OT 76ers Honor Fallen Police Officer

[H.C.]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...o-Officer-Robert-Wilsons-Death-295472711.html

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/20...-philadelphia-police-officer-during-warm-ups/

Funny how this isn't on the news.. Or being talked about constantly in the NBA.
Yet other things get talked about by the NBA, and they devote entire segments to them on National Broadcasts.

#DoubleStandard

 

[rasheedfan2005]

very nice of the sixers, very sad about the officer.

 

[jlprk]

#DoubleStandard

Your double standard is really apples and oranges. There's a big difference between black men killing policemen and then being punished, vs. policemen killing unarmed black men and boys, knowing they will get off scot-free. In this country, punishers aren't held to the very rules that they spend all day enforcing upon the rest of us.

 

[dviss1]

Caught Jlprk's post before I logged in...

Great post man. So true.

 

[H.C.]

Your double standard is really apples and oranges. There's a big difference between black men killing policemen and then being punished, vs. policemen killing unarmed black men and boys, knowing they will get off scot-free. In this country, punishers aren't held to the very rules that they spend all day enforcing upon the rest of us.

I won't go into every single reason why I said double standard but I will say a few things.
Why is there more outcry when "public defenders" murder unarmed people..
And negligible outcry when "public defenders" are murdered and taken away from their 8 and 1 year old children?
There is no difference outside of race, between the two murders. Murder is Murder.
The 1 year old will grow up without knowing their father personally.
Take race out of it for a moment. What's the difference?
There is none.. Until you bring race into the equation...
Which leads one to a double standard.

Bottom line is if there isn't a chance of white on black racial motivation in the crime.
It doesn't get a ton of media attention, nor does Obama come out and say how tragic this is.
(Even though it's just as tragic as a 16 year old jumping into someone's backyard and getting shot. Trespassing or not. Shouldn't have ended with a dead kid.)
It's not talked about for weeks on end. They don't bring in preachers to speak on sport talk shows.

There was a murder of a 20 year old athlete in my town last year.. He was white, and it was a brown man who stabbed him to death.
Wait, let me get the link....
http://koin.com/2014/11/16/linfield-college-student-killed-in-stabbing-officers-kills-suspect/
(they say he was trying to surrender, but people were told the murder weapon was still in his hand. when he was shot)
This crime is no different from the other crimes that have happened... Yet they've been talked about in the media and on sports shows endlessly.
WHY?
Race.
For awhile racial motivation is all First Take, and every show after them spoke about.
Why do certain murders get spoke about for week(s), when others get brushed under the rug?
Where is the outcry and public outrage for the 20 year old white kid who got murdered for no reason at 7-11?

It's not there for a few reasons, but the big reason is it's not a black kid getting stabbed by a white man.
I'm not trying to say white people are a victim. No one should play that card, black/white/green/orange/brown/purple.
However that card gets played in the media a lot when it's black on white.
But when a white person dies, and the crime could have racial motivation. The outcry isn't there.
It's just considered, "oh another guy killing someone".

We've come along way as a nation.
But the cop should be spoke about by national media/sports shows/NBA.
The 20 year old white kid should get some attention as well... More than just.. a small segment on the 10-oclock news.
Hell... The "Nurse in" at goodwill last week got more media attention, and more twitter reaction when the 18 year old girl mentioned she was surprised someone would do something like that so nonchalantly. But I digress... That's another topic.
If you're going to speak about murder... It can't just be racially motivated(white on black)..
But even further... if you do... It has to be the same for all races...
You can't pick and choose, Obama.

It's wrong, and it's a double standard.

Thank god the 76ers did something for the fallen police officer.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

media seems to be trying to insight riots and cause race war, i agree murder is murder, and as an aspiring officer, it saddens me both when officers dont use restraint and when a brother dies in the line of duty.

when someone honors someone like this, that isnt a hot topic with the media, at least it is genuine, and not just click bait. good on the 76ers

 

[PtldPlatypus]

The difference, honkicracker, is not race, but position. A black officer shooting a white unarmed teen would also be decried. Not because of race, or even the difference between the two individuals' races, but because of the perceived abuse of power exhibited by someone in a position that is supposed to elicit trust. What frustrates the populace is when their trust is misplaced, misused, broken, and that's how many feel about the existing state of law enforcement.

 

[blue9]

The difference, honkicracker, is not race, but position. A black officer shooting a white unarmed teen would also be decried. Not because of race, or even the difference between the two individuals' races, but because of the perceived abuse of power exhibited by someone in a position that is supposed to elicit trust. What frustrates the populace is when their trust is misplaced, misused, broken, and that's how many feel about the existing state of law enforcement.

No no no, that can't be it. It's reverse racism, plain and simple. #doesn'tunderstandhistoryandsocialfabricofsociety

 

[H.C.]

No no no, that can't be it. It's reverse racism, plain and simple. #doesn'tunderstandhistoryandsocialfabricofsociety

#tldr #notworthreplying.

