Kicking and Screaming

I hesitate to ask because I expect the same tired anti-gun rhetoric of easy access/too many guns/racist cops/etc., etc. This wasn’t happening six months ago. Or was it just not being reported because the election was prioritized?

Is his comment standard CNN outraged sensationalism seeking ratings?

Let’s be clear, racism exists without any doubt. That said, Cuomo’s statement reflects the naivete of someone who’s lived a life of privilege secluded from the culture producing the majority of the current crop of American kids interacting with law enforcement. He wasn’t immersed in high-volume drug/weapon trafficking and peer-pressured gang affiliation. His little Italian behind would likely have been whupped into compliance if he even thought about participating in any of that. That would have happened to most white kids throughout American history even in the lowest socio-economic levels.

Blacks aren’t being killed because they’re black and cops are racist, although some are. What is getting some killed is the muti-generational attitude that resistance to law enforcement is the best option to live another day. Surrender in the old days meant certain death. That isn’t true today and there are hundreds of thousand in prison proving that surrender isn’t an automatic death sentence. But, the resistance-equals-survival attitude persists throughout black culture.

Whites violently resisting arrest are killed regularly by police, but the numbers are lower primarily because the volume of whites resisting arrest is lower than for black suspects. Whites stop resisting before being killed more frequently than blacks. Thirteen year-old Adam Toledo would be alive if he had.

I’m not alleging that this actually happened or that Y/A administrators were complicit if it did, but only asking fellow users to re-evaluate their personal experience using this platform. The loose reigns of corporate administration could easily have allowed corrupt players to secretly infiltrate user equipment while a claimed corporate disconnect of servicing/monitoring the forum provided protection from legal corporate liability. In an environment where technology expertise stretches from nation/state sponsored hacking all the way to criminal enterprise seeking only scaled financial fraud, any less than secured platform can be targeted.

Wherever people go after Yahoo Answers ends, they should remember that security is a personal responsibility because the largest digital platforms world-wide have repeatedly shown that protecting users isn’t a priority. Thinking one has nothing to hide shouldn’t be a person’s only consideration when evaluating security needs. All but the severely poverty stricken have digital financial interests and everyone has a vote. Both have immeasurable value to those with scrupulous intent and should be guarded against misuse and theft. Naivete or willful ignorance of digital corruption are no longer excusable behaviors if a civil, safe and orderly society is to be maintained. Responsibility for that is universal.

Have tried to verify this in liberal media reports, but found absolutely nothing published. Does that mean it isn't happening?

I agree that known dangerous mental illness should not possess firearms. Why EXISTING laws are not enforced is beyond me. My concern is why background checks of illegal immigrants are far less stringent than gun laws when statistics clearly show significant numbers of murderers and violent criminals have been and are being released into American society? Why are murders of Americans by illegal immigrants constantly swept under the rug in the media? 

Aren't most criminal murders committed with illegally obtained firearms?

Article: https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/violent-home-...

Or will this incident be categorized by anti-gun activists as showing that family members are more likely to be shot? This WAS a crime in process and an elderly man felt it necessary to defend his own life (which might actually have been in jeopardy from a family member). He wouldn’t have been the first grandfather killed for cash.

Is there anyone on earth ‘worthy’ of employment as a police officer in the eyes of modern political correctness? Is anyone with less than a 140 IQ, a football player physical presence and university level training in medicine, psychology, pharmacology, sociology, cultural understanding, gerontology and dozens more academe recognized disciplines qualified to be a cop?

Chris Cuomo asks Chicago Police Union leader to explain why 13-year-old Adam Toledo was shot:

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/chicago-polic...

And, another link portraying media’s opinion that police are inadequate and unknowledgeable:

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/woman-dementi...

Article: https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/texas-longest...

Will the U.S. ever address this injustice? I don’t mean death sentences for the mentally ill. I do mean failing to face the fact that a lack of any national policy mandating treatment continues to result in innocent people being harmed or murdered by hair-trigger mental illness allowed to freely walk the streets.

Estimates are that 15-20 percent of the 1.5 million people incarcerated in state and county facilities suffer serious mental illness. Given those figures are based on willing study participants, some say estimates are very low. How many remain on the streets? Why is the only solution proposed for this over the last few decades to eliminate easy access to firearms? How does this prevent the violent crime/murder not involving firearms? How does this help those afflicted with mental illness? Why is it acceptable that if guns finally are taken off the streets, hundreds of thousands (or more) of mentally ill criminals will remain? Who will be blamed for violent crime then? ‘Former’ gun owners?

Sorry to interrupt your day, folks. You can go back to ignoring this problem for a few more decades, but this dirty statistic will step into the light over and over until there are no more rugs to sweep it under. This is a bi-partisan problem requiring a bi-partisan solution.

Start your own study here: https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/evidence-a...

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LOL. Pretty certain an apology won’t be forthcoming, either, from major and social media for the ridicule heaped on all those who sincerely questioned China’s actions.

Article: https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/federal-prose...

From article: “… surveillance footage recorded on Jan. 7 … shows an alleged member of the Oath Keepers carrying what appeared to be rifle cases,”

Doesn’t “an alleged member” mean only ONE person. How is this called an insurrection? Additionally, “what appeared to be rifle cases”??? Well, were they rifle cases WITH RIFLES IN THEM or weren’t they? Hard evidence has to be real, not imagined.

