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11-19-2014 , 02:23 PM

#5926

MrWookie

Don't Call Me Meredith

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lol

11-19-2014 , 02:28 PM

#5927

heehaww

Pooh-Bah

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jibninjas

fyp

In this case, it's the cop's who are the criminals.

11-19-2014 , 02:37 PM

#5928

well named

poorly undertitled

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 78,085

Quote:

Originally Posted by heehaww

In this case, it's the cop's who are the criminals.

and all the sinners saints?

11-19-2014 , 03:57 PM

#5929

Jibninjas

Stuck in a While loop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by heehaww

In this case, it's the cop's who are the criminals.

I don't recall the cops destroying local businesses.

11-19-2014 , 04:05 PM

#5930

TimmayB

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jibninjas

I don't recall the cops destroying local businesses.

Do you recall them shooting rubber bullets and throwing tear gas into crowds of innocent people tho?

11-19-2014 , 04:07 PM

#5931

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

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or you know shooting unarmed teenagers to death.

11-19-2014 , 04:09 PM

#5932

JAAASH

banned

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TimmayB

Do you recall them shooting rubber bullets and throwing tear gas into crowds of innocent people tho?

Define "innocent."

11-19-2014 , 04:12 PM

#5933

TimmayB

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I don't need to. It's a word. It has a meaning.

11-19-2014 , 04:16 PM

#5934

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JAAASH

Define "innocent."

Not black.

11-19-2014 , 04:18 PM

#5935

Mojo56

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

or you know shooting unarmed teenagers to death.

Context is everything. There are times when shooting an unarmed teenager to death is justified. That is what the grand jury is for.

11-19-2014 , 05:35 PM

#5936

Jibninjas

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TimmayB

Do you recall them shooting rubber bullets and throwing tear gas into crowds of innocent people tho?

So they were just peacefully protesting and not at all being aggressive against the police and then the police opened fire on them?

11-19-2014 , 05:36 PM

#5937

Jibninjas

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

or you know shooting unarmed teenagers to death.

So guilty until proven innocent (and probably not even then) when it comes to white people?

11-19-2014 , 05:37 PM

#5938

MrWookie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jibninjas

So they were just peacefully protesting and not at all being aggressive against the police and then the police opened fire on them?

Yes.

11-19-2014 , 05:39 PM

#5939

Money2Burn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Oh National Review, never change

http://m.nationalreview.com/article/...her-mac-donald

They get the N word and riots? Life isn't fair.

Quote:

Rather, the jury might not indict for murder because the evidence might not support a murder charge. The story offered up by Brown’s friend Dorian Johnson about the shooting — that Wilson had grabbed Brown without provocation and tried to choke him, and then had ruthlessly shot Brown when his hands were up — was always unlikely. Forensic evidence supports Wilson’s claim that Brown had repeatedly punched and scratched Wilson in his car and tried to grab his gun, putting Wilson in fear for his life.

With Trayvon, it was "lets only focus on the time immediately before the shooting took place." Now it's "lets ignore when the shooting occurred and focus on **** that happened before that period." Can't win.

11-19-2014 , 05:44 PM

#5940

MrWookie

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Apparently you don't actually have to prove someone guilty in order to justify killing them, but you do have to prove someone guilty in order to justify saying mean things about them on the internet.

11-19-2014 , 06:19 PM

#5941

Money2Burn

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It will, of course, take an enormous amount of courage for the grand jury to follow the evidence, if that evidence is insufficient to indict for murder. But the violence, should it come, is ultimately not the worst aspect of the malaise attendant on the grand jury’s deliberations. The worst is simply the reminder of the country’s persistent racial divide.

Ironically concluding an article that perpetuates racist stereotypes to incite fear and malign black people by lamenting over the persistent racial divide? This article has to be a troll.

11-19-2014 , 06:27 PM

#5942

LetsGambool

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jibninjas

So guilty until proven innocent (and probably not even then) when it comes to white people?

He made a factual statement: a cop shot an unarmed teenager. What part of his statement do you disagree with?

EDIT: Really don't understand anyone going to bat for the Ferguson PD. Even if we had perfect information that Wilson is 100% innocent, the behavior of the PD in the aftermath (and, by most accounts, for a long time before the incident) was really awful on the whole.

11-19-2014 , 06:27 PM

#5943

ALLTheCookies

half a brain

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jibninjas

So they were just peacefully protesting and not at all being aggressive against the police and then the police opened fire on them?

Yes. They were told over the loudspeaker that they were illegally assembled and then the police fired gas and rubber and wooden bullets. I watched it live.

Last edited by ALLTheCookies; 11-19-2014 at 06:34 PM.

11-19-2014 , 06:56 PM

#5944

FlyWf

It's the other way

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RGT mod in here, taking up that mantle.

11-19-2014 , 07:04 PM

#5945

__harmless

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jibninjas

So they were just peacefully protesting and not at all being aggressive against the police and then the police opened fire on them?

Basically, yes. I watched it happen. There's even video of the PD firing tear gas at people on their private property. Another cop was caught on camera telling the media "turn off your camera, or I'll ****ing kill you!" This stuff alone deserves protesting.

11-19-2014 , 07:14 PM

#5946

JAAASH

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TimmayB

I don't need to. It's a word. It has a meaning.

Which is?

11-19-2014 , 07:27 PM

#5947

ALLTheCookies

half a brain

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Quote:

Originally Posted by __harmless

What's even more ****ed up is that that police officer wasnt even supposed to be there. He just showed up because he wanted to. I guess the police have something called self-deploying where they can just up and decide to join whatever police crusade they want without reporting it to anyone. Apparently it was a huge problem during the Boston bombing and the manhunt for the ex-cop in LA.

It makes me wonder who the real outside agitators were.

11-19-2014 , 07:33 PM

#5948

formula72

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jibninjas

So they were just peacefully protesting and not at all being aggressive against the police and then the police opened fire on them?

From what I saw, and it wasn't much, the protestors as a whole were well within the law. I'm sure there were a few chicken ****s mixed in ready to cause issues, but it isn't right to attack the protestors the way they did to show those bad apples what's up.

11-19-2014 , 07:39 PM

#5949

microbet

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I've been in a few riots and the police pretty much didn't do anything to the looters. The looters run. The protesters face the police and get hit and arrested. (mostly - the time I was in jail I think there were 1 or 2 looters along with hundreds of protestors.)