Alton Sterling and what we know so far. Let's be objective.

I do know how to use Google, but most of the stories I'm finding involving armed standoffs don't have pictures of the suspect.

Update: But I did find this one from a week ago. Black guy, pointed gun at police officers, arrested. Although are you going to nitpick and say he didn't get a shot off so it doesn't count?

How many more do I need to satisfy you? Should I quit my job now or...?

nope. 229 unarmed people were killed by police last year. 103 were white. 79 were black.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database

Ok. You found one story. Well done *claps*

Yes the bolded does concern me. I find it very hard to believe that misfired a gun at an officer and was no charged with attempted murder. But I digress...

A couple of days ago, a white man in Jackson, Mississippi, was shot by police for throwing bottles at them. He was otherwise unarmed. You probably didn't see that one on social media - I wonder why so few people heard about it?

In fact, there were more unarmed white and Hispanic men shot and killed by police in the US last year than black men (24 black, 36 white or Hispanic), according to the Washington Post. Didn't hear much about them on the news, did we?

AndAlton Sterling wasn't even unarmed!

Thecameras were on (they did not turn them off - where did you hear that?) butfailed to acquire useful footage as they were knocked off in the struggle.

Thelocal police department actually turned the case over to the feds and theJustice Department very promptly. Furthermore, the officers, if intending to dono good, made an odd choice to engage Sterling with onlookers watching andfilming right by them. Doesn't look like a very good conspiracy, does it?

Not being so quick to become carried away with race rhetoric and taking a more reserved stance on limited information means the very opposite of jumping the gun. Jumping the gun is precisely what you are doing, sir.

Get your facts right. He was black. Look at the video footage.

Don’t just pluck numbers out your ass and expect me just to accept them. Name them.

Give me examples. Now bear in mind that USA is 73% white (approx.) Show me videos of white men being shot by police while being restrained by two officers on top of him? You will struggle with that because the police do not go into situations with whites with the expectation of having to use deadly force like they do when confronting black people.

Show me videos of 12 year old white kids getting blasted. There was no justifiable reason for the use of a gun on that man in the position he was in. Face down, hands bound behind his back and shot, this is murder 2 at a minimum for the trigger man. Not to mention all the other charges that can and should be throw at both officers. .

If whites are getting gunned down in cold blood as often as black people then white people need to be just as vociferous as Blacks in pointing out how unarmed Whites who are killed by the police.

What is the point of trying to stop Black people from complaining about fellow Blacks who are killed police abuse ? If all people are really suffering from police brutality equally, then wouldn’t you think that Whites should be complaining about the police, rather than complaining about Blacks calling out the police ?

Whites should be out there protesting on the same scale that Blacks do. But why don’t they ?

I’ll tell you. Because they take it for granted that the police will not target them because of their race.

But yeah I’m sure you’ll be able to google some examples of whites brutalized by police but only Blacks seem to be making an effort to change that. But white people will support harsher government policies if they’ll hurt blacks even if they could potentially be used against whites too.

It’s an example of cutting off your nose to spite your face. I think those in power know that if they want white support for certain measures they can use the black bogeyman to get them to agree.

He had a legal gun permit (Which is not an easy think for a black person to do because of the gun shop owners have the same racist stereotypes as you and often don’t sell or come up with reasons not sell to black people)

A weapon in his pocket is a weapon that isn't being used to threaten. Besides, it's an open carry state so people can walk around with weapons all they like as long as they don't use them to scare or threaten people. Second amendment and all.

Not only did they (conveniently) not have their body cams on. They also immediately confiscated the surveillance video from the foodmart. The owner/employee of the food mart filmed it on his phone. I guess they did not know to confiscate that.

We know the police will confiscate any video evidence when they can, and then claim that the videos are corrupted or not legible.

We are lucky that the bystanders filmed this. I thank them for for their service in protectingthe truth

Until I see all the law enforcement associations doing press conferences, denouncing the killings, and actively doing something to stop it, they are all complicit to the behaviour

Fascist cops have had their working orders to kill black people for too long. It is time to send them toprison. For murder. They are not above the law. The good group who have filmed this latest horror by supposed police. I thank them for doing so.

Also who is making these “come kill a Blackman/child” calls?

Somebody called police to come to a park where there was no crime being committed to kill Tamir Rice.

Somebody called police to come to a parking lot where there was no crime being committed to kill Alton Sterling.

Somebody seems to always remain nameless. Somebody calls police. They show up and kill a Black man. Who’s been calling ?

White men are just as “emotional” and imprisoned by their skin and driven by self-interest in their thinking as everyone else.

But unlike everyone else white people have the power to have it presented as neutral and objective, to have it stand as the centre point of all thought and opinion, to have it taken seriously no matter how brainless it is.

So this guy was a sex attacker, owned illegal firearms, refused to cooperated with police on arrival after being reported for waving a gun, resisted arrest and still resisted after being tased.

He was shot after moving his hand to possibly grab a gun (cops cocked up here, they could have just overpowered him).

Really I think BLM should find a better example to further their goal, because this guy seems like a complete waste of space and should have still been locked up anyway.