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ORIGINAL: domiguy

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ORIGINAL: AsmodaisSin

I'm not sure what to believe.  If I state that I feel that the verdict was fair, I'm labeled as a racist.  If I say that it had to be intentional because the guy was black, I'm a racist, because that assumes that the cop was racist for shooting the guy.  I feel like no matter what response anyone gives, they're going to get that label.  It just seems all so messed up to me. 

What's even worse is that these people feel it's necessary to destroy public property in order to protest.  What does that accomplish?

You don't have to worry about it......It's things like saying "these people" that kind of help people make up their mind.

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Trained professionals can either be trusted to use these "tools" correctly.....or no amount of training can prepare simple human beings for life and death situations.
Which is it?

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ORIGINAL: FatherFigureOC

Negligence is a civil tort, not a crime. Scholars of jurisprudence you're not.

This was a mistake, plain and simple. The cop said he was sorry. Get over it.

If the asshat was not being an asshat, he would not have been down on the ground in the first place and the whole incident would have never taken place.

And for all of you despots who want to take our guns away from us, take a look at mexico, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. How is that failed narco-terrorist state doing in protecting its citizens, by the way?

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ORIGINAL: FatherFigureOC

It doesn't matter if you think it was intentional or not. The cop was tried in front of a jury of his peers and they determined his crime. Just because you do not like the outcome does not change the verdict. Our system of justice is not perfect, but its the best in the world and we have to accept the verdict as it stands. Debating it is pointless.

There is plenty of black on white crime in the east bay that goes unpunished, every single day.

• Police and the justice system are not biased against minorities.

• Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.
  
• When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.
  
• Hispanics commit violent crimes at roughly three times the white rate, and Asians commit violent crimes at about one quarter the white rate.
  
• The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is black and Hispanic.

• Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.
  
• Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.
  
• Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
  
• Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.

• Only 10 percent of youth gang members are white.
  
• Hispanics are 19 times more likely than whites to be members of youth gangs. Blacks are 15 times more likely, and Asians are nine times more likely.

• Between 1980 and 2003 the US incarceration rate more than tripled, from 139 to 482 per 100,000, and the number of prisoners increased from 320,000 to 1.39 million.
  
• Blacks are seven times more likely to be in prison than whites. Hispanics are three times more likely.

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ORIGINAL: FatherFigureOC

Negligence is a civil tort, not a crime. Scholars of jurisprudence you're not.

This was a mistake, plain and simple. The cop said he was sorry. Get over it.

If the asshat was not being an asshat, he would not have been down on the ground in the first place and the whole incident would have never taken place.

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ORIGINAL: FatherFigureOC

And for all of you despots who want to take our guns away from us, take a look at mexico, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. How is that failed narco-terrorist state doing in protecting its citizens, by the way?

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ORIGINAL: Elisabella

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Trained professionals can either be trusted to use these "tools" correctly.....or no amount of training can prepare simple human beings for life and death situations.
Which is it?

Both. LEO's should be trained to be at the top of their game, but nothing is foolproof, and some people are more qualified than others.

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ORIGINAL: FatherFigureOC

Is that a threat?

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ORIGINAL: FatherFigureOC

That's your reply? You can't come up with something better? How do you even know what my skin color/ethnicity/race is? You do not. You suffer from some leftist pathology. I would look ridiculous in a white sheet (but not nearly as ridiculous as black latex). But more importantly, you cannot come up with a coherent response? Another sign of intellectual vacuousness between the ears and dishonesty. I will not engage with leftist dolts who are only here to engage in name-calling and personal attacks. Sorry.

I dont think the guy deserved to be shot in the back. No man does. But the verdict has been read, and the savages and taken to burn and loot the streets. Fuck them.

Here are the fallen officers of OPD:

http://www.odmp.org/agency/2872-oakland-police-department-california

How many do you want to bet were killed by black men?

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ORIGINAL: FatherFigureOC

How many do you want to bet were killed by black men?

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ORIGINAL: FatherFigureOC

"If I ever see you crossing the street and decide to run you over for being an asshat, and then put a bullet in your back just to be sure,  I promise to apologize afterward. So we're good, right?"

Is that a threat?

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ORIGINAL: FatherFigureOC
These are DOJ statistics, not my opinion. But you're entitled to be ignorant of certain irrefutable truths. Cops in Oakland do not have it easy, particularly on the west side of town. Your contempt for law enforcement is disgusting.