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I’m glad to hear about this development via Rock:
The NAACP is renewing a push for federal standards on police use of force after the shooting of an unarmed Black man by two White police officers inside a church while day care children watched, the Associated Press reported.
According to witnesses, the man was surrendering but officials in Rockford, Ill., deny this description of events, saying Mark Anthony Barmore attempted to grab an officer’s gun after they cornered him in the church.
However, both sides agree Barmore ran when officers approached him in the church parking lot, highlighting the suspicion and fear that can poison relationships between police and minority communities across the country.
“There are no national standards for the use of force (or) training for use of force,” Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, said Sept. 11.
The issue “is not primarily about racism,” Jealous said, citing the recent case of a 72-year-old White woman tasered by a White Texas officer during a traffic stop. “We want to make sure the standards are the most modern and appropriate ones possible.”
The level of sadism we’ve seen time and again; here’s yet another — a woman blasted in the back by an officer in Cincinnati — while she was on her knees. It became a serious problem for the PD because she is the daughter of a city councilman:
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GoodRegulation on taser training and their position in a force continuum won’t happen until someone with a large national voice takes up this cause.
Meanwhile, the party continues:
And it involved two white cops:
Two comments? Really?And they’re both me? Really? Truly, this is a shocking lack of outrage.
I’m with you on this…why the lack of commentsFor all of the Taser posts I’ve written that have generated lots of comments, why this news doesn’t interest anyone confounds me.