Posted by Jack
When Ferguson, Missouri was burning with racism and rioting, misinformation and mayhem over the Michael Brown shooting, another American city is also grappling with the death of an unarmed young man at the hands of police. The incident occurred just two days after the Ferguson event, but, unlike in that case, where a white cop shot a black youth, in this instance the races are reversed. Unlike in Ferguson, there is no allegation that the young man attacked the officer. And there is another difference:
The national media, Attorney General Holder, and Barack Obama are silent.
The young man was 20-year-old Salt Lake City resident and father-to-be Dillon Taylor. Taylor was leaving the 2102 South State Street 7-Eleven on August 11 with his brother, Jerrail Taylor, and cousin, Adam Thayne, when the incident occurred.
Allegations have been made, however, that Taylor was a victim of mistaken identity and, perhaps, overly-aggressive policing. As KUTV reports:
Dillon’s brother and cousin claim they were on their way to visit his parents’ graves and that Dillon was surprised by the police presence. He was not aggressive, they said.
“He had headphones in, and he couldn’t hear [anything], and then they finally surrounded him,” Jerrail said. “They’re like, ‘Get on the ground,’ and [he] pulled up his pants and [they] shot him.”
Thayne believes police might have thought his cousin was reaching for a gun when, in reality, he grabbed his cell phone.
“I was in shock, because he was wearing a white t-shirt and there was blood all over it,” Thayne said. “They ran up and handcuffed him. He wasn’t moving.”
A witness’s video shows police yelling for the two men to remain on the ground as Thayne repeatedly screams that they have shot his cousin.
The two men were taken to the police station, but released hours later without being charged or cited. Unlike the Ferguson Police, many Salt Lake City law-enforcement officers wear body cameras, and the incident was caught on video. The video is currently being withheld, however; Police Chief Chris Burbank says that it, along with the name of the officer firing the shots, will be released at the “appropriate” time.
Excessive force and unlawful shootings by police are a serious issue that needs to be addressed regardless of the race of the victim. That said, this is something that happens more often to blacks then whites.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men
I hope that this shooting does get more press attention. But I’m not angry that the media would choose to focus more on the Brown case; for one thing, the protests and looting there draw more attention than a case which has no protests and no looting, so it makes sense that the media would pay more attention there.
The police have a job to serve and protect. The militarization of the police and their pandering to corporate control of the country is alarming.
They are not the military and the military gear needs to be locked up. The national Guard can disperse the gear in a true attack on the us.
The police pointing guns at peaceful people is unacceptable.
The use of force being shoot to kill even if a tazer would work is disgusting.
The efforts to claim a well know Klan state is not racist is just plain Ignorance.
all it takes is a trip to the blogs ect in MO and Kansas. Yep good old Kansas the home to the new commanders in Chiefs for the Tea Party. The koch’s who father was a founding member of the J Birch society.
Anti Law anarchist Hotze Koch who’s newspaper printed anti democracy editorials and propaganda to build a town for a railroad.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/800289c9-ad60-4e73-971d-c2cf42d55e0c/1114f9d04902b9bd617f2a11e6916fb0
To Harry, regular Americans had no place in politics, a domain of capitalists, railroad men and progressive boosters like himself. Democracy itself was an abomination, a dangerous idea that needed to be constrained and restricted to the upper classes of society. In fact, he considered laws to be overrated.
http://exiledonline.com/the-birth-of-the-koch-clan-it-all-started-in-a-little-texas-town-called-quanah/
I have been trying to get access to Harry’s opeds without going to Texas and I will.
The Oligarch shall rule if the Tea Party gets their way
Hmmm…people often impose their own prejudices when they read or hear things. What in the world might Dewey have thought when he read:
What do you think it means?
If we can try to follow Dewey’s thinking it appears he believes this is an “anti democracy editorials”…”propaganda to build a town for a railroad.”
Building a town is pretty radical. But is it anti-democracy?
I think I found where Dewey came up with that anti-democracy bit. It’s right there on the Hotze “Harry” Koch Wikipedia page. Old Harry didn’t back the New Deal. Yes folks this man is considered anti-American because he believed that individual Americans could make it on their own just like he did!
