Black Lives Matter
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@Crazy-Horse said in Black Lives Matter:
@Snowy said in Black Lives Matter:
@Siam said in Black Lives Matter:
How the other officers didn't respond is beyond me. One was Chinese heritage, one other mixed (Mexican?) race. I can't remember because it it isn't about race to me.My memory tells me the other officers were very junior in service. Police forces around the world are very aware of the reluctance of junior officers to intervene when a senior officer is perceived to be overstepping the mark. There is now quite a bit of education around this, highlighting that if something goes wrong and you do nothing to intervene you are just as culpable. It still takes balls to step in though. Police can be very brutal towards their own.
Yep. Hierarchies. Authority figures.
Exactly the same on a flight deck, there have been examples where a first officer didn't say anything and ended up dead, along with everybody else.Never question the Captain mentality, and is flat out wrong. Cockpit gradient it is called for us, and yes it is being trained out of both Captains and every other pilot. Cultural too, it is stronger in Asian areas (Korean Airlines had a huge problem with it and got some Americans in to "re-educate"). Successfully I think. It was after the Guam crash. A couple of hundred dead and the flight engineer knew it was going to happen, spoke up but the Captain wouldn't listen.
Not been such a problem in NZ, Aus, our guys speak up as a rule and the Captains are more aware of how they can miss things that somebody else has seen. Your biggest asset as a Captain is your crew. They will save your bacon, and everybody knows how much I love bacon.
Good to hear that it is being taught in the police as well (not the bacon bit).
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'A black teenager who was killed by police'
or with more of that pesky context
'A black teenager who only minutes before taken part in a drive-by shooting against another black youth then upon being pulled up by police in the identified vehicle resisted arrest and was shot'
Sad but hardly a martyr worth protesting over unless you believe police should just let armed murderers choose to avoid arrest if they want (and potentially shoot police in the process)
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Cop shoots at dog and kills lady in the crossfire. I mean what the fuck is wrong with these guys? Its not the movies, bystanders get shot!
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It seems clear that for some at least, BLM is about opportunities to start arguments with random people about anything at all, so long as you can tie it in some way to the concept that a black person could have died.
This woman is taking a shop worker to task because in catching two shoplifters who happened to be black, the police could have come and shot at these shoplifters and they could have been killed. It appears it is the responsibility of everybody never to call the police if the perpetrator of a crime is black.
I can imagine the endless satisfaction of the woman who filmed this, basking in the acclaim of her friends. If she can save just one life, it will all have been worth it!
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@JC My favourite part.
Crazy lady : "Just listen to yourself you work with black folks"What is it with these liberal types thinking black people are innately criminal and as such being against crime is racist?
I'd be pretty sure his black colleagues are against folk shoplifting in the store regardless of colour.
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@JC said in Black Lives Matter:
It seems clear that for some at least, BLM is about opportunities to start arguments with random people about anything at all, so long as you can tie it in some way to the concept that a black person could have died.
This woman is taking a shop worker to task because in catching two shoplifters who happened to be black, the police could have come and shot at these shoplifters and they could have been killed. It appears it is the responsibility of everybody never to call the police if the perpetrator of a crime is black.
I can imagine the endless satisfaction of the woman who filmed this, basking in the acclaim of her friends. If she can save just one life, it will all have been worth it!
Why the fuck do these morons with phones think they have the right to do this? I hope she gets taken apart on whatever social media she shares that on. And I hope the kid gets a promotion for doing everything right
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@JC said in Black Lives Matter:
It seems clear that for some at least, BLM is about opportunities to start arguments with random people about anything at all, so long as you can tie it in some way to the concept that a black person could have died.
This woman is taking a shop worker to task because in catching two shoplifters who happened to be black, the police could have come and shot at these shoplifters and they could have been killed. It appears it is the responsibility of everybody never to call the police if the perpetrator of a crime is black.
I can imagine the endless satisfaction of the woman who filmed this, basking in the acclaim of her friends. If she can save just one life, it will all have been worth it!
I would have told her to mind her own business when she asked her first question.
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@MajorRage said in Black Lives Matter:
@booboo said in Black Lives Matter:
My bullshitometer has gone off.
I'm not taking that at face value.
On who?
I've seen some crap from BLM sympathisers and I think The Cause is generally genuine bulshit.
But I just get the feeling that this is so ridiculous that I'm suspicious of a set up.
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