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Good question. Personaly if a law was passed tomorrow banning abortions I dont think it cant apply to past abortions. I think the law could only apply to those who have an abortion after the law goes into action. It similar to how schools change the required courses. For example current seniors only need 3 history classes to graduate. Others now need 4. It doesn't apply to us though because we are following the past requiremet. So those who did have an abortion prior to the law were following the rule at the time so they shouldn't be punished for it.

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1. Cinco de Mayo marks the date of a Mexican military victory over France

2. Cinco De Mayo is more of a big deal in the US then Mexico.

3. The U.S. has gone straight to commercialization with little thought to its original significance

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A police oficer can chase a suspec as long as possible or until it is no longer safe to continue to persue. they can only take out their gun when tthey fell as if their life is in danger or they are aprehending a dangerouse suspect. they cant shoot a fleeing suspect.

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How far can a police officer go to apprehend an unarmed man and when are guns allowed to be taken out?

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If a law was passed tomorrow banning abortion, should the mothers who already had an abortion be punished or labelled as a murder?

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I really like how you used lyrics from a Kendrick Lamar song to explain how he feels about the police. I agree with him because it's up to us as black males to stop the violence within our own race.

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This image depicts a woman being beaten by the police. She seems to be unarmed but is still being assaulted by multiple officers. I believe that this image is trying to shed light on how evil the police department is.

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"So why did I weep when I saw Travon martin dead in the streets. When gangbanging made me kill a nigga blacker then me."

This quote was written by Kendrick Lamar and this quote explains his internal conflict on the Police situation. This quote shows us that we cant be to mad at the police if they aren't the only ones killing young black men.

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The Blacker the Berry Lyrics: Everything black, I don't want black (They want us to bow) / I want everything black, I ain't need black (Down to our knees) / Some white, some black, I ain't mean black (And pray

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Who- Jeremy Reid, & Police

When- December 30, 2014

Where- New Jersey

What- A car in New Jersey was pulled over and searched without a warrent and when the cops found a gun in the glove department they immediatly pulled out their guns told the driver and Reid (pa ssanger) to show their hands. Reid showed his hands briefly then tried opening the door to escape, But as soon as he tried he was shot 9 times.

Why- He was shot for resisting orders but he could have been tazed or forced to the ground. The fact that they shot him 9 times and told him they would kill him is dishonorable.

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Police in New Jersey have released a video showing two police officers shooting a black man dead after he tried to get out of his car with his hands up. The incident happened on December 30, but the recording has only just been made available.

The video shows two New Jersey cops in Bridgeton pulling over a black sedan. Initially nothing seemed to be a problem as the officers, Braheme Days and Roger Worley asked the driver Leroy Tutt, 46, to show them his drivers license.

Tutt who had been traveling with a passenger, 36-year-old Jerame Reid - also sitting up front - had been told that he had been pulled over because he had failed to halt at a stop sign.

However, the situation began to escalate as they officers changed their tune and shouted at Tutt and the Reid to show them their hands. The driver's left hand can visibly be seen out of the window. The police told the driver and the passenger to stay still or they would kill them if they moved.

Both law enforcement officers drew their weapons and began to search the car. They said they found a gun in the glove compartment and subsequently told Reid not to move. He can be heard saying, "let me out."

Despite having both his hands outside of the window, officer Worley and Days opened fire and killed Reid, firing nine bullets in the process.

The driver later got out of the car and was arrested by police officers, with back-up quickly arriving on the scene. Both police officers, Days, who is black and Worley, who is white have been placed on administrative leave.
READ MORE: Montana cop sobbed after killing unarmed man, cleared of wrongdoing in death (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
This is the latest of a series of shootings that has been caught on a dashcam. Last week Montana police released a graphic video of a Billings police officer sobbing after killing an unarmed man who was high on methamphetamine last April. The jury in a coroner's inquest found the officer was justified in the shooting.

Billings Police Officer Grant Morrison killed Richard Ramirez, 38, in April 2014 after he thought he saw Ramirez reach for a gun. The victim was high on methamphetamine and riding in the backseat of a red sedan. The footage of their interaction and Morrison's subsequent reaction was captured on the police car's dashboard-mounted camera.

The Yellowstone County Attorney is not expected to file any charges after the jury's decision. However, the Ramirez family said they intended to file a lawsuit accusing Morrison and the Billings Police Department of racial profiling against the half-Mexican man, the Associated Press reported. Under Montana law, coroner's inquests are required for officer-involved shooting deaths or when someone dies in custody.

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NJ cops shoot 9 times, kill black man who had his hands up

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Police in New Jersey have released a video showing two police officers shooting a black man dead after he tried to get out of his car with his hands up. The incident happened on December 30, but the recording has only just been made available.

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Who- Redditt Hudson

When- December 6, 2014

Where- St. Louis

What- Hudson was expressing how he felt that the police system is extremely racist, even from a cops POV, because they aren't held to a higher standard.

