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posted by takyon on Friday July 08 2016, @03:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the "All-lives-matter."-President-Obama dept.

Snipers in Dallas: [5] Cops Dead; [6] More Cops Wounded

The Atlantic reports:

Two gunmen shot eleven police officers in Dallas, Texas [at 8:58 PM July 7], killing at least four of them.

[...] At a Thursday night press conference, Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown said [...] officers had one of the suspects "cornered", but did not offer further details.

"Tonight, it appears that two snipers shot ten police officers from elevated positions during the protest/rally", Brown said in an initial statement. "Three officers are deceased, two are in surgery, and three are in critical condition. An intensive search for suspect is currently underway." The police department later said an eleventh officer had also been injured and a fourth officer had been killed.

[...] The shootings occurred during a protest against police killings earlier this week in Louisiana and Minnesota. Hundreds rallied in downtown Dallas, near the corner of Main Street and Lamar Street. Local news footage captured what sounds like several gunshots being fired, and the crowd scattering.

[...] No motive has yet been established and it's unclear whether the shooting was related to the protest.

The New York Times just broke the story about the latest in the police killings of black men. It seems the tide has been turned. [Five] Dallas police officers were killed tonight at a protest in that city over these shootings.

I am not surprised, nor am I particularly shocked. No doubt there will be more to come on this topic as the evening progresses. Hopefully something good comes out of this, but I am inclined to doubt it.

takyon: Some more details: One suspect was killed by an explosion intentionally caused by a police robot. He reportedly told a negotiator that he was upset about Black Lives Matter, the recent police shootings, and wanted to kill white people, especially police officers. He said he was not affiliated with any groups and acted alone. Other suspects have been arrested, and a "person of interest" (often identified as a suspect by the news media) was arrested early in the night after he was photographed with his unloaded AR-15. He handed his weapon to an officer shortly after the shootings, and later turned himself into the police for questioning.

President Obama spoke about the shootings shortly after arriving in Poland for a NATO conference. In part, he mentioned that, "When people say 'black lives matter,' that doesn't mean blue lives don't matter, it just means all lives matter — but right now the big concern is the fact that the data shows black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents [...] This isn't a matter of us comparing the value of lives. This is recognizing that there is a particular burden that is being placed on a group of our fellow citizens. And we should care about that. And we can't dismiss it. We can't dismiss it."


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 09 2016, @02:23AM

    Did I say it was racial? It's not. It's cultural. Black culture in the US is as self-destructive as it is possible for a culture to be without outright passing everyone poisoned kool-aid.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 09 2016, @03:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 09 2016, @03:14PM (#372378)

    I wonder if there might be any reason for their culture to be different. Something in their past? Maybe something in the present where they are treated differently by society. No, being targeted by the cops and killed on a daily basis isn't it, thats just a symptom.

    Why do poor repressed people have a different culture to the privileged elite? I guess we will never know.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 10 2016, @10:36AM

      It most definitely is a symptom. It didn't exist during the entire latter half of the last century until we started approaching 2k. Similarly that is precisely when black culture decided that black fathers should abandon their children, drug dealing was a glamorous occupation to be sought after, and that the world owed them something.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 10 2016, @11:35AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 10 2016, @11:35AM (#372656)

        LOLOL Try just a little further back in history... :)

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 10 2016, @12:19PM

          Irrelevant. The cause of "further back in history" is gone. Today black people are treated like criminals because so many of them are criminals.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 14 2016, @12:11AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 14 2016, @12:11AM (#374225)

            Because as we all know, anything that is further back in history than your own birth cannot have any affect on you.

            You sound like one of those people who claims they never benefited at all from society, did everything on their own.

            People born into poor families must just be what God wanted for them. Lucky he had better things planned for you...

            • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 14 2016, @10:31AM

              Nothing that happened before you were born does have any bearing on your life except in the "well, isn't that interesting" sense. And, sweety, I was born into a poor family. Then I watched my father take us from foodstamps to comfortably middle-class and back down to the upper end of poor and back up to quite well off. And I learned from that that your position in society is really entirely up to you. If you have valuable skills and market yourself well, you will not be poor for long except by choice. If you don't, well, that's a choice as well.

              Let's put it in a simpler way though. If you think your car should be nicer than your house, your stupid ass is always going to be poor. And you deserve to be.

              Not being poor is as simple as looking around, seeing what well off people do for a living, learning that skill, and getting that job. It's not instant but it is all but guaranteed to work.

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