Who are the 1st Responders?
They are law enforcement officers, including state troopers, deputies, federal agents, and school resource officers, as well as paramedics, emergency medical technicians, firefighters, rescuers, military personnel, sanitation workers, public works, and other trained members of organizations.
Republicans love them because they stand between danger and safety.
Do they hold any prejudices regarding race?
No, but an officer might have issues from individuals from previous events.
George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer fired the fatal shot. Was it self-defense? Police found Zimmerman with a bloody nose and blood on the back of his head. His lawyer says Zimmerman's nose was broken.
George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer fired the fatal shot. Was it self-defense? Police found Zimmerman with a bloody nose and blood on the back of his head. His lawyer says Zimmerman's nose was broken.
Officer Derek Chauvin and George Floyd. Chauvin and 3 other officers have been fired and charged. Derek Chauvin had 18 previous complaints against him before the fatal incident and black was not prevalent. Excessive force is the issue at hand. Should the officers with previous complaints have been fired much earlier? DEFENSE Dozens of his fellow officers did not collaborate his authorized use of force theory, so on 4/20/21 verdict: GUILTY on Count 1: 2nd degree #murder // GUILTY on Count 2: 3rd degree #murder //
More recent, a drunk, disorderly, thief, black man ran away from Officer Garret Rolfe - taking the officer's stun gun. Rayshard was asleep in the parking lot, failed the sobriety test and wrestled with the officers. Rayshard Brooks was 27, when he was fatally shot outside Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta. Brooks pointed the stolen taser stun gun at Officer Garret Rolfe while running away. What are officers trained to do-the training. In a split second decision only the training is second nature; did he follow procedure/training?
GUILTY on Count 3: 2nd degree #manslaughter ?? Will the appeal change this outcome?
Tony Mcbade - McDade was approached by police as a suspect in a stabbing (trans revenge?) that had taken place earlier in the day on May 27. The officer became a victim when McDade pulled a gun and court ruled that the force was justified.
Let's not forget Michael Brown, who was fatally shot by 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis back in 2014. Officer Wilson faced no charges due to eye witness account of events.
Rusten Sheskey, a 7-year veteran of the force, shot Jacob Blake while trying to arrest him as he tried to get into a car where his three children were seated. What’s developing? Independant Investigation?
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old woman, was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove on March 13, 2020. Jamarcus Glover, a drug trafficker, is Taylor's ex-boyfriend who was suspected as using her address to mail drugs through the post office. Police note in the arrest warrant request that they verified with postal inspectors that Glover was receiving packages at Taylor's address. What happened? Jefferson County grand jury indicted Brett Hankison, 44, on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment; no charges were filed against the other 2 officers.
The nationwide response is violent; throwing bottles and Molotov cocktails, setting fires, breaking windows and looting businesses in the downtown core. There have also been cop killings. Was this violent response necessary to get them fired and charged? Business owners have paid a heavy price and so have the killed cops. I believe protests without the violence would have gotten the same results. Businesses and cops shouldn't have to suffer. Will this latest killings be just as harmful to the innocent?
Most of the time cops are to be honored and respected. Here Here
What do people say about police brutality? African-American men are 14.4 times more likely to die from a traffic accident than from police use of force. Likewise, they are 27.4 times more likely to be murdered than to be killed by the police officer. Thus, there is no credible evidence of a systematic genocidal plan by the police to kill African-American men. (see complete article)
What about robocops? HERE
What do people say about police brutality? African-American men are 14.4 times more likely to die from a traffic accident than from police use of force. Likewise, they are 27.4 times more likely to be murdered than to be killed by the police officer. Thus, there is no credible evidence of a systematic genocidal plan by the police to kill African-American men. (see complete article)
What about robocops? HERE
Can killing a suspect be justified?
Constitutionally, "police officers are allowed to shoot under two circumstances," says criminologist David Klinger of the University of Missouri St. Louis. The first circumstance is "to protect their life or the life of another innocent party" — what departments call the "defense-of-life" standard. The second circumstance is to prevent a suspect from escaping, but only if the officer has probable cause to think the suspect poses a dangerous threat to others.
It doesn’t matter whether there is an actual threat when force is used. Instead, what matters is the officer’s “objectively reasonable” belief that there is a threat. There are plenty of cases in which an officer might be legally justified in using deadly force because he feels threatened, even though there’s no actual threat there. Klinger gives the example of a suspect who is carrying a realistic-looking toy gun. That example bears a resemblance to the shooting death of John Crawford, an Ohio man who was killed by police in August 2014 while carrying a toy rifle in Walmart.
But each use of deadly force does have to be evaluated separately to determine if it was justified. "The moment that you no longer present a threat, I need to stop shooting," says Klinger. However, he continues, "There's a difference between the moment you cease to be a threat and the moment I perceive you ceased to be a threat." And Katz points out that if an officer has been assaulted and the suspect runs away, the officer's threat assessment is probably going to be shaped by having just been assaulted. But, Katz says, "One can't just say, 'Because I could use deadly force 10 seconds ago, that means I can use deadly force again now.'"
Can Media Turn us into Frenzy, Bazaar Monsters?
Well, Yes.
