The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Marie Monday]

You don't want to know. It's about as rational as 'battleaxe' anyway

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

You don't want to know. It's about as rational as 'battleaxe' anyway

Oh Daddy!!!

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

I don't know much about the American justice system, but I know enough to know you should take that statement much more seriously than you're doing. How black people in America are treated by police and justice is grim. Something very different from what you (or I for that matter) are used to.
Also, repeating what others have said: not complying with police isn't sensible, but killing someone because they don't is in no way a deserved response, and it isn't self defense either. It's just outrageously cruel, whichever way you frame it

Nobody else other than you has said that not complying isn't sensible. And that statement is ludicrous.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Cuthbert

Nobody else other than you has said that not complying isn't sensible. And that statement is ludicrous.

If you know you’re not going to get a fair shake in the legal system wtf is the sensible path?

And honestly do you know anything about how our jails work?

Do you have any idea what happens to him even if he complies?

[OccultHawk]

And btw, we’re done blaming the victims. That **** is played out.

[Frownland]

You're supposed to march to your death like a good boy. Once the poor fully behaves in an angelic way, maybe then we'll see about this whole liberal "humane treatment" nonsense. Until then they clearly cannot be trusted enough to handle being treated with decency.

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by Cuthbert

Nobody else other than you has said that not complying isn't sensible. And that statement is ludicrous.

Not really. Let me nuance this. If your main objective is merely a primitive urge to stay alive, then resisting police in any way as a black American is not a sensible thing to do. I don't think anyone here disagrees. However, the fact that things are this way is horrible. And from a civil rights point of view, considering how horribly black people are treated by police and law, resisting police is understandable and may be the sensible option

[The Batlord]

Dadbert's the kinda guy who'd cut your hands off for stealing a loaf of bread and then say it's your fault you tripped cause you didn't tie your shoelaces.

[Lucem Ferre]

Complying with the police would be sensible if police were trustworthy but they got prison quotas to fill, yo, and the prisons don't want to be taxed by the state for being too empty.

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Dadbert's the kinda guy who'd cut your hands off for stealing a loaf of bread and then say it's your fault you tripped cause you didn't tie your shoelaces.

Nah he isn't, which is why I think it's worth having this discussion