Whatever would Doctor King have said? Police brutality in the 21st century

Trollheart · 04-12-2015, 02:32 PM

What in hell is going on? Now we have yet another black man shot down, unarmed, for no other reason than that he ran away when stopped by a cop! And not a warning shot either: EIGHT shots, and he was killed. And then the cop (white of course) tries to cover by pretending the guy stole his taser? How is he supposed to have done this when the man ran directly from his car, away from the officer and was shot down at range?

Okay, so the cop is being charged with murder --- probably only because he was caught on video and the powers that be have no choice --- but will he be convicted? Every other week there seems to be some trigger-happy cop looking for an excuse to gun down a black guy. I'm not saying every cop is like this of course, but you have to wonder, with these incidents on the increase, do cops not think before they shoot? Like, there is no other way that cop could have halted his quarry's escape other than to shoot him dead? What happened to the Civil Rights Law? Are we living in the 50s again?

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Whatever would Doctor King have said? Police brutality in the 21st century What in hell is going on? Now we have yet another black man shot down, unarmed, for no other reason than that he ran away when stopped by a cop! And not a warning shot either: EIGHT shots, and he was killed. And then the cop (white of course) tries to cover by pretending the guy stole his taser? How is he supposed to have done this when the man ran directly from his car, away from the officer and was shot down at range? Okay, so the cop is being charged with murder --- probably only because he was caught on video and the powers that be have no choice --- but will he be convicted? Every other week there seems to be some trigger-happy cop looking for an excuse to gun down a black guy. I'm not saying every cop is like this of course, but you have to wonder, with these incidents on the increase, do cops not think before they shoot? Like, there is no other way that cop could have halted his quarry's escape other than to shoot him dead? What happened to the Civil Rights Law? Are we living in the 50s again? Comments? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018