If you haven't gotten your fill of awful (police brutality, rambling,TM)
Within 12 hours I learned of two things getting more attention. In one, police killed someone for no reason that makes any sense at all, and in another they only just beat the living daylights out of him.
1) Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr, 68, killed by police after accidentally setting off his "I've fallen & I can't get up" button. Most likely they ( Read more... )
1) Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr, 68, killed by police after accidentally setting off his "I've fallen & I can't get up" button. Most likely they ( Read more... )
Re the comments on Trayvon Martin stories, I've mostly been seeing ONTD, so I've missed the majority. I've seen some, though.
It's weird to me how many people seem to think you have to have done something wrong to be treated as a criminal, or who don't realize on any conscious level that racial minorities are likely to be injured by assumptions, and especially assumptions from police.
Getting someone to stop and think proves interesting at that point - more than once, when trying to get the concept of ‘privilege doesn’t mean you’re bad; it means cr&p doesn’t happen to you the same way’ across to someone, I've retold a friend's story of a guy he knew, who interrupted someone breaking into the house and had the guy prone on the lawn at gunpoint while he waited for police to come.
His call to 911 included multiple repetitions of "The 6'5 black dude with the gun is the homeowner. Do not shoot the 6'5 black dude holding the gun."
Nobody I've told this story to has thought the homeowner at all paranoid, and they've also all agreed that were I the homeowner in that story I probably would not be in much danger from the arriving police, even if I didn't describe myself. But before that story so many were adamant that color and gender really make no difference nowadays.
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I swear I saw that article on ONTD_Political, but can't find it. Ghastly people.
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