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> murdering black people with no consequences. Can you elaborate? All four of the police officers were immediately fired. The primary officer that was kneeling
by kuzimoto 6y ago
> murdering black people with no consequences.
Can you elaborate? All four of the police officers were immediately fired. The primary officer that was kneeling on him was charged with murder and manslaughter and will go to prison. Likely charges will be brought on the other three.
- TuringNYC 6y ago>> Can you elaborate? All four of the police officers were immediately fired. The primary officer that was kneeling on him was charged with murder and manslaughter and will go to prison. Likely charges will be brought on the other three. How is it sustainable that nationwide protests need to happen before an officer is charged for murder? Does that not seem like a broken system?
- komali2 6y agoOnly after a police station was burned down. Lord forbid nobody caught the murder on video. This happens all over America, all the time. Thread is full of links or a quick hop on google will serve you in this regard. What would have happened if it was citizens? All four would be in jail immediately, if they even get that far without being shot for "resisting arrest" first. At the very least they'd get a beating somewhere between having cuffs put on them and getting into a squad car. We know this from all the recorded instances of police brutality looking exactly as I've just described. Lost their jobs. Come on. Would you merely "lose your job" if you watched your buddy murder a guy and stood there throughout the whole thing?
- kuzimoto 6y ago> Only after a police station was burned down. I feel like that's more coincidence than anything > This happens all over America, all the time. Thread is full of links or a quick hop on google will serve you in this regard I bet there is tons of anecdotal data to support any claim. There needs to be aggregated data that shows it's happening in high enough rates to be a "systemic" issue. > Would you merely "lose your job" if you watched your buddy murder a guy and stood there throughout the whole thing? In most countries bystanders are not obligated to assist. So nothing would happen to you?
- drewwwwww 6y agoah, yes, we’ll use the data collected by the same institutions doing the extra judicial murders. surely they’ve been keeping great notes. and then finally we’ll be able to prove that racism is real to some commenter on hacker news.
- kuzimoto 6y agoI'm not saying there can't be police that are racist or even that racism isn't real. But if anyone claims systemic racism exists, they will have to provide more than anecdotal data to support that.
- TeaDrunk 6y ago> There needs to be aggregated data that shows it's happening in high enough rates to be a "systemic" issue. We have aggregated data. We in fact have been building the aggregated data over years. Black people are disproportionately killed by police.0,1. 0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic... 1. https://policeviolencereport.org/ https://policeviolencereport.org/
- komali2 6y ago> In most countries bystanders are not obligated to assist. So nothing would happen to you? Ooooor you'd be an accessory to murder.