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Mayor
It's always a big deal when some unarmed black guy gets shot by a cop. But who is really at fault ? The cop or the suspect ? This is what most people ask.
A third party in this scenario that is almost always overlooked though, is the US educational system. In a great many shootings of unarmed black men, if not the overwhelming majority, the reason is self-defense.
It becomes self-defense, by the suspect failing to keep his hands empty and visible to the cop. Then, the cop has no choice but to shoot, to defend himself against being shot, as that possiblity becomes the case. So the cop, following standard police academy training, shoots in self-defense. That is never a blame scenario. The suspect is just plain clueless, and doesn't know what he's doing. Again, blameless.
But what about all those teachers who failed to teach these guys how to act, when in confrontation with law enforcement officers ? I'd say they are more to blame than anyone. As kids, we all spend YEARS sitting at desks in classrooms learning fundamentally necessary things, mixed with a lot of quite unecessary things. Who sailed all around the earth ? (Magellan). Who discovered Florida ? (Ponce De Leon).
If teachers can make time to teach stuff like this, surely they could fit in some time to teach kids things they will need to know in order to stay alive. In addition to how to act in police confrontations, I've noticed that there isn't any education about criminal law. In 16 years of schooling. I never got one minute of it, nor did my kids, or grandkids. Kids are graduating from high schools and colleges without even knowing that hitting another person is a crime. In Florida, hitting a senior citizen is a larger crime, and even just inflicting psychological injury on an elderly person, is a 3rd degree felony (punishable by 5 years in a state prison)
The biggest problem to police shootings is public ignorance, caused by the ignorance of liberal teachers, who are most often clueless regarding guns and law enforcement.
Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine (state.fl.us)
A third party in this scenario that is almost always overlooked though, is the US educational system. In a great many shootings of unarmed black men, if not the overwhelming majority, the reason is self-defense.
It becomes self-defense, by the suspect failing to keep his hands empty and visible to the cop. Then, the cop has no choice but to shoot, to defend himself against being shot, as that possiblity becomes the case. So the cop, following standard police academy training, shoots in self-defense. That is never a blame scenario. The suspect is just plain clueless, and doesn't know what he's doing. Again, blameless.
But what about all those teachers who failed to teach these guys how to act, when in confrontation with law enforcement officers ? I'd say they are more to blame than anyone. As kids, we all spend YEARS sitting at desks in classrooms learning fundamentally necessary things, mixed with a lot of quite unecessary things. Who sailed all around the earth ? (Magellan). Who discovered Florida ? (Ponce De Leon).
If teachers can make time to teach stuff like this, surely they could fit in some time to teach kids things they will need to know in order to stay alive. In addition to how to act in police confrontations, I've noticed that there isn't any education about criminal law. In 16 years of schooling. I never got one minute of it, nor did my kids, or grandkids. Kids are graduating from high schools and colleges without even knowing that hitting another person is a crime. In Florida, hitting a senior citizen is a larger crime, and even just inflicting psychological injury on an elderly person, is a 3rd degree felony (punishable by 5 years in a state prison)
The biggest problem to police shootings is public ignorance, caused by the ignorance of liberal teachers, who are most often clueless regarding guns and law enforcement.
Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine (state.fl.us)
