Oh my goodness, is this thread still gong on? ok
sure
{giggle} seriously, that was my first encounter with that blog.
you assume violence against cops stems from their abuse of power? You think this is why cops are shot at? I think it has more to do with the fact that their job entitles them to contradict and put an end to criminal activities...something that doesn't go over very well with criminals. If every cop was a fuckin saint they would still get laid out by thugs with enough motivation to stay out of jail while maintaining their gang banging lifestyle. I think that if incidents like this one with the 15 year old girl and Sean Bell ceased to exist, there would be less public outcry but an equal amount of cop killing - that's just my opinion, but you cannot argue the fact that it is the duties of a police officer's job (locking up law breakers) which naturally makes them targets of violence.
I wouldn't think of it, ...however, I believe incidents like a cop beating up a 15 yr old girl, don't make their jobs in the community any easier, ...and it doesn't benefit the community itself.
well from my perspective, logic tells me she was being a snob so I personally get satisfaction out of watching her catch a whooping.
{giggle} Do you get a lot of snobby girls turning you down? Is that where the satisfaction comes from?
Do you see this thug in blue as exacting revenge for you against all the pretty snobby girls who've ever turned you down?
But, unrelated to this incident, my point was that there is more outrage over thugs killed by cops than cops killed by thugs, and it is disappointing.
Can you cite me an example of an incident where there was outrage over a cop killing a thug?
The two examples I used above don't qualify.
there is good and bad in every group, and one should not be held accountable for the actions of someone else. if one cop fucks up in someone's eyes, that person should not hold it against all cops. further more, they should not be more prone to KILLING cops because of the actions of a few bad seeds in the group.
When blasting a mountain or laying railroad tracks, we know a highly volatile substance like glycerin is not supposed to blow up unless it's properly set with a charge, ...however, we're still gonna make sure we pack it properly so it doesn't get jostled along the way while transporting it to the blast site don't we? I agree that an entire force should not be painted with the same brush as a result of the actions of a few, ...but we don't live in a perfect world, we live in the real world, and in the real world, people lack the discernment to differentiate between the two. With that realization in mind, it is a detriment to his fellow officers to conduct himself that way. My post within this thread is not an indictment of law enforcment, it's an indictment of the officer in question.
how can you recognize this cop's actions as a malignancy to all officers, but do not recognize the biased media coverage and unbalanced views towards cop violence vs. street violence as a malignancy as well?
I don't believe I did. Street violence isn't the issue here, the cops actions against this girl are.
You talk about your empathy towards officers who have to deal with negative stigmas because of the actions of this one officer, yet at the same time you fuel this hate with your focused references to Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo, among others.
You do have a point. Perhaps Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo were poor examples.
Those officers made mistakes for which they were not held accountable, and there didn't appear to be any effort made to address the root of the issue which in their case did not appear to be the desire to abuse, but simply do their jobs. Perhaps Rodney King and Abner Liouma might have been better examples of the malignancies that need to be excised.
