The Tamir Rice Story: How to Make a Police Shooting Disappear

[bluntmassa1]

Right now people are forced to pay for prisons and then ironically peaceful people are then put in them, that's why the USA has the highest prison population in the world.

Also, you are mixing paradigms. In a free market, there would be much less incentive to prosecute victimless crimes.

The first thing you should do, is determine if a person was victimized, so some kind of reasonable arbitration process might be a good idea.

Child molestation is not a victimless crime so what should we do with them if not prison? Murderers as well we can't really just hang everyone accused right off as many turn out to be innocent.

 

[testiclees]

No I do not propose a crony market whose guilt is erroneously laid on a free market.

I am proposing that any "local law" be limited to concepts which are valid if you or I applied them or had a right to do. If we have no right to do something to our neighbors as individuals, then we can't delegate something we don't possess to a group of people can we?

So, in other words, malum prohibitum laws would be shit canned. Voluntary human interactions would be the norm and involuntary human interactions would be suspect.



Also, you are incorrect. Free markets for the most part are not allowed to exist.

K,

i meant "free market"


"I am proposing that any "local law" be limited to concepts which are valid if you or I applied them or had a right to do. If we have no right to do something to our neighbors as individuals, then we can't delegate something we don't possess to a group of people can we?"

Agree but defining rights is already at the root of intractable issues. Unless there is an extremely relevant incentive for collective development and prosperity we'd see the same shit being dealt out by entrenched oligarchs.

 

[NLXSK1]

Are we just ignoring the expert witness?

I am not ignoring anything. I am stating what I read from a portion of the trial.

There was a video. Are you ignoring the video?

Someone called the cops and said someone was waving and pointing a gun. The cops didnt decide to cruise around looking for people, they were responding from a call from a concerned citizen.

When they arrived, they saw an individual pulling what looked like a handgun from his waistband.

The VIDEO shows that at the time he was shot, that was what Tamir was doing. Probably to show the cops it was fake because he was scared but all the cops saw was someone pulling a gun.

Now, what did the expert witness say that altered the video which could be watched in slow motion and enhanced to show every detail without bias?

 

[NLXSK1]

Voluntaryists believe all people have the equal right of self determination. We also believe if profit is your motive, and your customers have choices of using you or a competitor, that's your business.

In the present, the option of using other service providers is disallowed by this gang known as "government" . In that regard the government gang holds a forcible monopoly, thus they can NEVER bring or protect equality, since they abuse it from the get go.

And your definition of private security fits organized crime perfectly... You are just switching collars.

 

[bluntmassa1]

You dont need to believe me, I quoted the testimony from the trial in my post. It says what the video shows.

You demand body cameras and when video is present you want to now discount it in favor of something else that supports your view of the situation.

The police are never going to be right in your eyes, no shooting is going to be justified, that is obvious.

Certainly not shootings of unarmed children they could have handled that situation much better like ducked down by the engine block and ordered him to drop the toy...

 

[bearkat42]

I am not ignoring anything. I am stating what I read from a portion of the trial.

There was a video. Are you ignoring the video?

Someone called the cops and said someone was waving and pointing a gun. The cops didnt decide to cruise around looking for people, they were responding from a call from a concerned citizen.

When they arrived, they saw an individual pulling what looked like a handgun from his waistband.

The VIDEO shows that at the time he was shot, that was what Tamir was doing. Probably to show the cops it was fake because he was scared but all the cops saw was someone pulling a gun.

Now, what did the expert witness say that altered the video which could be watched in slow motion and enhanced to show every detail without bias?

Then I guess my next question would be, How often to they pay $6 million settlements in police shootings that are deemed "justified"?

 

[NLXSK1]

Certainly not shootings of unarmed children they could have handled that situation much better like ducked down by the engine block and ordered him to drop the toy...

I doubt the cops would have killed the kid if they had known it was a fake gun but cops are not required to risk their lives by getting shot at first.

FYI, 3 cops murdered in Louisiana, 4 wounded this morning. This isnt making it better.

 

[testiclees]

The enhanced video shows that Tamir was pulling the gun from his waistband when he got shot.

It was his actions that got him killed, not the color of his skin.

People keep attacking the wrong problem.

Lets change the laws so cops dont have to kick in doors and shoot people. They are simply the dogs and the government is the master.

Youre a fucking pussy. The cop is pussy discharge. If you cant diffuse the most benign of situations you should work with rodents or tropical fish.Think about it if you sent 100 men to that situation who weren't cops but were armed how many of them would turn out to be deranged bitches???? I bet maybe 5% or NONE. A professional who confronts bad asses for a living dropping a young boy like that? Get the fuck out of here. It's one step removed from that other piece of shit who shot fat dude , on the run, in the back multiple times like it was a klan xbox game.

