Sometimes I think people just don't know when to keep their stupid mouths shut. I mean, I get what he was doing, and I get what he was saying, but... it was stupid. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/30/georgia-police-officer-at-dui-stop-only-kill-black-people.html
He needs to be fired. Right now every lawyer in that county is looking him up to see if he was involved in a case they worked. Can't trust him around black people. He says he was joking. Probably was. But who wants to take that chance?
I've never understood people treating something (including on this board) that is said sarcastically as though it were serious. Likewise I'll never understand (when I say I "don't understand" what I'm meaning is "I don't agree with") people thinking most of what President Trump says literally.
He's a cop. On duty. And apparently he, like you, doesn't have enough brains to understand today's political climate is not a good venue for being sarcastic on racial matters.
You don't antagonize an animal backed into a corner, otherwise it will attack and justifiably so. At least that's how our resident Nazi @K. thinks.
Nope. But an idiot who thinks he can speak his mind without restriction at work and not expect consequences might also think... oh, you do.
Just because you can say something doesn't mean you should say it. Given the situation and context here, it was a bad call to say that. Amazing that I have to explain that to a 50 year old man. But by all means though, shit talk a black kid next time you're driving the school bus.
What's he going to do? If he gets out of his seat all I have to do is tap the brakes. remember the school bus driver actually has a seat belt
Wow.. you really don't get it do you. You just admitted that you would place a student, or several students in a situation where they could get injured, on purpose.
Paid administrative work or leave for an indeterminate amount of time. At best he'll keep his job, at worst he'll be transferred to another agency within 2 years.
There is definitely a huge cultural problem at the very least. Blacks as a whole make up 12%-13% of the total population with black males making up about half of that so... ~6.5%. Yet slightly more than half of the murders in this country (1980-2015) were commited by black males. 80% of the time it was black males killing other black males. That is a massively disproportionate problem among black males. Personally, I think it is cultural in origin because you don't see immigrant blacks doing this though all to often their American born kids and grandkids do start slipping into the thug life culture.
totally agree. Well now the cop should have plenty of time to work on his stand-up comedy in the unemployment line.
Augusta/Richmond County (the metropolitan area I live adjacent to) is about 52 percent black and generally 90-95 percent of the violent crimes (armed robbery, homicide, aggravated assault, etc) are black-on-black. When you get right down to it, it's silly for whites to be afraid since statistically if you "don't linger in the ambush zone" as we say in the army you don't have much to worry about. Plan your recreational activities, travel routes, living arrangements and even short gas station stops better and you will most likely be just fine, cracker!
Back in the late 1980s didn't activist Jesse Jackson himself admit that if he encountered a group of young black men he was a lot more nervous than if those men were white?
Not what I said. Just practice "situational awareness" in whatever you do. Size up all the factors - people in your immediate vicinity, people within shouting distance (friendly hopefully) escape routes, lighting, etc.etc. Not getting into (or lingering in) dangerous situations in the first place is the best defense of all. Your mileage may vary.
good point. As soon as many black families can afford it they move into a safer neighborhood. Black families relocating here for job reasons (high tech jobs or military or whatever pay decent wages) prefer to buy in the safer (white) neighborhoods. Nothing personal, just common senses and looking out for the safety of their family.