One last thing: “surveillance footage recorded on Jan. 7”??? WAIT, wasn’t the Capitol protest on January 6th??? Even if there really was ‘one’ man with rifle cases actually containing rifles recorded the day after the alleged ‘insurrection’, how can it be an armed insurrection without any weapons at the incident?

Article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/intelligence-...

It isn’t only U.S. noticing China’s aggression. Every country bordering the South China Sea is feeling China’s heat as well as Australia, Canada and others. Are Chinese people made aware of this or kept in the dark by CCP controlled media? Would they allow their government to continue these tactics threatening war with other nations? Would they change their government if they could or did Tiananmen Square crush any chance for the Chinese people to have a voice in politics?

Does this announcement shed a new light on America’s conspiracy theorists who have been ridiculed for over a year now? Is anyone re-evaluating whether the COVID virus pandemic may have been intentional?

Article: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/minnesota-prot...

CNN is staunchly on the side of revealing police brutality. Why would it do anything portraying rioters in a bad light? Maybe, this link will help undecided people answer the original question: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cnn-direct...

Just out of curiosity, why is the Minnesota protestor video listed/categorized as ‘entertainment’ by Yahoo?

Article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/aftermath-of-fat...

The linked article is chock full of relevant technical and training data showing authorities knew and made efforts to prevent exactly what happened. This error was foreseen by those persons understanding human behavior during life and death conflict. What isn’t in this article and is never mentioned by press and public protesting excessive force is that weapons aren’t drawn without the existence of an imminent threat.

That’s right, criminal behavior initiates the use of force. Violent resistance to arrest is the cause of every single case of shooting death by law enforcement. The Daunte Wright case is no exception, but absolutely no mention that he resisted arrest has been made since the video was made public. Why is media and public opinion not forcing CRIMINALS to shoulder the responsibility for their own deaths?

Police have wrongly initiated the use of force causing death many times over the years and have frequently been given the benefit of the doubt, thereby, avoiding prosecution. That is wrong and needs correction. Public safety cannot be based only on those events. Calls to abolish or defund police without also acknowledging criminal responsibility is illegitimate. The public should question why media is ostensibly favoring criminals over public safety.

Are people willing to support criminal behavior on one side of the fence because they think the other side are criminals, too? Is that being a responsible and independent thinking voter? Can the trend toward vitriolic partisanship be ended by more ‘independent’ candidates not aligned with any Party (incl. Green, Libertarian, etc.) running for office? 

Just got another (second in two days) scamming email allegedly from Chase Bank seeking personal data. I don’t have a bank or credit account with Chase. I no longer attempt to notify authorities. Won’t it every become cost effective to find and prosecute this kind of crime rather than covering the losses of those who are scammed. Why is the public expected to trust digital financial transactions and totally give up cash/checks if law enforcement can’t/won’t be provided with the resources to pursue these criminal enterprises?

Article: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/minnesota-prot...

CNN is staunchly on the side of revealing police brutality. Why would it do anything portraying rioters in a bad light?

Just out of curiosity, why is this video listed/categorized as ‘entertainment’ by Yahoo?

Video: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-567265...

Saying blacks will end up dead in jail anyway simply isn’t true often enough (though, it has happened) to make resisting a smart thing to do. The vast majority convicted of a crime serve sentences and are released. Many prominent black citizens have told their kids not to resist arrest because it’s common sense. It takes being shot to death out of the equation. Is it a cultural sign of weakness to accept being arrested and prove your innocence in court? If guilty, or even wrongly convicted and imprisoned, wouldn’t families rather have that person alive?

I understand when slaves were being hunted down and when lynching was commonplace, resisting was the better, and often only, option to remain among the living. That reasoning simply doesn’t apply today even in the most racist communities. Racism doesn’t want publicity.

When I think of black toughness, I think of that famous photograph of a slave whose back appears to have been whipped to shreds multiple times. That man chose to live in spite of what he must have known were the consequences. And, he was innocent.

Daunte Wright dying while resisting arrest for a misdemeanor crime belittles what that slave suffered in his effort to become a free man. Revealing white racism or police brutality where it really exists is an honorable thing. Rioting because a man chose to resist arrest for a minor crime is not something I understand or agree with. 

Obviously, the article is specifically about discipline of an officer, which seems appropriate per the facts revealed in the article. And, that’s where it will end, save any further developments thought needing additional publicity.

Where media reports fail is to reference the increasing number of incidents in the recent past, other than to singularly ‘emphasize’ black culture’s point of view to ‘See, this is what we’re talking about! Black America faces this every day!’ Undeniably, this is a point needing to be spotlighted because it’s true, regardless whether unprofessional police action stems from racist attitude or anger a person takes too long to pull over in a safe location. Most often, media takes measures to portray instances carefully, albeit from a predominantly black culture vs. abusive police perspective.

Seldom, if ever, does the media point to the silver lining of this issue. ‘What silver lining’, you ask sarcastically? The increasing quantity of disciplinary actions for improper police behavior doesn’t only reveal unethical law enforcement, it reveals societal progress to seek it out, make it visible and take corrective action. Why isn’t that ever the focus?

Systemic problems in a nation are seldom resolved quickly, but that is the intent behind BLM and media regarding the molasses-like progression of racial parity. Positive affirmation of tangible progress will speed it along far more effectively than encouraging those seeking racial unrest.