"Probable cause" should have been what led to the officer's actions. It is the most basic tenet of lawful policing and in the USA is borne out of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.Clutching at straws is your resort to semantics by going with a probable cause whilst saying you make no assumptions. My post is exactly what is in the video. By suggesting much of it is fabrication you are displaying the same judgmental errors as the officer did.
"We've had some stuff going on in this area" seems adequate to me and unless you live there or have some telepathic link with people who live there I don't think you have a basis for brushing it off as an "idea".
Racism involves nonrandom victimization. Agreed. It also happens without involving racism.
The only difference is nonrandom victimization isn't bolded
You can believe what you want.Discrimination yes. Not confined to racism. Remember the independent review of the police investigation found there was no racism which makes perfect sense to me because I didn't see it in the video and neither did they.
What I suggest instead might be a recipe for disaster for career victims but not real victims.
Where I live, I'll take the recipe for disaster over a crime any day of the week.
Like I said - we had a double stabbing murder here over the weekend. If the murderer had been known to police the debate would've been about why nothing was done to prevent it.
Thankyou for letting me know I can believe what I want.You can believe what you want.
It was patently clear from the bodycam from the outset that the student was collecting rubbish (the originally linked video does not show the first sighting by the officer).
While this was clear, the report from all all officers read as though he carried a bucket and some kind of blunt weapon - a comedic claim, given everyone would have immediately recognised it was a tool used specifically to pick up trash!
No evidence was provided by the white male (a facilities diractor called Aaron Cooke) who came running out to the student. Aaron eventually calmed the student and said "You`re angry and escalated. It`s likely you got profiled. Okay. So well pick it up at a different time. Not here, not now."
Your claim that the independent review found no racism is incorrect. Their exact words were "As explained below, neither the PSU investigation nor our review revealed a preponderance of evidence that this contact was based on Mr. Atkinson’s race."
In legal parlance it means that race was a likely factor, but other factors contributed to the greater problem. Namely that Officer Smyly continued the contact because (1) he misunderstood the law about what information a citizen must provide, and (2) he erred in believing he had reasonable suspicion that a trespass was occurring.
Aside from the above, the independent review was asked to considered the information it was offered by BPD's PSU, and its terms did not require "race" to be addressed. So the investigation never considered what informed the officer that he should do what he did.
In simple English, the issue of WHY was never addressed.
I remember the Star Hotel riot shown by the media was without favour or prejudice and demonstrated what the media should be portraying - exactly what happened and nothing else.
Things have changed for the worse since 1979 except for one thing. The rioters and cops went over the whole thing about 40 years later over a few beers
Wow - good one! Did you see yourself in the footage? I remember the big guy (Bill) that let everyone out of the paddy wagon. They couldn't hold him. lolWell, as I sat and watched the whole Star thing unfold right in front of me all those years ago, I can assure you what you see is actually what happened.
The Star was situated on a 6 lane road with a grass median strip in the centre, the other side of the road is higher than the Star side so the median strip provided a natural sloping viewing point.
By the end of the riot there would have been 300-400 people all sitting on the grass watching.
My mate and I were actually heading for the Star for one last drink when all these people came "boiling out" into the street. We stayed where we were on the median strip for the whole show.
Unbelievable to us then that it could happen in Newcastle
On one hand it's a separate topic to the thread.A friend of mine is working on major Rail projects in Melbourne...they are desperate for gender equality. Any woman who applies for a job in rail is a shoe-in, amongst a sea of male applicants.
Wow - good one! Did you see yourself in the footage? I remember the big guy (Bill) that let everyone out of the paddy wagon. They couldn't hold him. lol
At no point have you addressed the rationale for the officer's initial actions.Thankyou for letting me know I can believe what I want.
I believe that your claim about my claim of no racism being incorrect is incorrect.
To quote their exact words on page 14:
"At no point in the entire Incident did anyone use racial language, slurs, or innuendo"
(other than the Naropa University employee mentioning "profiling")
Nothing from the police officer.
In legal parlance or any other parlance it means that race was no factor.
I'll tell what was said though...
Mr. Atkinson was aware he was being filmed by multiple cameras, and he gestured and narrated specifically for the camera being used by the fellow student filming from inside the dormitory. As that video and the BWCs demonstrate, Mr. Atkinson referred to the officers as "murderers," called them dumbasses, asked them "what are you going to do?", demanded that they get off "his property," told them they were wasting resources, and told them to "go solve some real crimes."
Yeppers... a real keeper of the peace there
On the other hand, tolerating blatant discrimination anywhere ultimately leads to it being tolerated everywhere which leads down a rather nasty path. Once it's accepted that men and women, or whites and blacks, are not equal and need to be seen differently then it's a slippery slope that doesn't end well.
People are people and apart from a small minority of things such as acting where physical appearance needs to reasonably match the character role, gender and race shouldn't be factors in who gets the job.
As has been made clear many times there were no lawful motivations for the police officer's actions.The initial actions are all covered in the investigation in your link.
The Boulder City Attorney was quoted as saying there was “no proof that racial bias was a motivating factor” in the incident.As has been made clear many times there were no lawful motivations for the police officer's actions.
Those were also the conclusions of the Professional Standards Unit.
The idea that because there have been crimes in an area justifies anything a police officer subsequently does is an absurdity.
I appreciate you do not understand these things so won't comment further.
Yes it is sick and there is no real news there but another article which still manages to add weapon ownership as another major cause of problem there..seriously? What next?Peter Hartcher in the SMH says it all about the Decline of the American Empire. Will it recover? My guess is yes, but I'm not a seer.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the...l-system-has-failed-20200531-p54y6a.html?btis
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It bad at present but it was similar in 1968.Yes it is sick and there is no real news there but another article which still manages to add weapon ownership as another major cause of problem there..seriously? What next?
That's not funny. Haven't you seen a duck with a broken wing? Utter cruelty...It will certainly be an interesting Australia, when we are finally a part of China, it will be good to see how the left and right wings fly.
The Boulder City Attorney was quoted as saying there was “no proof that racial bias was a motivating factor” in the incident.
The investigation and subsequent report found that, “At no point in the entire incident did anyone use racial language, slurs or innuendo.”
I appreciate you do not understand this so yep, thanks for the fun
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