White NY cop shoots and kills black NY cop BY ACCIDENT

[Aegeon]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Udgnim
what I don't understand is how these officers didn't know each other

they seem to be doing the exact same thing with being plain clothes officers patrolling housing projects

I suspect NY City has of thousands of Police. Kind of difficult to know that many people.

Its currently around 38,000 individual police officers, not including auxiliary police officers and the like.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Aegeon

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Udgnim
what I don't understand is how these officers didn't know each other

they seem to be doing the exact same thing with being plain clothes officers patrolling housing projects

I suspect NY City has of thousands of Police. Kind of difficult to know that many people.

Its currently around 38,000 individual police officers, not including auxiliary police officers and the like.

Then add in Federal officers to that number

 

[Sacrilege]

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Look, you guys reading something into my title that's not there, that is on you, not me. It in no way implies a race crime. Nor do my comments in my post. I do however think race was a factor.

Race was a factor in that white cops are inherently wary of young black males running with guns in urban settings. Of course, black cops are also inherently wary of young black males running with guns in urban settings.

This should be the end of the thread. There is no debating this....

 

[teclis1023]

Originally posted by: n yusef
I don't think anyone thinks that the white cop shot him because he hates black people. But, it's very possible that the cop saw a black man with a gun, and may have treated him differently than he would have treated a white guy with a gun. He may have been less likely to believe the black man if he told him "I'm a cop." This prejudice may have informed the shooting. I'm sure that there are black cops who hold the same racial prejudices against black men.

If you read this forum, posters frequently write about how violent and dangerous black men are. They don't go around shooting every black person they see, but I can definitely imagine a few AT posters being more likely to mistakenly shoot a black man than a white man. Was this shooting racially motivated? Probably not. Was the shooting enabled by race? Perhaps.

This is probably true.