This is another article that I have been SITTING ON, but I will post it now. It delves into the "reasons" why Nazi-Cops act with such lethal force towards Black Americans, meanwhile? You can be an Illegal-Immigrant in this country and never be subjected to anything at all like what the average Black American goes through. Now mind you!? That statement within itself IS DISTURBING. You have had an Elderly Indian man BEATEN, simply by some bullshittin-ass White People calling the Nazi-Cops and then saying;
"There is this Skinny Black Guy I've never seen before and I'm afraid to leave my wife home alone."
And NO, I am NOT. EXAGGERATING.
Alabama Cop Arrested for Takedown That Left Indian Man Partially Paralyzed
An Alabama police officer was arrested on an assault charge Thursday and could be fired for slamming a 57-year-old Indian man to the ground last week, leaving the grandfather partially paralyzed.
Madison Police Chief Larry Muncey said Officer Eric Parker was not justified when he stopped and then threw 57-year-old Sureshbhai Patel — who had traveled to Madison to visit his son only a week before the incident and speaks no English — on Feb. 6.
"I found that Officer Eric Parker's actions did not meet the high standards and expectations of the Madison City Police Department," Muncey said.
Parker turned himself into police Thursday and was charged with third-degree assault. Muncey also recommended in proposed disciplinary action that he be fired. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting its own inquiry to see if there were any violations of federal law, Muncey said.
Madison police on Thursday released two dashcam videos of the incident and audio of the 911 call that led to the officers confronting Patel in the first place.
In a 911 call to police that day, the caller identifies Patel as "a skinny black guy" he had never seen before walking around the neighborhood. The caller also said that he was following Patel from a distance, and that he was afraid to leave for work and leave his wife alone at home.
Patel, who'd arrived in Alabama a week earlier from Pij, India, was staying with his son, Chirag Patel, and daughter-in-law who lived in the neighborhood, and had come to help care for their 17-month-old toddler while the younger Patel worked and attended graduate school at the University of Alabama.
The two dashcam videos show Parker and his trainee, Andrew Slaughter, approaching Patel, and they quickly learn that he does not speak English. A third officer was sent to the scene in a different car, which captured the video of the alleged assault.
As the officers ask Patel where he lives, he repeatedly points down the block and attempts to head that direction. Each time, the officers restrain him and continue to question him, asking him not to walk away.
Holding his hands behind his back, they begin to pat him down, again ordering him, in English, not to walk away. Parker then slams Patel into the ground.
Patel, clearly injured, is unable to stand as the officers try to bring him to his feet. The officers call for paramedics, continuing to discuss Patel's inability to speak English, and continuing to question him in English.
Patel remains hospitalized and partially paralyzed, although the hospital reported him to be in good condition earlier this week. His son said that he is now able to move his right leg, and can raise both arms, but his left leg is still paralyzed and he cannot make a tight grip. He had no health problems previously, and he is expected to have a long recovery, his son said.
Muncey said he felt sorry about what happened to Patel.
"For that, I sincerely apologize to Mr. Patel, his family and our community. Our desire is to exceed everyone's expectations," he said.
An attorney for Patel reportedly filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier Thursday, arguing that the police used excessive force and had no reason to stop or search him on a public sidewalk.
So now? The Nazi-Cops IMMEDIATELY become AGGRESSIVE with a man who LOOKS NOTHING LIKE A BLACKMAN! I'm trying NOT TO LAUGH, but this shit is PATHETIC! They IMMEDIATELY turn VIOLENT AND ULTRA-AGGRESSIVE the moment they SEE HIM! Meanwhile, he is OLD. What is this Old Indian Man GONNA DO TO THEM!? But the irony is that they ARE SHOWING THE WORLD that EVEN AN OLD BLACKMAN DESERVES TO BE TAKEN DOWN IMMEDIATELY! Before he can use his SUPERHUMANLY OLD BLACK-STRENGTH!
To do nothing.
