More Police deaths

[Hillian1]

I've just been text by a mate in America.

3 more Police Officers gunned down in Batton Rouge.

 

[Durlston]

What is wrong with the world? Not surprised it's happened again.

RIP to the police officers.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Three police officers have been shot dead in the US city of Baton Rouge and five others injured, US media reports say.

A police spokesman said the scene had been "contained". It was not clear if any suspects have been detained.

Reports say a lone gunman opened fire with an assault rifle.

It follows the recent killing of a black man by police in the city. That, and a police shooting in Minnesota, led to protests across the US.

The killings triggered a revenge attack by a black army veteran who shot dead five officers in the city of Dallas.

Baton Rouge police have warned residents to stay away from the scene of the latest shooting, which was near police headquarters and Airline Highway.

Footage shown on a local TV channel, filmed on a mobile phone, showed police cars arriving at a road intersection. Several shots were then heard.

Baton Rouge mayor Kip Holden said he had spoken to White House officials in Washington, who had offered assistance. He said it was "a defining moment" for community relations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36820782

RIP

 

[gregbrighton]

Surely tighter gun control laws will be needed if the police are being killed...

 

[Curious Orange]

Surely tighter gun control laws will be needed if the police are being killed...

Don't be daft - more guns is clearly the answer.

 

[Hillian1]

More guns is the answer.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Robocop is the answer. A robot killed the last Police killer.

 

[Hillian1]

Robocop is the answer. A robot killed the last Police killer.

I thought a robot killed the shooter in Dallas not the police?

Edit,

Read it wrong, maybe you're right, more robots with guns.

 

[studio150]

Now 3 dead and 4 injured.

The shootings in the States is becoming like the Wild West. you would have thought that in that time society would have moved on, it appears not in the land of the gun.

 

[whitelion]

I thought a robot killed the shooter in Dallas not the police?

Edit,

Read it wrong, maybe you're right, more robots with guns.

It (the robot) had an explosive device which did for the guy.

 

[symyjym]

Surely tighter gun control laws will be needed if the police are being killed...

https://youtu.be/34aR2Yiawic

 

[Hillian1]

It (the robot) had an explosive device which did for the guy.

Robots with guns AND grenades.

Liking your thinking.

 

[Not nick rhodes]

Young angry black men shooting at police again. Seems it is almost half expected because gun culture is so engrained in some black culture. Totally unacceptable as it would be if a angry white man was the shooter

Notice Hillian don't need to be rude to make a point. Probably something to do with education.

 

[vegster]

Sad, but an inevitable situation. Lots of angry people and lots of guns = Deaths.

 

[Eeyore]

 

[The Clamp]

I read an editorial in Time some time ago by a music executive who claims he attended a meeting in early 1991 also attended by representatives of the Industrial Private Prison complex. Private prisons had just been de-regulated and were being built all over North America. The representatives of the private prison system approached his music company to sign and heavily promote a number of black rap artists who used violent lyrics, promoted gun culture and focused on the accruing of wealth at any cost, including others lives. They said they wanted a music company to really push this agenda and they would pay expenses and costs to make it happen.
This particular music company refused, a few others took them up on the offer. Allegedly.

 

[Big G]

Wonder if all those dicks who turned out on the streets over there (and ever so cringe worthy embarrassingly over here) who are trying to turn every single shooting of a black person, even if justified, into a political issue and must automatically be racist will turn out again at the racially motivated killing of three human beings?..or is only a case of 'Black lives only matter and only cause outrage and offence when killed'!
W@nkers the lot of them!

 

[Hillian1]

Black lives matter,

But they only matter if taken by a policeman, the black lives taken by other blacks, EVERY day we don't want to talk about.





Probably see a ban for that, but needs saying.

 

[Whitechapel]

America genuinely seems like a country teetering on the edge of Civil War.

 

[Hillian1]

America genuinely seems like a country teetering on the edge of Civil War.

At least both sides will be armed.