Rapinoe

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Fairly long post to prove you know nothing. You might start with the fact that she does not play for *****. She plays for the Thorns.

quit smoking crack

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For those who might be integrated, former NFL player Shannon Sharpe has a very eloquent statement about why he supports Kapernick. You can find it online. I support Rapinoe's right to take this stand and for those who watch the profitable version of American football, I suspect you will see dozens of pro athletes do the same this weekend.

To paraphrase Sharpe - When we live in a country where a white guy can stab people to death and then start EATING THEIR FACES, and get arrested without getting shot (as recently happened in Florida), but a black guy selling loose cigarettes on a corner gets killed while being arrested, we have a problem. When we live in a country where a white guy enters a movie theatre and kills 19 people, and is not only arrested alive but is taken to Burger King on his way to jail because he's hungry, but a black guy is killed while being pulled over for a moving violation, we have a problem. It is not a surprise that people of color have a hard time feeling like the liberties the flag stands for don't apply to them. And it's not a surprise that Rapinoe, a gay female, identifies with their cause.

I think maybe it isn't the crime that got these people killed by the police or not killed. The black community seems to be missing this point. If you don't resist arrest and simply comply to the police the interaction won't end in death of a suspect.

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No one ever died for a flag, even the US flag. They died protecting and serving their country, the USA. Even stupid politicians figured this out and that's why flag burning isn't a Federal offense anymore. And, it's many pieces of cloth sen together.

Yes people have died for that flag. The flag stands for our liberties women and men have died for it. Hundreds of thousands rallied to it in the late 1800's when Abraham Lincoln moved men's souls to prove all men are created equal. It was the quintessential item that we rallied to as a country on September 11th. And IMHO it should be the one thing that we all, as Americans should hold dear. You have the right in this country to be an ass hole, but we don't have to respect you for it. Make no mistake men and women fighting for your liberty to be gay and black in a free country where everyone is treated equal have died and will continue to die for that flag. The national anthem is the one time we should all stand as one and be unified. Again just IMHO.

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I think maybe it isn't the crime that got these people killed by the police or not killed. The black community seems to be missing this point. If you don't resist arrest and simply comply to the police the interaction won't end in death of a suspect.

Not missing the point. Was the white guy in Florida who was eating his victim's face complying? No. But he didn't get shot. Police used a taser. Then when the taser didn't work and he kept eating the guy's face, he still didn't get shot - they used a taser again.

Meanwhile, the black guy in Minnesota was pulled over, told to produce his wallet, informed the officer he had a legal concealed weapon, OBEYED THE OFFICER'S instructions to produce his wallet...and was shot dead.

Now tell me something - what is a black person to do when being pulled over to not get shot, if following the officer's instructions to a T resulted in the Minnesota guy being killed?

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I think maybe it isn't the crime that got these people killed by the police or not killed. The black community seems to be missing this point. If you don't resist arrest and simply comply to the police the interaction won't end in death of a suspect.

I don't think you have been paying attention.

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Not missing the point. Was the white guy in Florida who was eating his victim's face complying? No. But he didn't get shot. Police used a taser. Then when the taser didn't work and he kept eating the guy's face, he still didn't get shot - they used a taser again.

Meanwhile, the black guy in Minnesota was pulled over, told to produce his wallet, informed the officer he had a legal concealed weapon, OBEYED THE OFFICER'S instructions to produce his wallet...and was shot dead.

Now tell me something - what is a black person to do when being pulled over to not get shot, if following the officer's instructions to a T resulted in the Minnesota guy being killed?

Personally I think black men should expect to get shot, then cuffed before any first aid, because that's apparently the procedure for dealing with black adult care workers who are laying in the street with their hands up yelling to not shoot their white mentally handicapped ward patient who is playing with a toy truck. Hey, he should be happy right? At least they did not shoot his white ward.

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Not missing the point. Was the white guy in Florida who was eating his victim's face complying? No. But he didn't get shot. Police used a taser. Then when the taser didn't work and he kept eating the guy's face, he still didn't get shot - they used a taser again.

Meanwhile, the black guy in Minnesota was pulled over, told to produce his wallet, informed the officer he had a legal concealed weapon, OBEYED THE OFFICER'S instructions to produce his wallet...and was shot dead.

Now tell me something - what is a black person to do when being pulled over to not get shot, if following the officer's instructions to a T resulted in the Minnesota guy being killed?

this is like saying every soccer player is Messi good, you can't single out one police officer who made a bad choice and say every police officer is going to make that same choice, this was a random situation where the victim happened to be a black man and the police officer a white man. and yes it seems to happen more frequently with black victims but if you look at statistics black men resist arrest more often then white

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this is like saying every soccer player is Messi good, you can't single out one police officer who made a bad choice and say every police officer is going to make that same choice, this was a random situation where the victim happened to be a black man and the police officer a white man. and yes it seems to happen more frequently with black victims but if you look at statistics black men resist arrest more often then white

Please provide a source for the statistic that black men resist arrest more than white men. I do not believe you can. Disproportionate minority contact by law enforcement is a reality whether you like it or not. DMC means that people of color are more likely to be stopped by law enforcement, more likely to be searched, more likely to be arrested, and more likely to be locked up (for similar offenses) than to receive probation. Georgetown's study specifically cited vehicle stops and found that black drivers are far more likely to be pulled over and far more likely to have their vehicles searched. And black drivers are far LESS likely to have contraband found as a result of these searches. This study was shared with law enforcement agencies around the country in an attempt to provide training about DMC...and the pull over and search rates for black drivers went up, not down. So even though law enforcement officers know that statistically black drivers are less likely to have contraband, they continue to pull them over and search their vehicles at a higher rate than white drivers.

This is a very difficult topic and probably more than the average TS parent wants to digest or consider. But please don't dismiss it. The vast majority of law enforcement officers are good people trying to do a very difficult job. And these outlier racist cops, and subconsciously racist cops, endanger their fellow officers by creating a culture of animosity and mistrust against law enforcement.

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Good one. Pithy yet stupid.