Police Officers Lives Also Matter.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3694441/Masked-gunman-shoots-multiple-cops-Baton-Rouge-two-weeks-video-officers-killing-Alton-Sterling-dead-provoked-outrage.html

[albaqwerty]

didn't see it ummm, but wouldn't be the first time the media has put a 'spin' on things

[sunny-dave]

It appears that young black men are more likely (per capita) to get shot by the Police in the USA - but how much of that can be laid at the door of their societal upbringing and attitudes, rather than racist/corrupt police?

Every black victim is suddenly a saintly, church going, polite young man in the eyes of his community - is this likely?

I have no idea of the answer - just that the problem is probably not as simple as "racist cops shoot too many blacks" - nor is this incident in Baton Rouge as simple as "hoodlum uses any excuse to shoot cops".

I am just profoundly glad that most young black men in the UK don't routinely carry a gun, and that most police in the UK aren't armed, which means we have avoided the spiral of gun violence that besmirches the USA.

[jim360]

Thanks ummmm and Hypo for the additions.

[anotheoldgit]

Could it be that America is a perfect example of how the 'Multi Cultural, Multi Racial' experiment just doesn't work?

They say that when America sneezes we later catch the cold.........

[mikey4444]

AOG....if the "Multi Cultural, Multi Racial" experiment isn't working, whose fault is that ?

Is it the Africans that were dragged out of their homeland against their will and taken to the Americas, or is it the mostly white Americans who did the dragging ? ( and the British before them )

12.6% of the American population is black, but the country remains overwhelmingly white..... 72.41%.

[retrocop]

The overwhelming minority indeed but they still got a black president to run the country. Can't get much fairer than that!