tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post2323600097455443404..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Terror and RaceDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-55155467897584440842017-02-02T22:54:35.678-05:002017-02-02T22:54:35.678-05:00Hi,
This could use one extra piece of context on ...Hi,<br /><br />This could use one extra piece of context on police officers shooting fleeing suspects. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleeing_felon_rule" rel="nofollow">Fleeing Felon Rule</a> originates in common law and so it is indeed quite old. Since 1968, the Supreme Court ruled in <i>Tennessee v Garner</i> that police may not shoot an unarmed, non-dangerous fleeing suspect but continued to allow it in the case of an armed suspect because of possibility of harm to the officer or others.<br /><br />So a policy of shooting rioters probably would not pass muster anymore, we've come that far. This is also why the Taser is so critical in the Walter Scott case, as the officer would not be able to justify deadly force if Scott had not actually taken it.<br /><br />PS I have an interesting theory about the prevalence of broken windows policing technique nowadays that ties in with the theories of Strauss & Howe. I'm happy to discuss it over email.<br /><br />Thanks for the blog,<br /><br />BenAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06919503534660302761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-24259817012635479772017-01-14T08:34:55.363-05:002017-01-14T08:34:55.363-05:00Great piece! And Bozon makes a good point, re nort...Great piece! And Bozon makes a good point, re northern racism - though, wintering down south, I would argue there is still a big difference. The extent to which white police reflect the society they are drawn comes out of your paper very strongly. Amazing you have kept it for fifty years!Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867780321948410850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-82384637035328852372017-01-13T21:52:27.136-05:002017-01-13T21:52:27.136-05:00Professor
Great topic. Well reiterated here in Ame...Professor<br />Great topic. Well reiterated here in America. <br /><br />We never tire of it.<br /><br />At least you point out that white northerners apparently have more or less the same racial views as white southerners.<br /><br />This comes as a surprise to many liberals from the Boomer generation.<br /><br />One important point is that they always did. The aftermath of the Civil War postponed northern racial backlash for 80 or a 100 odd years. As you say, plenty of white southerners went north and west too, in the 20th Century. That meant nothing racially, in my judgment. There had always been plenty of racism there, from the beginning, just almost no blacks.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-43776042962996907662017-01-13T16:31:22.864-05:002017-01-13T16:31:22.864-05:00One aspect of police procedure seems to create man...One aspect of police procedure seems to create many opportunities for officers to fire their weapons. It is the 'I felt threatened' thing that police feel they can fall back on for protection from grand jury investigations.<br /><br />Saw this in the Jerry Waller death in Fort Worth several years ago. Two cops were called to a wealthy area of Fort Worth to investigate an alarm at night. The two pulled up to the wrong house and walked up the driveway. The owner of the house (a 75 year old local businessman) heard commotion and, grabbing a pistol, went out into his garage (the our door was open).<br /><br />The owner and the police conversed...one of the two cops (both were in their first year) quickly fired his 9mm 8 or 9 times and hit the homeowner (Jerry Waller) with bullets 6 or 7 times. The man's wife came out into the garage...saw her husband gunned down. She was quickly escorted out of the garage by the police (ostensibley to re-arrange the crime scene as needed, it is alleged). <br /><br />Irony: the cop who filled the homeowner with lead was trained by his father, who was a captain in the Fort Worth police department...and was in charge of the training division.<br />The cop who did the shooting claims he 'felt threatened'...and thus pulled the trigger.<br /><br />The Fort Worth grand jury declined to charge the officer. The 'felt threatened' routine worked. An innocent man was gunned down by a trigger-happy youn cop who was not even at the correct address. The family is in a 'wrongful death' lawsuit with the city ($6 million).<br /><br />It should never have happened. The cop did not need to open fire. The man kilkled did not fire his weapon...and was killed in his own garage. Oh...and he was white.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14093586972931925258noreply@blogger.com