The common denominator regarding Garner & Brown

[Plane]

I am sure that it delights you that cops can kill Black people at will and get away with it.

Since they are the sort of Black people you fear the most, you think it is just loverly.

   Do you care not at all for the white ones?

[Xavier_Onassis]

You are terrified of large Black dudes, and have celebrated their demise on every possible occasion.

[sirs]

Try telling that to one of my best friends who's per your racist pigeon holing, is a "large black dude"

[Christians4LessGvt]

[sirs]

lol.....that about sums it up   

[Xavier_Onassis]

Ooooo!  One of sirs Best friends is Black!  Am I ever impressed.

Are you sure that he is not an undercover agent from the NAACP or Al Sharpton?

[sirs]

Ooooo!  One of sirs Best friends is Black!  Am I ever impressed.

Your impression is irrelevant.  Refuting your ignorant, racist, asinine accusation was

[Xavier_Onassis]

Neener, neener, sirs.

[sirs]

Consistent as always, xo

[Christians4LessGvt]

[sirs]

Amen, brother

[Plane]

  A thoughtful author....

http://howardtayler.com/2014/12/law-enforcement-violence-and-racial-bias/

.............................I said “factors.” Racism is the big one, but the word “racism” is a heavily overburdened term. It has baggage. When I use it, I’m not suggesting that cops are consciously racist. I’m saying that there is an unconscious bias in place, and it centers upon skin color. I’ve found racism and other biases in my own work, and they’re hard to root out. So when I say “racism” it’s not an accusation. It’s a diagnosis.

Another factor in play is a bias commonly found among social workers and customer support representatives as well as police officers. Its sufferers tend to suspect the worst in people. It’s like confirmation bias with a dash of PTSD thrown in. In the case of police officers, it increases the likelihood of violent confrontation across the board.
.............I have friends, some of them quite close, who are police officers. I hold them in high regard. They tackle a demanding, dangerous job with an attitude of selflessness that I admire and aspire to. One of those friends once told me that he’d rather take a punch than throw one, and would prefer to take a bullet than take a life. In his work, he daily seeks to defuse situations so that they do not come down to kill-or-be-killed decisions. His approach demands a skill set that looks like a mash-up of dual PhDs in sociology and psychology along with being a champion of speed chess.

If all police officers were like him, we wouldn’t have this problem. Of course, if all people were like him, we wouldn’t need police officers.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I recall being a witness at a trial. I was asked to sit outside in the hall until I was called.

There was a different trial going on across the hall. It was about a crime that occurred in a neighborhood called  "Larchmont Gardens".  There were a couple of cops also sitting in the hall, waiting to be called in as witness. They were a couple of pudgy White guys in their 40's or 50's, rattling on and on about "all the stupid N*ggers in Lunchmeat Gardens". This was around 1991, so I imagine these guys are retired by now. But they had really bad attitudes, like they were geniuses, which they not.
 

[Plane]

    This is the problem of all government.

    The best programs are run by human beings who hire even more human beings to help run them.

    The worst programs even more so.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I do not know that the worst programs hire more or fewer people.

Law enforcement is necessary, of course. It was the attitude of these cops, not  their positions, that I found defective.The police will always seem like a great place for  bullies. Just as the priesthood attracts pederasts. Protestants less so, because they have no altar boys.