Of course historians can now see that although the New Deal helped some Ameican’s it did not bring prosperity to America overall. In fact, many believe it caused the depression to persist for seven long unnecessary years:
Gee…sounds a bit like what has gone on over the last six years!
Te pathetic thing is that the glories of the New Deal have been expanded by our socialist friends over the last seventy years. Our government is much too big and has much too much power to affect our lives and our economy. Socialism creates shared misery and is ruled by an elitist few who live as lavishly on the peoples dime as Bill and Hillary and Obama and Michelle are now.
Harry Koch believe in freedom. He believed all Americans should be free to pursue happiness as they saw fit. He did not believe in government control or union coercion. That was his opinion. It did not make him an anarchist.
Back to what Harry Koch might have meant when he wrote: “”If we depended upon laws to make us perfect the United States should be a near Utopia and Texas would be the most heavenly spot on earth.”
Since he begins with the word “if” I have to assume he believes it is something other than the law that creates the potential for becoming a decent human being. Gee I wonder what that might have been? might he have been thinking of a higher power…you know, like the guy who the founders recognized as the giver of our inalienable rights?
I’m still not sure what the man was saying. We need more information. We need to see the words placed in context. it sounds tongue in cheek…perhaps a bit sarcastic to me. What might have prompted him to say this?
Maybe it was those union bosses with their baseball bat enforcement who bullied, bashed, and coerced their way to wealth and power by organizing workers into extortion mobs.
That is not democracy…it is organized mob rule. The workers are not free. They’ve sold their souls for a little security. The tactics are straight out of the organized crime syndicate’s playbook. Billionaire Saul Alinsky learned how to operate socially and politically from Frank Nitti (Al Capones gang) who showed him the ropes.
National review:
Alinsky’s methids are utilized by the powers that run the Democrat Party and they are the architechts of the current economy which has rivaled the great depression in terms of opportunity to grow poverty.
If your worried about being ruled by an oligharchy, Dewey, you should be alarmed by the amount of money and influence that this man and his followers already have in our government.
NewsMax gave David Koch a chance to speak for himself:
Come to think of it, maybe old Harry Koch was simply saying that Texas in those days already had too many controlling, manipulative laws.
Laws don’t make people behave better. Only a good moral upbringing will do that and then only when the individual chooses to live a moral life. If human beings were able to live totally moral lives there would be no need for the law. The law is not about controlling what we do. It exists to set boundaries and providesa framework to meet out justice after the fact. Otherwise we in our republic should be free to live as we see fit.
Dewey has been duped.
Chris you don’t know anything about law enforcement, that’s obvious. Police are not the problem. We do not have a problem with officer involved shootings. They are almost 100% justified. The problem exists in the people police deal with, which happen to be lower end criminals with a lot of issues. They might be high on dope, drunk, combative, obnoxious and threatening, you name it, it’s a wonder more of these morons are not shot by police.
Bob: “… it’s a wonder more of these morons are not shot by police.”
A testament to their training, dedication, and integrity.
This man hits some key points, his frustration is evident, but apparently it is not newsworthy enough for any TV newscast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f0mVn0HH6U
Bob: “We do not have a problem with officer involved shootings.”
Thankfully informed people on both the left and right disagree, and are recognizing the problem. From the American Conservative:
Seven Reasons Police Brutality Is Systemic, Not Anecdotal
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/seven-reasons-police-brutality-is-systematic-not-anecdotal/
We have a criminal and drug abuse problem that is even greater!
This chart for only 1/2 of 2013 and only three states makes those few instances of police brutality (Without full disclosure of circumstances) pale in comparison.
If individual police forces find they have problems with their officers then certainly something needs to be done but it is up to the municipality, the people, to do it!
If the race baiters and activist and media pimps kept their noses out of these situations and quit hyping them for headlines it might be easier to determine not only what happened but who is at fault. If officers are found to be in the wrong then justice will prevail. It should also be true for citizens who turn out to be in the wrong,
I am really sick of the cop bashing…especially from people that have zero respect for the law and civility anyway.
After the shooting in Las Vegas this year FOX News reported that the number of law enforcement deaths were up 40% at that time from the previous year.