and punch police officers, steal an officer’s weapon, and then when this criminal attempts to fire the weapon at the officer...the officer isn’t even allowed to do anything to defend himself.

Nice one by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Stop saying Brooks took the cop's "weapon".

It was a taser.

He is certainly allowed to stop chasing. Greatly increases the chances of him living, the suspect living, and bystanders living. What's disgusting how that never enters the realm of possibility in some people's minds, especially police like this.

Time to queue up a 300-post derail on technical definitions of weaponry.

Tasers are weapons.

hopefully we can nip this one in the bud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser

Alright, which one of you wrote this article? Goofyballer?

a taser is a non-lethal weapon

by saying "he took the cop's weapon", knowing that he actually took a taser, you are intentionally obfuscating this factor

One scenario of not shooting a guy that clearly looks out of his mind. I'm sure the cop was laughed at and probably reprimanded for not neutralizing the subject.

https://www.facebook.com/1752313472/...7436993200318/