Daily Show - 2nd amendment doesn't apply to black men

This was on the Daily Show last night:

Not sure if anyone watches Adam Ruins Everything, but the episode about gun laws, etc was pretty good. Touched on how it doesn’t truely apply to black people. 

The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a white good guy with a gun."

jamie said:
This was on the Daily Show last night:

This is usually how Trevor talks to the crowd between commercials, a very powerful and important segment.

Somehow watching Trevor tell the story makes it that much worse. It’s just dangerous to own a gun as a POC. Philando Castille. Did everything right. Dead. It’s numbing. 

Remember the guy shot 41 times while reaching for his wallet? Diallo? or something like that.

GL2 said:
Remember the guy shot 41 times while reaching for his wallet? Diallo? or something like that.

 That was Castile,

Diallo was new York, 

Jaytee said:

GL2 said:
Remember the guy shot 41 times while reaching for his wallet? Diallo? or something like that.

 That was Castile,
Diallo was new York, 

 Thanks.

41 shots was Amadou Diallo. Ask Bruce Springsteen.

Yeah, he was standing in his doorway when he was confronted, right?

So who's the guy who was violated with a police baton in the toilet in NYC? Similar name, yes?

drummerboy said:
41 shots was Amadou Diallo. Ask Bruce Springsteen.

 Correct. Thanks for jogging my memory. It's been so many shootings it's difficult to remember all the details. 

GL2 said:
Yeah, he was standing in his doorway when he was confronted, right?
So who's the guy who was violated with a police baton in the toilet in NYC? Similar name, yes?

 Abner Louima

GL2 said:
Yeah, he was standing in his doorway when he was confronted, right?
So who's the guy who was violated with a police baton in the toilet in NYC? Similar name, yes?

 Abner Louima. 

Louima is from Haiti and lived in Brooklyn. He was beaten and sodomized by a cop wielding a broken broomstick. The cop(s) involved lied about the initial encounter and the primary assailant got 30 years.

Diallo was from Guinea. He was shot 19 times in the doorway of his building in the Bx. Cops 'mistook' his wallet for a gun and fired 41 rounds. The cops were indicted in the Bronx and the trial was moved to Albany to ensure an 'impartial' jury (6th Amendment) for the cops. They were all acquitted. There's no second amendment connection here, the only thing these two have in common with Emantic Bradford, Jr. is the color of their skin and deadly, cowardly, confused and murderous cops.

Jemel Roberson has much more in common with Bradford:

 www.npr.org/2018/11/14/667699287/chicago-secuirty-gaurd-killed-while-detaining-an-alleged-shooter-by-police

Trevor's funny. He hasn't been here long though, so maybe he doesn't know that a whole lot of the amendments don't apply to Black folks.  I think we're good on #3 though, I haven't had any soldiers quartered in the crib. 

If I remember, Diallo was holding his wallet which the cops claimed looked like a gun? Or was that a different incident?

Either way I think it speaks to the same problem that a black person who is perceived to be holding a weapon is deemed a threat. To a level where deadly force is "justified".

I have not heard of any cases of a white guy openly carrying an AR15 being shot by police, by way of contrast.

Yes, Diallo was retrieving his wallet. The perceived threat is being Black, not having something in your hands. Deadly force is on the table immediately. Armed, unarmed, holding a wallet, or a phone or having fingers- it makes no difference. 

Plenty of white guys get shot by police, some armed, some not. Look up Daniel Shavers. He was murdered by cops as he cried and crawled toward them. He never had a chance. He was a pest control worker with a pellet gun not in his possession when he was killed. If you find the video and can stomach it, listen to the cop giving him instructions on how to get himself killed.

It is just disgusting and infuriating!!!!

Who's Abner Diallo?

flimbro said:
Yes, Diallo was retrieving his wallet. The perceived threat is being Black, not having something in your hands. Deadly force is on the table immediately. Armed, unarmed, holding a wallet, or a phone or having fingers- it makes no difference. 
Plenty of white guys get shot by police, some armed, some not. Look up Daniel Shavers. He was murdered by cops as he cried and crawled toward them. He never had a chance. He was a pest control worker with a pellet gun not in his possession when he was killed. If you find the video and can stomach it, listen to the cop giving him instructions on how to get himself killed.

Yeah, the main problem in the U.S. is that cops are generally taught that they they can shoot anyone for the barest of pretenses. And the law supports them.  

You couple that with our culture of racism and POC are simply going to bear the brunt of the bad side of this policy. It's really a systemic problem that won't be solved without a sea change in how we view the role of the police.