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On 12/1/14 12:14 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:37:22 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 12/1/14 10:11 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/1/2014 9:54 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
Reacting to five members of the St. Louis Rams coming onto the field for
Sunday’s game displaying the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ gesture, a St.
Louis police officers fraternal organization is demanding the team
discipline the players, and that the team and league issue a formal
apology, reports KSDK.

In a statement released Sunday evening, the St. Louis Police Officers
Association condemned the display, calling it “tasteless, offensive and
inflammatory.”

Prior to player introductions before Sunday’s game, five players —
Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens, and Kenny Britt
— came out onto the field first with their hands in the air prior to
being joined by their teammates.

Responding to the display, the statement reads, “The St. Louis Police
Officers Association is profoundly disappointed with the members of the
St. Louis Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of
evidence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week and
engage in a display that police officers around the nation found
tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.”

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What is tasteless, offensive and inflammatory is the number of incidents
in which police beat up, shoot, and kill unarmed civilians.

You are exaggerating. How many police stops are made per year? How
many result in unarmed civilians being beat up, shot or killed?

There seems to be at least one a week that makes the news.

OK and there are about 50 million police contacts a week (Based on
over a million cops working 5 days a week and 10 contacts a day per
cop) .so a 0.0000002% rate is not really that bad. How many were
undeserved?

Most of those involving unarmed civilians. Oh, do you have a source for
your statistics? And how does the rate of police killings in this
country compare to the rates in, say, Canada, England, France, and
Germany? Not the total, the rate per thousand?

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