Then: “I would like to challenge every American that is watching this show to treat people better,” said Bennett, speaking at a CNN town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper. “That really is what it’s about. It’s about treating people like human beings. That’s the first step.”
Why, you ask, is Michael Bennett on CNN? For this. He self-identified as a poor black man racially discriminated against by the Las Vegas Police.
Now:
The footage shows a 3-man police team — made up of 2 hispanic officers and 1 black officer — identify Bennett as a suspicious person who did not get down on the ground as ordered during the hotel sweep.
Video shows Bennett crouching and running in the casino before bolting out of a hotel door, jumping over a gate and running to the street.
That’ll show Americans how to treat everyone better, Michael, you lying sack of race bait.
Why would Mike turn down an opportunity to headline as a hero in this very fashionable victimhood narrative?
Been a Seahawks fan for the past 5 seasons but quite honestly am not so much recently. Not just the disrespecting of the USA flag, which it clearly is, but also an air of entitlement. Pete Carroll has/had a unique approach to his players which gave them freedom to express their opinions about their football game but also demanded an accountability. Now it seems these players are less accountable and their opinions more strident.
“As for Bennett, he told officers he was scared and was only thinking about getting home to his 3 young daughters.”
Wow, American black men sure make dedicated fathers!
Well,his message is a good one anyway, about treating people better.
Obviously two white hispanics and an Uncle Tom.
A black man, possibly a moslem given the beard, running from the scene of “shots fired”…… yeah, very possibly profiled. That my friends is the way of the world. And you know it’s true.
We judge events and people based on experience and precident. Until major behavioral changes happen, running black men and/or running moslems will be suspects. Do you think Bennett realizes this?? I for one doubt it.
But a pertinent question is: “Why is he in a casino (“out on the town”) without a wallet?” Ponder that!
Oops. I didn’t know that the word “m o s l _ m” caused comments to be held for moderation. I promise to do better in the future.
A lying sack of shit by any other colour still smells like a lying sack of shit. Note JT
“Obviously two white hispanics and an Uncle Tom. ”
After spending close to 70 years hearing the expression Uncle Tom, I read the book. The character, Uncle Tom, in the end died for his beliefs. What he didn’t do was fight meaningless battles he couldn’t win. He died for refusing to abuse other blacks. I don’t get it.
What do you expect from a movement started to support the “racial injustice” shown to a black criminal to attempted the murder of a white police officer? Of course the NFL (with the assistance of CNN) needs to redefine the narrative. Sorry … the NFL has permanently damaged its brand. Good luck coming back from this. Good luck. And PS … gay media “personalities” like Andersen Cooper … are hardly going to change sports fans opinions. But I expect Cooper is still butthurt over Michael Sam’s brief tour of football … and wants PAYBACK … that’s just the way the gay gestappo rolls …
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“kenji says… just the way the gay gestappo rolls”
kenji, bro… catch up… it’s “gaystappo.”
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Thank you for the pro-tip … I shall update my reference.
Wow, he was squealing like a little girl.
For a minute there it looked like a recreation movie of the south, until they let him go.
James Cameron will need to remake a plot whereas a squealing transgender Michelle Bennett (in a dress), is caught and whipped by 3 Christian white police officers before being thrown into prison for life for running away.
The left uses the perjorative to describe blacks who engage in activity that is not part of the leftist approved narrative. As such the fact that one of the arresting officers was black is not evidence of a lack of racism, but instead an example of a black doing the bidding of his master.
They use a couple of others too but I figured they’d get caught in the filter
” …. identif(ied) Bennett as a suspicious person who did not get down on the ground as ordered … (v)ideo shows Bennett crouching and running in the casino before bolting out of a hotel door, jumping over a gate and running to the street.”
Obvious racism. Bennett was just trying to take a knee.
Now a man’s personal prejudice is grounds for calling others racists – including blacks and hispanics apparently.
Just what is Bennett’s argument, that he was trying to take knee?
Yellow journalism that is besides the point. Regardless of Michael, it’s clear that America has a problem with police brutality and racism. He’s lucky it wasn’t the LAPD-they probably would have summarily executed him. Canada seems to have less police goonishness. This is a far more important issue than the non-disrespect of the flag (how is kneeling disrespectful?).
@UnMe
“…it’s clear that America has a problem with police brutality and racism”
I disagree, I highly doubt your assertion that police departments in the US have mandated officers including Black & Latino officers to systematically single out target blacks and Latino’s.
That’s fake news.
“(how is kneeling disrespectful?)” – UnMe
How is the “N Word” disrespectful?
In Alabama and Georgia they may as well have given the PO a mandate the target minorities. Arpaio certainly did.
“”(how is kneeling disrespectful?)” – UnMe
How is the “N Word” disrespectful?”
Answering a question with another question is usually the refuge of the confounded idiot.
“Canada seems to have less police goonishness.”
Yea right, plenty of cases of police corruption and racism in Canada…..Can post plenty more if you need.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/mountie-who-fired-taser-lied-at-inquiry-into-dziekanski-s-death-b-c-judge-1.2246649
“Const. Kwesi Millington has been sentenced for perjury and colluding with fellow officers for his testimony at an inquiry into Robert Dziekanski’s death”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/robert-dziekanski-taser-death-kwesi-millington-sentenced-to-30-months-for-perjury-1.3122941
@UnMe
“Answering a question with another question is usually the refuge of the confounded idiot.”
