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Wacked you for pretending something abnormal happened in here.
Whats extreme? It boils down to a handful of us, 6 or 7 of us who are less tolerant and trusting of the enemy than the rest of yall, that's all
Wacked you for pretending something abnormal happened in here.
I mean just imagine it...
Random.
www.nbcnews.com
Fort Worth shooting of Atatiana Jefferson exposes police training failures
As the department is scrutinized, the desire for federal standards for use of force and de-escalation training across the country are being championed.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Huddled around a lectern at an historically black church, more than two dozen faith and community leaders unified their voices Wednesday to demand federal intervention following the fatal police shooting of a black woman while she was babysitting her nephew.
The killing of Atatiana Jefferson, 28, has become the latest flash point in one of Texas' largest cities, where members of the black community want a federal investigation for what they say is a pattern that has persisted for years of excessive force and civil rights violations.
"It's time for somebody else to take control of putting in place the right mechanism to hold the city of Fort Worth and our Fort Worth Police Department accountable," said the Rev. Kyev Tatum, an activist and president of the Tarrant County chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Tatum and others are calling for a federal consent decree, which would involve the Department of Justice investigating the Fort Worth Police Department and mandating potential reforms, as has happened in cities such as Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, where police-involved fatalities led to unrest. The faith leaders planned to send a joint letter Thursday to Attorney General William Barr.
Fort Worth defense attorney Albert Roberts, who lost a 2018 bid for Tarrant County district attorney, said the city created a race and culture committee after a previous alleged case of police abuse. The committee spent two years talking to various communities and city officials and made recommendations, including creating a citizens review board to monitor police, but none have been implemented.
"We don't need anybody to tell us we have a problem," Roberts said.
Fort Worth officials have said that a third-party panel of national experts will review the police department and that the city will hire a police monitor who would create a community oversight board.
But as the department's tactics come under renewed scrutiny, the desire for federal standards for use of force and adequate training across the country are being championed more forcefully by activists and politicians in the wake of the Fort Worth shooting.
"Atatiana Jefferson should still be alive," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a Democratic presidential candidate, tweeted this week. "We need real reform, now — including federal standards for the use of force that incorporate proven strategies like de-escalation, verbal warning requirements, and the use of non-lethal alternatives."
Fort Worth shooting of Atatiana Jefferson exposes police training failures
As the department is scrutinized, the desire for federal standards for use of force and de-escalation training across the country are being championed.
Oct. 16, 2019, 7:54 PM EDT
FORT WORTH, Texas — Huddled around a lectern at an historically black church, more than two dozen faith and community leaders unified their voices Wednesday to demand federal intervention following the fatal police shooting of a black woman while she was babysitting her nephew.
The killing of Atatiana Jefferson, 28, has become the latest flash point in one of Texas' largest cities, where members of the black community want a federal investigation for what they say is a pattern that has persisted for years of excessive force and civil rights violations.
"It's time for somebody else to take control of putting in place the right mechanism to hold the city of Fort Worth and our Fort Worth Police Department accountable," said the Rev. Kyev Tatum, an activist and president of the Tarrant County chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Tatum and others are calling for a federal consent decree, which would involve the Department of Justice investigating the Fort Worth Police Department and mandating potential reforms, as has happened in cities such as Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, where police-involved fatalities led to unrest. The faith leaders planned to send a joint letter Thursday to Attorney General William Barr.
Fort Worth defense attorney Albert Roberts, who lost a 2018 bid for Tarrant County district attorney, said the city created a race and culture committee after a previous alleged case of police abuse. The committee spent two years talking to various communities and city officials and made recommendations, including creating a citizens review board to monitor police, but none have been implemented.
"We don't need anybody to tell us we have a problem," Roberts said.
Fort Worth officials have said that a third-party panel of national experts will review the police department and that the city will hire a police monitor who would create a community oversight board.
But as the department's tactics come under renewed scrutiny, the desire for federal standards for use of force and adequate training across the country are being championed more forcefully by activists and politicians in the wake of the Fort Worth shooting.
"Atatiana Jefferson should still be alive," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a Democratic presidential candidate, tweeted this week. "We need real reform, now — including federal standards for the use of force that incorporate proven strategies like de-escalation, verbal warning requirements, and the use of non-lethal alternatives."
In the Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night, candidate Julián Castro, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, brought up Jefferson's killing as he explained why he rejects a mandatory gun buyback program.
"I am not going to give these police officers another reason to go door-to-door in certain communities, because police violence is also gun violence and we need to address that," he said
Samuel Walker, a professor emeritus of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and an expert on policy accountability, said a federal standard is necessary and would go a long way to help departments that are not at the forefront of de-escalation and other policing tactics.
"There should be federal standards on use of deadly force although I worry about it getting through Congress," Walker said, "whether Congress will adopt a strong policy."
A bill that would bar police chokeholds, introduced in 2015 after the death of New York man Eric Garner while being arrested by police, remains held up in Congress.
Meanwhile, more than 30 states have passed laws related to de-escalation, Walker said, with departments adopting use of force standards that also take into consideration mental illness and are aimed at preserving life.
"The problem is in this country we have 18,000 separate law enforcement agencies. There's no national governing standards apart from Supreme Court decisions, so it's a serious problem," Walker said. "There's a lot of reform happening, but it's being done on a piecemeal basis and too often it's crisis management."
Departments can benefit from not only laying out when officers can and cannot shoot, he added, but by implementing review boards that look at shootings over a certain period and can pinpoint recurring problems.
"Are there problems with our policy, with our training? Or is it in the supervision and that's a huge issue?" Walker asked. "What you really have to have is a comprehensive approach to use of deadly force, and most departments don't meet all of those standards."
De-escalation training was being done in Fort Worth even before the latest police-involved shooting. The department said last year that its training sessions "have been modified to provide more tools to resolve police encounters that emphasize the safety of residents and officers."
It's a fucked up mentally I don't have the answer to.
Wtf?!? I don't need anyone's permission to voice my opinion. If you on sambo church nigga coon shit then you on some sambo church nigga coon shit. I don't need anyone's permission to state the obvious and call it what it is. Any black person who instantly forgives a cold blooded convicted murderer who has an undeniable history of saying racist shit can kiss my ass. Foh thinking I need your permission to say it.
you can be that and still be respectful to someone HERE on this BLACK platform without all the extra shit, is the bigger point
Wtf?!? I don't need anyone's permission to voice my opinion. If you on sambo church nigga coon shit then you on some sambo church nigga coon shit. I don't need anyone's permission to state the obvious and call it what it is. Any black person who instantly forgives a cold blooded convicted murderer who has an undeniable history of saying racist shit can kiss my ass. Foh thinking I need your permission to say it.
Lol at these name taking ass niggas. Lol at these imma tell massa if you keep talking about us ass niggas. I said it and I meant every word of it.
