This is so heartbreaking.

“Calling the police is the epitome of escalation, and calling the police on black people for noncrimes is a step away from asking for a tax-funded beatdown, if not an execution.”

Many of the people who committed these murders and watched are still alive. Black people being shot down by White cops on videotape is just modern day lynching. The end of racism and equality won’t be reached if people want to stay comfortable. Every White person should want to take their whole family to this museum,…

Seeing that my race committed these heinous act makes me hurt. But it’s not about my hurt, it’s about those who actually suffered hurt. I can still close my eyes and go to sleep at night in peace. There are many, many others who could not. THOSE are the people who’s feelings matter.

My father recently told me a story about a family member who had to feel the South because he nearly was lynched for beating up a white sharecropper.

Any white patent who is more upset by their precious spawn bearing secondhand witness to lynching atrocities than by our ancestors lynching masses of innocent people needs to seek help.

Ehm. I’m usually low on the SJW stuff but, at least historically, Canada hasn’t exactly been great to their indigenous pop. The residential school stuff is pretty horrifying.

“Why are you people always talking about race?” asked the racist.

“Why are you always talking about race?” asked the racist.

Sometimes I see a headline like this and think... there must be some kind of wrinkle in the fuller story to complicate this tidy narrative. Surely there must be more to this story than the headline indicates.

This is not one of those times.

Radical idea: That’s actually a good reason not to shoot everyone who looks like they’re carrying a gun.

They don’t shoot *everyone*, though. They manage to bring in armed people all the time...somehow. I’m sure the differences in those decisions are also related to implicit (and not-so-implicit) bias, but another…

So..let’s entertain your weak response in real terms. One semester of college, full time is 12 credits, that’s three/four classes (2 if you’re doing sci/eng w/ lab). You’re trying to say that a single semester of college should or could qualify and properly train someone to properly know how to navigate and respond…

You presumably were given information on how to de-escalate situations, how to approach suspects and when to use force.

When I read the story, I was horrorstruck but not surprised to discover that the cops assumed he was the perp without assessing the situation at all. And that’s just one of the many things that are wrong with what they did. and even if he was the perp, murdering him over the crime of breaking and entering some cars…

*snurk* Or perhaps a resource for a certain tech venture capitalist rumored to drink the blood of young humans to stave off aging. You know. That guy. If you see “FF Property Management, LLC” on the lease, you may wake up one morning about two quarts low.

Either that or a male sex slave factory.

No, no, guys, look closely.

“Wear make-up more than twice a week”