Powerful photo from Baltimore !

[Laura PourMeADrink]

[Katashi_itto]

1. Like the favor will be returned

[monmouth4]

3. I agree, sort of a contrived visual...n/t

[writes3000]

4. Yep, no police officer has ever stood up to protect a black man. (Rolling my eyes.)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Maybe it's on a city by city basis. Where each side reaches out and wants

things fixed?? Hoping anyway. That's what impressed me most about what an activist said last night -- talk is cheap - change in policies and laws and attitudes is the only way things will get better.

One of my few complaints about Obama - he is intelligent, calm, sober, thoughtful when he speaks about important things (antithesis of Trump) - but I rarely hear any kind of substantive action plan out of him. I really think that people may be tuning him out now because you know he won't be recommending any specific changes.

[uponit7771]

21. it is, there was some study I heard on NPR basically saying some PDs hold a high standard to

... doing shit right and others they allow the assholes to stay and screw it up for everyone.

Its city by city, I do applaud the efforts

[yeoman6987]

7. What do you mean?

They protected thousands of protesters last night. Any protesters killed? No. Any cops? Yes!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Got to start somewhere. An eye for an eye does not work. Don't propose that.

Those citizens may be better than the average cop, but not better than all cops, but definitely better than the worst cops.

By their actions those citizens are showing that citizens can set a higher standard than bad cops.

Improving society is about raising standards, not giving into a spiraling race to the bottom.

[snooper2]

11. jesus i. christ can we just be happy with anything positive?

[KMOD]

23. apparently not.

[840high]

12. More times than not - it will be.

[Renew Deal]

25. It was paid forward last night

When the cops put themselves between the gunman and the civilians.

[tonyt53]

2. Sanity in a crazy world.

[passiveporcupine]

10. the only sanity that will happen in our crazy world

is if we start passing some real gun laws and stop this insane nation of gun owners who seem to think death is preferable to losing their guns.

[romanic]

6. This is solidarity.

[840high]

13. Amen.

[Ilsa]

9. Maybe this will help reset the mindset of white cops.

I know, a lifetime of fear and bigotry aren't fixed overnight.

[Skittles]

19. nice stereotyping

[Ilsa]

20. the mother jones article...

Much research has found that humans are tribal creatures, showing strong bias against those we perceive as different from us and favoritism toward those we perceive as similar.

The charts in the article indicated a negative bias of African Americans towards young black men.

And that just might be possible. Take the Implicit Association Test: In a massive study, Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia and his colleagues tested 17 different proposed ways of reducing people's unconscious bias on the IAT. Many of these experimental interventions failed. But some succeeded, and there was an interesting pattern to those that did.

The single best intervention involved putting people into scenarios and mindsets in which a black person became their ally (or even saved their life) while white people were depicted as the bad guys. In this intervention, participants "read an evocative story told in second-person narrative in which a White man assaults the participant and a Black man rescues the participant." In other words, study subjects are induced to feel as if they have been personally helped or even saved by someone from a different race. Then they took the IAT—and showed 48 percent less bias than a control group. (Note: The groups in these various studies were roughly three-fourths white; no participants were black.)

Research suggests that police officers (those studied were mostly white) are much more accurate at the general task (not shooting unarmed people) than civilians, thanks to their training. But like civilians, police are considerably slower to press the "don't shoot" button for an unarmed black man than they are for an unarmed white man—and faster to shoot an armed black man than an armed white man. 

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/science-of-racism-prejudice

And that's why I referred to the ones changing their bias as white.

[Skittles]

22. read this one

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer

[Ilsa]

26. thanks. I'll check it out tomorrow. nt

[seabeyond]

14. It is an awesome picture and I too have the same thought, too bad the cops won't do it for them. Nt

[WillowTree]

16. What do you think the cops who were murdered last night were doing?

[seabeyond]

18. Yes, good point. And still when one of there own murders they should do the same as these black men

Did for them. THAT, they do not do and would be an awesome message too. Just like this one is.

[lark]

15. Applause for the brave people in front.

Disdain for the cops behind them because if they would tell the truth about their out of control, racist, drug doing peers, this wouldn't be necessary. If they cared about other people's lives the way they do for their brethren in blue, there wouldn't be this current heinous situation.

[lillypaddle]

17. I have nothing to say

I am just heartbroken over the senseless deaths ...

No words of wisdom
nor admonition
just heartfelt hopes for healing
and whatever change necessary
to save humanity



Stay safe everyone
if you can ...

[cherokeeprogressive]

24. This was after the death of Freddie Gray.

http://reverbpress.com/news/black-baltimore-protecting-police/

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. Thanks

for not embarrassing me by actually posting the pic ! should I delete? I feared as much but I did look for date and the poster portrayed it as today.

[cherokeeprogressive]

28. Don't delete it. It's a beautiful picture.