The difference, honkicracker, is not race, but position. A black officer shooting a white unarmed teen would also be decried. Not because of race, or even the difference between the two individuals' races, but because of the perceived abuse of power exhibited by someone in a position that is supposed to elicit trust. What frustrates the populace is when their trust is misplaced, misused, broken, and that's how many feel about the existing state of law enforcement.

That makes a little sense.

I just disagree with the whole thing that one crime is worse than another.
Murder is Murder.

A police officer being murdered buying a game for his son. Is just as wrong as a police officer shooting an unarmed teen.
Just like it's just as wrong when someone stabs another guy @ 7-11.
The mere fact that more outrage, and media attention happens when it's a white person, killing a unarmed black person is wrong.
Either give the same media attention to both, or none at all. That right there is racial fabrication.
(oh he's a racist, the black teen was just trespassing. He was told not to go out there and confront him.. Yet he did. He's had racist issues in the past)

The 20 year old who was stabbed @ 7-11 was unarmed. Not a black police officer who murdered him... Therefore not a "position of power".

If it was, would there be as much outcry? Media attention? I highly doubt it. But that's not even my point.

Regardless should he have to be on guard while in a checkout @ 7-11 next to a college??
Should you have to look @ everyone thinking. "is this person going to murder me?"
Pretty ignorant if that's how human's should think.
People had the gull to question if the police were justified in shooting the suspect.
His family said he was "turning himself in".. Yet he kept the knife in his hand.
The media tried to interject racism into the crime, especially when his family said he was turning himself in.

It's really quite black and white.
A Crime is a Crime.
Murder is Murder.
Senseless murder happens everyday and only a small portion gets any attention by the media...
Even less has the President coming out and saying. "This is a real tragedy".
It's wrong to put one murder above the other.
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease".

If trust is the key, then people should be trusted not to shoot a police officer who is buying a game for his son.
Yet that doesn't happen. The police officer didn't go in there looking for trouble. It was a robbery, that turned into an ambush.

 

[blue9]

It's really quite black and white.

That's the problem - you think that things are black and white and they rarely are. Your comparisons are false equivalencies, and because you're looking at your false equivalencies through an either/or, black/white, right/wrong lens the conclusions you come to are faulty.

 

[H.C.]

That's the problem - you think that things are black and white and they rarely are. Your comparisons are false equivalencies, and because you're looking at your false equivalencies through an either/or, black/white, right/wrong lens the conclusions you come to are faulty.

This post right here is another thing that's wrong in today's world.
What a uneducated post, that is just not worth the time and effort in explaining why it is.
But you're right, my value of life is obviously different than the worlds value.
All murder is black and white, only certain murder gets remembered by the outside world.

Goes back to why the media is a stain on society.
Who are they to determine what is reported about?
They aren't people are.



Shame on the NBA/Media for not talking more about this Police Officer.
Kudos to the Sixers.

 

[MARIS61]

The difference, honkicracker, is not race, but position. A black officer shooting a white unarmed teen would also be decried.

Either you are completely mistaken, or black officers have never shot an unarmed white teen.

Either way, how about a link supporting this doubtful position of yours?

 

[blue9]

All murder is black and white...

So it's equally as bad that Hitler, John Wayne Gacy, and Bonnie Parker & Clyder Barrow were murdered, as it was that Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, John Kennedy, and Jesus were murdered? Talk about an uneducated point of view!
Keep living in your black/white, either/or world...

 

[Masbee]

The difference, honkicracker, is not race, but position. A black officer shooting a white unarmed teen would also be decried. Not because of race, or even the difference between the two individuals' races, but because of the perceived abuse of power exhibited by someone in a position that is supposed to elicit trust. What frustrates the populace is when their trust is misplaced, misused, broken, and that's how many feel about the existing state of law enforcement.

You do realize such an incident happened recently right? Unless, of course you are ignorant to this fact because you rely on the corrupt major media for your "news".

 

[PtldPlatypus]

You do realize such an incident happened recently right? Unless, of course you are ignorant to this fact because you rely on the corrupt major media for your "news".

Actually, I generally avoid news. I did see that a teen in Alabama was shot by a black cop shortly after Michael Brown's death, that that cop also was not indicted, that the media basically didn't cover it, and that the Twitter-sphere pointed out the fact that it wasn't covered and that there were no riots. To me, the difference was that...there were no riots. The media made a big deal about Ferguson because the people did first.

But that's probably just my ignorance talking.

 

[jlprk]

Apparently, the OP's point is to decry the media giving more attention to unpunished murders by police than to punished murders of police. But this brand new phenomenon will have to last for decades to counterbalance the bias I've seen all my lifetime. The media has always barely mentioned murders by police, while playing up murders of police, until very recently.

The cause of this refreshing change in media coverage is internet message boards (until the decentralized internet, the controlled media told us that everyone opposed drug legalization, too) and then the Ferguson demonstrations across the country.