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ThirdWheelWanted -> RE: Rioting is the answer (8/25/2014 2:57:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
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ORIGINAL: ThirdWheelWanted
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy
I'm not saying anything, I am posting information.
The conservatives here keep trying to blame Big Mike for being shot, but the actual problem in Ferguson is the police department and the municipal justice system.
So if someone were to post an article to this thread that reported that Brown was a known gang member, serial killer, and pedophile (not true, used for example only), you'd think they were just "posting information"?
You did "say something", you said "Finally some news about Darren Wilson, whose been hiding behind a wall of secrecy." Followed by a copy of a news report that seems to be about about another Darren Wilson. So yes, I'd say you were making a statement.
And I here I thought the "actual problem" was that a criminal (and yes he was a criminal as his accomplice admitted under oath), is accused of assaulting an officer and being shot.
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4724269
you mean like I did here?
Well other then that your response doesn't have anything at all to do with what I asked cloudboy. You reposted something that someone else said, somewhere else, and asked if anyone had a problem with it. Cloudboy posted a news report claiming that Wilson started his career in a department that was disbanded for poor performance and bad community relations, then tried to dodge responsibility by saying that he wasn't saying anything, he was just posting information. So not even remotely the same thing.
As to whether or not I thought the post you were referring to was ok. If the photo isn't of Brown, then it's a pretty crappy thing to do. At least with the ridiculously out of date photos we saw at first, disingenuous as they were, they were at least of the right person. But if you're asking if the officer had a right to post his opinion, I'd have to say yes. He's got as much right to his opinion as anyone else when he's off duty. He didn't make racist comments, as far as I can tell from the article, those were added by other posters afterwards. At worst, he's guilty of misrepresenting a photograph, but depending on where he got it from, he might have thought it was of Brown. (We've had two different people here misidentify Wilson already.) As to his post being "biased", how is what he said biased? "I'm sure young Michael Brown is innocent and just misunderstood. I'm sure he is a pillar of the Ferguson community." Sarcasm is now bias?
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