Ex-tennis star James Blake Mistakenly Tackled, Detained By White Cops

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What does this have to do with race? Cops thought the person matched the description of a suspect, and so they did what they did? Do we have evidence suggesting the description of the suspect was "Black male" with no additional detail, so they just tackled a random black person? This shit is getting out of control, any time happens to anyone who is black all of a sudden it's a race issue without even finding out what the context of the situation was and why they targeted the person.

It reminds me of that black actress who was having public sex in a car, and she got arrested for it and made it a race thing. It's like what the fuck?

I mean sure it was a mistake in this case, but are the only cases of mistaken identity which are allowed going to be mistaken identity of white people? This shit is so confusing to me.
 
Angelus Errare said:
Honestly I'm torn, sure on one hand he's black. But I mean he doesn't look 100% black black. They probably thought he fit the description of a white guy and tackled him. I think we need to stop thinking everything is about racism, like racism is never going to go away if we keep bringing it up every time something happens to someone. I mean maybe if the black community had better leaders and were in better shape, then blacks who are good people wouldn't be punished for the blacks who are bad crime. I think we need to dismantle our race based views in this country, stop seeing things as "black people this" or "white people" that and start seeing ourselves as once race the American race. Not to sound racist, but my best friend is black and even he agrees that black on black violence is the real problem in the black community, that and rap music glorifying money does black youth no good. Not to say it's black people's fault, they've been dealt a shitty hand in life, but slavery was 400 years ago, they gotta get over it. I personally don't see color. Black people also aren't helping matters by inconveniencing others by "protesting" and waging a war on cops.

TL;DR - If you're not breaking the law you have nothing to worry about. Race has nothing to do with it. America is pretty much post racial. This is what Bernie Sanders is trying to fix, our class and economic problem. Vote for Bernie



Yea he would have got clips from an entire squad if they saw him with that.
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cpp_is_king said:
What does this have to do with race? Cops thought the person matched the description of a suspect, and so they did what they did? Do we have evidence suggesting the description of the suspect was "Black male" with no additional detail, so they just tackled a random black person? This shit is getting out of control, any time happens to anyone who is black all of a sudden it's a race issue without even finding out what the context of the situation was and why they targeted the person.

It reminds me of that black actress who was having public sex in a car, and she got arrested for it and made it a race thing. It's like what the fuck?

I mean sure it was a mistake in this case, but are the only cases of mistaken identity which are allowed going to be mistaken identity of white people? This shit is so confusing to me.
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oh my god lol.
 
cpp_is_king said:
What does this have to do with race? Cops thought the person matched the description of a suspect, and so they did what they did? Do we have evidence suggesting the description of the suspect was "Black male" with no additional detail, so they just tackled a random black person? This shit is getting out of control, any time happens to anyone who is black all of a sudden it's a race issue without even finding out what the context of the situation was and why they targeted the person.

It reminds me of that black actress who was having public sex in a car, and she got arrested for it and made it a race thing. It's like what the fuck?

I mean sure it was a mistake in this case, but are the only cases of mistaken identity which are allowed going to be mistaken identity of white people? This shit is so confusing to me.
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I don't really want to get into your mess. But why is it ok for Police to just tackle people they suspect? I doubt he was presenting a danger
 
Angelus Errare said:
Honestly I'm torn, sure on one hand he's black. But I mean he doesn't look 100% black black. They probably thought he fit the description of a white guy and tackled him. I think we need to stop thinking everything is about racism, like racism is never going to go away if we keep bringing it up every time something happens to someone. I mean maybe if the black community had better leaders and were in better shape, then blacks who are good people wouldn't be punished for the blacks who are bad crime. I think we need to dismantle our race based views in this country, stop seeing things as "black people this" or "white people" that and start seeing ourselves as once race the American race. Not to sound racist, but my best friend is black and even he agrees that black on black violence is the real problem in the black community, that and rap music glorifying money does black youth no good. Not to say it's black people's fault, they've been dealt a shitty hand in life, but slavery was 400 years ago, they gotta get over it. I personally don't see color. Black people also aren't helping matters by inconveniencing others by "protesting" and waging a war on cops.

TL;DR - If you're not breaking the law you have nothing to worry about. Race has nothing to do with it. America is pretty much post racial. This is what Bernie Sanders is trying to fix, our class and economic problem. Vote for Bernie
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cpp_is_king said:
What does this have to do with race? Cops thought the person matched the description of a suspect, and so they did what they did? Do we have evidence suggesting the description of the suspect was "Black male" with no additional detail, so they just tackled a random black person? This shit is getting out of control, any time happens to anyone who is black all of a sudden it's a race issue without even finding out what the context of the situation was and why they targeted the person.

