What I find odd about all this is that there clearly needs to be a massive overhaul of American policing to stop their abuses, yet either the American society doesn't care or no politician is brave enough to even bring this up.
Basically this will keep happening because no one really gives a fuck. This thread will probably will reach 6 pages and die out and by tomorrow we will all have forgotten about it.
Basically people tend not to give a shit about things until it begins to effect them. This is for the most part happening in poor neighborhoods to minorities, as someone mentioned earlier in the thread the cops are seen as cleaning up "crime ridden" areas and the innocent ones that get caught up in it are seen as nothing more than collateral.
I saw this attitude back when Giuliani was in office and Diallo was shot 41 times ( oh and congrats to the NYPD for breaking that record with Sean Bell, nice work guys!) reading the section of the newspaper were people send in comments was pretty infuriating.
So many tirades about how police are facing such dangers every day and we should all be thankful for them, or people using strawman arguments directed at the protesters. You know " i'd like to see what these people would do if their were no police to protect us from the criminal hordes" because we just would like to be treated fairly, has nothing to do with police gunning a man down for a wallet and getting off with barely s slap on the wrist. Nah we just want all the police off the street so we can go on robbing sprees unmolested by the law. One thing i remember seeing pop up in a lot of these posts were people saying "Diallo's death was unfortunate, but..."
Me losing 20 bucks is "unfortunate", a man was basically gunned down here it's not a trivial thing! That kind of attitude is why nothing is done about this shit.
They probably just thought he was resisting arrest.
Not sure how they would think that considering he put up no fight.
Funny and sad at the same time.
