Very good documentary on the BBC about the gun club in Texas...

[Masha Sha]

More than 500 people killed by the American cops since the beginning of the years. Citizens feeling under war by the cops... Kids not sure to come home alive because of the cops... Seeing the cops as the biggest threat to their lives... Worth watching... Highly recommended  .

[BADecker]

Wonderful link.     

[BADecker]

Time to Declare a War on Cops

But, such a war really needs to begin. Now!

I'm not suggesting that everyone start sniping cops from rooftops. Keep your jimmies unrustled. I'm saying there needs to be a war of education aimed at the absurd beliefs which give cops their power and support. That support may be vulnerable, due to the constant efforts of the police to confirm my suspicions as to their lack of ethics and their true nature. There's no better time than the present to start chipping away at the false legitimacy your neighbors have erected around the police.

There also needs to be a widespread call to "reform" the police to make it too dangerous for them to keep being the occupying army of domestic enemies they have become—if they were ever anything other.

L. Neil's suggestions are a good place to start striking at the delusion that cops are above consequences, being a class unto themselves. It needs to become dangerous for them to violate life, liberty, and property. Yes, police would be crippled. If you believe that would be a bad thing, you haven't been paying attention.

Beyond that, and to keep a new threat of this nature from arising yet again, people need to be educated out of their belief in "authority" -- and laughed at endlessly if they refuse to learn better.

There is a truth about the police that your neighbors will think you are rude to point out. Do it anyway.

Read more at http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2016/tle880-20160710-05.html.

[UliJonHoth]

Of course as with anything there are some in law enforcement who abuse their power and have purposely shot citizens, but for the most part these shootings could have been avoided by simply following the orders of the police and not hiding your hands and then reaching for something. I'm completely against the insanity in post-9/11 USA, but for crissakes, when confronted by police, don't reach for something or hide your hands behind your back when they've got guns trained on you as in so many of these cases. The recent shooting of Dylan Noble, for example:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTCgMxx50qs

[Masha Sha]

Of course as with anything there are some in law enforcement who abuse their power and have purposely shot citizens, but for the most part these shootings could have been avoided by simply following the orders of the police and not hiding your hands and then reaching for something. I'm completely against the insanity in post-9/11 USA, but for crissakes, when confronted by police, don't reach for something or hide your hands behind your back when they've got guns trained on you as in so many of these cases. The recent shooting of Dylan Noble, for example:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTCgMxx50qs

There is so much tensions... Personally I repeat myself the drug war is really one of the main reason for the attrition level seen in the streets of most American cities... One thing I find sad is that confronted with the us cops you almost have to pray to come out alive... And behave like in a state of war...

From what I see on teevee is that the cops themselves are open to improve things, make America great again... However a few ayatollahs living on gated communities and not impacted themselves (not like the cops) like to preserve and prolong the unsustainable status quo...

[virtualx]

Of course as with anything there are some in law enforcement who abuse their power and have purposely shot citizens, but for the most part these shootings could have been avoided by simply following the orders of the police and not hiding your hands and then reaching for something. I'm completely against the insanity in post-9/11 USA, but for crissakes, when confronted by police, don't reach for something or hide your hands behind your back when they've got guns trained on you as in so many of these cases. The recent shooting of Dylan Noble, for example:

Police could use non-lethal weapons first, tear gas or non-lethal bullets. Why to directly kill? 

[BADecker]

Of course as with anything there are some in law enforcement who abuse their power and have purposely shot citizens, but for the most part these shootings could have been avoided by simply following the orders of the police and not hiding your hands and then reaching for something. I'm completely against the insanity in post-9/11 USA, but for crissakes, when confronted by police, don't reach for something or hide your hands behind your back when they've got guns trained on you as in so many of these cases. The recent shooting of Dylan Noble, for example:

Police could use non-lethal weapons first, tear gas or non-lethal bullets. Why to directly kill? 

Because it costs the city or State many $thousands in tax money to try anybody, or to protect their cops if the victim lives.

[xht]

If cops would get punished for shooting black folks just because they are scared then a lot of this would not be happening.