Tommy Explains

We need trans police officers.

Why?

Maybe they'll be less likely to shoot unarmed Black people. Besides, why not?

Cops are already unlikely to do that. I think in 2019 there were maybe 20 or so instances of that happening.

20 in a year counts as unlikely to you? That's way too much for me.

That's 20 out of 42,000,000 over the span of a year. I don't think that's indicative of systemic racial discrimination. It should also be noted that whether or not a shooting was justified cannot be determined solely by whether or not the suspect was armed (for example, if the subject was shot while attempting to grab the officer's firearm).

I disagree.

with which point

I'd have to compare the stats for white people to decide. Also, I assume that when the state kills an unarmed person, regardless of race, it's unjustified until I see specific circumstances that indicate otherwise.

I'm not saying it does, just that body cameras help prove officers aren't racist

When they aren't acting racist, good, it should be proven they aren't.

Which is why body cameras backfired on BLM, because they help police disprove the idea that their actions are racially motivated. Like with Sydney Wilson, the outrage over her death cooled down significantly after they released body cam footage of her attacking the officer with a knife.

One example doesn't disprove the rest.

We need QUALIFIED police officers, regardless of background or sexual orientation.

I don't think that contradicts what I wrote at all. For example, trans isn't a sexual orientation.

It's not supposed to, really. I'm just broadening the scope. You may not have intended to sound that way, but it kinda sounded like you were prioritizing being trans as a basis for hiring police officers [I could be wrong though]. No matter what classification being trans is, my original point still stands; hire people based on their willingness and competence at the task at hand above all.

Yeah, I was mostly kidding about transgenderism being a priority.

That makes a lot more sense, got it

Trump’s formula for gaining supporters is to find a population to villainize and scare his sheep into fearing for their daughters. In 2016 it was “Mooslems” and cucks in the Politics stream were crying about entire cities in the Midwest being taken over by Shariah law. This time the trans population was targeted which was such a freaking joke considering the majority of pedophiles are straight white males. 🙄

white people are also the majority of the population, so that doesn't mean much on its own