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Originally posted by Maikettei
This is really a whole different topic that I would love to get into at another time. I was simply reffering to events such as those with Amadou Diallo shot 41 times, and unarmed... if you haven't heard that name before, I really think YOU are misinformed. I wasn't saying that police officers are racist nor am I saying those officers represent the entire police force. They WERE strongly influenced by stereotypes. They were scared I guess, because they've heard some negative stereotypes, and they acted on fear instead of logic. This is why I get SO offended when I hear people saying that hip-hop (or ANY culture)causes people to be negative people. Hip-hop culture no more causes people to kill than does Rammstein encourage school shootings. These types of generalizations are what cause people to be afraid of other people and cause accidents like these to happen. Sorry if I made too light of a sad situation, but my desire was simply to get people to not think so poorly of rap.
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Once again, if I'm a policeman, and someone pulls something out of his coat in the dark when i've told him to put his hands up, i have a choice to make
A. Wait for him to draw whatever he's got, risking my life
or
B. Use what data I have to make a decision, with minimal risk to myself and my partners
Once again, if I have a choice of going to jail for killing someone, or dying, leaving my wife and children behind, I will chose the former. You can just mess around in a deadly situation, and you don't pull out a black wallet from a coat pocket when the police tell you to put your hands up: if you don't speak the language, just don't move. Obviously, if my hands are going into my coat, the officers would'nt know i was going for a wallet: for all they knew, he could be going for a hand grenade or a gun. I think they made the right decision. It was traget, yes, but not a hate crime. The officers will live with remorse the rest of their lives: their careers are ruined. They've been through enough. I think we all need to back off this one, before it becomes WW3 on this board.