06-06-2020, 12:20 PM
(05-30-2020, 05:31 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: It doesn't matter at all that black people resist more than white people. That statement ignores the history of police violence towards black people and it is the policeman's job to break that cycle, not the black people.
We live in a world where a cop can claim that he was scared and feared for his life as a reason to killing an unarmed person and then that same unarmed person is told (or rather, people who are outraged at his death are told) that if they just followed the rules and didn't resist arrest/panic, they'd still be alive.
We're literally victim blaming victims of police brutality and then wondering why people are pissed off at the police right now.
Police are paid and trained to de-escalate situations. It is not the job of the victims of police brutality to de-escalate the situation. The victims are unarmed, untrained and scared. It should be expected that they act irrationally when a gun (or taser, or whatever) is being waved in their face.
Are they statistically more likely to resist? Or are the statistically more likely to be charged with resisting?
I had a friend arrested for drug possession. He had a prescription pain pill in his pocket for a hernia operation. Neither of us knew not having the pill in the prescription bottle was illegal. The police officer also arrested him for resisting when he asked, “Are you ***** serious?” All charges were dropped later. But that’s all it takes to be arrested for resisting.
