Posted on 08/21/2014 10:44:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Pictured Above: Howard University students pose for a powerful photo by student Leighton Watson, who shared it on Twitter before it went viral. Since then, similar photos and the phrase, 'Hands up, Don't Shoot,' have cropped up around the country.
Several national LGBT advocacy organizations have signed onto a national statement calling for new federal legislation to put an end to discriminatory police profiling. The statement comes in response to ongoing strife in Ferguson, Mo., following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
“Last week’s shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the military-style response by the local police to demonstrators, and allegations of racially biased law enforcement are the result of longstanding and corrosive limitations on our nation’s law enforcement policies that allow unlawful profiling to persist across the country,” reads the opening of the letter. “The undersigned organizations are calling for federal solutions that will empower state and local law enforcement agencies to prevent these tragedies from happening again.”
LGBT organizations represented in the letter include the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, National Black Justice Coalition, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Center for Transgender Equality, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, National Center for Lesbian Rights Action Fund and PFLAG National.
The letter calls on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to update federal guidance on racial profiling and for Congress to pass the still-pending End Racial Profiling Act, which would prohibit the use of profiling on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin or religion by law enforcement agencies. “The legislation,” the letter reads, “also provides training and monitoring for law enforcement. By preventing law enforcement from disproportionately targeting ethnic minorities for investigation, interrogation and arrest, we can reduce the disparities that plague our nation’s criminal justice system.”
The legislation and similar bills have been under consideration for more than 10 years, the organizations say.
The letter comes as increased attention and scrutiny grows across the nation over police misconduct, abuse and racial profiling. Police in Greensboro, N.C., are now being called to investigate alleged police misconduct and a recently alleged wrongful arrest by officers there. In Charlotte, an officer was recently indicted for voluntary manslaughter after fatally firing multiple times at an unarmed man who had just emerged from an automobile accident and was in need of assistance.
Well, according to the latest from the police and witnesses,
Big Mike DID have his hands up when he turned around and dared the cop that he’d just beaten up to shoot him,
right before he charged him.
Hands up. Arrest them all.
From ship of fools, to auditorium of idiots.
Very Very Low Info Students
I’ve yet to read how “racial profiling” played a part in any of this.
OK I read the article and I can only take away one thing from this.
They are complaining that not enough queers are being shot by cops.
Other groups in the past have adopted a raised arm gesture to signify solidarity with their cause.
And we need laws allowing sucker punching of cops and taking their gun if the races are in the correct alignment.
I want something for the polar bears and the fuzzy harp seal pups. Oh, and a federal Zero Tolerance campaign against intolerant people.
calling for new federal legislation to put an end to discriminatory police profiling
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In other words, if any white cop shoots a black person, he’s racially profiled that person, regardless of the circumstances, and shot them because they are black. This only applies to white cop shoots black, doesn’t apply the other way around. Likewise, any gay person shot by a white cop has been profiled by a homophobe who shot the gay person only because of their sexual orientation. Bottom line: if you are a white cop and shoot anybody but another white person, you are SO screwed.
Try Hands up in Chicago with NO Police around
Might have been different if MB was a black pregnant female just walking own the street and was shot by a Nazi uniform wearing cop because she was there and black...but MB was 290 lb, 6 foot 4 inch adult man that had just robbed a convenience store and assaulted the clerk, punched an officer in the face and grabbed for his gun...and was shot dead because of that. Had nothing to do with skin color.
Bottom line: if you are a white cop and shoot anybody but a heterosexual white person, you are SO screwed.
Where’s all the White Folks?
Where’s all the White Folks?
It appears they’re All Black and All LGBT
At work.
News flash for queers: Blacks despise you even more than the general population, especially when you insist on equating the civil rights movement with your push for tolerance-acceptance-promotion of your perversions. Just so you know....
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