THE COMEBACK:
YOU’RE SUCH A SMART ASS!
BEFORE CALLING SOMEONE A SMART ASS, YOU MUST BE SMART; OTHERWISE, YOU’RE JUST AN ASS!
THE MESSAGE:
A string of deaths of young black men at the hands of police has given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. It seems the phrase has a hidden message. The media feeds the reader or viewer the following message. Do white cops unjustly shoot a black man, because their racial prejudice leads them to assume he was a threat?
The ability to communicate easily should be the most important skill in law enforcement. Without proper training and communication police abuse and violence have the potential to harm anyone. It disproportionately harms black people in the USA. Cops shoot and kill twice as many white people as black; however, there about six times as many white people as black people in the United States.
Justice For Dillon Taylor: Why was an unarmed white man who was fatally shot by a black cop in Utah been largely ignored? Compare that to the furor that followed the shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri. Does the media pay too much attention to protest groups while ignoring the effect of the loss of a son to his mother?
TONY TODAY:
This blog presents three cases where the shooters and shooting victims belong to different racial groups. Where is the love and Respect? Several examples of hatred exist in our world! Does protesting have any effect?
CASE 1
A Minnesota jury convicted a black police officer, Mohamed Noor, of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for shooting and killing Justine Rusczczy, who was also known as Justine Diamond, a white Australian woman.
Justine had called 9-1-1 to report a possible sexual assault near her apartment. She then approached Noor’s responding squad car. Noor killed Justine, and claimed that the shooting occurred because her presence next to his squad car had surprised him. The jury found the action as indefensible. He deserved to be found guilty because of his decision to shoot and kill an unarmed person without any warning.
Some speculate that if Noor was white and Justine was black, Noor might well have gotten away with murder.
CASE 2
Jeronimo Yanez, a non black police officer in Minnesota, was on trial for shooting and killing Philando Castile, a 32-year old Black man.
Castile, a registered firearm owner, was pulled over by Yanez. The officer approached Castile’s car and ordered Castile to provide both his license and registration. Castile, who was reaching for his licence, repeatedly stated that he was not and would not reach for the firearm that he had previously declared. Yanez fatally shot Castile seven times.
At his trial, Yanez claimed that he feared Castile was reaching for a gun. His claim persisted despite the body camera and cell phone footage that documented the brief 40 seconds of interaction leading up to the decision to kill Castile. Yanez was acquitted of all charges as the jury accepted his fear of Castile grabbing a firearm to be reasonable. The trial ended with the officer being acquitted of all criminal charges.
CASE 3
Darren Wilson, is the former police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an eighteen-year-old African-American, in Ferguson, Missouri. The prosecutor, at Wilson’s appearance before the Grand Jury, Robert P. McCulloch, was widely accused of having been soft on him, in part because McCulloch’s father was a police officer who had been killed in a shootout with a black suspect.
The U.S. Department of Justice issued two official reports on Ferguson. One was a painstaking analysis of the shooting that weighed physical, ballistic, forensic, and crime-scene evidence, and statements from purported eyewitnesses. The report cleared Wilson of willfully violating Brown’s civil rights, and concluded that his use of force was defensible. It also contradicted many details that the media had reported about the incident, including that Brown had raised his hands in surrender and had been shot in the back. The evidence supported Wilson’s contention that Brown had been advancing toward him.The Justice Department also released a broader assessment of the police and the courts in Ferguson, and it was scathing. The town, it concluded, was characterized by deep-seated racism. Local authorities targeted black residents, arresting them disproportionately and fining them excessively. How many broken hearts are left behind?
THE MUSIC:
HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART-BARRY GIBB & OLIVIA NEWTON J.
INTERESTING STUFF:
Too many human beings are incapable of accepting different cultures.
THE PUN:
Eating a clock is time consuming!
Should police patrols be armed
or educated?
THE LEMON:
Sir John A. MacDonald?
THE QUOTE:
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard
THE CLIP:
Warning: George Carlin likes to use F.BOMBS
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