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[QUOTE="bpo57, post: 2603086, member: 1572"]
SS, from previous posts I know your background to some extent. I know these are emotional hot button issues and I don't mean any disrespect to you or anybody else. I damn well know there are ridiculously bad cops out there. Although black people carry a heavier burden in dealing with bad cops, white people have also had awful experiences with bad cops too so I can easily grasp the concept. And I'm all for locking up bad cops, trying to break down the blue wall of silence and also tightening laws that seem to give cops too much leeway in terms of acceptable behavior. There is plenty to be critical about.

But how about some balance and accountability on the other side? Black males account for 6% of the population and nearly 50% of the homicides in this country. When was the last time you heard a black celebrity or black politician call his community out or be critical of what's going on in many of our largest cities? Why is it that when a black man is killed by a cop under questionable circumstances it is cause for massive demonstrations, riots, looting etc. but every day young black men are killed in their own neighborhoods and it passes with little reaction from the media or anybody else?
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