1ºOnce again, most fingers are pointing to law enforcement as the problem. With the Tyre situation, it most certainly was, and no one is defending those thug cops. However, the Democrat politicians and the media lumps all police departments into an inept pile of misfits lacking training, lacking supervision, and lacking restraint so they shout for law enforcement restructuring. So, let's flip the script and look at it from another prism.
How about this suggestion as a novel idea? Let's put that same lack of training, lack of supervision, and lack of restraint back into the hands and homes of the black communities who promote racism themselves by supporting lack of respect, lack of trust, and impugn law enforcement itself. It works both ways. If you possess an evil and mean heart, mind, and soul toward your fellow citizens, that characteristic will follow into your workplace no matter what profession you choose. What we are seeing coming out of the Memphis Police Department and the local government are "knee-jerk" reactions that will go nowhere toward resolving the problem.
2ºLeah Todd Sonne lol don't break the law. Maam it was a mere traffic violation. You know like you commit daily just don't get caught. So by your logic if a cop pulls you over for speeding they can approach you and drag you out of your car. And don't say " what happened prior" because we are going by facts not assumptions. Fact is both the police chief and tbi had stated they saw nothing he had done to even warrant a stop. Therefore if clearly he wasn't doing nothing prior that even justify pulling a man out of his car immediately
3ºOver and over and over again we pretend the lesson is about "unnecessary police brutality", when really, if you don't want to escalate police interventions, don't break the law, and don't resist arrest! How many of the young men we've seen in news reports, would be alive if they'd just complied, answered questions, gotten out of the car, and not raised the stakes by resisting. I'm not justifying unnecessary force, however, prevention is the key here. Even our Lord and Savior Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:25 "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." Resisting arrest escalates the level of force almost every time. Maybe it's time for Police to let people resisting arrest, who run, and haven't actually opened fire on the Police, just let them go for their families to deal with them. As for Police brutality, it has to stop. God bless.
4ºLeBron was right. It is not white people who are going into black neighborhoods in Chicago, for example, killing black people. Black people, almost all young men, are killing black people. In this year alone, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that 27 black victims have been killed in Chicago.
Where is the uproar over that? Think of it this way: If the five black Memphis cops not been cops—and they did what they did—would there be any protesters in the streets? Black lives should matter, but they only seem to matter when the killer is white or a cop, and those instances are comparatively small.
5ºAaron Davis The January 6 violation of The Capital building was chaos. Ms. Babbitt was part of an unruly mob of law breaking rioters, some of whom were crying out for the blood of legally elected Political Representatives. She chose her cause and only she and God know how worthwhile it was to die for it. The question is, with Tyre Nichols and so many other people, black/white/asians who are stopped by Police, has resisting arrest escalated the level of violence? In almost all cases of resisting arrest, the answer is yes. At the same time Police brutality is unacceptable.
6ºDavis Mkenya If you think police are there to provide security you would be horribly wrong since the government took away police's duty to protect years ago.
According to the United States Supreme Court, however, officers are not legally obliged to risk their lives for the community they swore to protect — despite the way their department’s motto brags about their duty to “protect and serve.” Thankfully, it seems that most police officers take such a motto seriously and bravely put their life on the line to help others. However, such praiseworthy attitudes among many in law enforcement don’t erase the fact that no such legal duty exists — regardless of the fact that most citizens believe that is precisely what all those tax dollars are being spent to ensure. https://thenevadaindepend...t-your-children
7ºLawrence Emmanuel what point? We keep addressing this if they hadn't been. Yet our own race doesn't address our issues within our race. We are to busy with our noses in their business. I saw on crime and law page in a 4 day time period 3 different white parents killed their own child. When are we as a race gonna address that. Daniel Shaver white guy killed unjustly by law enforcement. We never addressed it as a race. So would that mean our lives doesn't matter to us. Because we don't protest when it happens to us cop or not.