Missouri Police Officer guns down unarmed 18 year old

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CitizenKain

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I'm still waiting on the CNN news article of a black man being lynched in 2014.

Well since reading is a problem for you, you will likely be waiting a long time. Lynching doesn't need to happen when you have the police.

Or did you think racism died the day the last black person was lynched? If so, you are probably the only person on here dumber the svnla.
 

BeeBoop

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Well since reading is a problem for you, you will likely be waiting a long time. Lynching doesn't need to happen when you have the police.

Or did you think racism died the day the last black person was lynched? If so, you are probably the only person on here dumber the svnla.


Well, I do admit that my English isn't all that great but I swore Quebert said that a black man was lynched by a white man in 2014 as reported by CNN. I googled it and found nothing.

Just because the police stop you doesn't mean it's because of your skin color. I've been stopped once in the past year while driving the speed limit. Officer said my license plate guard was too large and wanted to search my vehicle. He actually stopped be because I looked at him funny. Iol. Maybe I have a guilty face? Dunno but I'm positive that's why he stopped me.

Racism died when Obama became the most powerful man in the world and the supreme court said that affirmative action can't be based on skin color anymore.
 

werepossum

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Best claimed evidence for the officer remains anonymous, as if it doesn't exist.

Would be helpful if ANY authority even spoke of it.
Yep.

FWIW, I read a piece quoting the SLCPD chief that basically said they never release evidence that they are putting before the GJ, and they would not in this case either.

Edit: I believe it was the DA.
This is kind of a special case though. Brown is dead and therefore unprosecutable, Wilson is in danger of being murdered, and people with absolutely no connection to this are losing their livelihoods. It's just pure dumb luck that no one has been killed in the riots/protests/looting. Principles are good and necessary, but they should not exist irrespective of events and other concerns.

Well since reading is a problem for you, you will likely be waiting a long time. Lynching doesn't need to happen when you have the police.

Or did you think racism died the day the last black person was lynched? If so, you are probably the only person on here dumber the svnla.
That sliding sound is the goal posts being frantically moved.

Hint: The claim that a white man lynched a black man in 2014 is special enough to present a burden of proof. That has nothing to do with the existence of racism; if we're talking about a single event, however heinous, then racism will never end until there are no more people.
 

BeeBoop

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Possum brings up a good point. Racism of the past is gone. I would argue that these days, a black man is on equal footing as a white man. However, a portion of the black community obviously doesn't feel this way.
 

werepossum

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Possum brings up a good point. Racism of the past is gone. I would argue that these days, a black man is on equal footing as a white man. However, a portion of the black community obviously doesn't feel this way.
Actually I would argue specifically that the institutional racism of the past is gone. In many situations the black man is actually advantaged by government. However, in dealing with the police this is not the case, as a black man is still, all things considered, much more likely to be unjustly victimized than is a white man. There are some valid reasons for this other than (and in addition to) racism, but that an area's dangerous thugs are mostly black is cold comfort to the law-abiding black man treated like a thug because he is black and otherwise fits a certain profile.

I would also admit that while the racism differential is largely gone and whites are not significantly more racist than blacks, the effects of that racism is still largely one-sided. If one is a welder or an electronics repairman or a DJ or a Bible salesman, the odds of every available employer being a white unwilling to hire a black are orders of magnitude greater than the odds of every available employer being a black unwilling to hire a white, especially in small Southern communities. The greater population of whites and the economic advantages of a few centuries of systematic and systemic discrimination mean that parity in behavior does not equal parity in experience, and won't for some time.

EDIT: I should add that I've experienced cop discrimination in its very lightest form. My wife and I were driving south of Atlanta at night in our old pickup truck. She was snuggled up under my arm and had on a ball cap with her hair underneath. A cop car with two cops blew by (unlike me, NOT driving the speed limit) and then braked hard to fall back beside us. They paralleled us for several miles, shining a flashlight on us, until my wife sat up straight, took off her ball cap, and shook out her hair. At that point the flashlight winked out and they sped off. Oddly enough had we been black we'd have been fine, but had we been two gay white dudes we might well have been pulled over and introduced to an ass whoopin'.
 
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TerryMathews

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Of course there are, you won't see video or mentions of it on CNN though. Rioting isn't exclusive to one ethnicity of people. The rioting in MO will mirror much of what happened in LA during the Rodney King riots. And there were groups of everyone rioting there, I saw it 1st hand. But the news didn't feel the need to report on all the others then and apparently they don't now either.
Source?
 

Vapid Cabal

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Yup, but all it takes is one bad apple to spoil the bunch. Especially when that apple threatens to kill you.


Um, okay. I don't see any if his colleagues jumping in to defend the actions. So by your own logic, the bunch is not spoiled.
 

waggy

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Yup, but all it takes is one bad apple to spoil the bunch. Especially when that apple threatens to kill you.


spoil them? in the video another cop comes over and drags him off. then even before it hit the news the guy in charge said he wouldn't be put back on duty in furgerson. Though he ended up getting suspended indemnity and i HOPE fired and charged.

seems they weren't spoiled and did what they should have.
 

TerryMathews

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I know right? Makes no sense whatsoever.
Can't possibly be HIPAA. No, that would make too much sense. It makes so much more sense that the police are deliberately agitating the crowds so that they can kill more black people.

Occam's razor. Get some.
 

xBiffx

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Can't possibly be HIPAA. No, that would make too much sense. It makes so much more sense that the police are deliberately agitating the crowds so that they can kill more black people.

Occam's razor. Get some.

Oh come on! Stop using logic. It takes all the fun out of the wackos' position.
 

blankslate

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So you're advocating spending the KKK's money...

No I was musing about a good way to give the finger to the KKK which would still be problematic because some people would only see that he accepted the money and might not believe that he made an anonymous donation to the UNCF or other organization that focuses on helping people the KKK hates.

Because even in the above hypothetical situation there's no guarantee that an organization that Officer Wilson wanted to donate KKK money would accept it considering the original source.


...but then giving me the nonuseful "of course you don't" with the ominous dot dot dots after saying basically the same thing I said?

I don't know how to interpret this, could you perhaps explain it to me? It seems contradictory on the face.

I'll make it simple. Accepting the money would in some people minds signify that Officer Wilson might share the KKK's views or doesn't really object all that much to them.

Apparently you need someone to donate money to you so you can buy a clue.



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Vapid Cabal

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I have a question.
Why does it matter what type of injury the officer sustained?

If it turns out to be a black eye, would that negate the fact that he was assaulted? ( if he was, we still don't know for sure)
 

xBiffx

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I have a question.
Why does it matter what type of injury the officer sustained?

If it turns out to be a black eye, would that negate the fact that he was assaulted? ( if he was, we still don't know for sure)

No, it doesn't matter.

To those that think he should have retreated here, nothing would have mattered.

To those who think he was justified because he felt threatened, nothing would have mattered.

So again, his injury doesn't matter.
 

Vapid Cabal

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No, it doesn't matter.

To those that think he should have retreated here, nothing would have mattered.

To those who think he was justified because he felt threatened, nothing would have mattered.

So again, his injury doesn't matter.


Good to see that I am not the only one that feels this way. The whole "release his medical records" thing is a red herring.