[Goodell Admits NFL Was Wrong Not to Listen]

32 minutes ago, thebandit27 said:

I’m sure that the intent is good here; the issue I have with your post is that the two facts presented are simply incorrect.

 

It isn’t mainly African Americans killed by police (though on a per-million-people basis AAs make up a disproportionately high percentage of victims), and a very quick google search shows multiple 10+ year sentences for white officers convicted of murdering unarmed black people within the last calendar year.

 

None of that is to say that police violence or racial inequities aren’t an issue that deserves attention, but rather to say that the argument has more staying power when the facts presented are accurate.

I’m not excusing the assault, but standard protocol is apparently to secure the area and not touch the victim until the med team arrives (have to find the source of that but I read it yesterday)

 

I don't need stats, especially those same stats that are documented and can be skewed to fit whatever or whoever's narrative.  I've lived police abuse and know MANY, many people who have lived it.  I have been racially profiled and pulled over many times because of the pricey vehicles I own.  During those stops, I was told I was pulled over because my tail light was out or my license plate light was too dim....   I knew these were lies because both of my vehicles at that time were brand new.  At those times weapons were placed at my back, I was handcuff ("for their safety and mine") and my vehicle was searched with a dog...  all this because of a supposed tail light that miraculously was working fine when they brought me to the back of my car????  Yeah ok, stats....

 

When I first purchased my new home in Falls Church, VA....  I got pulled over 3 times within the first month, in my neighborhood for the "dim license plate light", supposedly not coming to a complete stop at a Stop sign and a "a vehicle like this was described in an previous altercation"....   they asked who's vehicle I was driving, what was I doing in that neighborhood that time of night (around 8pm which isn't late at all) and what is it exactly I do for a living....   now out of all those times pulled over in my neighborhood, my vehicle was searched, I was placed in cuffs but wasn't arrested, and never ticketed for these made up infractions....   so I don't really give a damn about these stats that you speak of because situations like this is EXACTLY why people get shot for no reason.  I, like many others should have never been pulled over based on the worth of the vehicle I OWN or the neighborhood in which I OWN a home.  This is America....  supposedly the home of the free.  Anybody can create stats to support THEIR argument.  But I lived and live it.

[Goodell Admits NFL Was Wrong Not to Listen]

On 6/5/2020 at 4:44 PM, Bferra13 said:

The NFL probably doesnt care about kneeling, they care about $$$$. Let them kneel again, and people will be turned off and tune out. Lose lose situation here.

 

The only people that would be turned off and tuned out would be the same folks that have no problem with people mainly African Americans being unnecessarily abused and killed by police, unjustly.  So we hope and pray "those" type of people ARE turned out.  It makes more room for the people who want EQUAL RIGHTS FOR EVERYONE to be tuned in!!

 

I bet those same potentially turned off/tune out people also have zero problems with the fact that Michael Vick did more jail time for animal abuse, than ALL of the excessive force murdering police COMBINED have ever done for unjustly killing and abusing HUMAN BEINGS!!!  I wonder why....

 

Let that sink in for a minute....