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ORIGINAL: Gauge

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

The protesters are judging the situation on skin color alone

It is fairly sad that when a white cop shoots a black person there are riots, political pressure, investigations, huge news reports, town meetings and so on. If a black person shoots a white cop, it is no biggie and very little is heard about it.

People judge others on the color of their skin? Let me put on my shock face.

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ORIGINAL: stef

When I saw the subject of this thread and who had posted it, I thought he had come to a rare moment of self realization. Sadly, that was not the case.

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi


Shit like this certainly isn't helping anything.

http://news.yahoo.com/angry-protesters-yell-stoic-police-st-louis-050253710.html

"This here was racial profiling turned deadly," state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat, said at a news conference Thursday.


Now there is not way in hell he could know what motivated the off duty cop from chasing the kid but that doesn't stop him from claiming it's a fact.

All he is doing is feeding the hate.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Has anyone noticed the radical changes to the police version of the story?

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Has anyone noticed the radical changes to the police version of the story?

No, no one has as we have yet to see you post any links to substantiate any of these wild-eyed conspiracy charges

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Has anyone noticed the radical changes to the police version of the story?

No, no one has as we have yet to see you post any links to substantiate any of these wild-eyed conspiracy charges

Dumbass.
I was hoping you'd take the bait
bushes version
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/09/police-say-off-duty-st-louis-cop-shot-teen-who-opened-fire-on-him/
No bushes version
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/st-louis-police-officer-fatally-shoots-teenager.html
Hoodie version
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-officer-fatally-shoots-teenager-in-south-st-louis/article_2d5a8c2a-97db-5cec-a477-1130d7d26f7e.html
video showing the victim showing no hoodie
http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=stltoday&videoId=27593599

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Hoodie version
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-officer-fatally-shoots-teenager-in-south-st-louis/article_2d5a8c2a-97db-5cec-a477-1130d7d26f7e.html
video showing the victim showing no hoodie
http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=stltoday&videoId=27593599

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Preliminary autopsy results showed that Vonderrit Myers Jr. was shot from six to seven times in the lower extremities, said Dr. Michael Graham. The fatal shot entered the right cheek and was recovered in the body, Graham said.

Sen. Jamilah Nasheed had suggested at a press conference earlier Thursday that the teen had been shot in the back of the head, but the autopsy did not find any gunshots to the back of Myers' head.

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It is fairly sad that when a white cop shoots a black person there are riots, political pressure, investigations, huge news reports, town meetings and so on. If a black person shoots a white cop, it is no biggie and very little is heard about it.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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When I saw the subject of this thread and who had posted it, I thought he had come to a rare moment of self realization. Sadly, that was not the case.

If the off duty cop had been black and his assailant white do you honestly think there would be protests?

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ORIGINAL: stef

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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When I saw the subject of this thread and who had posted it, I thought he had come to a rare moment of self realization. Sadly, that was not the case.

If the off duty cop had been black and his assailant white do you honestly think there would be protests?

How did you even get to that from what I posted? Are you drunk?

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It is fairly sad that when a white cop shoots a black person there are riots, political pressure, investigations, huge news reports, town meetings and so on. If a black person shoots a white cop, it is no biggie and very little is heard about it.

True. Any slaying, whatever the skin tone of the killer and the killed, should distress us.

That said, I think there's an additional factor at work, which I haven't seen mentioned in the thread. That's the weighty hand of history. One of the heartbreaking strands of the American story has been the role of white officials and cops in oppressing black folk. The Fugitive Slave Law comes to mind, as do Jim Crow, fire hoses turned on peaceful protesters, and cops not merely allowing but abetting lynching.

Against that backdrop, I understand how any white-kills-black story, particularly if it involves a cop's or quasi-cop's finger on the trigger, can evoke, perhaps subconsciously, the horror and rage of "Fuck! It's happening all over again."

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Has anyone noticed the radical changes to the police version of the story?

No, no one has as we have yet to see you post any links to substantiate any of these wild-eyed conspiracy charges

Dumbass.
I was hoping you'd take the bait
bushes version
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/09/police-say-off-duty-st-louis-cop-shot-teen-who-opened-fire-on-him/
No bushes version
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/st-louis-police-officer-fatally-shoots-teenager.html
Hoodie version
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-officer-fatally-shoots-teenager-in-south-st-louis/article_2d5a8c2a-97db-5cec-a477-1130d7d26f7e.html
video showing the victim showing no hoodie
http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=stltoday&videoId=27593599

This is about "baiting" to you? A serious discussion about people dying and rioting and fomenting racial hatred is all part of some game in your eyes?

Why the childishness, dk. How about you grow up some, and then try it again. As to your supposed "gotcha" it is very common in news reporting to have reporters give widely varying accounts, and anyone who has ever been in the news or has known someone who has will know what I mean.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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It is fairly sad that when a white cop shoots a black person there are riots, political pressure, investigations, huge news reports, town meetings and so on. If a black person shoots a white cop, it is no biggie and very little is heard about it.

True. Any slaying, whatever the skin tone of the killer and the killed, should distress us.

That said, I think there's an additional factor at work, which I haven't seen mentioned in the thread. That's the weighty hand of history. One of the heartbreaking strands of the American story has been the role of white officials and cops in oppressing black folk. The Fugitive Slave Law comes to mind, as do Jim Crow, fire hoses turned on peaceful protesters, and cops not merely allowing but abetting lynching.

Against that backdrop, I understand how any white-kills-black story, particularly if it involves a cop's or quasi-cop's finger on the trigger, can evoke, perhaps subconsciously, the horror and rage of "Fuck! It's happening all over again."

And yet, though your first statement is right...that any killing, regardless of skin tone, should sadden us...it sure seems like it is the mentality displayed in your last statement..."Fuck! It's happening allover again!"... that comes into play more often.

How else do you explain the lack of coverage given to a shooting just two days after Ferguson in which a BLACK police officer shot a young white man named Dillon Taylor?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/3/justice-dillon-taylor-after-white-utah-man-fatally/
Of course maybe it's this: While they (Salt Lake City residents) have participated in protests demanding justice for Taylor, these have not been accompanied by rioting, looting, violence, and calls for the murder of police officers — unlike in Ferguson. Or maybe it's because Obama and Holder and others in the government have had nothing to say.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

It is when your responses are so predictable and so childish. You have spent pages race baiting. So I dropped the bait and you took it hook, line and sinker. It is not my fault that you are that fucking stupid.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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A fucking imbecile like yourself does not understand that criticism is speech, and money is not, regardless of what nutsuckers who legislate from the bench say.

The freedom of speech I was referring was theirs, and the content of their character being zero was yours, dipshit.

The protesters are judging the situation on skin color alone

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn

Whereas your whole intention in instigating this OP to begin with had nothing whatsoever to do with skin color, right?

Right.

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ORIGINAL: joether


Should we as a society be concern when private companies have the same powers to police and arrest as government, without the burden of accountability and responsibility with power? An we are not talking just small companies, but large multi-national conglomerates that are held only to whims of the most upper crust of management authority. Tyranny by a corporation(s) was not a problem to the founding fathers back in the 18th century; should we be foolish to ignore this possible reality?

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When I saw the subject of this thread and who had posted it, I thought he had come to a rare moment of self realization. Sadly, that was not the case.

If the off duty cop had been black and his assailant white do you honestly think there would be protests?

How did you even get to that from what I posted? Are you drunk?