Not Every Officer Shooting of a Black Suspect is Racist

[Chris]

Yes, people with an agenda take advantage of the maleducated and the truly stupid.

Democracy tends to lead to rule by mediocrity.

[donttread]

This is what Americans need to remember and internalize. The charges against the officer in the Atlanta shooting will not lead to a conviction -- if I were a better person -- I'd bet money on it.

USA Today ran a story illustrating the difference between the Floyd case and the Atlanta case.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...mn/3206372001/


Officers are given leeway when they have to make split-second decisions and I don't think this officer will be convicted of murder, or anything, whereas the officer in the earlier incident will likely be convicted of something.

We have to be careful not to let our emotions overtake our logic. Officers sometimes come into contact with unruly suspects who will not cooperate. These officers are called to handle the problem and sometimes it escalates. In the Atlanta case, the suspect was clearly guilty of lying, resisting arresting and fighting an officer, grabbing an officer's weapon, and then discharging that weapon toward the officer.

His death was not murder. Not by a long shot.

I get it that Atlanta wants to quell potential violence by charging the officer, but he won't be found guilty so they're only prolonging more violence. What they need to do is crack down -- hard -- on the criminals. This pandering to the criminal element needs to stop. It only encourages more lawlessness.

Most deaths caused by police, unlike the Floyd situation, are based upon split second choices where the cop feels threatened. In that moment I doubt collor even crosses their mind. I mean if it were you would you stop if you thought the person trying to kill you was white?

[Chris]

And now this: Atlanta mayor says 'enough is enough' after girl fatally shot near scene of Rayshard Brooks' death

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is calling for change to fight "the enemy within" saying that enough is enough after an 8-year-old girl was fatally shot Saturday near the Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed.

Later Sunday night the Atlanta Police Department said another man was killed and two other victims were injured during an exchange of gunfire just two doors down from the scene of Brooks' death.

Secoriea Turner, 8, was shot in the area of University Ave and I-75/85 Saturday night while riding in a vehicle with her mother and an adult friend, according to police. The driver was attempting to enter a parking lot at 1238 Pryor Road where a group of individuals illegally placed barricades. Someone in the group opened fire on the vehicle, according to police, striking Turner.

"I am asking you to please honor this baby's life. Please, if you know who did this, please turn them in," Bottoms said at a press conference Sunday.

"Enough is enough...."

[carolina73]

And now this: Atlanta mayor says 'enough is enough' after girl fatally shot near scene of Rayshard Brooks' death

The Atlanta Mayor has appeared to be rational through these events. I want to praise her but I have not seen her past yet.

[donttread]

The Atlanta Mayor has appeared to be rational through these events. I want to praise her but I have not seen her past yet.

So praise her present. Regardless of which party she calls hers.