ChrisL
Diamond Member
No matter how badly you want to remain ignorant, the reality is that there are big problems in the black community, and it is NOT caused by the police or white people.
No matter how much you want to blame this all on black people, you're just going to have to accept that millions of people of all races are sick of police misconduct and are doing something about it.
If you aren't breaking the law by selling cigarettes illegally, etc., then you don't have problems with the police. It's easy. Don't break laws. Don't fight with police. If you have a problem with a law or an officer of the law, take the correct channels to fix the problem. Rioting, looting, assaulting, and being violent doesn't help anybody.
So we'll put you in the "death penalty for selling illegal cigarettes" category then.
There's nothing funnier than watching so called "small govenrment" people blindly cheering on the police state.
After all, if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to worry about, right?
I'm against the death penalty. That was not the "death penalty." That was the police being forced to take down a suspect because he was a big man and was refusing to cooperate. He should have thought of the consequences of his actions before he decided to fight and waited until court to do it the right way. It is not anyone else's fault that he was ignorant.
HOWEVER
the choke hold was still inappropriate and against departmental policy, and using it should cost that officer his job.
Perhaps. He was not indicted though, so apparently they did not agree with that assessment, and there were black people on the grand jury too, so that counts for something. The liberals cannot say that it was due to racism or whatever.
I don't know what other options the police had available to them, given the size of this gentleman. He was quite enormous and probably not easy to take down.