 

[NLXSK1]

Then I guess my next question would be, How often to they pay $6 million settlements in police shootings that are deemed "justified"?

The video deemed that Tamir Rice was pulling a gun. That is why the cops were not prosecuted.

The intent was not to kill a black kid but make the community safe based on a call from a concerned citizen.

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[testiclees]

I doubt the cops would have killed the kid if they had known it was a fake gun but cops are not required to risk their lives by getting shot at first.

FYI, 3 cops murdered in Louisiana, 4 wounded this morning. This isnt making it better.

Being a cop is risking your life to serve others not killing others because you fear for your life.

 

[NLXSK1]

Youre a fucking pussy. The cop is pussy discharge. If you cant diffuse the most benign of situations you should work with rodents or tropical fish.Think about it if you sent 100 men to that situation who weren't cops but were armed how many of them would turn out to be deranged bitches???? I bet maybe 5% or NONE. A professional who confronts bad asses for a living dropping a young boy like that? Get the fuck out of here. It's one step removed from that other piece of shit who shot fat dude , on the run, in the back multiple times like it was a klan xbox game.

When you pull a gun on a cop you are going to get shot, not negotiated with.

That is simply a fact of life no matter how mad it makes you. It did not have to do with color or the character of the kid, it was his actions that unfortunately got him shot and killed.

It is a tragedy.

 

[testiclees]

When you pull a gun on a cop you are going to get shot, not negotiated with.

That is simply a fact of life no matter how mad it makes you. It did not have to do with color or the character of the kid, it was his actions that unfortunately got him shot and killed.

It is a tragedy.

Bro a grown man who carries a gun for a job knows the difference between being pulled on and killing a fucking child. Youre a pussy

 

[NLXSK1]

Being a cop is risking your life to serve others not killing others because you fear for your life.

This is real life, not drama TV.

 

[NLXSK1]

Bro a grown man who carries a gun for a job knows the difference between being pulled on and killing a fucking child. Youre a pussy

I didnt shoot anyone. Why do you feel such rage at me?

I didnt decide the cops were not going to be prosecuted, that was part of the legal system. Again, I am not responsible.

I didnt allow my child out of the house with a fake handgun. Maybe you should be angry with his parents because he was not my responsibility at the time he was shot and killed.

Maybe you should be mad a the kid for being stupid enough to get himself killed. 12 years old is not an infant, he was in 6th grade, he knew what a gun was.

 

[testiclees]

This is real life, not drama TV.

True. Sadly cops have come to believe that they are gunfighters and not public servants.

 

[ttystikk]

Todays cops "fear for their lives" as if they are Ashraf Ghani or Barak Obama. In reality they are fucking low level civil servants with authority issues and carte blanche. Add on questionable training and half witted leadership and they are like death squads.

...all of which would be immediately solved with a strong system of individual accountability in place.

 

[NLXSK1]

True. Sadly cops have come to believe that they are gunfighters and not public servants.

7 cops were just shot in Louisiana with 3 being killed. This is not going to make things better.

The difference is the cops didnt intend to kill that kid. They did intend to kill that 4 time felon with a gun in his pocket he was reaching for. But again, not because his skin color, because he was a criminal reaching for a weapon.

Until we focus on the problem (the war on drugs - which creates gangs, and violence on a mass scale) and other laws against citizens then we are not going to see a de escalation of the violence on either side.

We both want the same thing but you keep treating me like the enemy.

 

[bearkat42]

The video deemed that Tamir Rice was pulling a gun. That is why the cops were not prosecuted.

The intent was not to kill a black kid but make the community safe based on a call from a concerned citizen.

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Complete this sentence: The $6 million settlement was for _________.

 

[ttystikk]

True. Sadly cops have come to believe that they are gunfighters and not public servants.

Only a few of them. These then need to be disabused of this notion in no uncertain terms, starting with getting fucking fired for incompetence and any ongoing pattern of abuse of their position.

The notion that cops should stick together in the face of public questions needs to be drummed out, replaced with professionalism and the unwillingness to tolerate any bad apples in their ranks.

 

[ttystikk]

Then I guess my next question would be, How often to they pay $6 million settlements in police shootings that are deemed "justified"?

And why is this 'solution' tolerated when we all know the money just comes from taxpayers and not the offending officer?

ACCOUNTABILITY.