Woman live-streams aftermath of fatal officer-involved shooting
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/us/fal...ing-minnesota/
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Woman live-streams aftermath of fatal officer-involved shooting
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/us/fal...ing-minnesota/
Thousands, unless you change your gun laws.
So sad.
The US already has the most permissive laws in the world. Are you familiar with the US second amendment?Quote:
Originally Posted by IshbelRobertson
Yes.
What are you suggesting?
As far as the second amendment, as I've said before........it was never meant for today's world.
I've seen the videos from both of these shootings and I have some questions:
I'm not sure why the guy on the ground in Baton Rouge had to be shot? Is it possible it was an accident? I mean seriously........can't 2 men keep 1 man restrained without shooting him?? Then....I have to wonder why some of these victims fight the police so hard. Just go with them and deal with them later, through the law. It just makes the outcome potentially worse.
Now...the case in MN....the man was supposedly reaching for his driver's license or registration and they shot him. But why the hell is the woman proceeding to film it all instead of insisting on helping the guy beside her who is bleeding to death??? She was speaking very respectfully to the officer (who was holding his gun to the dying man in the front seat next to her), but geez.......why not try to stop his bleeding? He exsanguinated right next to her.
There is a group of mostly black ministers in the city near here who are really trying to help the problems of violence in the black community. And they keep saying "Just do what the police tell you to do." Why do some fight it so hard?
I kind of thought that, but then again, the whole video was so surreal: almost like the Hunger Games meets the Truman Show. And she wasn't the only one choosing to not help the dying man--the police officer apparently considered him still to be a potential threat--with his gun still poking in the car window. Maybe if she had reached over to help him, he'd have thought she was reaching for her boyfriend's "gun" and shot her too. Above all, I think she knew she was witnessing what most people choose to ignore and she was angry enough to feel it was more important to make her heart-wrenching video blog a testimony to injustice.Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
The police would never have let her get to him, I'm sure. Against protocol.
Meanwhile, Dylan Roof gets a free lunch from his captors, and the Bundys get an Oregon vacation.
Business as usual.
White privilege is real.