Comments by "B Bodziak" (@B_Bodziak) on "BOMBSHELL Police Story Reveals Damning Truth About Tragedy" video.

  1. No. People aren't out protesting in as large numbers as usual because there was no civilian video and those 5 officers were fired and charged right away before the public could see the video. This incident played out much differently initially than nearly every other excessive use of force leading to murder since 1990, and half of the reason people protest is because the officers are sitting at home getting full pay, literally. The overwhelming majority never even get a misdemeanor for their actions. People are protesting both to stop the unnecessary use of deathly force AND the accountability of those involved. The fact that it was 5 black officers proves even more that it's a "police problem". There's definitely a racial aspect -- it's not always white police officers but it's almost 100% young black male victims. If the races of the officers and the civilian victims were flipped, total police reform would have happened long before Rodney King was beaten in 1992.
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  2. You know that actually helps to confirm that it's a police problem. Although it's usually white officers, this murder shows it's not just white officers -- it's an ENTIRE police force problem. While it's often white officers, it's almost 100% black victims. Anyone who has learned about the Convict-Leasing programs, the reason for newly enacted vagrancy laws, and the reason why the subsequent, purposeful propaganda series put out by southern state and local governments at the beginning of US Reconstruction knows exactly why young black males were and still are stereotyped as being "thugs". It's why women clutch their purses on the sidewalk when a young black man is approaching them from the opposite direction; It's why white (and Hispanic) men put their arm lightly around their white women when a young black male is in their vicinity; It's why young black men crossing a street intersection suddenly hear the locking of car doors driven by White, Black, Asian, Latino and Middle Eastern folks. I'm sure young black men reading this know exactly what I'm talking about. ... Well, there's a reason these things happen and why so many of us, including many young black men, associate criminality with young black men. It should not be this way, and the direct reason it started and still exists today is 100% from the "Convict-Leasing" program that started at the very beginning of US Reconstruction by the Governor of Alabama at the urging of a ultra wealthy, owner of an Alabama coal mining company who needed a quick way to replace previously enslaved people to work in his mines to keep him ultra wealthy.
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  3.  @EinsamPibroch278  You must mean like Ashley Babbitt. An officer had his firearm pulled out in front of her AND he told her multiple times that he would shoot anyone who didn't stay back. Yet, she actually chose to charge ahead. Not did she not comply, she charged at the officer while gun was drawn aimed right at her. @Einsam : Have you ever posted that she should not have been shot? Have you ever posted that she wasn't treated properly? If you have or feel that way, tell me why. I'm genuinely interested.
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  4.  @simplerick256  While I'm licensed in other states and am not familiar with laws specific to Tennessee, I can tell you the US Supreme Court has several rulings establishing that in order for one to receive a Resisting Arrest charge, there MUST be credible evidence of an arrestable offense* occuring prior to a defendant's resistive action(s).. SC rulings go so far as to point-blank state that if there is no articulable suspected crime attributed to an individual/subject, the subject cannot be resisting an arrest as there is no active lawful arrest taking place. The same SC Justices go on to say that a subject resisting a lawful detainment does NOT meet the threshold required for resisting arrest. ...and I'm sure you already know that excessive force by an officer is not lawful SIMPLY because a subject is running away/fleeing. In a nutshell, officers may ONLY use potentially lethal force on a subject IF that subject poses an IMMEDIATE, physical threat to another individual. This means that if there is a prison escape, an officer CANNOT shoot into the back of a dangerous convicted serial killer on death row who is a prison escapee.. The US Constitution provides ALL of with the right to a fair trial if accused of a crime. Guess what @Cuzz, even convicted, violent serial killers who appear to have escaped prison grounds have a Constitutional right to a fair trial. The Constitution ensures that no individual nor one group of individuals, including and especially the officers involved, is allowed to be both the accuser and the judge/jury. @Cuzz and those who agree w/your point of view need to ask yourselves why the prospect of equality feels like oppression to you. Why does the idea of everyone being treated equally feel like a "loss" for you? *an "unresolved arrestable offense" and if you need me to do so, I can explain what this means,, legally.
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