How did the cop know who didn't belong there? How did the people there know which kids were from section 8 housing?

I have no time to assess blame. I think its pointless exercise. Yeah, we need to hold people accountable but I think its more important to find the reasons these things occur rather than find someone to blame or make assumptions based on race with limited information.

He didn't. That's not racist that's just how cops work. You've never had a cop come up to you and assume you did something because of your skin color? I have. "oh we got a call about white males doing so and so". "Ohh well I that wasn't me." Maybe they should change procedure so it makes more sense.

The situation escalated too fast so they never got a chance to sort it out before **** hit the fan.

What does this have to do with what I've said?

Hahahaha. Thus says the guy who wants liberals to quantify the percentage racism plays a role in sentencing to two significant figures. And what the hell is the difference between holding people accountable and assigning blame?

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/sean...l-party-teens/

Hannity taking, well, exactly the line you'd expect.

Which is weird, because:

Hey guy, the cool kids are the one making a BFD about racism and crack and other things, yet when asked how much of a BFD they say that is not important or it's a nonsensical question. You really do not know the impact racism has on any particular issue yet want to call people racist for acknowledging other variables that are demonstratively significant.

If I asked you right now what makes crack laws racist your entire premise will be based on that 80% number, yet you can not tell me which part of the 80% was attributed to racism.

While it may seem subtle to your simple mind, there is a significant distinction.


Why are you incapable of staying on one aspect of the conversation between me and you and instead just respond to my responses to other people? Absent a logical and coherent reason I just have to assume you have no credible answer to my responses to you specifically and instead have to find some other thing to poke.

No, my response would not be based solely on the racial disparity,but you have ignored all other supporting arguments that indicate racism plays a role in crack laws

And quoting the dictionary didn't answer my question. Assigning blame and holding people accountable are the same thing, even if the dictionary uses subtly different verbiage.

quoting definitions is so 2000 and late.

Sean hannity has a history of siding with police so not surprising. Wonder if he really feels that way or he's trying to appeal to fox news demographic, i feel he's being honest.

Like what?

I'm sorry my vernacular and ability to articulate is too much for you to comprehend. I do not operate in vagueness or ambiguous semantics and while my grammar is something to be desired, I use very specific words to articulate my point, if you can not understand the distinctions or need clarifications please go discuss it with a literary professor. I do not have the patience to be your vocabulary teacher or discuss semantics especially when you have consistently conflated racism with discrimination, disproportion and prejudice with out cause.

Those of us who remember the Trayvon thread may have been exposed to what is easily a top 3 conservative journalism website, The Conservative Treehouse, which is steady on the beat of looking up black teenagers instagrams

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/...h-subdivision/

That article is like 9 million words long, but I think my favorite part is either:


or

Was there any part of you that was tempted to stop right here and wonder how messed up it is that it feels natural to use "when" rather than "if"?

Was there any part of you that was tempted to understand the news has a significant impact on our natural tendencies to stereotype and form illogical and irrational biases?

You're immune, right?

No I'm aware and I do not discriminate my awareness based on which issue these potential biases could manifest, unlike some of you. I mean you guys are rather prejudicial of ANY purported negative interaction a black person has with white cops that makes main stream media. I mean, if I do not know if race played a role in this, I'm racist right? Yet, no evidence exist that race played a role in this specific instance but its being used as a rallying cry against racist cops or all cops for that matter. The cool kids are oblivious to their own biases, and prejudices, even when confronted with them, but want to take the righteous stand against other peoples biases and prejudices.

Stories like this crack me up. My best friend deals with cops in NYC a lot and the stories he tells me are fantastic. We'll be having dinner and something like "so the cops in the Bronx had " crack ho roundup night last week"" and he just continues on like I know what he means. Then I make him tell me the background to it. Its great.

I'll check out your thread.

No way he's being honest. He's giving a particular segment of the population what they want to hear.

I used "when" because I've had to deal with crazy cops on several occasions. Just by luck though, not because I was doing anything illegal. My dealings with them have been rather negative.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/09/us/mck...deo/index.html

Cop resigned

To my eyes none of those boys threatened the officer at all, in any way. They were going to help the girl who was just attacked not going to challenge the cop.

It's amazing how differently some people will see that same video.

I was trying to find an online copy, but an ex McKinney cop and defense attorney went over the video on the local TV station.

Cliffs:

The first cops on the scene were acting correctly. They showed up assessed that the crowd wasn't really agitated and the fight was just a few people so they separated them and started taking statements while remaining calm. Then supercop showed up, screaming and running and using profanity which did nothing but agitate normally calm people. Unfortunately supercop was the other cops' supervisor so they were hesitant to reign him in.

Unholstering the gun was actually SOP but given that the officer created the situation it's really all his fault. The ex McKinney cop put 100% of the blame on supercop.

I think the exact quote was "this video should be used as a perfect example of what not to do"

lol, that sounds like you're assigning blame to the cop rather than holding the kids accountable.

"Our policies, our training, our practice, do not support his actions," Police Chief Greg Conley said. "He came into the call out of control, and as the video shows, was out of control during the incident."

Um... they arrested 140, the vast majority obviously had nothing to do with this. They charged them all with conspiracy and gave them all million dollar bail with absolutely no evidence. This has got to be one of the greatest mass civil rights violations in history.