Why- He wanted to raise awarness from a cops perspective that things in correction department need to be changed

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As a kid, I got used to being stopped by the police. I grew up in an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. It was the kind of place where officers routinely roughed up my friends and family for no good reason.

Ihated the way cops treated me.

But I knew police weren't all bad. One of my father's closest friends was a cop. He became a mentor to me and encouraged me to join the force. He told me that I could use the police's power and resources to help my community.

So in 1994, I joined the St. Louis Police Department. I quickly realized how naive I'd been. I was floored by the dysfunctional culture I encountered.

I won't say all, but many of my peers were deeply racist.

One example: A couple of officers ran a Web site called St. Louis Coptalk, where officers could post about their experience and opinions. At some point during my career, it became so full of racist rants that the site administrator temporarily shut it down. Cops routinely called anyone of color a "thug," whether they were the victim or just a bystander.

This attitude corrodes the way policing is done.

As a cop, it shouldn't surprise you that people will curse at you, or be disappointed by your arrival. That's part of the job. But too many times, officers saw young black and brown men as targets. They would respond with force to even minor offenses. And because cops are rarely held accountable for their actions, they didn't think too hard about the consequences.

Once, I accompanied an officer on a call. At one home, a teenage boy answered the door. That officer accused him of harboring a robbery suspect, and demanded that he let her inside. When he refused, the officer yanked him onto the porch by his throat and began punching him.

Another officer met us and told the boy to stand. He replied that he couldn't. So the officer slammed him against the house and cuffed him. When the boy again said he couldn't walk, the officer grabbed him by his ankles and dragged him to the car. It turned out the boy had been on crutches when he answered the door, and couldn't walk.

Back at the department, I complained to the sergeant. I wanted to report the misconduct. But my manager squashed the whole thing and told me to get back to work.

I, too, have faced mortal danger. I've been shot at and attacked. But I know it's almost always possible to defuse a situation.

Once, a sergeant and I got a call about someone wielding a weapon in an apartment. When we showed up, we found someone sitting on the bed with a very large butcher knife. Rather than storming him and screaming "put the knife down" like my colleagues would have done, we kept our distance. We talked to him, tried to calm him down.

It became clear to us that he was dealing with mental illness. So eventually, we convinced him to come to the hospital with us.

I'm certain many other officers in the department would have escalated the situation fast. They would have screamed at him, gotten close to him, threatened him. And then, any movement from him, even an effort to drop the knife, would have been treated as an excuse to shoot until their clips were empty.
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I liked my job, and I was good at it.

But more and more, I felt like I couldn't do the work I set out to do. I was participating in a profoundly corrupt criminal justice system. I could not, in good conscience, participate in a system that was so intentionally unfair and racist. So after five years on the job, I quit.

Since I left, I've thought a lot about how to change the system. I've worked on police abuse, racial justice and criminal justice reform at the Missouri ACLU and other organizations.

Unfortunately, I don't think better training alone will reduce police brutality. My fellow officers and I took plenty of classes on racial sensitivity and on limiting the use of force.

The problem is that cops aren't held accountable for their actions, and they know it. These officers violate rights with impunity. They know there's a different criminal justice system for civilians and police.

Even when officers get caught, they know they'll be investigated by their friends, and put on paid leave. My colleagues would laughingly refer to this as a free vacation. It isn't a punishment. And excessive force is almost always deemed acceptable in our courts and among our grand juries. Prosecutors are tight with law enforcement, and share the same values and ideas.

We could start to change that by mandating that a special prosecutor be appointed to try excessive force cases. And we need more independent oversight, with teeth. I have little confidence in internal investigations.

The number of people in uniform who will knowingly and maliciously violate your human rights is huge. At the Ferguson protests, people are chanting, "The whole damn system is guilty as hell." I agree, and we have a lot of work to do.
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Black men's excuses for Ray Rice sound a lot like the ones Darren Wilson's supporters used in Ferguson.

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Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. There's only one fix.

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As a kid, I got used to being stopped by the police. I grew up in an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. It was the kind of place where officers routinely roughed up my friends and family for no good reason. Ihated the way cops treated me.

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Who- Will Stack

When- April 13, 2015

Where- South Carolina

What- Will had a nice encounter with a white individual

Why- He wanted to express all cops aren't racist.

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A 22-year-old African-American man recorded a video after a recent encounter with a police officer and the video has gone viral. But it's not for the reasons you might think.

In the video, Will Stack, a 22-year-old U.S. Army National Guardsman, recounts his experience with a white police officer in South Carolina.

Stack explains that he was pulled over for "improper use of the median." After handing over his license and registration and listening politely while the officer explained what he did wrong, Stack was given a warning and sent on his way.

The positive encounter with a police officer inspired Stack to share his experience.

"People need to understand that not all officers are crooked," Stack says in the video. "Not all officers are racist, bad people. And not all people who get shot or tased or arrested by officers are innocent victims."

"Just because you're black doesn't mean you're a victim, just because you're white doesn't mean you're a racist, just because you're a cop doesn't mean you're a bad person," Stack added.

