NYPD Officer killed by....

[totalownership]

...NYPD Officer. The details should explain themselves in this link. Here we go again.

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-nycop3012820171may29,0,895793.story

[peteykirch]

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Love how they play the race card about 2 lines in, when odds are the guy who broke into that car was black, so it was a black cop chasing after a black suspect, and the black cop gets shot by a white cop...

[Cebby]

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[ThaGenecyst]

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Totally do not want to laugh right now because of the circumstances but that picture of prezbo is hilarious and fits perfectly here

[matt8204]

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Love how they play the race card about 2 lines in, when odds are the guy who broke into that car was black, so it was a black cop chasing after a black suspect, and the black cop gets shot by a white cop...

Agreed. Playing the race card is so damn pathetic. Yes, racism still exists (always has, always will) but I can't stand when people use it to try and weasel out of things that are their own fault or in situations such as these when it was obviously a terrible accident and not a racially-motivated crime.

[slickdtc]

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This is such a tragic story.

[totalownership]

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Love how they play the race card about 2 lines in, when odds are the guy who broke into that car was black, so it was a black cop chasing after a black suspect, and the black cop gets shot by a white cop...

Agreed. Playing the race card is so damn pathetic. Yes, racism still exists (always has, always will) but I can't stand when people use it to try and weasel out of things that are their own fault or in situations such as these when it was obviously a terrible accident and not a racially-motivated crime.

NOBODY knows what happened so it's just as irresponsible to say it wasn't racially motivated as it is to say it is. It's easy to complain about people using "the race card" if it isn't part of your life. What people NEED to focus their energy on is making the world better so that the "race card" will never be needed. If people want to get angry get angry on that.

[Kashanova]

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cops can write it out to be what ever they wanted to be, no one knows what really happen, except for the cops that night.

[Jukeman]

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NOBODY knows what happened so it's just as irresponsible to say it wasn't racially motivated as it is to say it is. It's easy to complain about people using "the race card" if it isn't part of your life. What people NEED to focus their energy on is making the world better so that the "race card" will never be needed. If people want to get angry get angry on that.

Well said....

[CWSapp757]

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Definitely a tragic story. But I refuse to pass judgement because like you guys have already said, who knows what really happened. Regardless of how accurate the story is, the facts are that a police officer died for nothing. Sad.

[matt8204]

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NOBODY knows what happened so it's just as irresponsible to say it wasn't racially motivated as it is to say it is. It's easy to complain about people using "the race card" if it isn't part of your life. What people NEED to focus their energy on is making the world better so that the "race card" will never be needed. If people want to get angry get angry on that.

OK, maybe I jumped the gun by saying that it was definitely an accident, but I think it's a little naive to think that even if people acted in a gracious manner towards each other all the time that some folks still wouldn't use the "race card" or any other mechanism necessary to get what they want or to manipulate people. People are who they are; always have been, always will be. There will be good people and there will be bad apples. It's just human nature. Nothing is going to change that; nothing.

[RAZRr1275]

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NOBODY knows what happened so it's just as irresponsible to say it wasn't racially motivated as it is to say it is. It's easy to complain about people using "the race card" if it isn't part of your life. What people NEED to focus their energy on is making the world better so that the "race card" will never be needed. If people want to get angry get angry on that.

well said.

[superjames1992]

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What is it with OS and threads about corrupt policemen? Some of you all must not like cops very much!

I have no idea if it was racially motivated or not, but I hate how in society today we assume that if a white man kills a black man, it has to be racially motivated. It could have been; who knows ... but it's unfair to assume that it was just because the guys are of two different races.

[totalownership]

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OK, maybe I jumped the gun by saying that it was definitely an accident, but I think it's a little naive to think that even if people acted in a gracious manner towards each other all the time that some folks still wouldn't use the "race card" or any other mechanism necessary to get what they want or to manipulate people. People are who they are; always have been, always will be. There will be good people and there will be bad apples. It's just human nature. Nothing is going to change that; nothing.

And I say you're wrong. Except for the mentally ill , nobody would cry the "race card" if they truly felt that all things were on the up and up. Look things are SLOOOOOOOWLY getting better but DO NOT expect every minority in the world to start singing and dancing in the streets with a big smile. Just like it took HUNDREDS of years to create the situation that we're in now in the US it's going to take YEARS upon YEARS to even come close to getting square.

[Keirik]

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NOBODY knows what happened so it's just as irresponsible to say it wasn't racially motivated as it is to say it is.

that's absolute nonsense. It's not irresponsible at all to be giving people the benefit of the doubt UNTIL evidence of the later is present. Just a person of one color killing a person of another color is not evidence.

Irresponsible is drawing conclusions based on something that could easily have been just coincidence. Your logic is flawed.

That's like saying "NOBODY knows what happened to something missing from a store, so it's just as irresponsible to say it might have been misplaced as it is to say it was stolen". It's not irresponsible at all. WHat's irresponsible is to start throwing out accusations of something racist like this in the first place.


He was shot because he was running with a gun in hand and didnt drop it upon being told to do so by police. You really think had it been a white person running with a gun the officer would have though "okay, he dont need to drop that, he's white"