No Justice, No Peace

Very glib remark.

I've seen documentaries where the black person was doing everything he was supposed to, posed no threat and still got thrown to the ground and beat.

Delores Paulk wrote:

I've seen documentaries where the black person was doing everything he was supposed to, posed no threat and still got thrown to the ground and beat.

I suspect that the documentaries were lying about the facts of the encounters.

I disagree vehemently about your second part. I've seen too many instances of black people being abused and even killed by police to not believe there is a certain amount of racism within the police organization. Never the individual, but the mob.

Even if he had actually stolen a car, that is a non-violent crime. When approached by police with emergency lights on, he immediately pulled over to a safe location and had his hands clearly visible and over his head. Police reaction was WAAAAAAAY over the top of what it should have been.

There is no way you can view that video and believe for a second the police were right in the way they handled it.

A white police officer who fatally shot a 12-year-old black boy in Cleveland, Ohio, in November 2014 has been sacked for lying on his cadet application.
Timothy Loehmann opened fire on Tamir Rice as he played with a pellet gun, sparking widespread protests.
City officials announced Mr Loehmann's sacking and a 10-day suspension for his partner at the scene, Frank Garmback.
The penalties come more than a year after a grand jury declined to indict them in the boy's death.
An investigation found the officers had not violated procedures but also uncovered details which led to Mr Loehmann's dismissal.
He had been allowed to resign from another police department instead of being sacked for being emotionally unstable.
But he did not disclose the full circumstances when applying to join the Cleveland police force.
"Patrol Officer Loehmann had been charged with rule violations concerning his application... specifically answers he had provided on his personal history statement," Cleveland's Director of Public Safety, Michael McGrath, said at a press conference.

NBA superstar LeBron James has talked about the ordeal of suffering racism after the "N-word" was spray painted on to his Los Angeles home.
"No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are... being black in America is tough," he said.
The graffiti was reported to police on Wednesday morning and the Cleveland Cavaliers star responded hours later.
LAPD officials confirmed to the BBC the highly offensive nature of the racial epithet.
Officers are reviewing surveillance footage to try to identify the vandal.
James was speaking from San Francisco, where his team is training ahead of Game 1 of the NBA finals.
"Racism will always be a part of the world, a part of America, and hate in America - especially for African-Americans - is living every day," he said.
He added: "We've got a long way to go for us as a society and us as African-Americans until we feel equal in America."

I've known too many people that are black that have been pulled over for no real reason and Seton Hall did an entire study that shows it is not, in fact, bullshit.

These are two separate questions:

"Are the police pulling over black drivers for traffic stops without justification?"

"Are the police committing violent abuses towards black people when pulling them over?"

Given the demographics of both Bloomfield and New Jersey generally, the expected representation in the courtroom would have been around 60% white. Strikingly, the observers reported the inverse, plus: instead of 60% white, African-Americans and Latinos accounted for an astounding 78% of court appearances (43% African American, 35% Latino, 20% White, and 2% other) (n=799).

Murderer cop