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In reply to the discussion: Telling black people to 'be nice to cops' to prevent being murdered is evil as hell [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)72. They would have skipped the taser and gone right for their pistols.
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Telling black people to 'be nice to cops' to prevent being murdered is evil as hell [View all]
bravenak
Jul 2016
OP
Visceral fear and one's body being constantly in "fight or flight" mode.
Surya Gayatri
Jul 2016
#179
It would be nice if everyone, were polite, but failing to do so shouldn't be a death sentence
brush
Jul 2016
#113
Did you miss the reality part? Being nice makes no difference, we're still killed.. NONE of that...
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#47
This is false, not being black gives me the best chance of not being killed. The kid in Colorado was
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#187
That twelve year old kid sitting on a swing who was shot within seconds of the police
Squinch
Jul 2016
#203
That would seem to go quite a bit farther than any conversation about people needing to be nice.
Squinch
Jul 2016
#225
The possible situations that we are talking about, the ones this thread is about and which
Squinch
Jul 2016
#227
This is a thread in which a black person is saying, "Don't tell black people to be polite
Squinch
Jul 2016
#234
lofl.... yeah, that's some solace there "you don't ALL get killed"... just some hunh?... lol.
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#188
Wishing someone a Happy New Year doesn't trivialize or minimize the Fourth of July, yes?
LanternWaste
Jul 2016
#184
You could self delete the post that minimizes the seriousness of the issue of people being
Squinch
Jul 2016
#213
No. It was aimed at "police and citizens". None of whom are shot over "niceness."
Squinch
Jul 2016
#219
This is a thread about the fact that telling black people to be polite to police in order not to
Squinch
Jul 2016
#229
Of course they should. But "rudeness" is a laughably flimy reason for shooting someone. n/t
nomorenomore08
Jul 2016
#210
It's like requiring women to wear burqas because they are considered to be responsible
tblue37
Jul 2016
#4
My thought exactly. Those saying that AA people are being killed because of bad manners are
Squinch
Jul 2016
#202
Be nice to them as they are filling you full of holes? Some folks don't live in the real world imo.
Rex
Jul 2016
#11
OK, sorry, I did not recognize the clear thrust of your OP and took it another way. (self-deleting)
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2016
#28
I have watched white folks scream, rant, and tear up traffic tickets and speed off
bravenak
Jul 2016
#20
The man could have been arrested for simple assault. He seems to be so unstable and the cop
Rex
Jul 2016
#40
+1, the discourse on M$M allows for the skipping of this low hanging fruit; that blacks have a ...
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#106
Oh? That officer treated a black motorist differently for the same thing? Thats just wrong.
cstanleytech
Jul 2016
#135
If the kill rate were 80% white then the police would look much less racist...
Lucky Luciano
Jul 2016
#24
I think that it would be more accurate to explain what you are doing to the cop like
mythology
Jul 2016
#173
It is as if we do certainly live in a police state, for a segment of the population.
Rex
Jul 2016
#90
All these dead people behaved within their rights as citizens. It got them killed.
Squinch
Jul 2016
#235
People forget that they used to lynch black people back in the day with suits on.
craigmatic
Jul 2016
#85
That has nothing to do with blaming blacks for their own death because they were rude
bravenak
Jul 2016
#107
Is it "evil" for black parents to warn their children about racist, trigger-happy cops?
Nye Bevan
Jul 2016
#126
you can't win with bigots. anti-semites fault the jews for not resisting enough in the holocaust.
unblock
Jul 2016
#133
Nothing in life is absolute. Best to play the odds, as to your other point,
jack_krass
Jul 2016
#161
Oh, and maybe most importantly: stop making it illegal to posses certain substances
jack_krass
Jul 2016
#175
Everytime this kinda stuff happens they act like police are the minority group that gets oppressed
bravenak
Jul 2016
#170
Because police officers should always be treated as if they're unpredicatble, dangerous animals.
baldguy
Jul 2016
#177
When white people advise African American people to be "polite" towards cops, for me
Surya Gayatri
Jul 2016
#178