"The world really needs to stop putting labels on people and things and see them as who they are - people doing jobs, doing things. Ignorance has no color. God doesn't see color. Why should we?"

"There's no doubt that there are a lot of injustices going on in America. Everybody can agree with that," Stack said to Brian Kilmeade on "Fox and Friends" today. "What I'm saying is: Not all people are bad. You're not automatically a bad person because of the color of your skin or because of the profession that you do."

He said all people should be judged by the content of their character and given a fair shot.

Stack acknowledged that he has experienced racism multiple times, but he said that he tries his best not to let his past experiences affect his future experiences with new people that he may meet.

Stack said that he learned that lesson not just from his parents, but also from serving in the military.

"When you're in the military, you work with people of all different races, of all different backgrounds. None of that matters when you join, because our uniform is the same color. We all serve the same purpose and we're all protecting the same freedom."

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'Not All Officers Are Racist': Black Man's Defense of Police Goes Viral

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A 22-year-old African-American man recorded a video after a recent encounter with a police officer and the video has gone viral. But it's not for the reasons you might think. In the video, Will Stack, a 22-year-old U.S. Army National Guardsman, recounts his experience with a white police officer in South Carolina.

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Who- Wayne Root

When- April 21, 2014

Where- The Blaze News

What- He is saying that Darren Wilson, the killer of Micheal Brown, is a victim of stereotype racism.

Why- To persuade readers into thinking that Darren Wilson was in the right

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In 2014 five unarmed black men were killed by the police. These men include Micheal Brown (Ferguson, Missouri), Eric Garner (Staten Island, NY), John Crawford (Beaver Creek, OH), Ezell Ford (Los Angeles, CA), and Dante Parker (Victorville, CA). This article was written to shed light on other victims of racial police brutality during the Micheal Brown era.

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Ferguson, Missouri, has been consumed with protests since Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, was shot to death by police on Saturday. Brown was not the only African-American man killed by police in recent weeks under disputed circumstances. Consider these three other recent incidents:

Eric Garner, Staten Island, New York / July 17: Eric Garner, a 43-year-old asthmatic father of six, was confronted by New York City police officers for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. When he resisted being cuffed, an officer appeared to put him in a chokehold-a tactic banned by the department since 1993. A video of the arrest, first obtained by the New York Daily News, shows Garner gasping,"I can't breathe!" while officers relentlessly smother him:

The city medical examiner later ruled Garner's death a homicide, saying neck compression from the chokehold killed him. But the officers involved in the arrest may not face charges if the homicide is found to be justifiable. Staten Island district attorney Daniel Donovan i s investigating the case.

John Crawford, Beavercreek, Ohio / August 5: Two police officers responded to a 911 call about a man waving a gun at customers inside a Walmart store. According the Beavercreek police department, 22-year-old John Crawford disregarded officers' orders to disarm before being fatally shot in the chest. Crawford's gun turned out to be a .177 calibre BB rifle that he'd picked up from a store shelf. Walmart surveillance camera footage was turned over to the police but hasn't been released to the public or Crawford's family. "Why did John Crawford, a Walmart customer, get shot and killed carrying a BB gun in a store that sells BB guns?" asked Michael Wright, the family's attorney, during a joint press conference with the NAACP. "All the family demands is answers." The Ohio Attorney General's Office is investigating the case.

Ezell Ford, Los Angeles, California / August 11: When police conducted an "investigative stop" of 25-year-old Ezell Ford on a Los Angeles sidewalk, he "wheeled around and basically tackled the lead officer," then went after his weapon, an LAPD spokesperson told the LA Times. But in an i nterview with KTLA News, a woman who identified herself as Ford's mother said he was lying on the ground, complying with the officers' orders, when he was shot in the back. On Sunday afternoon, a handful of people protested the shooting outside LAPD's headquarters. The LA County District Attorney and the department's Force Investigation Unit are looking into the shooting.

So how often are unarmed African-American men getting shot by the police? The short answer is that nobody really knows, but it's clear that blacks are often disproportionately targeted by law enforcement. In Missouri, for example, African Americans were 66 percent more likely than whites to be stopped by police in 2013, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch. A similar disparity exists in many other states and cities.

UPDATE (8/14/14): Another case has come to light in California:

Dante Parker, Victorville, California / August 12: A Victorville resident told police that a robbery suspect had fled on a bicycle. The police detained Dante Parker, a 36-year-old pressman at the Daily Press newspaper, apparently because they found him nearby on a bike. Though Parker had no criminal record (other than a DUI), a scuffle ensued and Parker was tased repeatedly when he resisted arrest, according to witnesses. He began breathing heavily and was taken to a hospital, where he died. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department is conducting an investigation.

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4 unarmed black men have been killed by police in the last month.

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Ferguson, Missouri, has been consumed with protests since Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, was shot to death by police on Saturday. Brown was not the only African-American man killed by police in recent weeks under disputed circumstances.