Walmart

And speaking of Walmart and issues unrelated to police brutality, the Black Lives Matter demonstrators/protesters managed to get two of our Walmarts closed yesterday afternoon (Sunday, big shopping day). 

Their issue?  A spokesperson said because the Walton family is wealthy and they don't want rich people, e.g. the Waltons, enriched by shoppers, even though the shoppers can better afford many essential items at Walmart.

True, the Walton family is wealthy.  Started by Sam Walton operating a five and dime who figured out how to market to customers, partly through low/competitive/bargain pricing.  Still that way today, the price of most items purchased by the household shopper are lower than anywhere.   And BTW that family spreads a lot of the wealth around.   

And we are talking shoppers AND employees of all races and ethnicities, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, you name it.  So, all they did was negatively impact the "lives" of people they claim to be protesting in favor of.  JMHO.

Glaring example of the stupidity of these people.

I agree with much of what you say, Kevin, (except for "many cops think Blacks aren't fully human", because I can't know what they think.  Maybe you have spoken with some who said this).   It is mult-faceted.   

I have asked where is the training?  Have "they" not seen/heard enough to know what works and what doesn't when approaching an angry drunk, a street fight, a fleeing suspect?  I'm guessing many of their calls, or decisions to pull someone over, involve a person(s) with an outstanding warrant, or open container or carrying a weapon, maybe a stolen car, while on parole.  Those guys (or gals)  know they will be in worse trouble, maybe going back to jail or prison.  They will do anything to avoid that, including attacking the cop in any way possible.  Gosh, just the practice of putting a 'suspect' in handcuffs has to turn a risky situation close to disaster.   But we, the public, expect to be protected from law breakers, right?  Talk about a rock and a hard place for cops.

 Resisting arrest changes everything. It is that simple.

I have an idea.  Teach people to not run away.  Teach people not to resist.  What does color have to do with this?

Nothing.

I suspect that a person of any color learns the value of resisting after spending time in the pokey.   Breaking parole in any way (speeding, no license, drinking, have a weapon, drugs, "resisting") can guarantee a return to jail.   Or, get roughed up by a cop just one time and that teaching goes out the window.  Resistence may be "futile", as the saying goes, but it will be tried, anything to keep from going back to jail. 

I wonder if it ever entered the minds of those who don't want to go back to jail to quit breaking the law? is that an unreasonable request?

The sit-down protesters who shut down the segregated lunch counters at Woolworths North Carolina in 1960 prevented lots of other folks from eating tasty pancakes and burgers. Some diners who showed up were probably really hungry and were disappointed when the couldn't eat there. I bet some had hungry children too! And there were probably some black people in the kitchen who lost wages as a result. Talk about hurting your own people!

Frank Winfield Woolworth who founded the original five-and-dime years before built his business on satisfying his customers with low-cost choices. And yet the protesters just didn't care about that, just there own selfish goals.

How sad.

ms. selfie said-"And yet the protesters just didn't care about that, just there own selfish goals." ----- How true, for that is exactly what today's protesters are doing.