BringBackOrton Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 Yep. I don't think it was racial profiling. It may well have been excessive force. We still don't know the whole story. It seems likely that it was somewhere in the middle of what the two sides originally stated. It seems likely Bennett overly played his hand, exaggerated, AND felt most of what he did. It also seems it was part opportunitist because his friends were talking about this so he decided consciously to do what he did to bring attention to it. And it's understandable. But that kind of thing doesn't work very often. It further entrenches both sides. That's mostly conjecture of course. How dumb do you have to be to think this story would be good for the cause? Michael Bennett. Just smart enough to be really really stupid.
aristocrat Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 The issue of excessive force is different than the issue of racial profiling. You can have excessive force without racial profiling. I realize Bennett made it about race but in many of these cases the real grievance ought to be excessive force. There is almost never a good reason for a cop to tell a pinned suspect hell blow his head off, regardless of the race of the suspect. If that happened, which we still dont know. why is not a good idea though? bennett is 6-4 275 lbs full muscle and if he wanted to be before that cop got the cuffs on him could easily break that cop in half. unless there was a recent development where all criminals agreed to surrender with a simple please and thank you the cops have to keep themselves safe as well. would you rather the cop say nothing and simply step back and taze him? it was an intense situation where the cops thought somebody was killing multiple people inside a casino. what happens if bennett had been the shooter and the cop just tried to go easy on him and bennett gets up and shoots 2-3 more people? then people say...why didn't they keep him down or taze him or whatever? cops are pretty much in a no win situation in a huge event like this. my recent experience with an alt left guy that i went to high school with. he shared some post about a hate crime and I mention that hate crimes in the US have gone down by roughly half in the last 15 years or so. He loses his mind and says that I am a member of the KKK because even though I believe that a lot of hate crimes occur that because I believe they have gone down I am a white supremacist. Because I believe the FBI reports that the hate crimes are going down I am a member of the KKK. That's the left for ya.
DC Tom Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 You don't realize that when you respond the way you are you come across as if there is no racism. I know you personally don't believe there is none but when you deny its existence each time an incident comes up that is not only how it seems but thats what you're doing. But you should take each case as an individual entity and who cares what other people think?
BringBackOrton Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 But you should take each case as an individual entity and who cares what other people think?
grinreaper Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 No, I say I'm against it. I don't think they should do it at all. I don't think they should bring their problem with race into the game. But people should have a choice. I'm not going to forbid others. I don't support Bennetts racist accusations. I said I don't know what happened here when the body cam was off. I don't think he was racially profiled after more information came out. I do think a bunch of the examples people use of police killings as being racist were not racist but were police just doing their jobs. I think it happens but not as often as they accuse, and they use bad examples at time, so it hurts their cause. And I dont think it's systemic, i don't think it's condoned as policy, I just think there are a lot of racists out there and blacks are pulled over, arrested, and jailed a lot more than they should be in general. Which is racist. Ummm... the cops he thanked for letting him go were not the ones that tackled him. What difference does it make? If he had been treated badly he wouldn't have offered a handshake.
Koko78 Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 Go back and finish high school and then you can re-join the discussion. Well, if I did that, I'd be 10 grades of education over you, Coach. That wouldn't be fair. But I digress; you were telling us all about how you're not a liberal, despite consistently spouting liberal talking points...
ExiledInIllinois Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 But you should take each case as an individual entity and who cares what other people think? LoL... I showed that jiff to my daughter. She laughed and said that's what her Grade 10 theology class is like.
row_33 Posted October 2, 2017 Posted October 2, 2017 Sorry but Vegas has other problems besides MB lately to care about.
GG Posted October 2, 2017 Posted October 2, 2017 Explain the irony. I am not saying hes telling the truth. Im saying I have no idea. Anyone here who thinks they know what happened is intellectually dishonest. Im not a leftist you blithering fool. The irony is that you have no compunction to jump to a conclusion, while berating others for jumping to a conclusion.
LeviF Posted October 2, 2017 Posted October 2, 2017 The issue of excessive force is different than the issue of racial profiling. You can have excessive force without racial profiling. I realize Bennett made it about race but in many of these cases the real grievance ought to be excessive force. There is almost never a good reason for a cop to tell a pinned suspect hell blow his head off, regardless of the race of the suspect. If that happened, which we still dont know. You know nothing about use of force. There are very good reasons for a cop to tell a "pinned" suspect that they'll shoot them (choice of words aside). And as always, remember kids: SJWs always lie.
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