Comment Re:Just be white (Score 1) 509
The police report, asshole.
The police report actually says that they "killed him for eyeballing them?"
Please show the text.
The police report, asshole.
The police report actually says that they "killed him for eyeballing them?"
Please show the text.
No the you will just have tin foil hat/hipsters beating the daylights out of you for having a camera...
See every discussion of GoogleGlass on Slashdot for proof.
When dealing with the police, avoid being black. This will greatly reduce your chances of being beaten, unlawfully being detained/arrested/searched, or otherwise having your other civil rights violated.
Well, I"m of the thought that there is a little preponderance to DWB, etc...but I don't think it is JUST being dark skinned that is the majority of the problem.
It seems to show that it is mostly black, in that an disproportionate amount of crime is perpetrated by black people, and many of the worst neighborhoods, poor and crime ridden are majority black / minority occupied, so this skews the stats a bit.
And, from many of the video's I've seen (and some experience viewed in person while living in New Orleans), many black people interact and react to the cops in a hostile manner right off to bat.
If a cop comes up to them, quite often you see the citizen immediately get confrontational, start cursing, etc.....that just escalates a tense situation on both sides.
I would posit that so many of these arrests and all would sharply drop if many of these folks interacted with the cops as I have when dealing with them. I stand very still, if asked to move or comply with doing something, I do it. I am quiet, I don't really talk to the officer unless specifically answering a direct question (if it is something not violating my rights). I address the officer as "Yes/No Sir/Ma'am" when responding to them. I am quiet, polite and as non-confrontational as I can possibly be.
Before I move to do anything (get something out of pocket or out of car, etc...I ask the officer if it is ok to do xyz....and wait till they say yes, and Imove very slowly, etc.
In other words, I give the officer(s) as little reason as possible to escalate things.
But when I see folks...no matter the color, get all excited and belligerent when dealing with the officer, I'm just think in my head. "well...they're going to jail".
I mean seriously, so this many folks need to go to a class how to deal with police, and talk and deal with people in general? This should be a no brainer....
The LAST person whose face I want to get into, is an police officer with a gun.
It is amazing what a "Yes Sir" and being calm will do for you....why is this so far for folks to figure out?
Freddie Gray was stopped by police, who later killed him just for eyeballing them.
That's an interesting finding of facts on your part - can you cite some established evidence? Because I saw someone else with exactly as much evidence say that Freddy Gray was killed by that guy from the X-Men who can materialize at will inside police vans and break necks.
He was stopped because he was a well known criminal hanging out in a high-crime area who took off running as soon as he saw the police and wouldn't stop when asked to. There is a legal scuffle going on right now as to whether or not the spring-loaded knife he was carrying fits within the local law's boundaries of a reason to turn that stop into an actual arrest. Which has nothing to do with whether or not he should have been restrained (by a seat belt, etc) in the van (he should have been). But your glib conclusion that he was "killed for eyeballing them" is as absurd as the de/materializing mutant theory. He died from, at worst, bad luck and lazy (legally negligent, most likely) van loading protocol lapse.
The biggest help is Nuclear power. But the Greens are fighting it.
Germany is a prime example. Sure they have built out a lot of Solar and Wind but they are replacing Nuclear with COAL!
The say in 20 or so years ago they can replace coal with "renewables" which is just pushing it off and pumping out carbon.
Solar will not work because of storage.
And no Tesla has not solved that problem. Vermont Yankee which was a small nuclear plant produced on average 4703 GWh per year. It would take 1,287,612 Tesla power walls to provide a 24 hour reserve. The cost would be 4,506,642,000 and that is just for a 24 hour storage system. In the winter you could have many areas where solar output is close to zero for more than a day but if you want cut that in half and put it at 12 hours. And that is JUST the battery costs. Add in solar and wind turbines to match the 4703 GWhs and the math gets super ugly very quickly.
And Vermont Yankee was a small plant. BTW it is has been replaced with carbon producing fracked natural gas... Yea... Yell the greens!
BTW the Saint Lucie Nuclear power plant in Florida which is far from the largest produces just under 3 times as much power. So figure about 3 million power walls.
The US government was pissed about that because it works for the corporations
You were OK up to this point. Cuba didn't just nationalize those holdings, they seized them-- no compensation. Whether or not the corporations were receiving special treatment, it's a government's responsibility to protect their citizens' right to property, so it wasn't a stretch to demand compensation. Remember, many private citizens also lost their properties.
Why is uber preferred to Lyft?
As for whether these services should be allowed is another question. The central issue is do taxi licensing provide useful standards. The answer is definitely yes and one can see this from the regulations cities imposed that were show stoppers. for example, NM required drug testing after any vehicular collision. Kansas required commercial carrier insurance during the time the vehicle is hired. Others have required sex offender background checks (and notably there have been predatory Uber driver rapes reports in Brazil). Those realtively simple but not cost free regulations have cause uber and Lyft to pull out places they were imposed.
I mean, look -- there were a bunch of recent stories with suspects getting killed or beate...n
Well, I think ONE thing is pretty clear.
Don't RUN from the cops. The one common denominator from most of the recently publicized cop shootings of citizens, is that the citizen generally ran from the officer.
But one thing to do for sure...don't act like an ass, if you are (and you should) exerting your rights, do so in a calm, non-threatening fashion. Don't shout. Don't curse, use clear concise language. The "Am I free to go" statement is a very simple and very powerful thing to say and get an answer to.
If you don't give them a reason to beat you...99.999% of the time they are not. Yes, there are bad apples, but I don't think that is the majority. If you do not fight, resist, run or act an ass, chances are you are not going to be arrested or hurt. And if they DO arrest you....just face it, you are going to jail...don't resist, doing so give the cops a LOT of leeway in how they manhandle you.
Don't give them a reason to do abuse you, but also, you should always know and assert your rights.
It's not just Google. Seriously dude, when every other person or translation says you are wrong, it is likely that you are the one who is wrong.
Perhaps your 7 years it took to pass high school Spanish class should have been 8?
No, it just means that you are not actually doing anything of any importance or interest.
Memory fault - where am I?