jmdrake
04-22-2018, 08:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYyYrX3cTfM
And:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQiucNsLKs&t=410s
Interesting quote from Banner:
A black policeman knows that if he kills an innocent white teenager he will go to jail forever or a group of white men are going to pull him out of his house.
My take?
Well...we have the chance to test that theory. Will black policeman Mohammed Noor go to prison for shooting and killing unarmed Justine Damond? (See: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/us/minneapolis-police-shooting-justine-damond.html) He is using the same "I was in fear of my life" argument that the officer that killed Philando Castille successfully used in his defense. In Noor's case his partner said he was scared too. In Castille's case his partner said he wasn't scared. We shall see.
We shall indeed see.
Something else. I didn't know before watching banner that the first police in the U.S. were actually slave patrols. But that's documented.
http://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/
I will say this. I know white and hispanic police have gotten away with murdering white people. But I don't know off the top of my head of any black police officers who have. A hispanic officer was part of the crew the beat Kelly Thomas to death. The Mohammed Noor case has garnered a lot of publicity. If he walks that may cause the country of Australia to take a hard look at what is going on with police brutality in America. If he doesn't walk, that proves David Banner right.
Here is a simple change in the law I would want. If you kill someone and it turns out your life really wasn't in danger...you're off the force and you can never be a policeman again anywhere period. Even if you don't get convicted, you are banned for life from being a police officer. Yes I want a police officer to think before shooting someone or putting someone in an illegal choke hold like what happened with Eric Garner that "this next move may end my career." If you truly believe your life is in danger you should be willing to risk your career over it and if your gamble proves to be wrong at least you are still alive. It's time for this idea that we are going to give policemen a license to kill just based on a hunch to into the dustbin of history.
And:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQiucNsLKs&t=410s
Interesting quote from Banner:
A black policeman knows that if he kills an innocent white teenager he will go to jail forever or a group of white men are going to pull him out of his house.
My take?
Well...we have the chance to test that theory. Will black policeman Mohammed Noor go to prison for shooting and killing unarmed Justine Damond? (See: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/us/minneapolis-police-shooting-justine-damond.html) He is using the same "I was in fear of my life" argument that the officer that killed Philando Castille successfully used in his defense. In Noor's case his partner said he was scared too. In Castille's case his partner said he wasn't scared. We shall see.
We shall indeed see.
Something else. I didn't know before watching banner that the first police in the U.S. were actually slave patrols. But that's documented.
http://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/
I will say this. I know white and hispanic police have gotten away with murdering white people. But I don't know off the top of my head of any black police officers who have. A hispanic officer was part of the crew the beat Kelly Thomas to death. The Mohammed Noor case has garnered a lot of publicity. If he walks that may cause the country of Australia to take a hard look at what is going on with police brutality in America. If he doesn't walk, that proves David Banner right.
Here is a simple change in the law I would want. If you kill someone and it turns out your life really wasn't in danger...you're off the force and you can never be a policeman again anywhere period. Even if you don't get convicted, you are banned for life from being a police officer. Yes I want a police officer to think before shooting someone or putting someone in an illegal choke hold like what happened with Eric Garner that "this next move may end my career." If you truly believe your life is in danger you should be willing to risk your career over it and if your gamble proves to be wrong at least you are still alive. It's time for this idea that we are going to give policemen a license to kill just based on a hunch to into the dustbin of history.