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Maryland cop charged with murder after he shot an unarmed man 7 times while he had him handcuffed inside his cruiser
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Hmmm
So, most of the times cops get away with murder. Let's see what the difference is this time..
So, most of the times cops get away with murder. Let's see what the difference is this time..
I'm glad he's being charged but it certainly seems like there's one sad differentiating factor between this and all the other stories of police murdering people with no repercussions.
This story was all over the local news (DC area).
At first, they tried to say the suspect was on PCP, but then his family did some interviews and that sounded unlikely.
Also this cop apparently has a history and has shot folks before so he had less 'benefit of the doubt' already.
At first, they tried to say the suspect was on PCP, but then his family did some interviews and that sounded unlikely.
Also this cop apparently has a history and has shot folks before so he had less 'benefit of the doubt' already.
Even though this guy deserved this sentence, law enforcement and the courts are more likely to throw black cops under the bus when it comes to these situations. The fact that they're showing off his picture and painting a clear picture of what happened says it all.
I think it's slowly starting to change as with amber guyger being charged and sentenced.
Yeah...I was fully expecting this :|
Oh he's definitely gonna be charged/treated more like a black man than he will be treated as a policeman.
There's evidence that suggests white police are not more likely to shoot and kill suspects, alongside some studies that suggest white cops are less likely to be involved in lethal shootings. Which doesn't necessarily clash with the pattern of racial disparities in policing, just that it's much more complicated in practical factors (for example, one suggestion for why white police are less likely to use their weapon is that minority officers are more likely to be posted to high-minority, high-crime areas.)
It's fun to play the games of "what tickles our preconceived biases", but the evidence doesn't really bear that out. Freddie Gray didn't come out of his encounter any better because many of the cops were black (cops, who, despite being black, all got off.)
I was clued in by the fact he was immediately charged with murder
The institution is systematically racist. There are huge racial disparities in how police engage with the public and whom they use force against. So it doesn't matter the race of the cop, black and brown people will be victimized at a higher rate.
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I'm not sure what relevance that has to my point. People in this thread are acting surprised a black cop is involved. Your response makes more sense directed at them.
Amber Guyger is a woman, so I don't think she's an indication of things changing as much as she is an indication of things remaining the same.
If you haven't listened to, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehesi Coates, you should buy it, or get it from the library. He talks about Black PG cops, and how they were more vicious than the White cops.
I wasn't countering you. Just adding additional context to your comment.
I'm confused by some of the posts here. Oviously white cops getting off for murder is a problem and shouldn't happen. Obviously the entire institution is racist. But those things have nothing to do with this case. Has any cop, regardless of color, not been charged for shooting a handcuffed victim 7 times while they're in the back seat of the police car? And some of the "hmm, wonder what's different," posts are kinda fucked up. You want this dude to not get charged?
Stranger shit "''"happens"""
Of course we want him to get charged. Fuck that guy. But generally when cases of police killings like this one come up it takes longer for them to get charged. The dude who shot that woman in her own home while she was playing video games got put on administrative leave, then resigned before he could be fired, THEN got arrested, and even that was stated as rare. This dude got arrested the next day. It's a bit of an indicator that even the blue lives matter thing means less if you're black.
We want all homicidal cops charged. It's just that it's also another expression of the racist system that the one that gets charged in a day, no questions asked, also belongs of the same racial class that is routinely murdered by such cops in the first place.
The whole system needs to rot.
Good lord......I'm actuallly eager for the bullshit excuse he's going to pull to defend this...
And as always: never a working camera around either...
And as always: never a working camera around either...
Read this horrible story earlier too.
This ain't the first time something like this happened. Him getting charged this quickly is out of the norm... it shouldn't be.
Wonder how much that "witness" was paid. However, hard to explain suicide with 7 shots fired.
I'm no defender of police. Hell, I used to be a cop (I've mentioned that a few times throughout my time here on era) and quit shortly after the Michael Brown incident. But there is a difference between most of the infamous cop murders and this one.
I dont recall exact details of all of them, but the kid shot in Cleveland was reported to have a gun. So the racist system used that as a defense. Brown was reportedly stepping towards the officer. The chokehold in NY, the person died during an arrest attempt after breaking the law (albeit a stupid law). The Chicago one, the victim had a knife. I'm sure I'm missing tons, but the point is, as much as everyone of those officers deserved to be arrested, every case had enough to warrant an investigation.
I'm probably being naive as I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I'd like to believe, and my hope would be, that any cop, regardless of color, who shot someone 7 times while the victim was cuffed in the backseat of the police car, would be arrested the next day (or same day). Hopefully it won't happen again so hopefully we'll never have an answer to that question.
Oscar Grant, January 1. Hands behind his back, face down on the floor. Shot in the back. Cop wasn't charged until January 30. It took the whole month for him to get charged. Eventually was not convicted, found not guilty. I'm sure if it was a black cop, he would have been arrested the next day and convicted. This black cop in the OP will learn that not all blue lives matter. I'm not defending him btw, he deserves all the punishment I hope he gets.
Jesus the guy was handcuffed in the car. What did he think he was going to do? Obviously deserves to be charged, but i can't help but think what would happen if the officer was white.
If the officer was white it would be ruled a suicide. There's been a couple of threads over the years with handcuffed suspects shooting themselves in the head while in the police car. How the police miss these guns during pat down is a mystery!
Quantum mechanics has nothing on US racism. You can enter a police van alive and exit with 80% of your spinal cord severed and no one will get in trouble!
People are sarcastically expressing shock by the fact that he was arrested so quickly despite being a cop.
That's true. There's no denying he deserves what gonna happen to him but why don't we see white officers get charged for doing similar shit .