What do you think about that police shooting in New York City?

Question

Do you think that police are generally anti-minority or when a minority shooting occurs it gets more press?

Answer 1

I think there is a lot more to the story than has been released.

As for the police being "anti-minority", I don't know about New York. Where I come from, it doesn't happen much. Many racists are drawn to jobs like security and police, but that doesn't mean "all" of them are that way. I think that a high profile shooting like that just gets more press than average, every day happenings.

A couple of years ago here, a young man ran a cop over with his car and shattered his legs. The young man was shot, and I believe, killed. There was a big outcry for the young man that was shot, but what about the police officer who may never walk again because the kid ran him over. There was no outcry for him.

Answer 2

When I first heard about this story, I thought the cops must have had reason to do what they did. After reading the details, I can't imagine how they're going to convince the public this massacre was justified. Shooting 50 rounds into a car. Why didn't they just shoot out the tires, take the guys to the police station and sort it out from there.

Answer 3

I don't know the whole story. But as I understand it the driver tried to run down a officer with his car, and rammed another vehicle TWICE. What would you do?

Liberals will say the force was excessive. Minorities will screaam racism although of the five cops, two were black and one was hispanic.

Yes I think anytime a minority is involved there is too much hype. What difference does the ethnicity of someone make as far as the law is concerned?

Answer 4

Try This:

November 28, 2006 -- YESTERDAY, a Latino reporter asked Mayor Bloomberg why he had surrounded himself solely with African-Americans at a press conference to discuss the horrible police shooting incident in Queens. Why were there no Latinos present?
The question elicited a gasp-inducing explanation from the mayor: There were no Latinos on the stage with him, Bloomberg said, because he had only "invited elected officials and clergy from that community" in Queens - the community near the site of the shooting.
Oh? Perhaps my eyes deceived me, but hadn't he, only a few minutes earlier, walked into the press conference with the Rev. Al Sharpton - whose church is in Harlem, in Manhattan, far away from the South Jamaica "community?"
Al is from one kind of "community," all right - the community of race-baiting cop haters who emerge whenever a tragic incident allows them to pick up a megaphone and seek to promote racial discord for fun, profit and media attention.
And here is the mayor, treating this vicious miscreant who has done more to inflame tensions between the races in this city than anyone in modern history as a credible participant in a dialogue intended to reduce racial tensions.
And lest you think Sharpton has changed and grown and matured, consider what he was doing only hours after the shooting - commandeering press attention, screaming through a megaphone, doing his best to take a potentially explosive situation and pour kerosene on it in hopes that he might get some light flashed on him from the resulting fire.
That's Sharpton. He can lose weight and wear a nicer suit, but he's still the same rabble-rouser he always was.
The question is, just what the hell is Bloomberg doing?
The mayor said one astounding thing after another during his press conference yesterday. At one moment he waxed embarrassingly philosophical, opining that "no one can imagine what it would be like to be of a different ethnicity."
Oh, really, Mr. Mayor? I imagine that people of a different ethnicity from mine might, for example, bleed when they are shot just as I would, or love their children just as much as I love mine, or would feel grief-stricken to have a family member shot to death on the day of his wedding.
Bloomberg certainly believes these things too. But in his quest to try and calm matters in the city, our mayor found himself resorting to the worst kind of sodden race cliché - for even a politically correct race cliché is still a noxious race cliché.
On a more practical note, the mayor informed the city yesterday that it was not NYPD policy to allow officers to shoot their guns when a car is being used as a weapon against them. He said this in response to the emerging story of the shooting - according to which an undercover police officer found himself in the path of a Nissan Altima being driven by Sean Bell, the man killed in the shooting.
Supposedly, the Altima twice tried to run the cop down outside a seedy nightclub in South Jamaica.
The NYPD may not have a "policy" permitting an officer to fire in such a situation, but it doesn't need a "policy." As my colleague Bob McManus wrote in reference to the Amadou Diallo case seven years ago, "The statute on the use of deadly force by an on-duty police officer is quite clear: It is lawful if an officer reasonably believes his own life to be in danger."
Indeed, the use of deadly force under life-threatening circumstances is lawful in very nearly every circumstance you can think of - even if you're not a cop.
If the initial accounts are accurate, what happened on that Queens street was another example of an incident involving police and guns that ran horribly amok in a fantastically short period of time - with more than 50 shots fired in 10 seconds.
The mayor basically said he couldn't imagine how such a thing could happen, even though the initial account that is emerging - someone inside the strip club flashed a gun, a cop followed him outside, a second man yelled out that he was going to get another gun, things got very confusing, the cop and his fellow officers ended up firing - makes at least some sense of how such a thing could conceivably happen.
And while saying he doesn't want to prejudice the outcome of the investigation, Bloomberg did exactly that: He made it clear he thinks the police officers were in the wrong even though there's no clear evidence yet that they were.
Of course, this description of the Nissan Altima being used as a weapon may simply be a fabrication meant to protect the cops. If so, the mayor got it right.
If he didn't, then he got it very wrong.
And in allowing Al Sharpton to turn this killing into a photo op, there's no question: Bloomberg got it wrong. And shamed his office.
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Answer 5

NYPD is justified of their surveillance of muslims. keep in mind it became MUSLIMS terrorists who were to blame for the September eleventh attacks. also there have been numerous MUSLIMS terrorists who've been intercepted earlier they were able to finish their dastardly deeds. in accordance to those information there is justification for persevered surveillance in this enemy of u . s .. and there is not any such ingredient as an American muslim. And as a very last observe in the experience that they don't favor to be lower than surveillance they have an decision...they could move decrease back to their own us of a.

Answer 6

i think that the police are way more jumpy when it comes to a minority. they need to realize that almost all serial killers are caucasian. i think they jump at the chance to kill someone anyway white, black or purple

Answer 7

that is soooo sad. police should not shoot unless provoked b/c they have the protection from being seriously hurt (bullet proof vest and their guns). poor bride..that's all i can say and now a lawsuit..

Answer 8

I would bet the shooters will get off with a slap on the hand, after the mayor and police chief make a show of concern..............

Answer 9

Them cops should each get twenty years to life in Attica, Auburn or Sing-sing.

Answer 10

I think we should let the cops do their job. If you mess with a cop, you should get your azz whipped. If you point a gun at one, or try to run them over, bang bang you're dead.