Being the subject of furious public debate about how much worth your life has is awful for the collective mental health of any community, it's something I personally see in a couple communities I'm close to. I'm not surprised about this at all. The police brutality discussion has a serious lack of compassion involved.
It's not surprising considering the response to them basically saying their lives matter enough to not be randomly gunned down in the street over nothing was "yeah, well the people who keep shooting you guys have lives that matter too".
The response to police violence against black people from many of the conservatives I know has been nothing short of disgusting.
That wasn't 'the' response, that was a response- and a valid one, at that.
The "all lives matter" thing did miss the point pretty hard, that being said.
It was the response from police and police supporters.
And how is it not incredibly shitty to respond to increasing numbers of innocent black people being shot with what ultimately amounts to "the shooter's lives matter"? I don't see the validity in bringing it up given the circumstances.
Not every person attacked or killed by a cop deserved it and not every cop that commits an atrocity faces justice
Really I think another major problem is how the media covers it. Because most outlets want to be the "First" to break the story, they will report any and everything regardless of whether it is confirmed or not. This ends up seemingly polarising and enraging both sides of the issue by giving them an hour production over little confirmed data because of Media outlets wanting to pump out as much "Information" as possible. How I see it, the Media is content with the current situation because they profit the most off of these types of stories.
I still get the shakes around police from getting sacked in the 4th grade by a police officer. Cannot imagine what some people have to go through and live with.
While I don't doubt the conclusion, the method of the study is pretty suspect (no psychiatrists involved, phone questions asking "how's your mental health today?"). And the results are also not pretty long lasting, avg 1.7 "unhappy" days per police shooting.
What is "Getting sacked"?
Tackled to the ground.
Why the hell did an adult (fe)male tackle a fucking 4thgrader?
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What happened? I feel like you are leaving something out. Seeing as it isn't usual for 4th graders to get tackled by a police officer.
Long story short: Nasty drug reaction for supposed ADHD[actually aspie] and ended up trying to goto a cool off area that was known to the teacher, and I was authorized to goto. Police Officer who was on campus due too something unrelated, saw me and thought I was a threat/disturbing the peace. Ended up sacking me when I was outside the door to cool off area. The guy ended up calling paramedics because I ended up having my lungs short-circuit in the whole affair, and yeah... Now I don't have much feeling in my shoulder blades, and have occasional muscle spasms. Oh did I forget to mention that I was put on 48hrs of community service? Yeah. Was disallowed from socializing with other students at lunchtime because of that, and it fucked up my emotional state to the point where even four to five years of therapy is barely scratching the surface of everything in my head.
I have calmed down quiet a bit, but as many FP'ers will tell you: I'm still a fucking basketcase.
Why the fuck were you put on community service?!
Too instill community values. Ya' know, the kind that made me despise the government
More like the media blowing ALL of them out of proportions has lead to this.
Police brutality is a severe issue, keeping it a secret wouldn't help anything at all. The exposure in the media is slowly making progress on the issue so I think it's doing some good.
Yeah, they're upset because of what they see on tv, not what they experience in their actual lives /s Come on man, get some perspective
Tons of officer involved shooting cases are spun in order to purposely incite rage in the african american community. Most of those cases are justified in a court of law. Also don't downplay the effects media has on mental health.
imho, the issue is that the shootings are legally justified.
A lot of the big headline stories do this, true, but there are still hundreds of cases of where the cop is 100% in the wrong and are just being completely out of control. Go to the news section and you'll see a story of an officer shooting at a family's barking dog and injuring a child with ricochet because of this. Stuff like this happens all the time.
Of course, criticize the media but not the fuckers with guns.
Lol, without the media, it would be happening more
Without the media attention, bodycams never would have proliferated like they have and continue to do.
I think a general issue is police incompetence (bad reactions under stress, bad protocol, etc.) . Addressing that immediately will lead to more immediate results than assuming cops are inherently racist in their dealings, even if it might be true in some cases.
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What do you guys find funny about this?
Why the fuck are we blaming the police? The kid caused his own injury by being seen by an officer, something that's a big no-no in the USA, ESPECIALLY when he more than likely saw the fucking uniform.
It's depressing that i'm not sure if you're joking 100%
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