Where are the insiders

[Gutter Cobreh]

Have you seen the video of Daniel Shaver(white guy) getting shot in a hotel? Point is you have to look at each situation individually. It isn't the same police officer killing these people or not. You're acting like because in this one instance the police didn't shoot that it is an indictment on every officer of being racist when a black man is killed half way across the country in another precinct.

We can pick and choose videos all day and we would both be able to find claims to back each point of view.

What do you make of the stats though? 13% of the population committing some 50+% of all violent crime. 15 unarmed black men killed, some justified, some not. We have over 800 thousand law enforcement officers in this country. If cops were out hunting people don't you think the numbers would bare that? One miscalculation is too many, I understand that. Is there still plenty of room for improvement, absolutely. Do I have an issue with our football players peacefully protesting? No, not in the least bit. I just wish some people would actually look at the numbers and start to have a discussion centered around the numbers and where/how we can improve. Not the "our system is broken and we need a whole new system".

I think there is a much better argument to be made for inequality once cases hit the court systems. Cops for the most part do their job pretty well for what is being asked of them. It is the Lawyers, DAs etc. that IMO are doing the most harm. Non violent crime jail sentences etc. are a huge drain on tax payer dollars. I do believe a lot of this is more in line with wealth inequality as poor white defendants often find themselves in the same situations while wealthy people tend to find ways out of non violent offenses without a criminal record.

And you know the irony of that is Biden co signed a bill in 94 "the tough on crime" bill and has always up until the last two or three years been in favor of tougher punishment. Kamala Harris denied plenty of innocent men in jail a chance at having new DNA testing done that could have cleared them of any wrong doing when she was a DA. So to act as though Biden and Harris will be all for prison reform is a joke. If/when they get elected they are going to go right back to doing what they did. It is all lip service.

I'm not "acting" in a way other than to post a video and ask what the difference was between someone who was "perceived" to have a gun and was shot 7 times in the back versus someone who yelled that he was going to "****ing" kill the cop? The answer is that it boils down to prejudice and bias.

I've highlighted, in your diatribe, the point for this thread and board. There are a lot of posters on this board who dogged our players for sitting out a practice. People (not going to call them fans) lost their minds because how dare the players think they were "entitled" to have an opinion!

To reiterate the stats you posted: "13% of the population committing some 50+% of all violent crime". Now imagine how a person that has the same skin complexion of that 13% getting pulled over and presumed to be guilty before they even have the chance to open their mouth. Unless you do, then how can you accurately say how someone should feel? I, personally, don't fall into that category - so what exactly is wrong with trying to listen and understand someone else's point of view?