Baltimore police officer Edward Nero found not guilty in Freddie Gray death

[WskyDK]

Wow that sure accomplishes alot besides playing into commonly held sterotypes.

How is this not a race thread and therefore closed?

Commonly held stereotypes.

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Of course it does, because centuries of black dehumanization has created a stereotype of blacks being "more violent", "charging at the officer", "feral thug", "beast". It is all racially motivated, by design.

No.
Just no.
A police shooting is racially motivated, if and Only if, the proximate cause (the officer shooting) was motivated by racism.
It doesn't matter if the system is thoroughly racist - It still doesn't magically make the motivation for shooting racist.

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Idk, how does a city with a black mayor, where half of the police officers on trial are black, in a police dept. with 43% black police enforce racist policies?

Uncle Toms perhaps?

Or maybe, just maybe, they're not actually enforcing racist policies.

Its like almost there is no racially motivated police brutality, Its just garden variety police brutality?

[Nfinitii]

The system provides to much protection for cops as is. While not the subject at hand, look at state police. They have virtual immunity in their actions because they are a state entity and you need special permission to sue them. Most of the shit you see in the news is with local PD municipalities who are vulnerable to legal action if a cop fucks up. OT though, the manner and way police have been allowed to conduct themselves is appalling. Any given episode of cops has 2 officers throwing a 110 lb junkie to the ground while 1 cop rests all his weight with his knee on the back of someones neck/head while the other is wrenching the arm up behind the shoulder blades to cuff them screaming stop resisting. That type of shit is unnecessary and all it does is provoke people to resist which then gives cop's more authority to be even more physically abusive. The majority of people on this forum have never even come close to being arrested or having any real police contact outside maybe getting a ticket. Their is a huge disconnect between what people see the police trying to do vs how the police conduct themselves. Police in this country need to be reigned in.

In essence though, it's both a lawmaking issue and a police issue. Both are powers that need to be reigned in quite a bit. We have way to many laws in this country. Some food for thought.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014...38900830760842

The thing about 3 cops jumping on one dude, is chances r he was running and/or resisting arrest. Have u ever tried to restrain someone by urself w/o getting hurt? It's impossible, I would rather cops over power a guy than take the chances of getting hurt, they r here to protect us and they can't protect us if they r hurt. A vast majority of the time cops won't jump on someone if he is compliant. A majority of cops r trying to do their job and make it home safely to their families and r not bad people, sometimes they make bad judgements but most of the time they r not trying to cause undo harm to people.

The thing about resisting arrest is the more people resist arrest the more aggressive the cops become which in turns makes people resist arrest more, it's a vicious cycle. Look at New Mexico, they r throwing rocks and bottles at the police and acting like animals, but then people want to prosecute cops like they r all bad. Look at how badly Nero's family was treated after the trail by people who know so little about the trial, they just assume the cop is guilty and the system is against them and attack anyone who is remotely involved or associated with the trial.

Imo cops r under paid, under equipped, under staffed and not respected.

[Daelak]

No.
Just no.
A police shooting is racially motivated, if and Only if, the proximate cause (the officer shooting) was motivated by racism.
It doesn't matter if the system is thoroughly racist - It still doesn't magically make the motivation for shooting racist.

Yes. Living in US society all people are ingrained with the stereotypes of black men being "beast-like", more threatening, more dangerous. Dehumanization and isolation through segregation has made the extremely hostile interactions with police officers and black males escalate to the point that they must execute due to the incessant pummeling of violent imagery and sub-humanism that society puts upon AA.

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Its like almost there is no racially motivated police brutality, Its just garden variety police brutality?

Because the blacks in power have been absorbed into the power structure, they aren't still invited to the high class, high esteemed events, but they serve the who's who of Baltimore. Those people in high positions of power have chosen to ignore the structural problems that centuries of racism and segregation has wrought, just like in every major US city.

[Paklaaji]

Working as intended (TM).