You can see the effects of resource availability in the angst created by perceptions of racial injustices.
The family of Mr. Crutcher kept stating that Mr. Crutcher had car trouble. When the family speaks of him, it came off as if his car broke down, he flagged down an officer, asked for help and got shot. That is not what happened…
…the first thing that caught my attention was the placement of Mr. Crutcher’s vehicle in the middle of the street. When people have car trouble, they typically turn on their hazard lights and make some attempt to pull over to the side of the road. You might see the stranded motorist looking in the trunk of the vehicle, under the hood, on the side of the road talking on the phone, walking to the closest business, or sitting inside of the vehicle…
Two ladies, who both sounded black called 911 in regards to Mr. Crutcher’s vehicle.
1st 911 Caller
This lady will be very important to the officer’s defense. She called 911 and stated that there was an abandoned vehicle in the middle of the street, with the doors open, and THE VEHICLE WAS STILL RUNNING. Obviously a vehicle could be disabled and still running, but this is still important information. She called because the vehicle was blocking traffic from both directions. This is an obvious hazard so she called. She also said that a guy was “running from the vehicle and he stated that it was going to blow up!” She immediately followed that statement with “I think he was smoking something!” His behavior was bizarre to her. She didn’t mention seeing any smoke. She didn’t ask the dispatcher for the fire department. This dispatcher began to laugh because the situation sounded bizarre to her too. Then the woman said that she asked him if he needed help and he kept saying to her, “Come here! Come here!” She immediately said, “Oh nah. I’m out!” She stated that he took off running and she stated that she believed that he was smoking something again. She saw a huge dude, saying crazy things, behaving in a bizarre manner, determined that he was high, determined that she did not want to risk her own safety by helping him, and drove away all within a short period of time. She didn’t want to handle this guy so she called the police. This woman’s testimony will obviously be important for obvious reasons…
As soon as I heard the 911 calls and watched the video of him walking away from the officers, the detective in me immediately believed that Mr. Crutcher was on PCP…
Have You Ever Fought Someone on PCP?
I have…
He was riding a bike and he was pumping his bike full speed for about half a mile before my partner jumped out and tackled him. I was driving so I had to make the block in order to help her. I made the wrong turn and she fought him for a couple minutes on her own, after sprinting after him for a couple blocks. When I circled back around, she had zero energy. I saw her barely moving, but still in pursuit. I asked her where he was and all she could do was point. I saw him still running FULL SPEED and I sped up to catch him. He was on foot and he was SPRINTING full speed. It was at this point that I realized, this dude is on PCP.
I didn’t need a doctor’s confirmation. When you deal with someone on PCP, you know it immediately.
I caught up to him in the vehicle. I am pissed. My partner never gets tired, but she was tired this day because he wasn’t human. I am fresh and ready to get it on. I jumped out of the car and we started fighting. I don’t hit like a girl at all. I don’t throw knees or elbows like a girl either. I am wearing this dude out with blows and he wasn’t even blinking. I even hit his man parts and this dude did not flinch. We are going full blast for 3 minutes and I am about to tap out. I sprayed him with OC Spray and he started drinking it. Most officers hate using the “party in a can” because it also affects the officer. I couldn’t see at all, but I could tell that he was drinking the spray. I didn’t have a taser, but I know that they don’t often work as well on people high on PCP. I heard my cover elements sirens in the distance. My asthma was on full blast, I couldn’t see, and I knew I was about to pass out pretty quickly. I saw an officer arrive in the distance. As soon as I screamed to tell them where I was, I fell out into the grass. Nothing felt better to me than my bed of crack pipes that I fell into. I was tapped completely out. It took 6 grown men to get that guy on the ground. He had a backpack full of crack and about 30 bottles of PCP. He was wanted for several burglaries and he had been wanted for a long time…
There is a radio transmission by the officer in which she said, “Hold traffic. I got a subject who won’t show me his hands!” When any officer hears that, they come from far and wide because the potential for danger has just increased…
What if he said nothing during this undocumented period?
What if he told her he was going to kill her as soon as he gets to his car?…
I truly believe this dude is out of his mind on PCP and unable to follow commands, but that isn’t her problem nor does she know that for sure at this point. The pilot wasn’t trying to hide officer misconduct or anything. He made the conscious decision to turn the recorder on because he realized that this situation with this guy was headed in the wrong direction. Pilot 2 said “he is still not following commands.” Then the other veteran pilot officer said “It is time for taser I think!”…
When he said he looks like a bad dude, he quickly followed it up with “He’s got to be on something!” He was addressing this dude’s bizarre behavior.
I haven’t spoken with a black officer yet who disagrees with this statement…
They will do everything to enhance that video, but at this point, we can’t tell what he is doing with that hand. It appears to me that he is reaching inside of the vehicle… We can’t see….
As soon as she shot him, she got on the radio and said “Shots fired!” She did not hide the fact that she shot him. She didn’t run around with the rest of them and try to figure out why she shot. She broadcasted it. That doesn’t sound like a person who maliciously shot him because she wanted to kill someone…
Then there is this case of blacks killing an elderly white woman:
Meriwether County Sheriff’s Office officials said the suspects forced their way into her home, beat her, poured something on her and set her on fire.
“Once they entered the home, one individual entered her bedroom where she was already in bed,” Smith said.
He says one man started beating Dow with a gun, breaking several bones in her hand and forearm. She was then set on fire by another suspect. Dow crawled around on the floor of her home searching for a gallon of water she had near a breathing machine, eventually found it and then put the fire out. She then found her cell phone and dialed 911.
“With one hand broken and her arm broken in four places, she pulled the top off of a gallon of water, poured it over her head and put out the fire,” said Dorothy’s daughter-in-law Beth Dow. “She then drug herself into the den on her broken arms to get to her cellphone to call 911. She said, ‘I thought they were going to kill me’. They told her that she was never going to see her sons again.”
Dow had several surgeries due to her injuries which included broken bones and severe burns. She later passed away.
In the first case, you have a black guy, just out of jail, probably high on PCP, who left his car running in the middle of the road, acted crazy, and ignored officer commands, before reaching into the car when told not to, giving the officer a legitimate fear for her safety. Regardless, poorer blacks are up in arms, with their amygdalae fully hijacked, even though the number of times this happens per year is insignificant, and just about every time the shooter is justified and the shootee has brought it on themselves.
In the second case, you had an innocent old lady living her life peacefully, who was viciously targeted by young people who needlessly tortured her and tried to kill her – for no reason. Yet wealthier whites, mostly well provisioned, with amygdalae much more capable of coping with adversity, greet the story with a shrug.
r/K and resource availability determines how confrontational a population is. Reason, logic, or any other cause pale in comparison to the effects of impoverishment.
The issue of race relations will have little to do with logic and everything to do with resource constriction and amygdala-tolerance for adversity.
Most of history’s direction is driven by r/K Selection Theory and amygdala. Without an understanding of that, everything is mysterious to the logical mind.
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