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Black police officers aren't colorblind – they're infected by same anti-Black bias as U.S. society in general

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The white officer should have told his colleagues to stop beating Nichols. A new law is required that covers all officers at a scene. The white officer is suspended.

Guess some posters need to watch the released video.

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The problem is that the police are out of control in the US.

I’d say The problem is that crime is out of control in the US.

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Black police officers aren't colorblind – they're infected by same anti-Black bias as U.S. society in general

Wow.

Or maybe they don't like criminals or rap music glorifying criminal activity and gangs.

The Conversation asked Rashad Shabazz, a geographer and scholar of African American studies at Arizona State University, to explore the societal conditions in which Black police officers could brutalize another Black man.

Blah blah blah Sociologist.

Notice there is NO detailed information on the 4 officers; family, likes/dislikes, attitudes about black urban crime, etc. Just some Sociologist who thinks he's got everything figured out and a ridiculous MSM that promotes this division.

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There’s no whiteblackbrownyellow, there’s only blue…; the color of the skin of the police officer doesn’t matter… it will always be easier to beat/abuse a black person… because (there it is) there’s an institutional and structural bias; the system is infected and there’s still many powerful people in the US that can’t/don’t want to/refuse to accept this reality.

(and… this isn’t/was never supposed to be aleftvsright/democratvsrepublican/political discussion…)

(I’m white and that makes me far from being an expert on the subject but) I should’ve added that a) because of that bias, some black people are ashamed of being black and angry at their own race and background…; b) and if they’re in a position of power, they’ll think they’re “different” and/or more special than their fellow black men and women…; c) and if that position of power includes being a police officer, they’ll have the opportunity to manifest their instability, rage and stupidity in one way or another.

How does seeing video of another Black man brutalized by police, this time Black officers, affect Black people?

I’ve heard some black people say that for many black people, their only hope, when they’re stopped by the police, is the possibility of the officer being black…; after this case, all their hope is gone…; that sounds terrifying.

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It is clear America has a serious problem with race and the value of life. Put them together and you get this horrible situation.

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Now you're getting closer, except you brought race into it for no reason. It's not "white conservatives" that are the problem, it's "conservatives".

Well, they didn’t bring race into the issue and you’re not seeing seeing this in the more conservative communities where a lot of black police patrol compared to the more liberal cities and states where you have a higher percentage of blacks overwhelmingly.

There are many reasons, but all of the cities have the highest percentage of crime rates and these communities vote Democrat predominantly. They’re finding it harder and extremely difficult to find new recruits or or people that want to serve these areas especially with the restrictions and restraints they become sitting ducks. Who in the right mind would want to serve in those neighborhoods with those restrictions? No one would.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/08/murders-rose-last-year-black-and-hispanic-neighborhoods-were-hit-hardest.

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And to be fair, only the extremist ones, though as of the past decade or so, that's the bulk of conservatives.

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White conservatives to be blunter, its the grievance industry's Achilles heel.

Now you're getting closer, except you brought race into it for no reason. It's not "white conservatives" that are the problem, it's "conservatives".

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Everything is the white man's fault. We get it.

White conservatives to be blunter, its the grievance industry's Achilles heel.

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Which is why police were able to shoot a man carrying an AR-15 in Target in Nebraska (one of the 50 states).

But wasn't he just exercising his "universal" right to carry a gun? Why should he be executed for that?

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Here you go--as a starter these laws govern where police are allowed to or are required to use force in the UK.

How is the UK relevant here?

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One would hope that hiring more police officers of color would help alleviate problems of racial bias in the police force. Perhaps, in this case, the problem lies with leadership?

I remember when the commander of one of the local police departments, himself a member of a minority, made efforts to force the police force to treat the citizens with more respect. There was severe backlash from at least one of the White senior officers, who resigned, and publicly criticized the new police commander. I did notice after that happened that there was a huge drop in the number of police problem incidents reported in the news media, so maybe a change in leadership helped. However, the problem of racial bias is very old, and deep seated.

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There’s no white, black, brown, yellow, there’s only blue…; the color of the skin of the police officer doesn’t matter… it will always be easier to beat/abuse a black person… because (there it is) there’s an institutional and structural bias; the system is infected and there’s still many powerful people in the US that can’t/don’t want to/refuse to accept this reality.

(andthis isn’t/was never supposed to be a leftvsright/democratvsrepublican/political discussion…)

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Everything is the white man's fault. We get it.

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The leftists are in hysteria.

Here we have 5 cops, fast-tracked into the police force in a quota hire scheme, responsible for the death of a fellow black man violently resisting arrest.

Can't blame "where supremacy"? Nope!

The left, in a sudden 180. just went from "blacks cannot be racist" to "blacks have internalized racism against themselves" on a dime.

Laugh at them.

Laugh hard.

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Bob FosseToday  03:56 pm JST

In the US police are allowed to use certain force. It can include hitting someone with police batons for example---there is a reason police are issued those kind of weapons.

Certain force. Not beating someone. That is excessive force and is a crime. 

Like I said, police are allowed to beat someone; they can shoot them too.

Same as in your country. Shouldn't be such a novel idea.

