Re: ex police chief instructed officers to arrest and frame random black men
On your side of The Pond, maybe. I'm guessing police in Scotland (aha, I got it right this time) probably adhere to a much more consistent standard than here.
That said, I needed some help (having to do with the need to make a phone call) when I was in Italy two years ago, and I had **NO** fear or dread whatsoever about asking for a policeman to help me. He actually let me make the phone call on his personal phone, and the encounter was pleasant. I wouldn't expect this in USA.
Frank in a barren desert of thoughtlessness you are an oasis of truth and light. Thank you for always be so understanding and caring. If more Americans followed your example color wouldn't be such a problem in this country and police wouldn't take wild chances breaking the law and violating people of color absent of that knowledge that the public wouldn't really give a damn anyway.
A few things cross-section here
-the idea that comfort should only be standard for white people. We have individual laws on the books named after white people, the idea is that no bad thing should happen to any white person ever and if it does punishment should be swift and heavy-handed. The Matthew Shepherd Act, Caylee's law, Marsy's law, Johnathan's law. Where's Trayvon's law or Sean Bell's law or emmitt till's law? white victimhood is met with sympathy black victimhood is met with scrutiny
-in conjunction with "black victimhood is met with scrutiny" so is black activism. First rule is to cast doubt on the possibility of race being a factor in an incident such as "We don't know what happened before the camera started rolling." If that can't be done, say, if the cop is exposed as a Klan member, then you move to phase two which is to challenge the black person/group's intentions for TALKING about the incident ie "yall just want attention or sympathy" or "yall just hate white people" and something about personal accountability, because no discussion about black people is complete without insinuating laziness and a lack of responsibility.
If I had a dollar for every time the phrase "personal accountability" was introduced to me as if the entire concept is foreign to me and my people I could upgrade every single one of you to VIP status. One member here alone has said that phrase to me enough that I could buy a new car. No matter what the topic, if a black person is involved you can set your watch to "blah blah personal accountability blah blah."
-I say the sky is blue some people will swear it's orange with green polka dots just to be contradictory
-provocation.
nobody here has really done any actual research about police corruption and especially not about police abuse of people of color, they're simply being contrarian because that's the default response to people of color. see above comment about multi-colored sky
-different experiences, to white people cops
are the good guys, because cops treat white people differently. for reference see every police interaction since 1776.
-we come from a culture that views black people as criminals and only command justice and accountability when
the officer is Muslim and the victim is a white woman. Otherwise, "They had it comin." There is no more telling evidence of America's racist culture than the fact that the ONLY police shooting in recent memory that spawned public outrage, let alone charges, let alone a conviction was a
muslim officer shooting a
white woman. Accidentally. In the dark. The
exact circumstances that would be dismissed as an honest mistake if he were white and she black. this is why a white man who murdered his family is being paraded around the media as "a good guy" and "a loving father" while a black father who punched a man that followed his underage daughter into a bathroom is sitting in prison.
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lack of education. as I said, nobody really researches this stuff they jump into the fray because it's controversial and fun to be racially provocative whether disguised as humor or just an act for the sake of poking the hornet's nest. It's as obvious as it is predictable. And it's the same people. every time.
-denial. this has been America's response about its mistreatment of people of color since day one. Deny deny and then deny some more. I could post a mountain of statistics and videos and links and news stories and personal experiences and it will ALL be dismissed. All of it. It's sort of a running joke that
[some not all] white people believe in unicorns and Sasquatch and werewolves and magic but don't believe in systemic oppression of people of color.
and finally
-discussing race makes white people uncomfortable. they feel as if it's an attack on whiteness as a whole, [which tells you all you need to know about America that even white people themselves subconsciously equate 'white' with 'racist' even if that's the furthest thing from the point of the discussion] which is merely a manifestation of knowledge and guilt about racism in America, to draw a parallel it's like a person who witnessed a rape but didn't intervene, so to maintain emotional stability they convince themselves that "the victim was asking for it, she shouldn't have been at that party, wearing THAT skirt, and she got way too drunk too so really it's her own fault so ultimately I'm not a bad person for not intervening."
another common tactic to bring oneself back to equilibrium is this "some not all" nonsense. When all else fails, inflate reasonable or even factual statements to unrealistic proportions to make it sound implausible. "ohhhhhhh so you're saying AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL cops are bad, right? ALL cops aren't bad. Why do you keep saying ALL cops are bad?" Which, again, I haven't, never have and no one's been able to prove otherwise yet. But as Jason was saying that's another common tactic, throw that spaghetti on the wall and sooner or later something will stick.
Well gee that's not one-sided at all. 
This is the laziest reach I've ever seen. It assumes that