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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Anyone else tired of the family of the suspect trying to make their career criminal family member sound like the next Nobel prize winner and blaming the police for scaring them too much?

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Originally posted by jhe888:
He was clearly fishing in his nasty little pocketses for something. The police are not required to wait to see if it is a ring of power, a pistol, or some Skittles A snickers bar

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
Either that kid was mentally slow as fuck, or that was a suicide by cop.

That's gotta be a thing by now. Get into a confrontation with the police, ignore commands until you get a bunch of guys pointing guns at you, then make a sudden movement and hope you get shot. Then you or your estate files a lawsuit against the department, probably getting a quick settlement out of it. Roll the dice on actually surviving the shoot. Ghetto lottery.

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"Roshawna Carter, Smith’s mother has seen the video, and says her son didn’t have enough time to react."

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by CoolRich59:

So, three police officers all repeatedly telling you to get your hands up is too confusing to understand?

What is confusing is the stress of knowing you were caught breaking and entering and, at the least, are about to get hauled off to jail. Lots of people aren't good under that kind of pressure.

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Officers found two cell phones at that house. Investigators haven’t determined whether the cell phones came from the robbed store.

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Originally posted by Icabod:
Think this gives some insight into the behavior:

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
How many of these idiots that make it on the news would be alive if they just heeded the lawful orders of police.

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Originally posted by jljones:
Dope.

Would be my guess. Meth to be exact. ...

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
that dog coming out of the door cracked me up. "woah, shit."

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
Had he not been commiting a crime in the first place, then confusion and reaction speed under pressure wouldn't be an issue.

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Originally posted by Icabod:
Of her sons: “I am trying to teach them to be men, but at the same time I am telling them to back down and not be who they are,” she said of their interactions with law enforcement.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Maybe the cops should be re-educated to use ghetto linguistics in dealing with these yutes.

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Originally posted by Icabod:
Think this gives some insight into the behavior:

"Sometimes, it’s just the sense of over-policing in their neighborhoods which leads many of these young black men to suspect the worst in cops — that they’re their enemy, not friend.

And so many times, they resist arrest.
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“Why are you telling me to comply if I am not doing anything wrong,?” Shanel Berry questioned in an interview with The New York Times about the rub her and her family has with law enforcement.

Of her sons: “I am trying to teach them to be men, but at the same time I am telling them to back down and not be who they are,” she said of their interactions with law enforcement.

There’s a subtle undertone here — that you should only comply with law enforcement if you believe you’ve done something wrong. Additionally, if you don’t stand up to them, you’re less of a man.

This sort of attitude is making its way into the streets of urban cities — where cops are increasingly being resisted just for doing their jobs. It’s through this resistance that many cases — like Eric Garner’s in New York, or Michael Brown’s in Ferguson — get escalated. In the split-second the officer has to react (in many times to defend himself), often then leads to second-guessing: Was the use of force too much; should more officers been called in; how could the situation been diffused before it even started?


The experienced cops, with more time on the beat and better training, generally handle the situations better. A young, green cop, may often overreact. He’s scared too, after all.

Heather Mac Donald, who wrote of the crime in the streets of Chicago in the Wall Street Journal, said: “Police officers who try to intervene in this disorder [gang, street crime] often face virulent pushback.

” ‘People are a hundred times more likely to resist arrest,’ a police officer who has worked a decade and a half on the South Side told me. ‘People want to fight you; they swear at you. ‘F– the police, we don’t have to listen,’ they say. I haven’t seen this kind of hatred towards the police in my career,’ ” Ms. Mac Donald reported."

https://www.washingtontimes.co...cultural-difference/

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Originally posted by fatmanspencer:
And he was just turning his life around, making good choices. He just ran into the open garage cuz he was scared for his life.

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From the Salt Lake Tribune:
Three children — ages 9, 10 and 13 — were inside the house at the time of the shooting.
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The 13-year-old boy later told police that Smith had knocked on the door. Then, when the teen answered, Smith “barged in” the front door “aggressively,” according to police. Smith reportedly said something about getting a drink of water, Jacobs said.