At Least Three Police Officers Shot, Killed in Baton Rouge

A-58, I hear what your saying. You'd probably right about the press and what they choose to focus on.

While im writing, wasn't there others injured that day? Does anybody know of their progress? As usual the media moves on so quickly and we never really hear too much about those injured or left fighting for their lives sadly.

 

Here's what one great American has to say about the media making the US look bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7OlBdFIxbk

 

Two Leos have been shot in San Diego .

 

Since the Alton Sterling shooting on July 5th, there have been 9 black males shot graveyard dead at the hands of other black males here in Baton Rouge. Where are the demonstrations? Where are the riots? Where is Jessie Jackson? Where is Al Sharpton? Where is the Black Lives Matter people? Where is el presidente and his attorney general? Where is the media and their yellow journalism? Black lives only matter with these folks only when white police officers are involved.

To answer your question about the other casualties in the ambush, there were 3 WIAs in addition to the 3 KIAs. Two of the injured suffered minor to moderate injuries. One was treated and released, and the other on spent several days in the hospital before being released. The third one is in critical condition still, and is having a hard time of it. Thanks for asking.

 

Typical/ Racist/Uneducated BS. When a "black man kills a black man" the people are arrested, go to trial, and are sentenced to prison.
When your poor, picked-on, white cops continually shoot (in the back Oscar Grant) Younger/Darker/Unarmed males.......Nobody would have believed Rodney King if it had not been caught on film.
Prior arrest, traffic violations, etc etc, Do Not give Nazis the right to shoot people.
The usa was built on genocide, racism and hate.
It has never been rectified. What do you think happens to all the slaves when they are no longer Needed/Wanted.? We created this mess, and deserve the downfall that is coming.
Hitler tried all this crap 70 years ago..... The World took notice and fought back.
Like Mumia says.....we are still building slave ships today.
God Bless

 

How is it "typical/racist/uneducated BS" when what I pointed out is true? There is NO concern when blacks kill black, but "those concerned" go into conniption fits when a white police officer is involved. Sad but true.

 

A kernel of truth wrapped in a bushel of waffle.



.

 

That's bullshit. Some, a small minority, of these cop shootings are murder or manslaughter - unjustifiable. Most of them aren't. When the facts come out (as opposed to the propaganda narrative created around each one) they are completely justifiable most of the time.

Watch the video of the guy in Baton Rouge, I mean really watch it from the viewpoint of those cops trying to get this guy under control. He's a BIG guy, he's got his right side wedged up under the edge of a vehicle. He's got a gun in his right front pocket. He's going for that gun through the whole video. The cops can't restrain that right arm because of the vehicle. They can't get the gun because it is also wedged up under the vehicle. For whatever reason (drugs, adrenaline?) the guy simply won't comply. He's looking at a fairly minor stretch in jail - felon with a gun is usually dropped or gets plead down to almost nothing. Resisting arrest. He's probably going to get two years and be out in less than one, instead he decides he's going to shoot it out.
One cop finally decides "screw this" and shoots the guy before he ends up killing one of them. I'm not going to judge that decision made in a life-or-death moment.

Most of these shootings are like that one, or even more clearly justifiable when you actually look at the facts rather than the smokescreen of propaganda.

Other shootings (a minority of them) are just bad shoots. Murder, manslaughter, whatever. Philando Castile is one that bothers me in particular. You don't see the actual shooting in the video, but I've been in his shoes on a number occasions - carrying a gun when you get pulled over for a traffic ticket. I'm a chronic speeder because 'why the hell not' on these empty desert roads (or empty Alaska roads where I used to live), so I get pulled over and the cops (so far) have the same rural 'why the hell not" attitude, and so far have just checked me out and let me off with a warning. Anyway, in this state and the neighboring state of New Mexico you have no "duty to inform" the cop that you're carrying a gun, but most carriers will inform the cop anyway just out of courtesy. I do that. Cops usually don't even blink an eye, just say "Thanks for letting me know."
Castile did that and got shot.
You can hear the absolute terror in that cops voice in the aftermath. It's a guy in panic mode. It's a guy who should not be a cop. He had approached the vehicle in fear that he was approaching an armed robbery suspect, which is doubtful because the robbery had occurred four days previously. He's a small town cop out of his league and worked up about the only major crime they've had all year. He's walking up to a family - kid in the backseat, wife/GF in the passenger seat. If the cop had any sense at all he would have already ran the plate and learned the owner had no felony record, which might have made him untighten his sphincter a bit.
Castile was a good working man. Funny, kind, caring, loving and loved. He's dead because this cop was overly worked up. He panicked.

Still, Castile is the exception, not the rule.

The ONLY problem with officer involved shootings is the way they are evaluated. Even when clearly justified, some people are not going to accept the findings because it's done internally within the same local system that employs the cop. I understand that doubt, but few of these investigations are actual whitewashes or conspiracies. Still, no business would ask their accountant to investigate embezzlement of the funds he handles...

We're going to have this anger after each shooting until states begin creating some kind of transparent, neutral board to investigate police shootings. Get knowledgeable people with impeccable legal and police backgrounds, of diverse races and with no axe to grind. Recuse any member of this board who has ties to the jurisdiction involved in a particular case. Such a board needs the power to indict if they find a shooting unjustified. And the subsequent trial should be held at the state level, not under the DA in the local jurisdiction because you are again going to have the grievance industry creating a ruckus if there is no conviction.

Anyway, that's the way I see it. Most of the backlash is created by the suspicion when the local system investigates one of their own. Change that and you change the perception. It's fair for the cop, it's fair for the public, it's transparent. I think that's the only sensible way to douse this fire.

 

Again....the false dichotomy of so called Black On Black Crime.
It has NOTHING to do with the fascist, out of control, WAY OVER Militarized police of the state.
BLM take to the streets... That is Their Right. They are doing something about their concerns.
If a black man murders a black man, or any other color, or commits any other crime... there is a trial and a prison sentence. No badge involved, no paid vacation for two weeks no white washing by a rigged grand jury (THAT should be abolished), no blaming the victims. Prisons are FULL of black people, We jail more people than any other first world country. Prosecuting MORE dark people is NOT the point of BLM. That is not the issue THEY are fighting. YOU do not like it for some reason...take to the streets and tell THEM how wrong they are.
There IS a 400 year HISTORY of abuse in what is now called the USA. The people of Black Lives Matter know it, have lived it, are fed up with it. It is nothing new. "White People" have been denying it for 400 years.
Like the kid said, and bears repeating.....If you do not see white privilege, that means YOU have it.
I love it.....2 weeks of record breaking heat waves, and some genius points out that somewhere on the planet it was really cold, so how Could There Be A heat wave.?
The change IS COMING, no matter how hard you try to stop it, those awful, racist, lying BLM people are going to sit at the front of the bus.
The lie of the false dichotomy is always a lullaby for those that tell it. They never see it, but then, all of a sudden, it is lights out.
Like Malcolm said.....We have had a lifetime of the white man telling us how wrong we are.....and we be puttin' a Big Stop To That Shit.
The Pullman Porter Strike, Freedom March, Rosa Parks, Black Lives Matter...they were all hated by White Power and they helped all of our struggles against state power. God Bless Them Every One.
It is democracy in action, we need more of it, not less.
Howz Bout Those Hillary Emails.....

 

Snipers are active in Austin (Texas) : maybe again racist Leos ?(=sarcasm -

 

The sheriffs deputy that was severely wounded in the ambush can breath on his own now. He has not regained consciousness yet. Not sure how long this will drag on for him.