Of course the answer is as plain as the nose on our face. We are a
Racist Nation. And to make matters worse, we spend huge amounts of
time, talk and money trying to pretend that it just isn't so. But the
evidence is overwhelming, from the dark color of our prisons to the
nervousness of White folks toward Black youth, to the difference in
how police deal with the White public and the Colored public. It is
plain to see in how we educate our children, and in the sort of
schools we provide. It is clear to see when viewing where folks
live....White neighborhoods and Colored neighborhoods. It is very
clear in the upward mobility of white and black and non white workers.
It shows up in the unemployment lines, in the flop houses, in the
missions and in the rat infested ghettos.
But we white folk like to pretend that we have some loving god who
looks out for us, and this god will help everybody if they just give
him their hearts. So naturally, people living in squalor have not
given god their lives. Anyway, my opinion for what it's worth. We
have a white god, and a white government, and we'll do everything
possible to keep it that way. Even the election of a not so white
president demonstrates how we treat persons of color. You don't have
to go far to get an ear full of racist filth regarding President
Obama's heritage. When we finally get to a place where we can
confront our racist attitudes, we might have a chance of building a
better place for all of us.
Carl Jarvis
1/1/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org)
> White Woman Goes on Shooting Spree, Yet Somehow Isn't Automatically Killed
> By Police
> ________________________________________
> Daily Kos [1] / By Frank Vyan Walton [2]
>
> White Woman Goes on Shooting Spree, Yet Somehow Isn't Automatically Killed
> By Police
>
>
> December 31, 2014 |
> We've been told repeatedly that if only Eric Garner hadn't resisted, or
> been
> so fat, the medical examiner wouldn't have found that his death was a
> homicide due to asphyxiation. We've been told that if only Michael Brown
> hadn't been a vicious cigarillo thug he wouldn't have received a bullet
> wound in his arm that either came from the back while he was running away,
> or from the front while he hands were up as he traveled forward at the
> stunningly rapid speed of 2.59 mph.[Calculated by dividing 25 ft by the
> 6.572 secs it took to fire the shots that killed him] We've been told that
> if only Jonathan Crawford had dropped the toy air-rifle he picked up from
> the shelves at Walmart within two seconds, that if only Tamir Rice had
> dropped his BB Gun within one second, and if only Darrien Hunt hadn't been
> running away as police shot him in the back for "brandishing" an
> unsharpened
> Katana Sword, all three of these people would still be alive today.
> So then why exactly is this person still alive after going on a violent
> shooting spree, including pointing her gun at officers while wearing body
> armor [3]?
> A Tennessee woman is facing multiple charges including attempted
> first-degree murder for driving around shooting at people, leading a police
> chase, and pointing her gun at an officer.
> Julia Shields, 45, drove around a Chattanooga neighborhood Friday just
> before 4pm dressed in body armor, randomly shooting into vehicles, WRCB
> reports.
> Officers responded to a call from two victims who said Shields pulled up to
> their vehicle at a stop sign in a dark colored sedan and began firing into
> the car. No one was reportedly hurt.
> Shields is alleged to have driven around town shooting at people in other
> vehicles. Police were called and she was found in a parking lot, where
> she
> then led police on a chase and continued to point her weapon at passing
> cars, and at police during the chase. And if that isn't shocking enough
> here's the real kicker.
> Shields was taken into custody without incident or injury and charged with
> three counts of attempted first-degree murder, seven counts of aggravated
> assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, felony
> evading arrest, and felony reckless endangerment, according to WRCB.
> Without incident? Without injury? Now what on earth could be the reason for
> that completely unexpected result? How, pray tell, could this alleged
> perpetrator, who unlike all the previous examples was not only armed with a
> genuine real weapon - had used it multiple times - how is it this woman
> wasn't instantly dead as soon a police had a good clear shot at her? How's
> that even possible, because it seems to me we've been told over and over
> again that if police don't react the way that they did with Garner, Brown,
> Rice, Crawford and Hunt, we'd being seeing more Cop Funerals, wouldn't we?