No actually, running from the obvious metaphor in the form of a dumb question is usually the refuge of the confounded idiot.
Are you confounded? Yup.
“it’s clear that America has a problem with police brutality and racism”
I don’t think that is clear at all. It is an assumption. If you look at some high-profile cases of police brutality, it often transpires that the police acted appropriately. There are measures in place to deal with inappropriate police action — and of course that sometimes happens, but I don’t believe it is nearly as rampant as BLM wants you to think. The problem is the media focus on the issue and groups like BLM pumping up the volume. The case of racism in the States is also greatly overstated. What they do have is a problem with a Black underclass that has involvement in gang activity and drugs. The gangs and drugs are not caused by racism against Blacks. They are problems that must be solved within the Black community.
RACISM!
“Vancouver police shooting of Vietnamese immigrant results in no criminal charges”
“…the Vietnamese immigrant was striking a fence with a two-by-four.
Du, a 51-year-old with a history of mental illness, was killed less than two minutes after Vancouver police had arrived on the scene.
….The unnamed officer who used lethal force stated that the suspect was “goal-oriented” to attack the other officer”,
https://www.straight.com/news/867596/vancouver-police-shooting-vietnamese-immigrant-results-no-criminal-charges
Unnamed officer, heh.
Here’s one…
Canada – “Victim’s head kicked ‘like a soccer ball’……Constable Gabriel Kojima turned to him and said, “Now, that was the shit you signed up for.”
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/victims-head-kicked-like-a-soccer-ball/article18258447/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
UnMe, it’s never racism in Canada….it called “bad judgment” with the possibility of some community service.
“Ismail Bhabha, police officer convicted of assault, given conditional discharge”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ismail-bhabha-assault-conditional-discharge-1.3302268
What was shown was video evidence from the policeman’s body camera, not “journalism” of any color, as in written up by someone second hand or worse.
You made an assertion without any evidence whatsoever: Regardless of Michael, it’s clear that America has a problem with police brutality and racism. In the case under discussion, Bennett was definitely wrong and the police was definitely within their rights and duty.
Your supposition is so ridiculously wrong. I have data from 2014 that shows 3640 blacks between the ages of 15 and 29 were victims of homicide. Of that number, 58 were due to “legal intervention.” That is in the whole country. That is 1.6%. (The actual total for blacks is 6798, but I don’t have legal intervention number for the total, it not being one of the top 15 causes of death.) You make it sound like the LAPD “summarily execute” blacks that had a run-in with them. In fact, the actual number for LAPD is so low I cannot find any data. My guess is at most one or two by probability, so maybe three for all blacks. If you are triggered by the latest news on LAPD, it was three victims of a car crash with an off duty officer driving while drunk. It was unfortunate, but had nothing to do with racism or police brutality.
Anyway, you should worry more about the over 6700 blacks who were killed by other than legal intervention, rather than the less than 100 who were.
Jimmy, I suggest you take a ride with the cops just one Friday night to see what they are up against before you condemn them all.
” If you look at some high-profile cases of police brutality, it often transpires that the police acted appropriately.”
No it doesn’t. You and the others are just licking the boot.
” There are measures in place to deal with inappropriate police action ”
They ‘deal with it’ by covering it up and giving paid vacay to the thug cop. Police are almost never held to account for the people they harass/kill. Kelly Thomas’s killers went free.
Further, black on black violence does not correlate with shootings of black people by cops.
http://reason.com/archives/2014/12/08/black-crime-and-police-killings#comment
Further, recent relevations from a Nixon aide confirm that the War on Drugs was an explicitly racist enterprise initiated in part to put black people down.
@Anonymous: funny thing is, national data on police killings is very hard to come by. Where did you get those numbers?
Who said I condemn them all?
My post was clearly support against UnMe’s ridiculous comment that police brutality in the US is systemic and sanctioned by departments to the point that black & Latino officers perpetrate racial crimes on black and Latino citizens.
His comments furthered that this was not an issue in Canada, when in fact the Canadian police crimes involved non-white police officers against a variety of ethnic peoples of different races.
In other words, UnMe is full of BS.
I never said it wasn’t an issue in Canada, just less of a problem.
And yes, racism is clearly a problem in some US PDs. The LAPD are unreformedly racist. Alabama is a shi*thole: http://reason.com/archives/2016/01/08/dothan-alabama-police-racism-corruption/1
“Canada seems to have less police goonishness.” – Unome
Ours are busy welcoming the 7,000 border jumpers who often haven’t even the courtesy to wait until said RCMP have finished voicing their standard instructions about how walking past them constitutes an illegal activity for which they’ll be arrested.
And many of these ‘refugees’ walk across with their matching luggage, knowing the ‘warning’ means less than nothing.
Relax already, everyone understands that your a good ANTIFA bootlicker.
Mikey, claim CTE.
That’s your only way out of the hole you put yourself in.
When you put it that way, Canada really is a much better place to live. No inland border checkpoints here.