Police get punched, put into headlocks, shot, but show shocking restraint with white 'Christians'

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/13/1377435/-Police-get-punched-put-into-headlocks-then-shot-but-show-shocking-restraint-w-white-Christians

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the quintessential definition of white privilege.

Somehow, police found it in their hearts, in spite of being punched in the face, put into headlocks, and even shot in a full-on battle royale parking lot melee, to use restraint that black folk across America could only dream of in a far-off fairytale land.

Arizona investigators have released dramatic video of a Walmart parking lot brawl that left a police officer wounded, one man dead, and reportedly involved members of a Christian family band.

Enoch Gaver, 21, was killed in the fight in the town of Cottonwood, and suspect David Gaver, 28, was shot in the stomach and taken into custody. Police Sergeant Jeremy Daniels was hit in the leg by a bullet fired during the melee.

The police dashcam video, released Friday, shows Cottonwood Police approaching the group of eight people -- all identified as members of the Gaver family -- around a large SUV in a Walmart parking lot on March 21.

[jaysunb]

1. It's how "family feuds" are handled.... n/t

[olddots]

2. wish I didn't watch that

[Donald Ian Rankin]

3. "Enoch Gaver, 21, was killed in the fight in the town of Cottonwood,

and suspect David Gaver, 28, was shot in the stomach and taken into custody"

This detail rather undermines your narrative, I think.

[DetlefK]

5. How many magazines were emptied into these 8 people actively assaulting police?

How many magazines get emptied into black car-drivers suspected of maybe reaching for a gun?

[Krytan11c]

4. If..

If shooting two people, killing one, is shocking restraint it goes to show how far our view of police has fallen.

[hobbit709]

6. My view of the police hit rock bottom in 1968 and stayed there.

[Krytan11c]

9. I don't blame you

I wasn't born until 86 and while I'm not ignorant to history I just can't imagine the brutality.

[linuxman]

7. I know, right?

None if them were even shot, much less killed.

Oh wait, that's exactly what happened.

I suppose the cops inquired as to their religion before making his decision...

[jmowreader]

8. I don't know if the "white Christian" thing was overriding

If the police would have started spraying bullets the way they did with Walter Scott or John Crawford, they would have wound up killing at least as many cops as they killed fundamentalists.

I've watched this quite a few times, and I've decided the Christians HAD to be on PCP. One of the more endearing features of PCP is its ability to completely shut down the pain centers in the human brain. These guys are getting beaten with police batons, punched and even hit with Tasers, and it doesn't slow them down one whit. It also gives REALLY wicked hallucinations, of the kind you'd need to suffer to start a Christian panhandling band.