It reminds me of that black actress who was having public sex in a car, and she got arrested for it and made it a race thing. It's like what the fuck?

I mean sure it was a mistake in this case, but are the only cases of mistaken identity which are allowed going to be mistaken identity of white people? This shit is so confusing to me.
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After the joke post on the first page I don't know if this is for real. This shit is so confusing sometimes.
 
Slayven said:
I don't really want to get into your mess. But why is it ok for Police to just tackle people they suspect? I doubt he was presenting a danger
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It's not ok! I agree with you on that. But why the fuck is this about race? It's about the fact they tackled a guy without making sure it was the right guy first. Not a black guy. Just a guy
 
cpp_is_king said:
What does this have to do with race? Cops thought the person matched the description of a suspect, and so they did what they did? Do we have evidence suggesting the description of the suspect was "Black male" with no additional detail, so they just tackled a random black person? This shit is getting out of control, any time happens to anyone who is black all of a sudden it's a race issue without even finding out what the context of the situation was and why they targeted the person.

It reminds me of that black actress who was having public sex in a car, and she got arrested for it and made it a race thing. It's like what the fuck?

I mean sure it was a mistake in this case, but are the only cases of mistaken identity which are allowed going to be mistaken identity of white people? This shit is so confusing to me.
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LiquidSword said:
After the joke post on the first page I don't know if this is for real. This shit is so confusing sometimes.
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Its real, I can tell because they have been latching to that actress story to deny every instance of discrimination for the past months. Its kinda sad that they are struggling to find a new story.
 
cpp_is_king said:
What does this have to do with race? Cops thought the person matched the description of a suspect, and so they did what they did? Do we have evidence suggesting the description of the suspect was "Black male" with no additional detail, so they just tackled a random black person? This shit is getting out of control, any time happens to anyone who is black all of a sudden it's a race issue without even finding out what the context of the situation was and why they targeted the person.

It reminds me of that black actress who was having public sex in a car, and she got arrested for it and made it a race thing. It's like what the fuck?

I mean sure it was a mistake in this case, but are the only cases of mistaken identity which are allowed going to be mistaken identity of white people? This shit is so confusing to me.
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Is this a copy cat post? I thought we weren't allowed to do that anymore. Whatever, I'm just reading.
 
cpp_is_king said:
It's not ok! I agree with you on that. But why the fuck is this about race? It's about the fact they tackled a guy without making sure it was the right guy first. Not a black guy. Just a guy
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Sure, Bob..
JDSN said:
Its real, I can tell because they have been latching to that actress story to deny every instance of discrimination for the past months. Its kinda sad that they are struggling to find a new story.
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Seen that as well..like it's a small victory!
 
Slayven said:
Oh you one of those colorblind folks. Proceed
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No, I'm not. In cases where there is clear racial profiling it should absolutely be treated as a race issue. All the article says they had the description of a suspect, and they tackled the suspect. There is nothing to indicate that it was race related. It was "we have a description of someone, that guy looks like him, tackle him". The fact that they tackled him first is all that this needs to be about.

When you're at the airport and they're pulling aside people wearing head scarfs that's a race issue. When they break up a fight between a white guy and a black guy and only the black guy gets arrested, that's a race issue. EVERYTHING is not a race issue, however, and it's very harmful to society to treat every single police incident as a race issue.
 
Two things at play:

1. Did James Blake really resemble the perp they were looking for?

2. Seriously though what the hell about tackling and then handcuffing him. That's just stupid and wrong.
 
I'm sure they're very sorry...they were caught. Next time they'll make sure it's a poor non-celebrity so they won't face any consequences.
 
cpp_is_king said:
No, I'm not. In cases where there is clear racial profiling it should absolutely be treated as a race issue. All the article says they had the description of a suspect, and they tackled the suspect. There is nothing to indicate that it was race related. It was "we have a description of someone, that guy looks like him, tackle him". The fact that they tackled him first is all that this needs to be about.
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"We have a description of a guy. There he is, not doing anything, not moving, not resisting. Let's slam him on the ground because he's surely a threat!"

it's because he's black
 
He fit the description.

