I hope his* epitaph reads: “He spent his life trying to make others’ worse.”

Somebody seriously needs to fuck up Mitch McConnell’s shit.

McCain voted for the BCRA, despite pledging a few hours earlier that he would not.

Are you trying to be stupid? You don’t think the officer should’ve been prosecuted when he shot a man in cold blood for no damn reason? Also, he never pulled out the fucking gun, dumbass. Please stop talking.

I do not know where you are getting this story from that the license was handed over that is a lie. Yanez asked him for registration and license. The first papers he gave him were proven to the registration. He was then still following that initial instruction reaching for his license which most men keep in thier…

1) Being Canadian doesn’t excuse the ignorance of your comment.

Yeah, methinks the OP perhaps doesn’t know much about Latin Americans.

Yes! and not just inherent bias, but inherent racial fear that quickly escalates to active panic. Pretty sure most people do not make good life-or-death decisions when plagued by fear and panic. If you can’t encounter a person of color in your law enforcement job without freaking the fuck out, then don’t take the…

I don’t know exactly what that was about. Someone else on here probably knows. He has already handed the cop something. Perhaps it was his DL or perhaps something else. There might have been something else he was reaching for. In a traffic stop there can be potentially several things you must show the cop (insurance,…

A) Many MANY different races (Hispanics, East Asians, South Asians) that are non-white have demonstrated racism against African-Americans

Oh, Canada. My sweet summer child. You know nothing of implicit bias or policing tactics developed long ago to keep a system of chattel slavery alive. I know your Netflix selection up there is limited so you can’t watch 13th, so start by reading The New Jim Crow.

Anti-Blackness affects all kinds of people, whether they are named Jeronimo or not. Even Black police officers participate, since that’s a big part of how our police force was meant to work. Yes, it’s about race. This rarely happens to white people and happens to Black people often enough that we prep our children on…

I just have a hard time believing “Jeronimo” frigging “Yanez” is a racist white cop like ‘the rest of them’.

Nope. It sounds like you are working with limited knowledge here. There is audio of the entire thing plus dashcam footage of the whole thing but you can’t see Philando. Then Diamond starts recording after he was shot. He was absolutely not reaching for a weapon. Moreover, the weapon was still down in his pants when…

You can be not-white and still be racist :I

I’m Chicana. Ethnic people can definitely be racist towards other minorities. Source: my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who say and believe horrible things about Black people

The issue isn’t whether or not this specific officer is a KKK cross burning swastika racist. The issue is the inherent and often unaware bias that exists among most Americans that gets distilled and supported in police forces. Police react to threats, and if you’ve grown up in a culture that frames black people as a…