(06-04-2020, 04:50 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(05-10-2020, 04:15 PM)Bullseye Wrote: I know you do too, considering you have arrest quotas to meet.

If more whiites would not abuse their authority (actual or assumed) and made sure they had all of the facts before they killed unarmed African Americans and deem them culpable for their own deaths, there would be no need for my postings.

Our county supposedly has the greatest criminal justice system in the world.

If it's fair and true, then let it work for black defendants as well as whites.  Don't impose the death penalty before trial for crimes that don't warrant it. 

I've zero problems with African Americans being punished for crimes they committed if they have been proven guilty for them, up to and including the death penalty.  But let them make it to jail and court and let the punishment fit the crime.

Late response here but you're incorrect. I've never been given an arrest quota no matter how badly you'd like to believe it. However, I was once told to issue a certain number of citations, and that was from a black supervisor. It was also in against a minority community. I refused and had to tell him the problem with it. But, hell, mean ole white cop is a racist, right? Honestly, you wont care and will quickly forget it so you can go back to thinking I'm racist. You're so quick to judge while simultaneously condemning me for supposedly doing that to others.

I'd like to see your evidence that white police officers shoot black people more than white or more than black officers do. The last I read, black officers are just as likely to shoot black people as white officers. 

You ignore that sometimes, Bullseye, people die because they did something to deserve it. Policing isn't pretty. Violent people often do violent things, and just because a cop kills you, it doesn't mean it's unjustified. Because I always have to clarify it, I don't believe every police shooting is a good one. The very nature of the job requires that people with guns enforce laws against people that refuse to listen to them. There will always be the human element, and humans make mistakes. I don't believe, however, that those mistakes are racially motivated.

Exactly.  I served as a deputy sheriff for a short period of time in my younger years.  I quickly found out that it was not what I wanted to do as a career.  It is an extremely high stress job and sadly I lost a couple of friends because of it.  People don't realize what a police officer sees and has to do every day.

Regarding this Ahmaud Arbery case, I do think that the prosecution over-stepped a bit with the charges (mainly because of public pressure).  My best guess for doing so is that they didn't want the case to go to trial and were/are hoping for a plea deal down to a lesser charge.  Many media outlets are still portraying him as "just being out for a jog" when other evidence makes it seem very unlikely.  I am by no means saying that his death was justified in any way, but I do think that the prosecution is going to have a hard time getting a conviction on the charges given the evidence that we have seen.

By the way.  Using a racial slur after the confrontation is not evidence.

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