Neverending **** the Police thread.

OTOH, if I were a black man in the U.S., a fight or flight response to being arrested doesn't seem crazy at all.
 
55 years ago today
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From MS journalist, Jerry Mitchell

"On this day in 1965, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party organized a one-mile silent march, starting at Morning Star Baptist Church and ending at the Mississippi Capitol, where lawmakers were contemplating changes in voting laws. Jackson police arrested the marchers, more than half of them students from Lanier High School. Over the next few weeks, more than 1,000 were arrested and held in livestock pens at the Mississippi State Fair. During the protest, 5-year-old Anthony Quin waved a U.S. flag outside the Governor’s Mansion. Matt Herron’s photograph of a highway patrolman trying to wrestle the flag from Quin’s hands ran in The New York Times and other newspapers across the U.S. On June 30, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the release of those arrested and barred the City of Jackson from making any further arrests."
 
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If I did what Rayshard Brooks did I would expect to be at least shot. Outstanding warrants? He was calm and normal until he went berserk.

He did 7 years for beating his kids and he had a dui. Thought I read he was out on parole due to COVID and he was passed out drunk at Wendy’s. Would had been his second dui and he would had gone back to jail so he did what he did because he didn’t want to go back.
 
He did 7 years for beating his kids and he had a dui. Thought I read he was out on parole due to COVID and he was passed out drunk at Wendy’s. Would had been his second dui and he would had gone back to jail so he did what he did because he didn’t want to go back.

Time to martyr this great man. How many funerals do you think he will get?
 
All the nuance is removed from the conversation, even though the circumstances around these events are drastically different case to case
 
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