All lives matter regardless of colour, or social standing, but try tell that to those trigger happy police not just in the US, but also here in the UK also! Yes, it happens over here too, not on the same scale as in America, but it still happens. The police get off because they get investigated by police! Why is that? Why not have an independent committee investigate them? I used to respect the police when I was younger, but now I don't as their us and them attitude is shocking to say the least! To protect and serve? Aye their own that is and screw the general public!!!

It is amazing how Al Sharpton's "lock jaw" condition kicked in again during the riots.

He really should get that checked out by doctors.

Because he is never able to find any words during looting and rioting. But the condition clears up when the cameras lights turn to him.. well after the destruction is done.

It is amazing how Al Sharpton's "lock jaw" condition kicked in again during the riots.

He really should get that checked out by doctors.

Because he is never able to find any words during looting and rioting. But the condition clears up when the cameras lights turn to him.. well after the destruction is done.

what they should be saying is all lives matter.
the media continues to always make police
brutality be about race, as if its only white
cops that kill black men

Caesar Goodson, the cop with the 2nd degree murder charge is African American, if that makes you feel any better.

Black lives only seem to matter when there is an agenda or money involved.

Blacks kill more bulacks every day without any complaints or addressing the cause other than with rhetoric. No money or praise in that scenario. But if an officer, or another race kills them it becomes injustice or inequality.

Holder should also be in this picture!

Most rape cases are black on black & by someone the victim knows.
Where is the outrage?

If an historicaly sexist society like India can drive women to the streets screaming & caring signs saying " NO MORE " Then where are the strong & resilient black American women at?
I just don't get it.

what they should be saying is all lives matter. the media continues to always make police brutality be about race, as if its only white cops that kill black men when in reality the color of your skin doesnt matter. killer cops treat everyone the same. just as many white people if not more are abused and killed by cops, but that doesnt always make the news.

http://www.infowars.com/brutal-honesty-this-is-the-video-about-racism-they-dont-want-you-to-see/

go to that URL and look at that video and you will see the truth.

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the problem isnt holding black criminals accountable, there is an abundance of that

the issue is holding those who take black lives accountable(even when they arent black)

messi_is_a_tim_1888 stated >>>
All lives matter regardless of colour, or social standing, but try tell that to those trigger happy police not just in the US, but also here in the UK also! Yes, it happens over here too, not on the same scale as in America, but it still happens. The police get off because they get investigated by police! Why is that? Why not have an independent committee investigate them? I used to respect the police when I was younger, but now I don't as their us and them attitude is shocking to say the least! To protect and serve? Aye their own that is and screw the general public!!!

Despite more than doubling the number of its investigations into police departments over the past five fiscal years ��to more than 20 nationwide now-��the Department of Justice has failed to keep up with these police abuses and address them as a national problem, critics say. Typically summoned only in sporadic cases surrounded by public furor-��like the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson-��almost every DOJ probe has found a systemic problem of police and court abuse of minority communities, says Alec Karakatsanis, co-founder of Equal Justice Under Law, a nonprofit civil rights law firm.

But, he asks, what about the rest of the cities in the United States? ��Where has the DOJ been in uncovering this? Where have the lawyers been? Where has the legal profession been? Under Obama, the DOJ has spent $80 million per year prosecuting medical marijuana cases, and not very much on crime by police.'

Indeed, out of the DOJs nearly $26 billion budget, the Civil Rights Division was allotted just $147 million in fiscal 2015; and of that, just $12.2 million was allotted to staff working on “effective and democratically accountable policing.” The Office on Violence against Women got $414 million. Drug enforcement got $2 billion. The prison system received $6.9 billion.
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Reliable data on police abuse is almost impossible to come by, and here too the federal government has failed to step up. In response to public outrage after the 1991 Rodney King beating, Congress passed a 1994 law that mandated an annual report on police violence. At the Justice Department’s request, the International Association of Police Chiefs (IAPC) conducted a pilot study. But according to John Firman, director of development of the IAPC, after a year the Justice Department shut it down after only 600 out of about 18,000 police departments in the country reported back. The law had no means of forcing cooperation, Firman added.

A Department of Justice spokesperson said that to comply with the 1994 law, the NIJ and Bureau of Justice Statistics later developed something called the Police Public Contact Survey, which is ��designed to understand the nature and characteristics of citizen contacts with the police.” But that does nothing to ascertain when police use force incorrectly, says Stinson, who adds that he developed his own national database on police arrests and convictions using Google News’ search engine.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/north-charleston-shooting-americas-police-abuse-epidemic-116838_Page2.html#ixzz3YvztfKDW

As with aboriginal people in Australia - 3% of the total population but almost 30% of the prison population. Shameful statistics for all Australians.

yep, thats the point of this topic. its not just white cops brutalizing black people. its police brutalizing everyone.

blacks are killed at about four times the rate of whites during arrests,, if one is looking for the relevance

but any of it is wrong, and all should unite to do something about it, especially since though it disproportionately impacts blacks during arrests,, it happens to all types of people