What a difference training and thoughtfulness make

[thewayne]

The week after Michael Brown was shot by a police officer in Missouri, a black man a few miles away was also killed for allegedly wielding a knife in a threatening manner. I don't know if a knife was found on his body after his death, but I didn't see one in a cell phone video that showed the events prior to his death. A few days before that, "...another African-American man named John Crawford was shopping in an Ohio Wal-Mart while talking to his wife on the phone. He’d picked up a BB gun the store sells and apparently some patrons were afraid and called police. The wife heard the cops order him to put down the weapon and he immediately shouted, “It’s not real.” Then they opened fire and killed him. (Another shopper collapsed and died as she tried to get away from the gunfire.) Crawford had two young children and a third on the way."

In Kalamazoo, Michigan, a white man, in his pajamas, drunk, carrying an assault rifle at parade rest, generated three 911 calls. Police responded, saw him jaywalk (a crime there) and filled him so full of lead that you could use him as a pencil talked him down, confiscated his rifle, let him go home, and he went to the police station and picked up his rifle the next day.

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/05/gun_nuts_special_privileges_how_police_treated_a_dangerous_open_carry_zealot/

Here's a ten minute video of the incident:

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[silveradept]

But everyone knows that police departments do not have any sort of profiling that encourages racism and religious discrimination. Because that would be wrong.