newest racial incident involving police<\/a>:<\/p>\nI had to laugh early in the tape when I heard a girl with a Black accent yell at a cop \u201cI\u2019m calling my mother on you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Honey, if you had a Mother worthy of the title, you wouldn\u2019t be threatening to call her on the cops; you\u2019d be praying to God the cops didn\u2019t call her on YOU.<\/p>\n
If I went home and said: \u201cMom, the cops were mean to me at the race riot,\u201d I\u2019m dead certain her response would NOT be: \u201cThose dirty sons of guns, oppressing your First Amendment Rights, we\u2019ll sue them.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m dead certain her response would be: \u201cYou went to a race riot?\u00a0 What the Hell is wrong with you?\u00a0 Wait till your Father gets home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, I had a Mother who gave a damn and a Father who came home.\u00a0 I guess I need to check my privilege.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The “Texas pool party” incident has been interesting on a couple of levels.<\/p>\n
Counting Those Chickens<\/strong>: \u00a0The burgeoning “Cops are guilty until proven innocent, because Video!” crowd that is so in vogue on the left and among some Libertarians should get some pause with this case, as it seems – if you believe the pushback from the police union, anyway – that there was a big ugly incident before the video starts, with trespassing and fighting and assaults, which the local, mostly black, residents called in to the police.<\/p>\nI said “Should”. \u00a0They won’t, of course. \u00a0 Dogma means never having to say you’re sorry.<\/p>\n
Pathology Verging On A Berg’s Law<\/strong>: \u00a0As we’ve learned after every high-profile mass-shooting, as well as after every controversial, racially-tinged event in recent years; the mainstream media\u00a0will\u00a0<\/em>get all the basic facts wrong for the first 2-3 weeks. \u00a0Any impression of any ambiguous event will be colored by the fact that the mainstream media – everyone from CNN to MPR –\u00a0will, without exception<\/em>, be simultaneously be playing the story for sensationalist ratings, and have coverage that is entirely at the mercy of sources who are in the bag for one side of the story or another (and that side is usually the “progressive” one).<\/p>\nThe media won’t give honest coverage to a story like this, or Ferguson, or Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown, until it’s not a “sexy” headline-grabber anymore.<\/p>\n
Hobby Horses<\/strong>: \u00a0Don’t get me wrong. \u00a0I have a serious beef with bad cops – and lazy, entitled and incompetent ones, too. \u00a0I’ve encountered some of each in my time in Saint Paul – along with good, even excellent, ones who came through when my family and I really needed it.<\/p>\nAnd I understand why young (and not-so-young) black males and their supporters are concerned about prejudice and the dangers it brings. \u00a0I say this while remembering that young black males do commit a disproportionate amount of crime.<\/p>\n
And, most interestingly, while the “Cops are guilty until proven innocent” crowd has a thin veneer of urban activists, that veneer is wrapped around a lot of white liberals – and, increasingly, libertarians, who, God bless ’em, are as white as it gets.<\/p>\n
More interesting still? \u00a0I’ve seen research that shows black inner-city residents\u00a0support<\/em> aggressive, strong policing. \u00a0Not every aspect of it, and not everything aggressive cops\u00a0do,\u00a0<\/em>of course – but they, the people who live daily with the worst that urban culture provides, tend to\u00a0want\u00a0<\/em>the cops to have a solid, aggressive (and fair, and just, and even-handed) presence in the neighborhood.<\/p>\nAs with most such stories? I’m pretty much sick and tired of everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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