I like the article. I'm also thankful Gibbs is black when he made these observations so that the counter pointers that are all about racism can't attack him.
I read the media spins on the civilian shootings of late and they all almost without exception approach these reports with the, poor black man, syndrome.
Oh, he was shot and unarmed. How awful. Bad cop! Evil. Murdering cop!
One guy has only his girlfriend, who was his side piece according to some non-mainstream reports, giving a running narrative perfectly calm as her bf is dying right beside her. She's telling the cop who's pointing the gun at her what he said to her BF prior to the shooting.
But that's not true. Now she's changing her story. Which makes her unworthy of being given the benefit of truth.
Her BF was a gang member who fit the description of a double suspect armed robbery in the area. There's no broken tail light like she's saying in her running report to her FB page. Because when your BF's shot that's the first thing you think to do right? Log onto FB and live stream!
The other black guy, since it seems this is the age of the poor black man shot syndrome, died on his back in a mini market parking lot. He had a gun in his pocket.
He's also a convicted child rapist. Personally, the world's not going to miss scum like that. He's never ever going to harm another child's body or innocence. Let Hell take care of him now.
The other guy that was shot was a veteran of our armed forces and was hunting white cops. He murdered five of them, injured something like 7 others, and even shot civilians. Like a mom who was protecting her sons as they were fleeing for their lives.
He was blown up by a police robot rover carrying C-4. GOOD! He refused to negotiate with police and was determined to kill as many as came at him. Cops didn't kill that guy. He killed himself by insisting he would kill cops until he was stopped. And he was.
I don't whine over that loser either. Because he was shooting anyone he could aim at. Claiming he wanted to kill white cops. While shooting at cops. He should have been in a mental hospital. Instead his legacy is cop killer. Good riddance.
Gibb's article was brave. And right on. The people that tend to get in trouble with cops are the people who think they can overpower cops. Sure there are some people that are just idiots and they wear a badge. But by and large people who cooperate with police are treated with the same respect they show police.
Is there a racial issue between civilians and cops? Oh, heck yes! And here's the thing about that. When people stop demonstrating the stereotype that makes police have to act in defense, the racial factor will probably slow down or cease all together. But when you've got people who want to act the thug, violate their own people in their own neighborhoods, string out their community including children on drugs, when they get those same kids to sling drugs and guns, and one of those same thug types ends up dead, that's the wager that's part of the game. And they know it.
And then that community that that dead thug type victimized for years and who didn't know him or her ends up protesting one less predator in their midst. By burning down the businesses that they own, or that serve their community.
Like the Rodney King thing. Every cop in that video should still be in prison. But they were found not guilty. What happens. Chaos breaks out and a community goes on the offensive acting exactly like the movies portray them to be, the stereotypes label them as. And then they get mad when people give it a name. And they call it racism. No, it isn't racism. It's conscious observation of a personality type that garners attention through their behaviors.
And then the weak who have never encountered that community in their lives whine about it. Empathize with it. And call all that transpires to settle it down racism. And to feel better about themselves for doing that they accept that violent community and their sponsors own racist label for those empathizer's so they can feel better about themselves being they feel guilty for being Caucasian; White Privilege.
Pathetic!
It's like that line in the Masterpiece Denzel Washington movie, Malcom X. A white woman comes up to X and asks him what she can do to help his cause. As he and his Black Muslim brothers are marching down the street. He looks straight ahead and says; Go home!
No kidding lady! What were you thinking?