You, sir, are exceedingly irreverent. I love it.  LMAO

Surely it's essential for the cops to carry guns if everyone else is?

But I'm guessing it's the training that's the problem.

They didn't shoot him. They broke his neck. Admittedly, I'm not sure how they did it; but if they used a gun then I agree they should wait until the US military (that bedrock of not over-reacting) trains them to do it properly.

I read, but cannot for the life of me remember where, something about how the institutionalised racism of the US police does indeed include affecting the way their black cops deal with black citizens. It's a messed up world and no mistake.

What're the Swiss like? I suppose it's headline news when someone crosses the street without waiting for the green man over there. The Metropolitan Police are hardly paragons of virtue with this sort of thing, I'm just glad we don't yet need to arm them all.

"Admittedly, I'm not sure how they did it"

:'-(

The Swiss police use fines as revenue generation
(But since two weeks' annual military duty is compulsory for all Swiss men, the chances are that the police are trained by the military by actually being in it part-time)

Aye. It is old (true) argument: If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.

 

Perzactly. Let's face it, just like in any area: There are good cops and bad cops. Good bankers, bad bankers, good lawyers and bad lawyers. Training would probably weed out the yahoos right off.

I know they didn't shoot him. The military also could train police departments how to properly restrain a suspect or perpetrator. The cops let their anger get in the way of common sense. It isn't the first time cops have mishandled and killed a suspect.

Is there any reason to believe that the military are any better than the police in this regard?

And therein lies the rub. Anger management. Seems less like a training problem than a personality problem.

LMGTFY

LMGTFY

I shall drink tea from it each day, and think of you.

Then I will piss it out, and think of you.

BTW & FWIW, the reason IDGAS is the same reason IDGAS about the POTUS elections; it makes no frikkin' difference one way or the other. There's a real world out there, and for most of us it's the one we can interact with, influence, and be influenced by.

What copz'n'blax in the US do to each other is little more than a sideshow.

But YDGAS. You started this thread. Duh. I'm thinking you got self-esteem issues.

I was really just commenting on what was really just a stupid, inflammatory headline on the BBC website. I have to admit that I didn't actually read the article (too long & boring). So, no, IRDGAS.

You may or may not be right about the self-esteem issues, I haven't given it any thought.

Why do you think it's stupid and inflammatory?

"What copz'n'blax in the US do to each other"

The issue is what cops (including black cops, as you noted) do to blacks.

Blacks don't really do anything to cops. There's no equivalency, so your phrasing is completely senseless.

I think you're actually pretty smart, so I can't understand why you resent the struggles of black people and news reporting about it. If you don't like international news, and you don't want to know what's going on in the world, nobody is forcing you to read about it. Bigotry can be a sign of insecurity.

It's rather like asking 'when did you stop beating your wife?', and it simplifies a complex issue suggesting that all police are bigots. I reality, I suspect that most are not, but are tainted by the few bad apples. Similarly, I suspect that a majority of blacks are law-abiding.

As for "blacks not really doing anything to cops", I'll take your word for it. I'm sure you know what you're talking about.

Institutional racism.

It's a thing.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/05/26/toronto-police-chief-mark-saunders-secret-carding-report.html

Yes.

 

Actually its both.