What would you know? Many on this board, some half way around the world, say this is police over reach and these are just nice young men. Having confidence in what you read and see on tv is the only way to get the truth. And then speaking authoritatively about issues you have zero experience with really drives it home.
What was police overreach? In the USA, police have as much a right to defend their lives as regular citizens. Throwing molotov cocktails and shooting at police fall in the category of life-threatening and could/should be met with lethal force. However, police have restrained from shooting back. Firing rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse an unruly crowd that has been throwing molotov cocktails and shooting at cops is more than civil.
It has already been released that Big Mike was walking down the middle of the street and the cop approached, telling him to get out of the street. He wasn’t a suspect in the robbery because the cop didn’t know that the robbery had even occurred. However, Big Mike knew that the robbery occurred. And he saw the cop coming up to him for a chat, which Big Mike may have assumed was related to the robbery. Perhaps Big Mike didn’t want a criminal record just yet…
Not surprising at all for 95% of Americans. Violence within these communities is the real problem, i.e. Chicago, st. Louis,Detroit. The police are there trying to reduce the problem, yet they are being demonized. The idea that a young black man would be safer if the police softened their presence is an idea that could only be propagated by the truly ignorant.
Yeah, I know nothing about this. Just throwing random stuff out there to see how people feel about it. I don’t think anyone is demonizing the police but from those picture it really make little to no sense as to why the police is so heavily militarized? I can understand the gear for protection but some of those vehicles? Wow. Similar riots happened in London a few years back that kicked of when a black man was shot but the police that turned up certainly did not look like they were going to war. The ‘protestors’ that turned up did carry out looting etc and there were 3 deaths but it was due to them being run over by a car. People just didn’t turn up and start firing with guns.
It all circles back to America’s gun lobby and the culture of fear. I guess one way or another all the chickens come home to roost and I would love to know from their mouth why black people seem so disenfrenchised with American society? They seem to have a deep distrust of the police that extends beyond the thugs.
Gun lobby! Culture of fear! Military-industrial complex!
I blame Big Agriculture. Did you know MONSANTO is based in St. Louis??? What are they up to here? I’m just asking questions people are too afraid to answer…
Why do the guns that are held by a lot of black Americans usually decide to shoot other black Americans? We need to get those guns off the street and replace them with guns that usually choose to shoot targets and nap in nightstands.
I own approximately 30 guns… none of which were bought out of fear. The gun lobby did not persuade me in my decision to buy them. I shoot competitively, I travel North America to hunt 6-7 months per year, my wife and I enjoy target shooting, trap, and sporting clays…
Techinically, I own zero assault rifles. Assault rifles are fully automatic/3-shot burst firearms that cost in excess of $10,000 each, that have to have a federal tax stamp, be registered, and the owner must possess at Class lll license. I do, however, own 3 AR-15s, an AK-47 style rifle, and a Springfield M1A. I’m going to guess that I have about 25 20- and 30-round magazines for my rifles. Many of my handguns have a 15-20 round capacity. Each of them came with two or three magazines…
And the kicker, his pool is the most dangerous thing on his property. Maybe the anti-pool movement will get some legislation through that will make him fill it in.
The common AK-47 is a semi-automatic rifle (one round is fired per pull of the trigger) that anyone can purchase (assuming they pass their federal background check and don’t live in one of the anti-gun states). There are fully automatic (hundreds of rounds can be fired by holding the trigger down) AKs - you just have to pay the hefty price, have it registered, pay the tax stamp, have your local authorities approve it, and hold a class lll firearms license. You can get a common AK for about $400.
The common, and most widely used AK-47 is a selective fire rifle capable of both firing modes, it is not a semi-automatic only rifle. There may be AK series/AK style weapons made by companies like Norinco, however, those are not actual AK-47s.