You never know with those tennis players, they're playing such a dangerous sport for a living, who knows what he could do in a fight.
 
cpp_is_king said:
No, I'm not. In cases where there is clear racial profiling it should absolutely be treated as a race issue. All the article says they had the description of a suspect, and they tackled the suspect. There is nothing to indicate that it was race related. It was "we have a description of someone, that guy looks like him, tackle him". The fact that they tackled him first is all that this needs to be about.
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http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/black-barneys-shopper-accused-buying-2g-purse-article-1.1494855
http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/barneys-accused-stealing-black-teen-article-1.1493101

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/justice/hbo-star-lawsuit/
Others that fit the description.
 
thezerofire said:
"We have a description of a guy. There he is, not doing anything, not moving, not resisting. Let's slam him on the ground because he's surely a threat!"

it's because he's black
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Except you have no actual evidence of that, you're literally just making an assumption.

Innocent until proven guilty doesn't only work on one side of the equation.

For all you know they had a police sketch of the guy, and he looked exactly like James Blake. But you don't know, because this article has absolutely no detail and you're way too quick to jump on the race bandwagon.
 
cpp_is_king said:
It's not ok! I agree with you on that. But why the fuck is this about race? It's about the fact they tackled a guy without making sure it was the right guy first. Not a black guy. Just a guy
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This is how they escorted Dylann Storm Roof out after he killed those people:

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This is how they escort a black guy out for weed possession:

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"There's no burning cross or klan regalia in the story, so I'm going to go ahead and give the officers the benefit of the doubt and say this isn't a racial issue."
 
cpp_is_king said:
Except you have no actual evidence of that, you're literally just making an assumption.

Innocent until proven guilty doesn't only work on one side of the equation.

For all you know they had a police sketch of the guy, and he looked exactly like James Blake. But you don't know, because this article has absolutely no detail and you're way too quick to jump on the race bandwagon.
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there's no reason to tackle a suspect who isn't doing anything, and especially the suspect of a nonviolent crime. and especially needing five people to do it. you're extremely naive if you think this isn't about race, particularly with NYPD's history
 
Remember that time when there was that discussion about whites and other groups in America not understanding the racism towards blacks and how it isn't always about cross burnings?Yeah...
Chie Satonaka said:
"There's no burning cross or klan regalia in the story, so I'm going to go ahead and give the officers the benefit of the doubt and say this isn't a racial issue."
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lol. Perfect timing. Sometimes I wonder why we even discuss these things on a predominantly white medium anyway.
 
If racial profiling needs to bebclear and case to case to be a thing, racism must probably not exist. Because that's about the only conclusion that could be reached by someone who is defending 5 NYPD officers tackling a black man doing nothing over "supposed" identity fraud.

This mentality is why people don't actually believe racial bias exists. If someone isn't yelling "kill the blacks" its not about race. How can people repeatedly avoid connecting the dots? How can anyone give the NYPD benefit of the doubt?

I guess all of NYC's stop and frisks were not about race either. I mean there is no evidence that they were stop for being black or hispanic. They just all happened to be that race.

I wish I could be this naive.
 
cpp_is_king said:
Except you have no actual evidence of that, you're literally just making an assumption.

Innocent until proven guilty doesn't only work on one side of the equation.

For all you know they had a police sketch of the guy, and he looked exactly like James Blake. But you don't know, because this article has absolutely no detail and you're way too quick to jump on the race bandwagon.
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Yeah cause I mean it's not like the NYPD has a history of disproportionately treating black New Yorkers like criminals or anything.
 
cpp_is_king said:
What does this have to do with race? Cops thought the person matched the description of a suspect, and so they did what they did? Do we have evidence suggesting the description of the suspect was "Black male" with no additional detail, so they just tackled a random black person? This shit is getting out of control, any time happens to anyone who is black all of a sudden it's a race issue without even finding out what the context of the situation was and why they targeted the person.

It reminds me of that black actress who was having public sex in a car, and she got arrested for it and made it a race thing. It's like what the fuck?

I mean sure it was a mistake in this case, but are the only cases of mistaken identity which are allowed going to be mistaken identity of white people? This shit is so confusing to me.
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Why is okay to tackle someone just standing on the street not posing any harm?

Even if he was the man he's looking for, you don't shoot first and ask questions later.
 
JDSN said:
Oh, a vídeo of a white guy tackled and killed by the police, this means that racism is a lie.
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That argument works both ways. "Oh, a couple stories about black people being profiled, this means this specific instance was also about racism"

There's a reason our court system is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Because your assumptions are not supported by evidence, by definition of being an assumption
 
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