What if David Sweat was black?

[Creepy Green Light]

After I caught up on local & global news last night via Google, I got thinking. What if David Sweat was black? Would news outlets report it the same way? I mean a white state trooper shot an unarmed white man in the back (this is the way I understand it from what I read. I am sure someone will correct me if this is not the case). What would have happened if David was black? Would anything change? Would there be protests & riots? My opinion is; there would be. How much and how big, I'm not sure. But there definitely would be an uproar to some degree. Agree?

 

[Wade]

Good talking point but bad example, I think sweat being an escaped murderer should expect two slugs in the back if he ran, not so Walter Scott.

 

[Wade]

And not to derail your thread CGL, but it was interesting listening to the number of voices on the news this morning decrying the SCOTUS vote on the right to marriage for LGBT. It was not lost on me that a very large number of voices were those of southern blacks, which just goes to show you prejudice knows no racial/color boundry lines, although having said that i don't expect a person of color to go shooting up...or burning down...any churches that agree to marry gays although it wouldn't surprise me if a middle aged white man, recently divorced , on unemployment or among the working poor, disenfranchised and frustrated and with a deep fondness for the way that things used to be, doesn't fly off the handle...again.

 

[Creepy Green Light]

And not to derail your thread CGL, but it was interesting listening to the number of voices on the news this morning decrying the SCOTUS vote on the right to marriage for LGBT. It was not lost on me that a very large number of voices were those of southern blacks, which just goes to show you prejudice knows no racial/color boundry lines, although having said that i don't expect a person of color to go shooting up...or burning down...any churches that agree to marry gays although it wouldn't surprise me if a middle aged white man, recently divorced , on unemployment or among the working poor, disenfranchised and frustrated and with a deep fondness for the way that things used to be, doesn't fly off the handle...again.

I can see your point.

 

[Creepy Green Light]

And don't get me wrong. Sweat deserved slugs in the back. I couldn't care less if he was killed. One less wart on the ass of society IMO. But here's what I've seemed to notice the last decade or so; if a black man is shot & killed (by police), the black community DOES NOT CARE what the status was of the black man. In other words, whether the guy was caught with 10 decapitated childrens corpses in his van along with 100 lbs of meth amphetamine and pulled a gun on a cop OR if he was on the way to church (or somewhere in between), they will be pissed and raise hell that "another black man was killed by a white police officer." I'm not saying that some or any of the black men that have been killed by police in the last year deserved it. But I have to ask, what were they doing in the first place that the police got involved? Were they on the way to church? Or were they involved with some shady, shoddy, illegal activity (or borderline illegal) that got the police involved in the first place?

 

[Burnt State]

Actually black people get stopped for no good reason all the time. They are stopped, detained, asked for ID, asked personal questions and it happens more often to black people in a white neighborhoods. The issue of carding came to a head in Toronto because of this article and helped to bring a halt to this racist police tactic. Not all the killings of black men at the hands of white police officers are cut and dried. Witnesses confuse stories all the time, but in some cases excessive force was not necessary and in the case of the officer attempting to plant his taser near the body he just shot, well you can understand how some police are in fact racist and do also kill people for no good reason.

The Skin I’m In: I've been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I'm black

What's interesting about the carding issue is how it calls to mind apartheid era South Africa as well as Nazi Germany when people were ID'd and detained regularly for no good reason except for the color of their skin or the star they wore on their arms.

Speaking of burning churches. Here's an interesting legacy of hatred to note with six black churches burned in seven days, albeit only three have been determined to be arson so far.

SIX black churches from Georgia to Ohio are burned down in a week | Daily Mail Online

FBI investigating as six black churches burn down in seven days - Americas - World - The Independent

Really, instead of worrying about the right to wave a confederate flag, America needs to worry about its youth posing with guns and confederate flags - why would no one have reported this incident to police? What's the greater danger to society, the white supremacist or the guy selling illegal smokes on the corner who dies in a police choke hold because cops are piling on him squeezing the man's diaphragm shut to so he could no longer breathe. Justice is a relative event. Some people get shot for a good reason and some get shot for no good reason.

If there's an injustice to point out it is why everyone around this guy thought it was ok for him to get a gun given his often promoted racist views. And if there's an ironic reversal to ask about, then just why is it we don't see black cops frequently stopping white people for no good reason on the streets or choking them to death, or planting tasers near their recently shot and handcuffed bodies, or why aren't black kids shooting white people in churches? Could Dylann Roof ever be black?

 

[Heidi Lemmer]

Actually black people get stopped for no good reason all the time. They are stopped, detained, asked for ID, asked personal questions and it happens more often to black people in a white neighborhood. The issue of carding came to a head in Toronto because e this article and helped to bring a halt to this racist police tactic. Not all the killings of black men at the hands of white police officers are cut and dried. Witnesses confuse stories all the time, but in some cases excessive force was not necessary and in the case of the officer attempting to plant his taser near the body he just shot, well you can understand how some police are in fact racist and do also kill people for no good reason.

The Skin I’m In: I've been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I'm black

What's interesting about the carding issue is how it calls to mind apartheid era South Africa as well as Nazi Germany when people were ID'd and detained regularly for no good reason except for the color of their skin or the star they wore on their arms.

Speaking of burning churches. Here's an interesting legacy of hatred to note with six black churches burned in seven days, albeit only three have been determined to be arson so far.

SIX black churches from Georgia to Ohio are burned down in a week | Daily Mail Online

FBI investigating as six black churches burn down in seven days - Americas - World - The Independent

Really, instead of worrying about the right to wave a confederate flag, America needs to worry about its youth posing with guns and confederate flags - why would no one have reported this incident to police? What's the greater danger to society, the white supremacist or the guy selling illegal smokes on the corner who dies in a police choke hold because cops are piling on him squeezing the man's diaphragm shut to so he could no longer breathe. Justice is a relative event. Some people get shot for a good reason and some get shot for no good reason.

If there's an injustice to point out it is why everyone around this guy thought it was ok for him to get a gun given his often promoted racist views. And if there's an ironic reversal to ask about, then just why is it we don't see black cops frequently stopping white people for no good reason on the streets or choking them to death, or planting tasers near their recently shot and handcuffed bodies, or why aren't black kids shooting white people in churches? Could Dylann Roof ever be black?

Bravo Burnt!

 

[Decker]

You know what I rarely hear about when talking about that kid above .. who by the way was a total loser? Come to LA to see it ... Black Gangs ... all packing.

 

[Decker]

And let us not forget our Hispanic friends.

 

[Decker]

Oh yea, while I am on the subject ... Hanoi Jane sitting on a really really big gun ...

 

[Creepy Green Light]

I guess until you've lived it - you don't know.

 

[Burnt State]

I guess until you've lived it - you don't know.

what do you mean?

 

[boomerang]

In the case of a ticking time bomb on the loose like Sweat, I frankly doubt his race or color would have mattered. This was hardly a routine traffic stop.