re: Michael Bennett claims he was threatened by Vegas cop...

Oppressed people, generally, over the course of history, have come out to be on the right side of justice when it comes to abuse at the hands of govts, etc.

Am I wrong ?

Excellent post.

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I've had a cop grab the back of my neck and slam my face into the hood of his car. Had em yell ridiculous things to me for no reason.

Many cops just really suck.

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Yep. Some cops are awful. I absolutely believe there are officers would do what Bennett said.


However, a guy like Bennett is going to let the world know about it in approximately 30 minutes. Not two weeks

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StrongSafety

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Hates when people generalize about blacks...

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but as group, a group invested in their identity, they usually have no reason to fabricate conditions like this because they collectively relied on one another for survival.

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...then generalizes about blacks.

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After seeing the video, I dont buy all of Bennet's story.

I believe he was correct with him being stopped and detained for being "black at the wrong place at the wrong time. Shots rang out after the fight. Chances are police got word that the suspect was basically "big and tall black male". Unfortunately Bennet, among many others, including myself if I was there would fit that description. This isnt saying the cops were wrong, they have to do their due diligence in finding the shooter, as they have no idea who it may be other than hes black and maybe the color of his shirt.

What I dont buy is that the cops threatened to blow his brains out. That sounds fishy, not to mention the video doesn't reflect that part of the story at all. Maybe he made all this up for attention. Or maybe, he was so scared in that moment of being detained that he genuinely thought he was going to die and started playing scenarios in his head that never happened.

At the end he says the system failed him. I believe that I would disagree. He was not shot, doesn't appear that the cops tried to go Rodney King on him or anything. Not to mention, when they got to the station, they quickly realized their mistake and let him go. They didnt charge him with a crime, they didnt make him stay overnight or anything like that. I would argue the system did its job. Even if it freaking sucked because being arrested by the police while innocent would certainly ruin anyone's night.

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This. All of it. Also only one cop handcuffed him. I didn't see any knee in his back preventing him for breathing. He complied and after the mess was sorted out, he was released. I really don't see anything here.

I'm only on page three right now, so if you got your shite together since then, forgive me... but SS, you need to get your shite together man - you're all over the place and I can't make any sense of wtf you're trying to say



Hope I didn't just threaten your life

Can't reason with the "yeah but"s of the world

It's always "yeah but" until it's your own or it touches home.

That's how empathy understanding and compassion is lost. By drowning people's concerns and fears

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I personally believe a large percentage of the high profile ones were innocent or that excessive force/bad policing was used.

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Can't reason

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figures... you ain't tryna hear nuffin anyone else is saying

95% of the people here have

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empathy understanding and compassion

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for the people who actually dindu nuffin wrong..sensible people on this site have no problem calling out and blasting cops when they frick up and do wrong... stop trying to make it sound like we (white people) encourage and turn a blind eye to the injustices that actually happen...





ETA - also, why did this clown wait two weeks to go public with his claims?? Seems like he would have went loud with it shortly after it happened, no? Can you explain the delay?

ETApt2 - nevermind, I see his answer

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Perhaps he has the time, the money and the resources to thoroughly investigate how he would address this

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It took him two weeks to come up with the thorough plan of.................... releasing the tape to TMZ. frickin brilliant

It's complete horseshite

"DONT GENERALIZE BLACK PEOPLE"

One post later

"All white people and cops suck"