Daunte Wright Incident

Fair point. I mentioned his race to preemptively counter those who make it about race, but that may very well be falling into the trap I was talking about. A big question about this event is how did a cop who was that badly trained or mentally unprepared for a situation like this ever get put out onto the street? I hold the department as much responsible as her directly.

Citing someone who has many years of experience, however, has value.
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Suspect resists arrest, cop shoots = racism.

Suspect resists arrest, cop doesn't shoot and uses force instead = excessive force

Suspect gets pulled over = racial profiling

Suspect resists arrest, cop uses no force whatsoever = "how could you let the suspect get away?"

Suspect gets arrested and complies, cop uses no force and suspect kills themself in jail = racism

Suspect shoots cop, cop dies = "good. The stupid pig deserved it".

Eh?
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I'm on your side here, but let's get the facts straight.

The above armed robbery did occur. He didn't get any money from it though.
He pled innocent and was out on bail awaiting a court date.

Conditions of his parole were that he meet with his parole officer and not posses a gun. In yet another encounter with police last June, he brandished a weapon and ran from police. He was given a court date to address the parole violation, and skipped court. That is when the warrant was issued. He did initially appear for the armed robbery charge.

He was driving his mother's car. He had no job and no car. If he had his own car, they would've known about the warrant as soon as they ran the plate.

Yeah, the rioting boggles my mind. People not thinking, caught up in the fervor of opportunistic rage. You're right in that anyone destroying their local area only hurts themselves. It's counterproductive, self-destructive behavior that only helps to perpetuate negative stereotypes. I also blame those in the media and politicians who engender the framework for such mindsets.

I actually said she SHOULD be charged. This was negligence at its finest, and is absolutely involuntary manslaughter.

With that update you added, that's just nuts. She really has no excuse for this panicked, rookie mistake if she's a vet. Although, at 26 years old, is that really a "veteran police officer?". I'm not sure how a 26-year-old could be considered a "veteran". Wonder how many years of service she's actually had, and how much real-world experience?

Regardless, I do think it's quite clear this was a mistake, but my god what a moronic mistake. The guy was struggling, but wasn't really presenting a threat (yet). She's holding a Glock, which is significantly heavier than a taser, and feels very different. There's just no excuse for what she did, and I'm sure she's going to live with that the rest of her life.

Although, here's someone explaining it, and it's easy to armchair quarterback, I guess. But still... with that one accidental round squeezed off she not only killed someone who didn't deserve it, she sparked a situation that resulted in blocks of businesses being looted and destroyed (a reaction that is a massive indictment on the state of our culture and society).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/13/us/daunte-wright-taser-gun.html

Like this article mentions, this incident has shades of Fruitvale Station (a pretty good movie with Michael B. Jordon was made from that event). Like then, it's clearly not a race-related circumstance, and yet many will capitalize on that and try to make it out to be.
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I'm confused, is this a racist incident because a white woman shot a black man, or is this sexism because she's being attacked for doing it?

Actually in this case the video is pretty clear she doesn't shoot because of race (that didn't stop the usual race-baiters from futilely trying to make it about race, though). You're right though that in a lot of these situations biased people automatically assume it's about race almost immediately, led to that conclusion by twisted beliefs, and it's not until the real information comes to light months later, once they no longer care about it or the victims, that it's discovered that it's not (seriously, every single supposed racially related cop shooting in recent memory has turned out to clearly having nothing to do with race, at least that's in any way provable). But for zealots and charlatan race-peddlers who want to control non-white populations, they find a way to incorporate any and every event into their race-based narrative. It's appalling, and is destroying the country, while at the same time diminishing genuine race-related issues.
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Never believe. Always question. Belief, a.k.a. bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology is the bane of skeptical, logical reason