> What could it be that's different about this case compared to those? Maybe
> I'm dumb, but I just can't figure it out.
> We've been told that pointing out teeny, tiny, little discrepancies in
> policing like this is clearly the product of Cop Hate. That when Mayor
> Bill
> de Blasio refused to be baited by a right wing reporter into condemning all
> of the police violence protesters simply because a few of them did
> something
> shameful and disgusting [4], that simply because Mayor de Blasio admitted
> that hefears for the life of his own son when potentially confronted by
> police [5] and said the following...
> This is profoundly personal to me. I was at the White House the other day,
> and the president of the United States turned to me, and he met Dante a few
> months ago, and he said that Dante reminded him of what he looked like as a
> teenager. And he said I know you see this crisis through a very personal
> lens. And I said to him, I did.
> Because Chirlane and I have had to talk to Dante for years about the
> dangers
> that he may face. A good young man, law-abiding young man who would never
> think to do anything wrong. And yet, because of a history that still hangs
> over us, the dangers he may face, we've had to literally train him-as
> families have all over this city for decades-in how to take special care in
> any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.
> This was apparently such a vicious affront to police, one that was so
> clearly "anti-Cop" that it was deserving of displays of disrespect such as
> this.
>
> And that the Mayor deserved to be booed and called "Traitor" [6] at the
> NYPD
> Academy Graduation.
> The boos also came with a few cries of "traitor" and heckling during his
> brief remarks.
> "Let's be honest about the realities of our society. You will confront all
> the problems that plague our society - problems that you didn't create," de
> Blasio said.
> "You did!" someone then yelled, prompting laughter and applause.
> Right, because it's all Mayor de Blasio's fault that people have distrust
> in
> the motives and actions of police, particularly when dealing with young
> African-American men. Mayor de Blasio [7]did that. Just like Mayor de
> Blasio was responsible for these Officers who decided that someone
> literally
> Dancing the Street in response to a "dare" from Ellen Degeneris had
> apparently crossed a bridge too far in the personal affront category. [7]
>
> "I challenge the viewers to sneak up behind perfect strangers, to dance
> behind them without them knowing it," Degeneres said on her show. Previous
> "dance dares" have featured pregnant viewers, as well as viewers dancing at
> the Golden Gate Bridge and in front of JCPenney stores, among other
> settings.
> BOK subsequently shot footage of himself dancing behind strangers inside
> Grand Central Station. In one scene, he dances behind a pair of officers
> without being caught, seemingly without incident.
> But when he approaches the other officer from behind a police vehicle, the
> encounter quickly escalates. The officer approaches him and asks, "What's
> wrong with you, bro?" as two more officers immediately join him. The
> officer
> backs BOK into the vehicle and places his hand on his chest. BOK is turned
> around and seemingly frisked.
> At that point, a message appears on the screen saying, "After explaining
> what we were doing they kept going, insulting me . After endless attempts,
> realizing they cannot arrest me. they threw me on the ground."
> Yeah, that's sobering. If humorless, asshole, violent Cops like these are
> expecting the blind trust and support of the public, they've got another
> think coming.
> And none of it is Bill de Blasio's fault.
