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Blanche, an NYPD Neanderthal is savvy, tough, Baretta-type who
Doesn't molly-coddle or pussy-foot around criminals just because they happen to be of a different race or religion. It wasn't intended to be perjorative.

posted by kingmi on November 28, 2006 at 8:08 PM | link to this | reply

LeRoyCoyote, NYPD, Kramer, Mel Gibson, Harold Ford
Have all cropped up this season. Since average people aren't comfortable talking race differences, we settle for generalizing from pop icons. Thank you for your comments. You were very insightful.

posted by kingmi on November 28, 2006 at 7:53 PM | link to this | reply

Check it out, Kingmi and others interested, the New York Times story

on the 2 men shot in New York, the bridegroom and best man, it sounds like they were in the middle of some undercover police operation, with "unmarked black police mini-vans", they were coming out of a strip club for the groom's bachelor party.  What no one wants to believe is that could happen to any of us, in the wrong place at the wrong time.

http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche018156/

 

 

posted by Blanche. on November 28, 2006 at 4:58 AM | link to this | reply

oh, and note to Leroy, it's not okay, just because they were BLACK!
and may or may not have made insulting or racist remarks to the police.  Insulting a cop is still not a justification for shooting a suspect (note the use of the word, SUSPECT, as in "not arrested, not convicted").  Police make mistakes and they take a bullying attitude. With guns that's a dangerous mix.

posted by Blanche. on November 28, 2006 at 4:53 AM | link to this | reply

The Atlanta 92 year old woman, now this, a bridegroom and best man, shot

dead, for what? "Contempt of cop?"  By what right do public, civil servants, even under whatever duress, suffering from PTSD, and dealing with admitted scumbags, confuse decent citizens, without probable cause and enter our homes, under the dead of night, with no warning or identification, and shoot people who are attempting to defend their lives, their families and homes.

Oh, right, by the Supreme Court's rulings, it's okay for police to burst in,without warning, getting the wrong addresses, making mistakes, and roughing up people for being suspects.

A suspect is not convicted, police make mistakes all the time and people die.

Let me clear about that PEOPLE die, drug dealing is not a capital offense, unless the cops shoot first and ask questions later.  Somebody has to rein these cowboys in off the reservation, too many American citizens are dying, as a result of police blunders.

posted by Blanche. on November 28, 2006 at 4:51 AM | link to this | reply

Kingmi, call the cops whatever, they shot unarmed "suspects" 50 times

posted by Blanche. on November 28, 2006 at 4:46 AM | link to this | reply

I'm going to diagree
If we have a dialogue then it has to be open.  I have to adimately oppose your labeling the cops "Neanderthals."  There were probably minorities in the New York PD who fired the shots.  Tying this with the former Kramer guy is off the wall.  Do you keep track of all the racially insulting comments by African-American comics?  Your computer couldn't hold them.  I have mutlti-racial daughters.  One is very dark and one has green eyes and blondish hair.  I want neither of them in a gang infested, misongynist, drug addled neighborhood and that does not make me a "racist."  At the heart of our conflict is violence, disproportionate violence by one one group against another group.  This disproportiate violence has got to stop.

posted by LeRoyCoyote on November 27, 2006 at 11:08 PM | link to this | reply