This is a garbage article and biased against police as I have come to expect from the associated press. So I will dissect and disprove all the allegations within.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A prominent law enforcement training group is promoting a lengthy researc
h document riddled with falsehoods and conspiracies that urges local police to treat Black Lives Matter activists as terrorists plotting a violent revolution.
This entire document is filled with falsehoods and I will demonstrate how and where.
The document distributed by the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association contains misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric that could incite officers against protesters and people of color, critics said. It alleges Black Lives Matter and antifa, an umbrella term for leftist militants, are “revolutionary movements whose aims are to overthrow the U.S. government” and claims they are planning “extreme violence.”
Phillip Atiba Goff, a Yale University professor who is an expert on racial bias in policing, called the document dangerous, noting that the association is an important source of training materials for many small and midsize departments across the country.
“It’s stunning. It’s distressing in many ways. It’s untethered to reality,” said Goff, CEO of the Center for Policing Equity. “I worry that it leads to people dying unnecessarily.”
And he can prove that people are dying unnecessarily because of this training? How many people were killed by police during blm demonstrations compared to how many police have been murdered or shot during blm demonstrations? To the best of my knowledge, no one was killed by law enforcement at any such protest, yet, police officers have been murdered during protests. Baton Rouge, 2016, after the much justified shooting of alton sterling, a pedophile felon with a firearm that was actively trying to pull the gun out of his pocket while resisting arrest, led to three Baton Rouge officers being murdered a few days later. Two weeks later, a blm terrorist shot and killed nine at a blm protest for sterling in dallas. Laughably, that terrorist was killed by police when they strapped c-4 to a bomb robot and blew him to pieces. After the justified shooting of dijon kizzee(also a felon) in la, who fled from police and dropped a stolen gun. He then ran back to pick up the gun when he was shot, again, justifiably. That led to protests where two police officers were ambushed and shot in the face.
“Goff, whose group works with departments to make policing “less racist and deadly,” said the document showed why it’s important for critics to engage directly with local law enforcement to seek changes.
Otherwise, he said, “you are abandoning that profession to the worst impulses of this country.”
Putrid garbage. “Less racist and deadly and abandoned to the worst impulses of this country?” Black communities have the highest crime rate in every single city with the most shootings and murders. Police go where the violence and crime are the highest, so black neighborhoods are police more heavily-because of crime, not racist police. Are there racist and evil police? Yes, absolutely and they should be rooted out and fired.
An official with Color of Change, a nationwide racial justice organization, called on police departments Wednesday to cut training ties with the association, saying it encourages a warrior-style mindset that creates more conflict in communities.
“This is disturbing to read but not at all surprising to me. This is the type of thinking that is sadly pretty prominent within police culture,” said Scott Roberts, its senior director of criminal justice campaigns
This common talking point often used by radley balko, is a myth. The “warrior mindset” is false. Claiming it is “pretty prominent” is completely false. I have worked with hundreds of police officers and trained many officers in defensive tactics and taser and pepper spray. I spent much of my trainings focusing on deescalation but also taught officers how to arrest and fight using the least amount of force. There were very few officers I have ever worked with that had that “warrior mindset.” Very few-I can think of maybe five-most with military backgrounds. The rest want to serve their community to the best of their ability. But this article talks about how dangerous this mindset is, yet they have zero evidence to ever back that up. Their assertion that police are dangerous/deadly is the dangerous rhetoric they accuse the training of being because it turns people against police and encourages “engaging”(protests verbally and physically attacking all police) because of the rare occurrences of “police violence” which they describe as any police use of force (usually against armed black people) without ever looking into the event. The “say their name” campaign champions people like sterling, kizzee, mike brown, jacob blake, and many others who were violent and armed. They never even stop to consider what bad people these martyrs are and how many other black people(and other races as well) and how much carnage they have caused.
Protests across the nation were largely peaceful but occasionally marked by clashes with police or the destruction of property. Since then, many activists have been working to reduce the scope and cost of local police departments and overhaul police training.
Bullshit. When you have a thousand protests, but hundreds were violent, that’s not “largely peaceful.” Portland blm and antifa had over 120 straight days of riots-attacking police and destroying property with arson, vandalism, and attacking police with projectiles, Molotov cocktails and explosives. So, looking at the 120+ violent protests in Portland alone, plus kenosha and many other cities, you end up with probably 20-30%(guesstimate) of those protests devolving into violence. Yes, antifa is a terrorist organization as defined by splc and other organized that designate groups as domestic terrorists, yet neither antifa or blm appear on those lists. They define the domestic terrorism as using violence based upon political or ideological beliefs. Antifa alone is known for ALWAYS ending in violence or threats of violence. Even women’s rights events are met with trantifa violence as are peaceful religious sermons in public spaces.
If protests are peaceful, I encourage them. But they often contain violence or threats of violence and screaming in cops’ faces, throwing things, etc. and if it were the cops responsible, I wouldn’t have an issue with it, but after floyd, all police were targeted and blamed for what chauvin(one officer) did. That is not only unfair, it’s absurd. And if these protests were focused on the few that are wrongly killed-like Tyre Nichols-in TN (btw, I only capitalize the good people or non shitbags and use lower case for people I have no respect for, either politicians, district attorneys like larry krasner, alvin bragg, kim fox, george gascon, ben crump, al sharpton, or the violent felons that are often celebrated and mourned) instead of the shitbags like those I mentioned, I would be more supportive so long as they remain peaceful. Hell, they terrorize normal people by attacking them, destroying property, blocking traffic-basically unlawfully detaining them by surrounding their cars and preventing them from leaving.
TLDR, use a better article that has some relevance and truth.