> [8]
>
> See more stories tagged with:
> police [9]
> ________________________________________
> Source URL:
> http://www.alternet.org/white-woman-goes-shooting-spree-yet-somehow-isnt-aut
> omatically-killed-police
> Links:
> [1] http://www.dailykos.com/
> [2] http://www.alternet.org/authors/frank-vyan-walton
> [3]
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2890342/Woman-45-dressed-body-armor-
> goes-shooting-spree-leads-police-chase-points-loaded-gun-officer-arrested-pe
> acefully.html
> [4]
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/22/1353650/-Bill-de-Blasio-shows-how-L
> iberals-should-take-control-of-Right-Wing-planted-reporters
> [5]
> http://gawker.com/mayor-deblasio-had-to-warn-his-son-about-his-police-for-16
> 66419881
> [6]
> http://nypost.com/2014/12/29/traitor-de-blasio-booed-at-police-academy-gradu
> ation/
> [7]
> http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/30/nypd-ellen-dance-dare-alexander-bok-dancing-vi
> deo-shoved-police/
> [8] mailto:corrections@alternet.org?Subject=Typo on White Woman Goes on
> Shooting Spree, Yet Somehow Isn't Automatically Killed By Police
> [9] http://www.alternet.org/tags/police-0
> [10] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B
>
> Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org)
> Home > White Woman Goes on Shooting Spree, Yet Somehow Isn't Automatically
> Killed By Police
>
> Daily Kos [1] / By Frank Vyan Walton [2]
>
> White Woman Goes on Shooting Spree, Yet Somehow Isn't Automatically Killed
> By Police
> December 31, 2014 |
> We've been told repeatedly that if only Eric Garner hadn't resisted, or
> been
> so fat, the medical examiner wouldn't have found that his death was a
> homicide due to asphyxiation. We've been told that if only Michael Brown
> hadn't been a vicious cigarillo thug he wouldn't have received a bullet
> wound in his arm that either came from the back while he was running away,
> or from the front while he hands were up as he traveled forward at the
> stunningly rapid speed of 2.59 mph.[Calculated by dividing 25 ft by the
> 6.572 secs it took to fire the shots that killed him] We've been told that
> if only Jonathan Crawford had dropped the toy air-rifle he picked up from
> the shelves at Walmart within two seconds, that if only Tamir Rice had
> dropped his BB Gun within one second, and if only Darrien Hunt hadn't been
> running away as police shot him in the back for "brandishing" an
> unsharpened
> Katana Sword, all three of these people would still be alive today.
> So then why exactly is this person still alive after going on a violent
> shooting spree, including pointing her gun at officers while wearing body
> armor [3]?
> A Tennessee woman is facing multiple charges including attempted
> first-degree murder for driving around shooting at people, leading a police
> chase, and pointing her gun at an officer.
> Julia Shields, 45, drove around a Chattanooga neighborhood Friday just
> before 4pm dressed in body armor, randomly shooting into vehicles, WRCB
> reports.
> Officers responded to a call from two victims who said Shields pulled up to
> their vehicle at a stop sign in a dark colored sedan and began firing into
> the car. No one was reportedly hurt.
> Shields is alleged to have driven around town shooting at people in other
> vehicles. Police were called and she was found in a parking lot, where she
> then led police on a chase and continued to point her weapon at passing
> cars, and at police during the chase. And if that isn't shocking enough
> here's the real kicker.
> Shields was taken into custody without incident or injury and charged with
> three counts of attempted first-degree murder, seven counts of aggravated
> assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, felony
> evading arrest, and felony reckless endangerment, according to WRCB.
> Without incident? Without injury? Now what on earth could be the reason for
> that completely unexpected result? How, pray tell, could this alleged
> perpetrator, who unlike all the previous examples was not only armed with a
> genuine real weapon - had used it multiple times - how is it this woman
> wasn't instantly dead as soon a police had a good clear shot at her? How's
> that even possible, because it seems to me we've been told over and over
> again that if police don't react the way that they did with Garner, Brown,
> Rice, Crawford and Hunt, we'd being seeing more Cop Funerals, wouldn't we?
> What could it be that's different about this case compared to those? Maybe
> I'm dumb, but I just can't figure it out.
> We've been told that pointing out teeny, tiny, little discrepancies in
> policing like this is clearly the product of Cop Hate. That when Mayor Bill
> de Blasio refused to be baited by a right wing reporter into condemning all
> of the police violence protesters simply because a few of them did
> something
> shameful and disgusting [4], that simply because Mayor de Blasio admitted
> that hefears for the life of his own son when potentially confronted by
> police [5] and said the following...
> This is profoundly personal to me. I was at the White House the other day,
> and the president of the United States turned to me, and he met Dante a few
> months ago, and he said that Dante reminded him of what he looked like as a
> teenager. And he said I know you see this crisis through a very personal
> lens. And I said to him, I did.
