In St. Louis, an off duty black police officer heard a commotion, and headed to the scene to render aid.<\/p>\n
He was promptly shot by another officer, because, of course, even an officer of the law is just a “N***** with a gun”.<\/p>\n
What stands out though is this quote<\/a>: <\/p>\n But Rufus Tate Jr., the black officer\u2019s attorney, took issue with that claim, saying his client complied with the other officers\u2019 commands and was never a threat.<\/span> (emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n This is the lawyer for the cop who got shot, and he says that the problem is not that black men are arbitrarily shot by police, but that they do it to black cops as well.<\/p>\n You see what is wrong here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In St. Louis, an off duty black police officer heard a commotion, and headed to the scene to render aid. He was promptly shot by another officer, because, of course, even an officer of the law is just a “N***** with a gun”. What stands out though is this quote: But Rufus Tate Jr., the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,526,398],"class_list":["post-180196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span>\u201cIn the police report, you have so far, there is no description of threat he received,\u201d he told St. Louis Fox-affiliate KTVI<\/a>. \u201cSo we have a real problem with that. But this has been a national discussion for the past two years. There is this perception that a black man is automatically feared.\u201d <\/span>
<\/span>Tate said the incident was a case of \u201ca black professional, in law enforcement, himself being shot and treated as an ordinary black guy on the street<\/span><\/b>. This is a real problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n