That's bullshit. There's nothing more to say. If you really knew politics, you'd know that "Reagan: Conservative Icon" is a myth built by the neo-conservatives 10-20 years after the fact.

Do a google search and find out how many police homicides there were in other westernized, affluent nations on earth. Do some simple math and work out the ratios. Report your findings to the class.

I wasn't saying you did. I apologize - I was making the point that, IMO and experience, the English are more casually racist, but in America, black kids get shot on streets as the outcome of a systemic racism that goes to the core of the American experience.

The short version is: either engage in the issue, or move on to an issue you are willing to engage in.

That's a bullshit argument.

Thank you for whitesplaining this. It is appreciated.

Sure it is. Living in America leads us to believe that cop-murder is a fact of life. Homicides are a fact of life.

Sure you can/ We are all responsible for the river of shit we swim in. You can deny culpability because it doesn't directly affect you.

Blacks certainly aren't treated well in England - there is a casual racism in English society that would appall many Americans. On the other hand, a de-militarized citizenry and police force must be nice - don't have to face every day like you might get killed for no reason. (Or at least orders of magnitude less…

Well, I think blacks have it worse somewhere is a shitty argument. But to each their own.

This is true. But there seems to be coming a day when it won't be.

There's zero legitimacy to any oath. If we start pretending that reciting a few words at then end of a training course makes that person an Infallible Person with Perfect Character, we'll get the abuse we deserve.

Hahahaahahahahahahahahahaha - I can't wait to you get pulled up by your short hairs when a cop is feeling half-drunk on power and you encounter him. The cops work for the state, they work for the badge. The last thing they work for is the people.

Sigh. If I were younger, I'd emigrate. But I'm too old to try to work my way into a new job market.

Don't worry, this monster will move on you next.

Well of course they stopped living there. "You don't expect me live with these savages, do you?"

It's both.

David Simon has, at times, referred to the "hopeless" class as "spare" people. We shipped the blue collar jobs overseas, and then we have a campaign of incarceration and neglect to deal with it.

The argument will go full circle: because he was fleeing for his life, he was now a menace to the community. Just watch.

But then how would St Petersburgers know they were also invited to the club?