Snipers open fire on Dallas police during a protest over the shootings of black men in Baton Rouge and St. Paul.
Slaughtering a bunch of cops is sure going to guarantee black people are treated better, won't it?
But hey, we need high-powered rifles for everyday use! When are Americans going to say ENOUGH and revolt against the gun nuts, the gun industry, and their paid-for politicians? The U.S.A. is becoming a slaughterhouse.
Anyway, I don't want to leave the impression that the only reason we have segregated neighborhoods is self-segregation (a great example of which is "gayborhoods"). There's also economic segregation, meaning people can only live where they can afford to. And in older American cities, you do have neighborhoods that have been "black neighborhoods" for many generations. I'm sure you remember the flooding in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina. Some of those black neighborhoods would fall into the category of being so old that they date back to the time when neighborhoods were racially segregated not by choice.
Does Spain have "ghettos" where the new immigrants from Africa and Asia are concentrated?
It is great that there are mixed police forces (if we do believe that we need police at all, and it seems we need) for this alone works in favor of non-segregation, and I wonder how they actually talk to one another? What do they think? They are those who are supposed to give security to the streets - how do they feel right now?
Because if they could speak free, there would be the opportunity to find some answers. (As I still have not heard nothing about it in spanish TV so far, I think what they are allowed to say is the sniper was mad, solitary and furious and had to be killed... but I am biased, obviously.)
If a police officer is confronted to a black man or black women or black child and reacts different from first sight - and as consecuence of this changed behaviour decides he must fear for his life, than there is premeditation, or a kind of.
As Virgo put it, 'you don't see to many accidental killings of white people by white officers' - and that should make a difference. Why is a black person considered more menacing? Why are there still black neighborhoods?
And sadly, we could go on listing probable victims, like latinos, foreigners alltogether, gay, women ...
I suppose you have the same TV-series we have over here, they are all made ind the USA and made the same way. Just look at who survives in the end. The actress? The gay? The 'bad one'? And how does the bad one look?
I know this is fiction, but we all grow up with it, including fictive mass shootings, and to some extend it seems that reality is mimicking fiction ...
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As for gun control efforts, you're right. Nothing is going to happen until the American people demand it and vote accordingly. We aren't there yet, but we can't give up. Republican politicians will start listening when their blind support of the NRA begins to cost them more votes than it gains them.
To repeat, the police shootings are not justified, but if the result of profiling/racial tension, it clearly shows how desperate some folks are becoming.
This mass shooting just blows holes in all the NRA's usual arguments: This wasn't a gun-free zone; and the victims were well armed. The guns used, based on the rapid fire, almost certainly were semi-automatic, AR-15 type weapons, and the ammo was such that the bullets actually pierced bulletproof vests and did tremendous damage. Two of the officers died in the hospital.
The gun lobby and gun nuts are being incredibly selfish on this issue. They actually believe that their right to own a mostly useless weapon like the AR-15 is more important than other people's right to LIVE. That is so wrong, and it's time for the American people to stand up to the NRA, the Republican Party, the gun industry and gun nuts. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I for one am ready to get more involved on this issue. Gun violence is a national crisis and a national shame.
This was the scene, just a few miles from where I live. Terrifying.
You need a Facebook account to see it I think