Leave me off of your hateful hobby horse.
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I don’t see why not - or “housewife” or “Florida man” or wherever. It’s personalizing the victim in a punchy headline. I’m not sure the point you’re trying to make.
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Eventually “feared for my safety” will become an excuse for the general public. Then what will the cops do when people start shooting them on sight?
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Can’t we build a wall around cops to protect our young black men? This is where we’re losing our citizens. These crazed mobs of out of control killers are unopposed flood the countryside, murders our people and no one opposes them. Where is our MAGA crowd when we need them?
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It already is, see George Zimmerman…
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That’s a damned lie!
They’ll have to suffer through a grueling six week paid vacation while the investigation grinds mercilessly on.
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Fuck if this thread isn’t Groundhogs Day; right down to the obvious trolls and astroturfers complaining about the fucking title, because somehow that’s more important than the police killing yet another Black person who wasn’t an actual threat to them.
Fuck this, and fuck everyone who’s ‘okay’ with this insanity.
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“the police stations aren’t sending their best. They’re sending their murderers, and their rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”
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So basically cops are scaredy-cat wimps and delicate snowflakes now, they need to shoot a guy who’s asleep “just to be safe.”
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Only when it’s people of color.
Had it been a White dude asleep in a parking lot with a gun visible on his lap, I’ll bet you dollars to donuts he’d have been taken into custody alive.
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I disagree entirely with this.
If it were a white guy he would have had his Taco Bell paid for by the police. Escorted home and tucked into bed. And then given free lifetime supply of tacos for his hard work and the inconvenience of having been woken up when he was so exhausted.
/s
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Hey, don’t feel bad. Cops in New York shot another cop to death through the same ridiculous lack of fire discipline. They would have shot him 42 times if their aim wasn’t so bad. Again, the key words here are “fire discipline” the military has it. Cops do not. And this shit is going to keep happening until they are properly trained in the use of their weapons. Ridiculous.
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I’m fairly certain that racism has a good deal to do with this shooting.
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Word; mere ‘better training’ won’t fix the larger problem at hand.
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Feel bad? The NRA couldn’t even spare a single thought or a prayer from their warehouse of thoughts and prayers, for the family of someone killed for openly carrying.
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List of Things That Frighten Police (updated 2/20/19)
Blinking LEDs
Photography & Video Cameras
Black/Brown Adults and Children
Direct Eye Contact
Breasts
Lyft
Peaceful protests
Halloween
Lesbians
Imaginary Black/Brown People
Puppies
Turtles
Rap Battles
Free Speech
Mail Carriers
Motorcyclists
Disabled People
Drawings of Penises
Two-Dollar Bills
Milk
Pregnant Women
Nurses
Journalists
Balloons
Students
Yarn
Police
Sleeping People
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Hateful? Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever been called that. I clearly failed at trying to convey my point, because hatefulness is the polar opposite of it. All apologies.
It’s carried over from another conversation in which I was taking about the seeming fetishization of violence in the hip hop community by a) reporting every time a rapper is involved in a violent encounter no matter how unknown they are and b) the compulsion to include to qualifier “rapper” whether it’s cogent to the event reported or not. Anyway, I clearly botched the delivery and apologize to anyone offended by my lack of clarity. My intent was the opposite of how it was received. The reason it was in this thread is that there were two clear examples to cite.
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One of these 3 occupations has very different implications to the bootlickers.
Of course. My point is that such recklessness clearly invalidates the bs “I feared for my life defense”, which is already invalid as showing restraint while in life threatening situations is what they signed up for.
