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...and your evidence that it is relevant to this case is what, exactly? Any proof that the Memphis PD itself is racist?

Sure. Because Ukrain is SO close to the North Atlantic...

No, they haven't. You can blame Hamas for that. Turning their territory into terrorist training centres, brainwashing children into anti-semitic automatons, squandering any aid they get...

Sorry, I am not getting what you mean. Could you clarify please?

Not necessary and irrelevant. Are the proponents of "green" energy exporting to outer space all the greenhouse gasses created by the manufacture and use of batteries and solar panels? Takes 250 tons of mining to get enough rare metals for a single car battery in an EV. Fossil fuel is getting cleaner and greener over time. Using natural gas over coal is a no brainer, and uranium over both. And best of all it is not imported.

I am curious about this too. AFAIK All Israeli citizens enjoy equal political and human rights. I think the Israelis have been remarkably restrained in their responses to numerous provocations from the members of the death cult that infests the Palestinians. These are people who pay cash bonuses to families of suicide bombers and those who murder Israeli civilians.

So, which of the 5 accused was the racist? Or were all of them? I think we need to wait before playing that particular explosive card. Like I wrote above, of 1,000 people killed by police in a year, only 14 were unarmed black people. The larger problem is the other 986 deaths, and the culture that creates them.

I agree completely. No more blood for oil. The US and Canada together have more than enough to fill our energy needs well into the future. Why buy tainted oil from the head hackers and kleptocrats when it can be sourced locally?

Doesnt matter what they want. They cannot and will not get it. Now if only Syria or Egypt or Saudi Arabia would give up just a tiny slice of their territory for the Palestinians to have as their own...

Yeah, there are now in the neighborhood of 8,500 Jews left in Iran. Used to be 150,000. After the Islamic revolution, the numbers dropped quickly. Gee, wonder why? The exception does not disprove the rule. Now, about the other dozen or so countries in the area....

If you see media reports it is popping up constantly- that race is the issue even with black on black murder like this. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/27/opinions/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-department-jones/index.html

I agree. The idea that military vets would be good cops is ludicrous. The job of the military is to break things and kill people. These are not exactly tenets of good law enforcement. Civilians are not The Enemy of police, they are the employers of police.

I see you did not comment on the strip mining or the slave labor in China aspect... perhaps the more important issues IMHO.

Brian, the real problem is police violence in general, not the race element. The police kill about 1,000 civilians every year. Of those, about 14 are unarmed black people. https://www.manhattan-institute.org/police-black-killings-homicide-rates-race-injustice Black Americans are also more than 10 times more likely to be victims of homicide in general, and most often at the hands of another black person. Another point that gets ignored in the stampede to paint this as a racial problem. Black cops kill a black man in a majority black city with a black police chief and a black mayor, and the most important issue is race?!? Come on, man.

Also you have to think of the cost of disposing of solar panels and batteries, A nuclear plant can last a century- can a wind farm? No easy answers, especially when the so-called "renewables" all rely on strip mining for their materials, and on China for their manufacture.

The US pours billions into a LOT of places- Jordan and Egypt together get as much money as Israel, for example. Ukraine is getting a ridiculous amount IMHO, but that is not relevant here. One might ask why Arab countries don't do the same for the Palestinians- more than 75% of aid comes from western/European countries. Seems the Arabs and Israelis can at least agree on that one point- that the Palestinians are a pain in the neck. And the "who was there first" argument is a non starter. Both groups have been there for centuries, and part of larger empires (from Roman to Ottoman) for centuries as well. I guess two large differences are that: Israel is a functioning democracy (and the surrounding states are not), and that Israel respects human and minority rights far more than the surrounding nations. Try being Jewish or LGBT in Egypt or Saudi Arabia!

Lovely idea, except for the cost to the environment of producing thousands of solar panels and batteries. Plus, where do they actually come from? Something tells me....China? Not a good idea to have parts of your energy infrastructure dependent on China for spare parts. I would say a better plan is using nuclear power, with home made facilities and uranium from the US or Canada.

You could always queue up nice and polite, like our Indian brothers...

Sadly, to far too many people Israel is not "just another country", it is a target. How many other countries get told that they do not have any right to exist? That are threatened with extermination? I don't condone every excess of the Israeli police and military, but there is a certain level of justified paranoia in their behavior.

As a card carrying member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, I am going to have to go ahead and agree with you completely. Naming a police unit "Scorpions"? Sounds more like a gang name to me than a group of men who will protect the public from crime. You are right, the mindset of policing needs to change, as well as the training.

Could you be a bit more specific, I am not sure what you are referencing. What class of people are being made invisible? How? And please show the link to genocide.

Nice to see Godwin's Law enter the discussion. I am sure it is a valuable rabbit hole to dive down. Of course the similarities between asking that elementary school aged children not be exposed to sexual/mature themes in books and burning titles written by a particular religion are obvious...

I generally agree with you and also I do support law enforcement. However... The attitude of "every time you knock on a door you may be killed on the spot" is the basis of the problem . There should be NO training for that attitude whatsoever. Treating the general public like the enemy, not like your employer, is the anathema of good policing. Besides, overall, police don't even rank in the top ten most dangerous jobs in the US. Truck drivers die more, as do loggers, roofers, even farmers. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-police-officers-die-in-the-line-of-duty/ And a big problem is that the "men in blue" are no longer in blue. They are in black, or in cammo. Neither of which are very conducive to being a peace officer. And yes, better and longer training is absolutely needed. In Memphis, standards have been lowered and lowered until thugs like these guys made it onto the Force. Better pay, better training, better screening of applicants, learning de-escalation tactics, all can make a difference.

Standards were being lowered year on year- two of the accused joined the department in 2020 and could not have qualified in earlier years. Yet in just 2 years of police service they managed to get promoted to an elite special unit? The rot begins at the fishes' head.

On a local level, the Memphis Police have been in trouble for a while. Lots of officers quitting and retired, very low recruitment numbers, basically scraping the bottom of the barrel to get numbers up to even a minimal level. Even so, why were these 5 members of an elite anti-drug squad making a simple traffic stop?