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11-30-2014 , 07:05 PM

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Fortunately, at six on one, they deemed me too small a threat to kill for being unarmed. And mostly naked.

I think have more cops is more dangerous. Like the guy in nyc selling cigarettes. Escalation is contagious.

11-30-2014 , 07:06 PM

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Do you mean Al just hasn't gotten to this or he doesn't care because it was white guy?

No, I meant your comment was dumb, but not unexpected.

11-30-2014 , 07:11 PM

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I had a cop pull a gun on me out in the woods and tell me several times, "I could say you attacked me and kill you, and nobody would ever know." All for the serious crime of underage drinking in the woods.

A lot of cops are out of control whether you are white or black. But it's obviously a lot worse for black people.

11-30-2014 , 07:12 PM

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Where the hell is Gloria Steinem on this shooting?

11-30-2014 , 07:20 PM

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I'm not going to watch a video of someone getting killed, because I'm not that morbidly curious, but I assume we have a record of what exactly was said.

Also, lol police don't give clear instructions. Theyre all fired up about having a gun trained on someone. When I had several guns and shotguns pointed at me, none of the officers in question gave the same directions as the rest.

Fortunately, at six on one, they deemed me too small a threat to kill for being unarmed. And mostly naked.

Actually this sounds like pretty terrible police action that could have lead to a shooting.

What were you doing? What did they think you did? How naked were you?

I think the police should have a pretty good reason before drawing a weapon. Seems like it was fairly common to hear something like an officer having never drawn their weapon during a career back in my day. Now, that's replaced at best with never fired their weapon.

11-30-2014 , 07:28 PM

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I think I saw it on House of Cards but there is a scene in some TV show where they want a black dude dead and dude finds him in the dark, tosses him a gun, guy catches it instinctively and is shot immediately after. Fingerprints are on gun, guy says black dude attacked him with gun. It as kind of shocking to me that is just how easy it could be.

11-30-2014 , 07:32 PM

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Fancy play syndrome.

Cop could have just shot him and said he gave him a mean look while being black, and that's pretty much enough.

11-30-2014 , 08:14 PM

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No, I meant your comment was dumb, but not unexpected.

Why the lack of outrage over this event?

11-30-2014 , 08:29 PM

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Why the lack of outrage over this event?

Feel free to start a protest. Anything that brings attention to cops being out-of-control in the U.S. is fine with me.

11-30-2014 , 08:32 PM

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Only Al can start protests.

11-30-2014 , 08:35 PM

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Really a cop felt threatened....by white guy? Pretty sure most of the posters on this site felt only a black guy could do that

No, just that they feel 'threatened' by blacks about 21x more often.

Keep fighting the good fight though, it looks good on you

11-30-2014 , 08:41 PM

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Pretty sure Strike-3 is fine with cops killing unarmed people of all colors. He's just mad that the black victims get all kinds of attention.

11-30-2014 , 08:52 PM

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No, just that they feel 'threatened' by blacks about 21x more often.

Not quite. The real number is closer to 4X. The 21X figure was just for under 20 year olds, which has less than 10% of all police killings.

11-30-2014 , 09:21 PM

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Ohh that's so much better.

11-30-2014 , 09:29 PM

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Made chili tonight, I'm going murder some crackers.

11-30-2014 , 09:49 PM

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Giving a cop that was dispatched with report of someone with a gun the impression that you're reaching for a weapon after he orders you to show your hands proves to be a reliable way to be shot regardless of race.

Which Is why I suggested that police procedures ought to be revisited . Surely 21st technology can find a way to provide LE with a non lethal weapon in the event LE has to deal with a Dillon Taylor or Mike Brown.

11-30-2014 , 09:54 PM

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Whatever OPs intentions he has brought to the forum another prime example of how America not banning guns asap is killing many many innocents. Wake up America, guns are the problem and without them none of these cop shootings would have happened.

11-30-2014 , 09:59 PM

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Potato guns, tho.

11-30-2014 , 10:08 PM

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Ohh that's so much better.

It's better by a factor of four. If 4 times as many black people were killed by police would that make no difference to you?

11-30-2014 , 10:19 PM

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Made chili tonight, I'm going murder some crackers.

I made homeade French onion soup with cave-aged gruyère cheese. CAVE AGED, BTICHES.

11-30-2014 , 10:22 PM

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I made homeade French onion soup with cave-aged gruyère cheese. CAVE AGED, BTICHES.

11-30-2014 , 10:31 PM

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Some cops are scared and dangerous, often they're tired and stressed, and they're mostly armed. If they confront you, stand still, keep hands visible, and keep your mouth shut. This will work most of the time. But with that kid in Cleveland, probably not.

11-30-2014 , 10:34 PM

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You chumps probably have some mozzarella that was aged in a refrigerated warehouse somewhere. Y'all aren't baller enough to know about cheese that WAS STORED IN A ****ING CAVE. FALCON 2016!