> Because Chirlane and I have had to talk to Dante for years about the
> dangers
> that he may face. A good young man, law-abiding young man who would never
> think to do anything wrong. And yet, because of a history that still hangs
> over us, the dangers he may face, we've had to literally train him-as
> families have all over this city for decades-in how to take special care in
> any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.
> This was apparently such a vicious affront to police, one that was so
> clearly "anti-Cop" that it was deserving of displays of disrespect such as
> this.
>
> And that the Mayor deserved to be booed and called "Traitor" [6] at the
> NYPD
> Academy Graduation.
> The boos also came with a few cries of "traitor" and heckling during his
> brief remarks.
> "Let's be honest about the realities of our society. You will confront all
> the problems that plague our society - problems that you didn't create," de
> Blasio said.
> "You did!" someone then yelled, prompting laughter and applause.
> Right, because it's all Mayor de Blasio's fault that people have distrust
> in
> the motives and actions of police, particularly when dealing with young
> African-American men. Mayor de Blasio [7]did that. Just like Mayor de
> Blasio
> was responsible for these Officers who decided that someone literally
> Dancing the Street in response to a "dare" from Ellen Degeneris had
> apparently crossed a bridge too far in the personal affront category. [7]
> "I challenge the viewers to sneak up behind perfect strangers, to dance
> behind them without them knowing it," Degeneres said on her show. Previous
> "dance dares" have featured pregnant viewers, as well as viewers dancing at
> the Golden Gate Bridge and in front of JCPenney stores, among other
> settings.
> BOK subsequently shot footage of himself dancing behind strangers inside
> Grand Central Station. In one scene, he dances behind a pair of officers
> without being caught, seemingly without incident.
> But when he approaches the other officer from behind a police vehicle, the
> encounter quickly escalates. The officer approaches him and asks, "What's
> wrong with you, bro?" as two more officers immediately join him. The
> officer
> backs BOK into the vehicle and places his hand on his chest. BOK is turned
> around and seemingly frisked.
> At that point, a message appears on the screen saying, "After explaining
> what we were doing they kept going, insulting me . After endless attempts,
> realizing they cannot arrest me. they threw me on the ground."
> Yeah, that's sobering. If humorless, asshole, violent Cops like these are
> expecting the blind trust and support of the public, they've got another
> think coming.
> And none of it is Bill de Blasio's fault.
> mailto:corrections@alternet.org?Subject=Typo on White Woman Goes on
> Shooting
> Spree, Yet Somehow Isn't Automatically Killed By Police
> mailto:corrections@alternet.org?Subject=Typo on White Woman Goes on
> Shooting
> Spree, Yet Somehow Isn't Automatically Killed By Police[8]
> See more stories tagged with:
> police [9]
>
> Source URL:
> http://www.alternet.org/white-woman-goes-shooting-spree-yet-somehow-isnt-aut
> omatically-killed-police
> Links:
> [1] http://www.dailykos.com/
> [2] http://www.alternet.org/authors/frank-vyan-walton
> [3]
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2890342/Woman-45-dressed-body-armor-
> goes-shooting-spree-leads-police-chase-points-loaded-gun-officer-arrested-pe
> acefully.html
> [4]
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/22/1353650/-Bill-de-Blasio-shows-how-L
> iberals-should-take-control-of-Right-Wing-planted-reporters
> [5]
> http://gawker.com/mayor-deblasio-had-to-warn-his-son-about-his-police-for-16
> 66419881
> [6]
> http://nypost.com/2014/12/29/traitor-de-blasio-booed-at-police-academy-gradu
> ation/
> [7]
> http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/30/nypd-ellen-dance-dare-alexander-bok-dancing-vi
> deo-shoved-police/
> [8] mailto:corrections@alternet.org?Subject=Typo on White Woman Goes on
> Shooting Spree, Yet Somehow Isn't Automatically Killed By Police
> [9] http://www.alternet.org/tags/police-0
> [10] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B
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