Ft. Worth Officer Charged with Murder

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This incident does not come across as anything except a woman living her life in her home with a busy body calling the cops who end up sending someone extremely on edge and completely out of his element and over his head. So many times a shooting is justified, as it ends up resulting from the actions of suspect or person of interest or what have you, yet the community gets wrongly outraged but in this case you can't blame them.
Just playing the what if game here; was the neighborhood predominantly black or higher crime rate area? If it is either or, I can almost guarantee that the the tactics used are different. It’s no secret that if something like this was reported in a more affluent area going to the door and announcing that you’re the police would have been the first step, even if it was a suspected burglary. Unfortunately, a lot of majority black areas are in the lower scales of socio-economic status and therefore crime is policed much more heavily. And when I say heavily I mean the approach to a situation by police is highly different.

I’ll try and make this short. While driving back from an area near the border of Mexico with an enclosed trailer (5x8) Border Patrol pulled over my mother-in-law (Hispanic) for no reason other than she was driving “into” the US. With her and my wife up front the agents where ridiculously condescending, sarcastic, and accusing with their questions. As soon as I (white dude) popped up from my nap in the back seat everything became all apologies and explanations on why we got pulled over. Shit was ridiculous. I’ll never forget it and despite trying to rationalize their behavior (because of the higher crime rate and trafficking of drugs/people) I will never agree with the fact that two American citizens (one a veteran) were treated as though they had to prove their innocence based on skin color.

You might get surprised by the lack of support. I have personally experienced my "Brethren" stand back and wait until the verdict and my win, before "helping" and claiming victory and credit for themselves.

Their leaders call us to the legislature to show up in force; we get up and speak and say all the things they are afraid of saying; they cheeer us on; then when the shit hits the fan, they are no where to be found.
I vaguely recall your situation. Can you elaborate?
 

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This incident does not come across as anything except a woman living her life in her home with a busy body calling the cops who end up sending someone extremely on edge and completely out of his element and over his head. So many times a shooting is justified, as it ends up resulting from the actions of suspect or person of interest or what have you, yet the community gets wrongly outraged but in this case you can't blame them.

Would the dispatcher have been able to make a phone call to this woman’s residence or cell phone instead of sending an officer?

I don’t know if the police can access those records at will.
 

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he was charged because he needed to be charged, no way around it, he ****ed up period! and needs to pay the price, but as said, all this “white officer killed black woman” blah blah blah is just the media adding fuel to a fire that’s burning wild, not every ****ing senseless police shooting is race related, or race driven, but the ****ing media will make it that way at all cost, because after all, business is good when there is unrest between the races


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