We see that the impression that the news has become more negative over time is real. The New York Times got steadily more morose from the early 1960s to the early 1970s, lightened up a bit (but just a bit) in the 1980s and 1990s, and then sank into a progressively worse mood in the first decade of the new century. News outlets in the rest of the world, too, became gloomier and gloomier from the late 1970s to the present day.
The consequences of negative news are themselves negative. Far from being better informed, heavy newswatchers can become miscalibrated.
They worry more about crime and sometimes they part company with reality altogether: a 2016 poll found that a large majority of Americans follow news about Isis closely, and 77% agreed that “Islamic militants operating in Syria and Iraq pose a serious threat to the existence or survival of the United States,” a belief that is nothing short of delusional.
Consumers of negative news, not surprisingly, become glum: a recent literature review cited “misconception of risk, anxiety, lower mood levels, learned helplessness, contempt and hostility towards others, desensitization, and in some cases, ... complete avoidance of the news.”
Some even say Trump is a racist. Wow! Reality Check
Some even say Trump is a racist. Wow! Reality Check
And they become fatalistic, saying things like “Why should I vote? It’s not gonna help,” or “I could donate money, but there’s just gonna be another kid who’s starving next week.”
“If it bleeds, it leads,” could induce a sense of gloom about the state of the world. Media scholars who tally news stories of different kinds, or present editors with a menu of possible stories and see which they pick and how they display them, have confirmed that the gatekeepers prefer negative to positive coverage, holding the events constant.
That in turn provides an easy formula for pessimists on the editorial page: make a list of all the worst things that are happening anywhere on the planet that week, and you have an impressive-sounding—but ultimately irrational—case that civilization has never faced greater peril.
Americans are marching for justice in unprecedented numbers. In small towns and big cities across the country, thousands of people are giving voice to the grief and anger that the media has managed to invent, encourage and reward.
At a time like this, an independent news organization that fights for truth and holds power to account is not just optional. It is essential. Where is it? Fox?
The Kaepernick Kerfuffle
It all starts with education. Why is taking the knee a big deal? What part of the equation are many of our citizens missing? Here
It only takes a few to ruin it for the rest of us. Because of the ignorant, many do not go to athletic games, what a price to pay, right?
It only takes a few to ruin it for the rest of us. Because of the ignorant, games may not have the respectful anthem or flag ceremony anymore.
There's a time and place for everything. Ignoring or disrespecting our anthem or flag ceremony at the beginning of an athletic event is hurtful to the Nation.
Death is sad. It's always sad and hard to take. Officers out to kill any ethnic group is a ridiculous notion, with no evidence or proof to substantiate. Officers not following procedure and/or using excessive force at times is the issue. If several complaints accumulate, then that officer should not be on any force. Taking the knee at a game to vent sadness does get media attention and the media loves to make money by ginning up the grief.
However, any sign of disrespect to the anthem or flag is a diss on the Nation and the Dems love it. They want globalization so bad, it hurts, but there's a dark side to it. Adding fuel to the fire, making the sadness hurt worse and using BLM/athletes/media is just a typical, sneaky Dem way to distract and confuse.
The sad, ignorant athletes/BLM/others are just pawns in a sick, Dem strategy attempt to overtake. There is black and white hate in the U.S.A. being fueled by the Dem and Soros money; it's true. See domestic terrorist study - HERE. Thank God, these haters are few.
Are there ethnic prejudices in 2020? Yes. The trick is to have prejudices, without discrimination. The vast majority of us are here trying to work through bad experiences.
Each ethnic group forms prejudices, because of behavior of the other group. So old behavior can play a big part. How to trust after bad behavior is tough.
White will no longer be the prevailing color in America soon; are we adapting well? What has the white man done for the world? Who will take over the world, if not checked somehow?
It only takes a few to ruin it for the rest of us. Because of the ignorant, many do not go to athletic games, what a price to pay, right?
It only takes a few to ruin it for the rest of us. Because of the ignorant, games may not have the respectful anthem or flag ceremony anymore.
There's a time and place for everything. Ignoring or disrespecting our anthem or flag ceremony at the beginning of an athletic event is hurtful to the Nation.
Death is sad. It's always sad and hard to take. Officers out to kill any ethnic group is a ridiculous notion, with no evidence or proof to substantiate. Officers not following procedure and/or using excessive force at times is the issue. If several complaints accumulate, then that officer should not be on any force. Taking the knee at a game to vent sadness does get media attention and the media loves to make money by ginning up the grief.
However, any sign of disrespect to the anthem or flag is a diss on the Nation and the Dems love it. They want globalization so bad, it hurts, but there's a dark side to it. Adding fuel to the fire, making the sadness hurt worse and using BLM/athletes/media is just a typical, sneaky Dem way to distract and confuse.
The sad, ignorant athletes/BLM/others are just pawns in a sick, Dem strategy attempt to overtake. There is black and white hate in the U.S.A. being fueled by the Dem and Soros money; it's true. See domestic terrorist study - HERE. Thank God, these haters are few.
Are there ethnic prejudices in 2020? Yes. The trick is to have prejudices, without discrimination. The vast majority of us are here trying to work through bad experiences.
Each ethnic group forms prejudices, because of behavior of the other group. So old behavior can play a big part. How to trust after bad behavior is tough.
White will no longer be the prevailing color in America soon; are we adapting well? What has the white man done for the world? Who will take over the world, if not checked somehow?
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