Media Impact on Racism with police shootings

[Indy]

[Snowdog]

I have been reading the comments on Yahoo in response to the police chief getting fired and many of the comments are exactly how this guy responded. It's amazing how the facts can bring out the racist in some people.

[John Galt]

i don't understand why people get so upset about "you people". i have said it myself, and have never meant it to describe race, but to describe a group of individuals. if it was "your people" then perhaps it could be taken in a racist manner, but even still, i would proscribe that to the group they are affiliated with. in this case, he's referring to "people who live in chicago" as "you people". the video was pretty clear in that. the only reason it was cut off at all is because they jumped down his throat for starting a sentence with the words "you people". but what is even wrong with it?

[Snowdog]

[John Galt]

[Snowdog]

[John Galt]

[Indy]

[spacemonkey]

What that cop did was wrong no doubt. But what led up to that kid holding a knife in the middle of the street being chased by cops? I'm surprised that the cop making bail has been pretty much hush hush.

[Indy]

Sigh. Another "but."

Here's a but: I don't anybody would have paid too much attention to this if it were just the two/three shots that put him on the ground, where he was CLEARLY not going to threaten anybody, on his side in obvious complete distress.

It's those 13 emptied into him when he was down, when he wasn't going anywhere, from an officer standing completely out of his reach, that showed this to be an execution.

BTW the last I heard, but not verified, is that his little folding knife wasn't even unfolded, which makes it even more of a head-scratcher.