Let's put Brown aside. Let's say he's a false positive. Let's put Keep aside. Let's say he's a moron.
You have a problem with Michael Brown. OK... How do you feel about Jordan Edwards?
Or let's not even discuss individual cases. Tell me why unarmed black men keep getting shot by police? Why it's 3x more likely to happen to a black man than it is for white man?
Why for the exact same crimes and circumstances that black men sentences are 60 percent longer than for white men?
Because that's what people are upset about. That's what people are protesting. And you ignore this by attacking not the protest but the protester. That's an ad hominem. That's despicable. That's clueless. That's classless. That's amoral.
The odds of an unarmed black person being shot by police is extraordinarily low. Yes, it's higher than white people, but it's still extraordinarily low overall.
Blacks are more likely to live in high crime areas and for whatever reason, the culture seems to have an issue with complying with police orders. Both of which make for cops more likely to use their gun.
Nobody doubts that there are bad cops out there, but the reality is that the overwhelming majority are ethical cops.
The issue that the anti-cop crowd doesn't understand is that the level of accountability for cops is extreme as it is. Now with groups like Black Lives Matter chanting that cops should die and the garbage human beings doing things like killing the two NY cops and the Dallas cops..it makes the job less appealing. Not to forget that they put their lives on the line *every* *single* *day* and the pay isn't all that great.
So what happens?
You start to get less people interested in the job and the quality of cops is worse. It's happened in every single city where the cops were treated like crap and killing cops was somewhat accepted....the good and competent cops leave the job and the city becomes so desperate that they start scraping the bottom of the barrel. That's how Eric Garner situations occur...an incompetent cop who lost his cool and helped kill a guy who was breaking up a fight.
Last year the University of South Florida funded a program that gave cops body cams. The response from the cops? A statewide call from cops to be part of the program because it would allow them to be able to defend themselves against the Mike Brown's of the world where the anti-cop crowd automatically took Brown's side, despite the scientific evidence, the recantation of the witnesses...many of whom were caught in a lie of even being there and the fact the guy strong armed a store owner minutes before.
If you knew cops, you would know that the VERY LAST thing they want to ever do is to have to use their gun. They are accountable for *every* bullet they have. Not only is using their gun a life threatening situation for them but they have to be able to find the bullet, the massive paperwork and idiots from the anti-cop crowd that second guess a split-second decision where the punishment for guessing wrong is their life.
In the end, Kaepernick is anti-cop. The Black Lives Matter group is anti-cop and has continually chanted death to cops at various cities across this country. And he's not coming here because Jerry has no interest in an anti-patriotic, anti-cop, out-of-touch, grandstanding fraud.
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