Here's what happens when police go into the home of white freepers

[scheming daemons]

Gunman Kills 3 Police Officers in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH — In a scene that neighbors described as a war zone, a gunman fatally shot three police officers on Saturday morning as they responded to a domestic dispute between a mother and her son.

Chief Nathan Harper of the Pittsburgh police said the gunman, Richard Poplawski, 22, surrendered after a nearly four-hour standoff with SWAT team officers.

“We have never had to lose three officers in the line of duty in one call,” Chief Harper said at a news conference in the lobby of police headquarters on the North Side of the city.

The American flag and the Pittsburgh flag flew at half-staff just outside the building to honor the slain officers. They were Eric Kelly, a 14-year veteran of the force and married father of three daughters, and a pair of two-year department veterans, partners Stephen Mayhle, a married father of two daughters, and Paul Sciullo III, who was engaged to be married.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/us/05pittsburgh.html



So let's cut Dr. Gates a little slack. If he was a freeper gun nut like Mr. Poplawski, the officer would be dead.

[hedgehog]

1. OOOOOOHHHHH - good one!

[noamnety]

5. such a gleeful response

to three men, 2 with daughters, one with a fiancee, being murdered.

[scheming daemons]

6. The point is to address freepers who say Gates acted inappropriately

Poplawski acted inappropriately.


Gates acted like most of us would.

[noamnety]

9. It wasn't the OP that bothered me

in case there was any confusion on that. It was the tone of the first response, and imagining how that would come across if one of the family members read it.

[hedgehog]

10. It was a gut response because the OP caught the problem in a nutshell:

Police officers, white and black, tend to look at whites as at least neutral and blacks as the enemy. It goes the other way, too. Too many of our cities have turned into low grade war zones as a result. Black on black violence isn't stopped because the community doesn't trust the police.

[scheming daemons]

11. My point was that Gates showed MUCH more restraint than white freeper-types do...

...yet they are all blaming Gates.

[masuki bance]

2. But he lives there!! nt

[baldguy]

3. I've often wondered about this.

Assuming that all the people in prison are guilty, and further assuming that they're not there because of their race - blacks account for nearly half of the prison population, even though they make up only 10% of the general population.

Doesn't that mean there are about 10 million white people running around who should be in prison but for whatever reason aren't?

[imdjh]

8. So if there are 1 million people in jail for prostitution...

and 90% of them are women, does it follow that there are some 800,000 male prostitutes who for whatever reason haven't been imprisoned?

[EmeraldCityGrl]

4. geez...general justification for police brutality and racial profiling.

[scheming daemons]

7. I think the police should be profiling white freeper-types more than black professors

...but that's just me.

[HOLOS]

12. k&R