This incident has also GONE AWAY IN A HURRY! Because India IMMEDIATELY RESPONDED when they found out that one of their citizens had gotten his ass busted up by the Nazi-Cops. Now this happened FEBRUARY of this year, long before Dylan Roof raided the Charleston Church and killed 9 Black People. So here YOU SEE that all someone has to say is "I SAW A BLACK GUY LOOKIN SUSPICIOUS!" and they come in and start patting you down! GOING IN YOUR POCKETS!? If you are even REMOTELY TOLD ON TO LOOK LIKE YOU ARE BLACK!
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That's some CRAZY SHIT RIGHT THERE PEOPLE, but it is REALITY.
Again, for allllllllllllllllllll the South African audience talking about how GREAT Barack Obama is, look at this MADNESS! Where the Nazi-Cops will MISTAKENLY beat the SHIT out of an Old INDIAN MAN, where common sense doesn't even matter! Somebody said he was Black!?
ATTACK!
Here is the main article;
Why do police so often see unarmed black men as threats?
Most of the racial prejudice Americans harbor today is subtle and manifests itself in stealthier ways than it did in the past. It shows up in how employers view potential hires, how salespeople choose to assist people at high-end stores, or how teachers dole out punishments to misbehaving students. Often subconscious, these race-based evaluations of character or intelligence have wide-ranging effects.
Extensive research on the subject shows that everyone carries this subconscious prejudice, known as implicit bias, no matter how well-meaning they might be. In the criminal justice system, this implicit bias may contribute to the many racial disparitiesin law enforcement. When it comes to police officers, implicit bias is a widespread concern, precisely because of how devastating its effects can be, with trade publications and federal programs taking steps to address it through training and awareness.
Clearly, there are law enforcement officials who understand how devastating the effects of implicit bias can be, but no one understands this more than the people living in communities where racial minorities are disproportionately targeted by police and arrested. The national firestorm over the police shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina is about more than one incident; it's also about the overall system that makes Scott's fate at the hands of police far too common for unarmed black men.
Take, for instance, the massive racial disparities in the war on drugs. Although rates of drug use are fairly similar among white and black Americans, black people are much more likely to be arrested on drug charges. When they're convicted for those drug charges, black Americans also face longer sentences — in part because mandatory minimum sentences on crack cocaine, one of the few illicit drugs that's more popular among black Americans than their white counterparts, are much more stringent than other drug sentences.
Even beyond the war on drugs, black Americans are disproportionately likely to be arrested and killed during an attempted arrest.
Part of the problem is outright racism among some judges and cops, socioeconomic disparities that can drive more crime, and drug laws that disproportionately affect black Americans. But the other explanation is that cops, like everyone else, carry this implicit bias, which experts agree affects how they police people of different races. Since these are the people who carry out the initial steps of law enforcement, this bias might launch a cascading effect of racial disparities that starts with simple arrests and ends in prison or death.
Cops stereotype young black men without being aware of it (Note; THIS IS A LIE, they are VERY MUCH AWARE OF IT and since they know they can get away it FOR NOW, that is why they keep doing what they are doing)
Lorie Fridell is a University of South Florida criminologist who works with cops to help them resist subconscious biases, particularly against young black men.
"Similarly to explicit bias, [implicit bias] groups people into stereotypes and prejudices," Fridell said. "What's different is it doesn’t come with outward hostility."
In police work, this bias can show itself when an officer stops a subject he views as a potential threat. Police officers are legally allowed to use force based on their perception of a threat, so long as their perception is reasonable. That doesn't, however, mean they always use force. "Police very often use a lesser level of force even when they’re justified at a higher level," Fridell said.
But if some cops automatically consider young black men more dangerous, they probably won't show nearly as much restraint against a black suspect as they would against, say, an elderly white woman. Police officers might be more likely, as some argued was the case with Kajieme Powell in St. Louis, to use deadly force that's legally justified but perhaps not totally necessary.
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and California State University at Northridge in May reviewed a decade of empirical evidence about cops and implicit bias. They found police officers seem to possess implicit bias that might make them more likely to shoot black suspects than white ones. But this bias can be controlled through proper training, and police officers appear to perform better — meaning, they show less implicit bias — than participants from the general public.