How would you, an outsider looking in, know that? /s

I would know easily, because it is an academic question that does not require cultural or societal experience.

Here you go--as a starter these laws govern where police are allowed to or are required to use force in the UK.

The Criminal Law Act 1967, and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

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In the US police are allowed to use certain force. It can include hitting someone with police batons for example---there is a reason police are issued those kind of weapons.

Certain force. Not beating someone. That is excessive force and is a crime.

Same as in your country. Shouldn't be such a novel idea.

How would you, an outsider looking in, know that? /s

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Bob FosseToday  01:12 pm JST

What’s a lawful beating?

In the US police are allowed to use certain force. It can include hitting someone with police batons for example---there is a reason police are issued those kind of weapons.

They can even lawfully go beyond beating--they can lawfully kill someone,

Which is why they are issued firearms.

Which is why police were able to shoot a man carrying an AR-15 in Target in Nebraska (one of the 50 states).

It's a legal shooting,

Same as in your country. Shouldn't be such a novel idea.

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No people are born racist. There is no racist gene.

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It’s interesting that the header uses the word “infected” as if there were a contagion at work here.

Discrimination is an infection of the thoughts. Seems a pretty accurate term.

If this term were used to explain the recent explosion in the number of trans-identifiers, its use would be condemned by the MSM.

See!

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It’s interesting that the header uses the word “infected” as if there were a contagion at work here. If this term were used to explain the recent explosion in the number of trans-identifiers, its use would be condemned by the MSM.

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Too many black cops experience racism from within their own forces.

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There should be police watching the police

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The problem is that the police are out of control in the US.

Bingo. All this race-baiting is a diversion that serves the interest of a few. But the police are part of a government, which itself is part of a society - all of it well out of control. It needs to be addressed holistically, not by interest groups who only care about narrow aspects of select cases. Look at the murder of Daniel Shaver if you want to see how evil police can be and still get away with it.

Too many people on both sides of the aisle make excuses for these cops ("he should have obeyed their commands better" or "he shouldn't have made them angry"). Society is too aggressive and violent, pop culture is too violent, and of course the police are too aggressive and violent.

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Nah, who cares if they are prejudiced.

Thinking folks.

It's the unlawful beatings that are the problem.

What’s a lawful beating?

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Black police are anti-black,

Another gem from the Biden Administration era academics,

Why is that hard for you to understand?

You dislike plenty of people the same color as you.

The problem here is cops shouldn’t be prejudiced whilst performing the duty they are paid and trusted to do.

It’s simple.

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There are 17,985 separate police agencies. Officers fired from one can move to another.

Federal, state, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies.

660,288 full-time law enforcement officers employed in the United States.

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Peter NeilToday  11:44 am JST

The problem is that the police are out of control in the US.

The police departments in many cities have some bad apples but you don't get rid of the orchards because of that. The PD in my home city had a racist dept. chief who tried to get a Black lady cop fired before the 2020 unrest and the case went to the FBI (the Black lady cop won her case and got reinstated). The racist chief had retired before 2020 but her replacement didn't have enough time to clean house before all the ruckus.

And Derrick Chauvinist Pig already had a bad rap sheet of 11 abuse cases before he murdered George Floyd. That ugly scenario could've been prevented if the Minneapolis PD had done their jobs to stop this crap. And they can. All PDs can.

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It's sad and disgusting that our 'education' system and 'news media' keeps shoving this image of the 'violent gangsta black man'.

Sadly it is a true image.

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The problem is that the police are out of control in the US.

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Malcolm X Shabazz said back in 1964 that when a criminal is Black we all see his face in the papers and esp. TV. If he is not then maybe not. It's ingrained into our conscience from our youth education onward.

To its merit the US military is pretty much 'color blind'. You rise through the ranks by your merit. Since it's all volunteer (as it should be), you join up and your career is in your hands by your volition. Nobody cares about your race or color, you're just a stat.

It's sad and disgusting that our 'education' system and 'news media' keeps shoving this image of the 'violent gangsta black man'.

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A white officer was involved in the killing of Tyre Nichols. The info was only released yesterday and the officer is only suspended.

Police brutality needs to end.

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American society assumes that Black people are prone to criminality 

Rubbish.

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Black police are anti-black,

Another gem from the Biden Administration era academics,

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And the unfortunate elephant in the room is that blacks are over represented,

The idea of “overrepresentation” is very interesting. What of “underrepresentation”? Why, for example, are Asians - east and south - underrepresented in many categories of crime? Might that reflect a bias by law enforcement agencies? Efforts must be taken to raise those statistics so that there is equity of criminal activity and consequential conviction and incarceration in all communities.

Silly? Same with “blacks are over represented”. It could be that a greater proportion of some types of crime actually ARE committef by this group.

And … the greater part of black people suffer directly from this criminality though they themselves are law-abiding.

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The FBI crime statistics would be worth quoting if this could be dispelled, no?

Do the statistics show that the overwhelmingly huge number of black people are law-obiding citizens?

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Will these brutalising black officers be treated differently to brutalising white officers?

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And the unfortunate elephant in the room is that blacks are over represented, often massively over represented in every category of crime except alcohol and drunken behavior.

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