Own the narrativeā¦
She didnāt actually say the word black out loud.
Dog whistles should be described as whistles, even if you canāt hear Dixie.
Or you know, he couldāve been armed with a bag of Skittles.
Well, according to the experts at urbandictionary muscular arms can be referred to as āgunsā. Case closed, no?
Pretty sure there is a right to bare arms. First Lady says so.
Put the biceps down and step away from it slowly!
Drop the triceps or Iāll shoot!
Do you have a permit for those deltoids?
I am sure if she did, sheād have said āblahā, not āblackāā¦
I feel like an idiot for being suckered by another beschizza click-bait story ā¦ Listened to the interview and she never says that unarmed men shouldnāt be considered unarmed or anything smilar.
Ok so its a bad interview (officerās clean record is important but no mention pf Brownās not having a record etc) bit the BoingBoing headline is so misleading.
Man, when I feel like an idiot I go out of my way to -not- find the bystanders in my own misadventure to point fingers at. That would be terribly irresponsible of me to make out like i was a victim of my own choices.
Takes all kinds to fill a freeway, though
You know I bet cops do treat big guys differently than other folk. Regardless of race. They are able to cause more damage if they decide too. Like how you are probably more wary of a pitbull vs a poodle.
or more wary of a cop than of a big guy
I personally shit myself in the presence of large cops.
Iāve seen pictures and videoā¦ Mike Brown did in fact have TWO ARMS!!! He was not āUNARMEDā like the libruhls keep saying
so, in keeping with the Fox themeā¦ you drop a Doocy.
Then I guess it wouldnāt violate a large manās second amendment rights if he could not own guns.
Does she actually say if you are certain size then you should be considered armed regardless of whether or not you are carrying a firearm?
OTOH, it is odd to see the term āunarmedā constantly being used as if it is a synonym for āharmless.ā Roughly 6 percent of homicides each year in the United States are committed by individuals who are āunarmedā and do not use a weapon other than their fists, feet, etc.
The killer in this case, for example, was unarmed.
Even if a personās size could be construed as a weapon, that doesnāt justify lethal force. What happened to tasers? What happened to pepper spray, batons, beanbag rounds, etc.? Why go immediately for the kill?
Not that Iām advocating any of those. To me, Brownās death is pretty clearly on the spectrum between manslaughter and murder. But generally speaking, it seems like less-than-lethal-but-still-violent methods are fading away.
In Durham a man was recently killed by police in an obvious suicide-by-cop situation. They were blocks from the police station and the standoff lasted more than an hour before one of the police killed him. It would have been a perfect occasion for a bean bag round. And a bean bag round would have reduced the danger posed by gunfire in downtown Durham.
I bet she only had the courage to say that because she was armed with the chair she was sitting on.
