The weird thing is that police officer isn’t even the most dangerous job out there. There’s a whole list of jobs with higher death or injury rates.

It’s a combo of White fragility, Male fragility, and lowered standards for cops all boiling up into this thuggish pile of scared shitless public executors who believe that shooting anything that moves is a valid response to any potential crisis situation.

I was just thinking the same thing. Police always claim that they fear for their lives. But how often are police officers’ lives actually in danger? I’m talking about beat cops like these who are catching neighborhood prowlers and solving petty crimes. How often do they actually get guns pulled on them? Are the…

“Yeah, we ain’t talking about this” is a card that could stand to be played more often.

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…

It’s his yard. His castle. If it had been a gun this is exactly the sort of self-defense situation that gun ownership is supposed to provide. The duplicity on the part of white gun owners in disallowing self defense for a black gun owner is astounding.

That one line “where is his right to fear for his life?”

Ah yes, the fear of a black man defense.....again. How many times do we have to witness the “scured” policeman kill yet another defenseless black kid befoRe it becomes mandatory that the cops have to attend functions and churches within there jurisdictions? You know, like we used to police people .

“Not sure how something big and square got mistaken for a gun, but OK?”

You’re nicer than I am. The people who say “well he should have just complied” can just shut the entire fuck up. I’m tired of their idiotic excuses as to why these cops just had to murder this man.

I don’t believe they were frightened. I think it’s time we stop validating this bullshit with any retort other than, “That is a lie.” You’re a cop chasing after a ‘suspect’, in the dark. As a human in 2018, you know full well if the question is, ‘what’s that guy’ holding/reaching for’ the answer is very rarely a gun.…

Preach. This. Word.

It’s the very same people who say ‘why didn’t he just comply’ that are the first to say the ‘cops feared for their lives.’

That wasn’t a racist dogwhistle. It was a fucking foghorn that spits out little Confederate flags and mayo packets.

Can we all be brutally honest for a second:

“Before you call anyone bigoted, consider—and be honest—how would you feel if that happened in your neighborhood?” Ask any Native American. Go ahead. I dare you.

Love how he didn’t mention how Hazelton’s white pop shrank because it’s fucking Hazelton, PA, not because of white people being too afraid to boing and make white babies who don’t know that *they can move*. Town was dying because big business white people pulled out and anti-union sentiments sucked out the job…

Yeah, because seeing my old neighborhood gentrify in the last 15 years and get more and more pale hasn’t been anything short of traumatizing, TUCKER.

The best part though? When the immigrants came, the town got a shitload safer