Are cop brutality and Black-on-Black crime still issues in the TRUMP era?

What happened is #MeToo.

After Trump won in 2016, the liberal base became obsessed with the outrage is middle-class White women. That was when the air was taken out of the Black Lives Matter movement.

What happened is #MeToo.

After Trump won in 2016, the liberal base became obsessed with the outrage is middle-class White women. That was when the air was taken out of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Family Held at Gunpoint by Phoenix Cops Says Apologies Are a "Slap in the Face"
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By Tess Owen Jun 17, 2019

The family held at gunpoint by Phoenix cops said at a press conference at City Hall Monday that public apologies from the police chief and mayor feel like a “slap in the face.” They want the officers held accountable, and community leaders are calling for rallies and protests this week to address the broader toxic police culture in the Arizona city.

“Everyone knows they are not fit to be policing,” said Dravon Ames, the father of the family, regarding the two cops who threatened them in a Dollar Store parking lot in late May. “Just like any other job, those officers should be held accountable — and they aren’t being held accountable at all.”

In bystander video that went viral late last week, the two officers run toward Ames and his fiancée Iesha Harper’s vehicle with their guns drawn. Officers later said they were responding to a call about a theft in the store.

“Get out of the ******* car,” one officer shouts, adding, “Put your hands up.”

“I can’t put my hands up,” Harper replies. “I have a ******* baby in my hands. I can’t. I’m pregnant.” Officers slam Ames against the police vehicle, cuff him, and then kick him in the back of the knees. “You’re going to get ******* shot,” one officer shouted.

One of two children in the car, a 4-year-old girl, had stolen a doll from the store without her parents’ knowledge.


“It was very terrifying for me and my children because they’ve never been through anything like that, especially when they have guns pointed at them,” Harper said at Monday’s press conference. “I always taught my daughters to depend on the police if something happens, but she had to find out herself that she cannot depend on the police.”

Ames and Harper have filed a $10 million civil rights suit against the city of Phoenix.

“This happens every day and every hour in America,” said their attorney Sandra Slaton at the press conference. “But there was video of this, and thank god there was.” The family is also getting assistance from rapper Jay-Z, who has hired another top lawyer to join the legal team in the case.

Over the weekend, Phoenix’s Police Chief Jeri Williams put out a video statement on Facebook, in which she spoke directly to the camera. “I, like you, am disturbed by the language and actions of our officers,” Williams said. She also appeared on a local NBC station, saying she was “with everyone in the community who is angry.”

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego also apologized, writing on Twitter that she was “deeply sorry for what this family went through.” She also called the officers’ actions “completely inappropriate and clearly unprofessional.”

But their apologies are falling flat.

“Inappropriate and unprofessio

What about "#whileblack"or "While Black"?:

https://www.theroot.com/100-things-not-to-do-whileblack-1830016338
https://www.ebony.com/tag/whileblack
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/20/us/living-while-black-police-calls-trnd/index.html
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/media/while-black-nyc.page

The lady who wrote the article at the first link was obviously making jokes, but the articles at the other ones are serious.

There's more links like this out there.

Racial profiling has gotten so out of hand it's ridiculous.

I am glad I never had that problem.

I first learned of "#whileblack" or "While Black" when I was watching The View earlier this year.

They talked about and joked about a White woman who called the cops on some African American family having a cookout in Oakland.

They also talked about some Black kids who were running their own landscaping/mowing business and were reported to the cops by some White woman simply because they cut the wrong grass, and I think they talked about on Steve Harvey's talk show too if I am not mistaken.

Innocent African Americans who are minding their own business, doing normal American activities and not doing anything unlawful or criminal were getting reported by White folks to the cops for NOTHING. It's DISGUSTING.

When did "#whileblack" or "While Black" become a thing? Did that become a thing when Trump took office? I never heard of this campaign when Obama was president.

I am also reminded of the incident at a graduation ceremony at a Florida university in which African American students were being dragged off stage by a school marshal:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-1BmD_gJrA[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dSPwGgHkY[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5DI8ShI0qs[/youtube]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/us/university-of-florida-black-graduates-rushed-off-stage-trnd/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/florida-black-students-graduation.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/05/07/black-students-celebrating-their-graduation-say-a-marshal-shoved-them-away-from-the-stage/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/university-florida-apologizes-inappropriately-ushering-graduates-off-stage/story?id=54979432
https://people.com/human-interest/florida-university-drag-black-graduates-stage/

And of two African American men who were being racially profiled by a Starbucks manager:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/starbucks-manager-called-cops-minutes-black-men-arrive-article-1.3942931
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/05/02/african-american-men-arrested-at-starbucks-reach-1-settlement-with-the-city-secure-promise-for-200000-grant-program-for-young-entrepreneurs/?utm_term=.f80d341ba353
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/04/14/starbucks-apologizes-after-employee-calls-police-on-black-men-waiting-at-a-table/?utm_term=.c3d90ff35e39

And some incidents of some African Americans who were racially profiled by Denny's employees:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article176435501.html
https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/columbia-county/lake-city/dennys-apologizes-for-turning-away-group-of-black-customers-in-lake-city

But these last few incidents I mentioned happened before "#whileblack" or "While Black" became a thing, if I am not mistaken.

The reason cop brutality and Black-on-Black crime were ever issues in the first place is because people need Jesus. People's hearts have to be changed.
People don't have Jesus and they want to find an excuse to hate and and fight people.

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Get back to us when you can post something on topic and slightly useful.

What happened is #MeToo.

After Trump won in 2016, the liberal base became obsessed with the outrage is middle-class White women. That was when the air was taken out of the Black Lives Matter movement.

I don't watch Fox News, in fact most of my news comes from NPR.

I am not saying that Black Lives Matter isn't important; quite the contrary. I am saying that liberals are so focused on White female rage that they aren't doing anything significant about racism or police brutality.