Column: After George Floyd's death, we need action: Fire bad cops now

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California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond talked to George Skelton about his interactions with police.

Since George Floyd died, black people are getting messages and money from white people they barely know. Here are the dos and don’ts of being a white ally.

“It doesn’t matter that I’m a legislator or a state official who’s wearing a black suit. It doesn’t matter my title. I’m seen as a black man. And when I’m pulled over, I need to put my hands on the dashboard. I feel very vulnerable.If a high state official harbors that fear, try to imagine how a young black man driving an old wreck must feel.. If this bias happens enough, people are going to become obsessed and angry and that’s what we’re seeing.

Pollster Mark Baldassare of the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California agrees. A PPIC statewide survey in February asked adult Californians whether they believed the police treated all racial and ethnic groups fairly.

 

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Agreed and as a starting point questionable cops shouldn’t be able to leave one division and join another to avoid suspension or termination. Same thing happens with bad teachers. They get in trouble in one district and just move to another. Why? Is this a union contract thing?

There are no bad cops. It’s just like trying to imagine a bad mailman or milkman. You are looking at a problem askew.

people like this is why you cant

And any military personnel that lift a hand to harm any person residing on US soil should be court martialed and given a dishonorable discharge and do jail time for assault or whatever crime they committed. Assault is a crime. Same for police. Fired and jailed.

Exactly. Bad apples aka racist pigs spoil the bunch.

Havent they done that ?

Fire bad left professors in universities!

Why dont you open an investigation on every suspicious death. Every death where a black man was killed “because he reached” for the cops weapon. YOU ARE THE PRESS THATS YOUR JOB. . Are you just going to reprint whatever lies you’re told by the LAPD? ITS TIME EVRYONE TO STEP UP

That’s not enough. Disband completely and do a wholesale rehiring of people meeting higher standards and give extensive proper training. This isn’t a few bad apples, this is a toxic orchard.

Amen - Fire Bad Cops Now- Praise the good cops - they want reform too

Never give in to a mob

So rein in Police Unions?

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