Why No Witnesses?

[KLB]

It didn’t used to be, but it seems that the last couple of years it HAS become an ETHNIC (not racial) thing

Media pushing a narrative for political reasons.

 

[Leadeye]

In a way it is Omerta, for their own reasons, they don't want to deal with the police. I often wonder how many of these killing are in retaliation for other killings in the past, something like "..for justice we must go to Don Corleone."

My guess is that most of it tied to the drug trade, a criminal enterprise like the mafia.

 

[phylodog]

It’s neither racial nor ethnic, it is cultural. I have no problems with the “we don’t call the law” types regardless of skin color or locations, that approach works pretty well in some situations. The hypocrisy only shows up when some of the people change their tune from “F the police” to “the police won’t do anything to help us” as soon as the cameras show up.

The biggest downside is for those who are trapped/surrounded by people whose culture they don’t particularly agree with.

 

[jagee]

I'm sure deep woods Appalachians don't call the police either. They just don't live in a metropolitan area where these types of crimes are more visible by "regular people" and therefore make the news.

 

[BugI02]

White people could never understand it? A lot of white people keep their mouths shut when it comes to sexual abuse caused by high profile people. You ever hear of the Catholic Church?

The extreme angle and conservation of angular momentum embodied in your deflection would make Ernest Rutherford proud

 

[KellyinAvon]

Remember the Grundy Crew boss? He had the names of his jurors in his cell.

 

[Magyars]

If “snitches get stitches” and distrust of police drives their behavior why would that be hypocritical? No one’s threatening them.

hypocrite​

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When your movement is called " Black lives matter" but you only protest, burn and destroy when it a crime committed by whites or cops.
Not black on black...I think it's appropriate to call it hpocritical

 

[Expat]

I'm sure deep woods Appalachians don't call the police either. They just don't live in a metropolitan area where these types of crimes are more visible by "regular people" and therefore make the news.

We had a long tradition of minding our own business for the most part.

 

[jamil]

Din see fuffin's are all directly related to Dindo Nuffin. Can't rat on the good kids just trying to get their life together.

There should be purple but it's hard to be sarcastic at the same time as relating reality.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen fuffins before. If I ever do it’ll probably be amazing I’m sure.

 

[kickbacked]

Why the need to attack some people's religion? Your point could have been made better without.

Are poor white areas any better when it comes to this? Poor Hispanic? Poor Asian? Distrusting the police is not a racial thing.

Im not attacking anyone's religion. The truth is not an attack on a religion, it's very well documented and even the Pope has acknowledged it and talked about it openly.

A post was made that white people couldnt understand not talking to police because they're rational, which is a nice way of saying whites are rational and other races are not. And to prove it wrong. So I did, and used one of the largest cover ups in recent history as an example of white people not going to police when bad things happen. I dont think its a racial thing either.

 

[spec4]

The only way for the "Black community" to get squared away is if it is done by the residents, not the police or govt. programs.

 

[Tombs]

If you think it's a fear of being considered a snitch, I don't think you're understanding the situation.

Real life isn't a movie.

They just refuse to acknowledge police or the justice system in general.

 

[Gingerbeardman]

Well I have little experience with this and no knowledge of the specific incident, but I offer a couple ideas:

1) the community supports the shooting as retribution for some terrible action.
2) the community doesn't trust cops because when was the last time the cops actually helped them?
3) the community has a long-standing distrust of the majority-white powers that be due to a couple centuries of systematic racism.
4) they community knows if they speak up something bad will happen to them, i.e. drug lord runs the neighborhood.

 

[funeralweb]

Over and over again..."Somebody knows who killed my (son, daughter, brother, baby, etc.) and they have to tell what they saw..." But nobody says anything.
One young man was shot on a basketball court with about 150 people present and "ain't nobody seen nuffin."
Do people not come forward because they'd rather see a murderer go free than help the police, do they fear retaliation from gang members or friends of the shooter, or are they just willing to see more murders rather than be called a snitch?
Or is it something else?

I really don't understand.

Watching the coverage over the weekend of the 12-year-old boy shot while sitting in his Grandma's house playing video games, I DIDN'T hear the mayor or anyone else blaming guns for a change. I DID hear people (police chief) saying that it was a drive-by shooting, with others from "the community" expressing "enough is enough".

I DIDN'T hear that any suspects were being rounded up, which brings the questions "Who were the shooters targeting at that house?" or "Did the shooters hit the wrong house?". If their intended victim was in the house but not hit, they'd rather say nothing while this kid -most likely a relative- dies for being in the wrong place at the wrong time? That's insane. That's a helluva culture to live in and protect with your silence.

 

[AtTheMurph]

White people could never understand it? A lot of white people keep their mouths shut when it comes to sexual abuse caused by high profile people. You ever hear of the Catholic Church?

or public schools or any other bureaucracy ever invented. The bureaucracy defends itself and it doesn't matter what the bureaucracy is.

 

[Doug]

"Who were the shooters targeting at that house?"

Maybe nobody. Dreasjon Reed had a video on his web page shooting random, un-aimed shots out a car window. No one knows where those bullets came down.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Watching the coverage over the weekend of the 12-year-old boy shot while sitting in his Grandma's house playing video games, I DIDN'T hear the mayor or anyone else blaming guns for a change. I DID hear people (police chief) saying that it was a drive-by shooting, with others from "the community" expressing "enough is enough".

I DIDN'T hear that any suspects were being rounded up, which brings the questions "Who were the shooters targeting at that house?" or "Did the shooters hit the wrong house?". If their intended victim was in the house but not hit, they'd rather say nothing while this kid -most likely a relative- dies for being in the wrong place at the wrong time? That's insane. That's a helluva culture to live in and protect with your silence.

Almost the very first words out of the mayor's mouth were about "gun violence". Same with the police chief. You must have missed that part.

 

[Tombs]

That's a helluva culture to live in and protect with your silence.

Almost like if they don't want to help out their community, we should stop sending tax dollars to help out their community and let them figure it out.

Seems kind of communistic to shovel everyone else's money into such an effort.

 

[BugI02]

hypocrite​

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See synonyms for: hypocrite / hypocritical on Thesaurus.com

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noun​

a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

When your movement is called " Black lives matter" but you only protest, burn and destroy when it a crime committed by whites or cops.
Not black on black...I think it's appropriate to call it hpocritical

He's got you there, Miguel

 

[BugI02]

Im not attacking anyone's religion. The truth is not an attack on a religion, it's very well documented and even the Pope has acknowledged it and talked about it openly.

A post was made that white people couldnt understand not talking to police because they're rational, which is a nice way of saying whites are rational and other races are not. And to prove it wrong. So I did, and used one of the largest cover ups in recent history as an example of white people not going to police when bad things happen. I dont think its a racial thing either.

Dude, you barely have the Cliff Note's understanding of that situation. I'd quit while you're ahead and people just think you're an idiot