Trayvon Martin

Last-12-Exit wrote:

musicismylife78 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

One of my best friends is a philadelphia police officer, my finances sisters long term boyfriend is a philly cop, I know a about a dozen other cops, all very good people.

Love how this motherfucker talks shit about racism and stereotypes them lumps all cops together.

Grow up, numb nuts.

We all come at it from our perspective and life experiences. A poor black kid from the inner city in Philly, the people your very own Roots talk about Black Thought and Quest. Not sure they would be willing to paint the Philly PD as paragons of good.

Im sure your friend knows about that racist Frank Rizzo who's held up as Jesus Christ in his city.

MOVE for example had a bomb dropped on their house, members were killed. One time a member of the group was trampled while pregnant by a police on a horse. She lost the baby.


Things arent black and white my friend. Or they are if you need to meet quota. Cops see blacks as criminals. plain and simple.

Cops are brutal by nature. How can someone walk around with mace, batons, guns, handcuffs tazers and not be going on a power trip and just itching to use that stuff?

I have to think that you are joking with such an ignorant statement.

musicismylife78 wrote:

Hate to break it to you but not everyone views the police as protecting and serving. You ever heard Vs?

How could you come to any other conclusion watching King being beaten.

Its indesputible cops have quotas. They plant evidence. And they get a piece of the drug money. You can live in pollyanna world or you can live in reality.

If im a black man and I get pulled over, for anything, I can guarantee you im going to be terrified. I would make deliberate movements, Id keep a bible on the windshield and Id keep my arms firmly planted on the steering wheel.

Somehow police that rape a black man with a broomstick, and shoot an unarmed man 41 times because they are imbeciles and believe a wallet is a gun.

Or the King case. pigs beating a man on the ground, 33 plus times.

Sorry, im not seeing the hero part of that. The cops in all those cases are worthless.

Police culture is an old boys network. Men. and white. Look at what happened at the OJ trial. Not only did the LAPD pay salary to a racist like Fuhrmann, they were so immune to it, they thought nothing of it allowing him obtain "the evidence" and act as the star witness on the stand. Its engrained in the culture and the system.

The police arent into dealing with their own problems publicly. They believe in the thin blue line. Things are handled internally. Quietly, if at all. So if they find out a cop beat some black guy senseless, the natural response for them is to "deal" with it internally.

Had the King beating never been filmed, would the LAPD have been under fire? Would riots have happened? What would the police have told the public or Kings family? Would they have admitted the truth?

Byrnzie wrote:

I heard a while back that Amnesty regarded the Philadelphia police force as the most corrupt and racist in the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Distr ... on_scandal
The 39th District corruption scandal refers to a persistent pattern of brutality and corruption among a cadre of Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) officers, primarily from the department's 39th District, that emerged in late 1995 and received nationwide attention by 1997, eventually resulting in an investigation by Human Rights Watch.

Many hundreds of people were involved in the epidemic of abuses that gripped North Philadelphia in the early 1990s; some are notable due to their direct participation, others for their participation in other notable events, particularly the extended legal proceedings related to the conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal in the murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner.

musicismylife78 wrote:

Byrnzie wrote:

I heard a while back that Amnesty regarded the Philadelphia police force as the most corrupt and racist in the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Distr ... on_scandal
The 39th District corruption scandal refers to a persistent pattern of brutality and corruption among a cadre of Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) officers, primarily from the department's 39th District, that emerged in late 1995 and received nationwide attention by 1997, eventually resulting in an investigation by Human Rights Watch.

Many hundreds of people were involved in the epidemic of abuses that gripped North Philadelphia in the early 1990s; some are notable due to their direct participation, others for their participation in other notable events, particularly the extended legal proceedings related to the conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal in the murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner.

Exactly, the news around 2002 or so, that was a big deal was the Philly pigs coming out and saying "we have the cleanest record in terms of police brutality in the nation, not one cop has been convicted of it".

Then the next question was asked, "But how many complaints and lawsuits and allegations of abuse and brutality were there?"

And the pig goes, "oh thousands and thousands...but those are just allegations and complaints".
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Tells you all you need to know about how police deal with misconduct and criminal behavior among the ranks.

Byrnzie wrote:

I read that the Philly pigs were caught robbing drug dealers, and even robbing and beating up innocent civilians and throwing them in jail if they complained.

Then again, maybe I've just seen too many Spike Lee movies?