To test these disparities, researchers have run all sorts of simulations with police officers and other participants. In the earlier days, these simulations would quickly flash images of black and white people, along with different objects, and ask participants to identify if the object was a gun. More recently, researchers have used video games to see how people react to suspects of different races.
Josh Correll, a University of Colorado at Boulder psychology professor, ran some of these tests with a shooter video game. His initial findings showed police officers generally did a good job of avoiding shooting unarmed targets of all races, but, when shooting was warranted, officers pulled the trigger more quickly against black suspects than white ones.This suggests that officers exhibit some racial bias in how quickly they pull the trigger, but not when it comes to deciding whether to shoot a target.
Correll cautioned that these simulations aren't perfectly representative of the real world, because, he said, "What goes on in the street is an open question." Real policing situations are often much more complicated. Factors — such as a real threat to the officer's life and whether a bullet will miss and accidentally hit a passerby — can make the situation much more confusing to police. If cops, as Correll's initial simulations suggest, tend to shoot black suspects more quickly, it's possible that could lead to more errors in the field. "In the very situation in which [officers] most need their training," he said, "we have some reason to believe that their training will be most likely to fail them." "
Better police training can help overcome implicit bias (Note; THIS IS ALSO A LIE, they've been using this BULLSHIT EXCUSE for DECADES and the same SHIT keeps happening)
Perhaps the most optimistic part of the research is that, over time, evidence of implicit biases can be reduced through practice and experience. The longer officers and other participants took part in the simulations, the less likely they were to make errors. Some of Correll's research also found that certain types of training can diminish racial bias.
Fridell, of the University of South Florida, capitalizes on this research to help police departments around the country train their officers all along the chain of command. The training relies mainly on the types of shooting simulations used by Correll and other researchers to test cops, but the training sessions are redeveloped to purposely disprove stereotypes against race, gender, age, and other factors. As a result, the training sessions help officers learn to focus more on other cues — body language, what someone is holding — instead of race. (This training isn't generally required by law, but it's becoming more common as concerns grow about racism in the criminal justice system.)
Fridell said that this training needs to look beyond race. "In the same way we as humans have stereotypes linking blacks to crime and aggressiveness, we also have stereotypes of lack of crime and aggressiveness," she said, pointing to women and the elderly as two examples. "For a police officer, this might lead him to be under-vigilant against certain groups."
Neill Franklin, a retired major who served for 34 years in the Maryland State Police and Baltimore Police Department, said the need for this kind of training is something he witnessed in his everyday work. As the commander in training units in both the state and local police forces, he often pushed for officers to consider their bias before taking any official action as a cop.
"[W]e all have this subconscious bias. Even me, as a black police officer, I felt the same," Franklin said. "When I would be in certain parts of the city and see young black males, it would run through my mind, 'What are they up to? Are they dealing?' That's because of what we've been bombarded with for so many years from so many different directions, including the media."
Beyond the simulations and training, Fridell said community policing, which focuses on building ties between local police departments and their communities, can help break down stereotypes. This is what's called the contact theory: positive interactions with stereotyped groups can reduce explicit and implicit biases. A cop who interacts with black residents in his town might realize that many of his previous prejudices, implicit or not, weren't warranted.
Community policing can work in two directions as well. Just as police's perceptions toward the community change, so do community perceptions toward police. This could, Fridell explained, make communities less defensive — and therefore less aggressive — during police interactions.
Franklin, now the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, worries the training might not be enough in the face of perverse incentives in the criminal justice system. Local police departments are under constant pressure to make enough arrests to obtain federal grants, which are often tied in part to, for instance, the number of drug arrests within a city. As is the case in Ferguson, the tickets issued by police officers can also make up a huge source of money for local governments, which might encourage police to issue as many tickets as possible to bring in more revenue.
Given those incentives, Franklin said, police are encouraged to go after "low-hanging fruit" often found in minority communities that lack political and financial power. This magnifies the effects of implicit bias. In the end, Franklin suggested the revenue incentive is the root of the problem — and the issue of racial disparities won't go away until that's resolved.
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