Black Americans shot dead by police are twice as likely to be unarmed as whites

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  1. Object227

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    Take it up with Eric Holder and Barak Obama. The conclusions of the Black Democrat AG was that the police officer in the Brown shooting was not guilty. Why doesn't that end the discussion?
     
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    Dude the last thing any cop these days wants to do is shoot a black man. Even if there literally no other choice you have to deal with an anal reaming of titanic proportions, a shooting of a Caucasian that wouldn't get second look if the dead guy were Caucasian can cost you your job if he is African American. Even the most hard core racist cam do that math
     
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    You know that because.....................

    How many cops have lost their job because they should someone black?
     
  4. fifthofnovember

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    There are more whites than anyone. Hmmm.
     
  5. garyd

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    Several. Darren Wilson being one.
     
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    No it doesn't but then I am not a racist
     
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    Blah, blah, blah... Point is, the Federal Standard is a lot higher than the local standard. They practically needed videotape.

    So why hasn't Ferguson or anyone else rehired Wilson if he was such a super-cop?
     
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    All the witnessed didn't agree.. A lot of them said he had his hands up.

    But this is the sort of thing you resolve in a trial, not in a Grand Jury. The thing was, the DA only called witnesses that supported the narrative that Wilson was justified... no matter how much they lied or what mental illnesses they had.

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    but yet oddly, LaQaun McDonald gets shot 16 times when he's lying on the ground and Dylan Roof gets taken to Burger King because the poor dear looked peckish.

    Nope. No systematic Racism here.
     
  9. garyd

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    Be glad I think. Facts are facts though how the facts fit together can be debated, emotional bs is emotional BS and is counter productive to effective and accurate assemblage of the facts available. It saddens me no end that so many young black males never see 25. It pisses me off that Democrats seem more interested in perpetuating the problem than fixing it. BLM is not the solution, Jobs are the solution. Education is the solution, Self discipline is the solution. Leadership that sells out it's own for a seat at the table with the white liberals who by and large have created either intentionally or unintentionally the problems in the 'hood is not the solution. Government cannot solve anyone's personal problems. The best it can do is create the circumstances where in those with the will and the drive can create solutions that work for them and for those in their immediate vicinity.
     
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    Dylan Roof is going to be executed and deservedly so. The asshat the Murdered Lequan is going to go to jail for as long as it takes for some pissed off bro to put a shiv between his ribs assuming he doesn't get murder 1.
     
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    Do you read that poorly? I said they agreed as to multiple shots being fired in a very short period of time.

    I then said that the position of the entry wounds in his armas and Chest showed that it was essentially impossible forhim to have had his hands up unless of course his arms were on backwards.
     
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    You say a lot of things... but it only takes a second for an arm to come down after a bullet hits you in the chest. The point was that this DA, whose father was killed by a black suspect, went out of his way to exonerate this officer. It was a tremendous abuse of authority.
     
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    The asshat who murdered LaQuan is still walking around free right now. He probably won't go to trial until 2018. The CPD has fired him, but the FOP gave him a job pretending to be a janitor at their union hall. And that's not even getting into how the entire CPD lied for two years about what actually happened that night.

    And what did LaQuan do. He got stoned off his rocker.

    Meanwhile, Dylan Roof shoots 9 people in a church, but the authorities go out of their way to take him alive, and even take him to a burger king because, hey, the poor dear hadn't eaten since he killed those folks....

    Yup. If I believed in a God, I'd be thanking him every day I was born white in this country.
     
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    If that is indeed the case, then why do you cut Eric Holder a break for coming to the same conclusion?
     
  17. SiNNiK

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    Racist. It just doesn't have any sting to it anymore.

    smh.
     
  18. JoeB131

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    I don't cut Eric Holder any breaks. Holder talked a lot of smack about using the civil rights laws against the racists and never did.

    Even George H. Bush had more balls than that when he charged the thugs who beat Rodney King with a federal crime when an all white jury acquitted them.

    Holder was too concerned with optics. Mean old black guys prosecuting white racists wouldn't fly well, so he didn't do it. So Zimmerman and Wilson got passes they shouldn't have gotten.

    And don't even get me started on the deafening silence from Obama on Jason van Dyke... wouldn't want to embarass Rahm by pointing out a coverup.

    See, funny thing. This isn't a partisan issue. It's not right vs. left for me, it's right vs. wrong.

    Guys like Wilson and Van Dyke and Slager do a disservice to the good cops who are trying to help the community.

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    Well, no, not when you've just elected a Nazi as president on a technicality.
     
  19. SiNNiK

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    I think "reality vs. fantasy" would be a bit more accurate in regards to what kind of issue this is for you.

    Now that you've explained your position on the matter more clearly I no longer think you are serious, and of course you know that by referencing nazi's that means you lose, right?

    ;)

    Have yourself a good day.
     
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    Naw, man. Trump is a Nazi. All that's missing is the swastika and the goofy mustache.

    The guy used to keep a copy of Mein Kampf on his nightstand, according to ex-wife #1.

    But you guys keep pretending you didn't royally screw up.

    The Germans are STILL apologizing to the rest of the world.
     
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    Because it's no longer safe for him to be a cop. Duh. Apply some critical thinking and you would see that.

    But he was innocent. All physical evidence supported that. And most of the testimony against him was recanted and admitted to be lies. Your anti police attitude stops you from any objective thinking.
     
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    He shot an unarmed kid 8 times. Um.. no, sorry... the physical evidence is that this is murder.

    I'm all for honest cops protecting the community. That's not what happened here.

    The reason he can't be a cop is because even the most podunk white bread suburb doesn't want a trigger happy idiot on their force.
     
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    Yea it took 8 shots to take down the grown adult, monster size individual as he charged the officer whom he had just beaten and injured. All after beating up and robbing an old man.

    The shooting was justifiable even though he was unarmed. Because unarmed does not mean not deadly. The cop was innocent and the grown man died because of his own violent actions.

    The officer simply cannot be a cop anyone due to racist groups like the black Panthers and blm who would kill him. There is no easier target to kill than the police.
     
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    Oh, please.

    US Police officers killed 1200 Americans last year. (Compare that to the United Kingdom, where only 54 suspects died at the hands of police over the last 25 years.)

    Meanwhile, cops are more likely to die in traffic accidents than be killed by criminals.

    I get a little tired of cops telling us how put upon they are when they work a job that pays better than what most of us make.

    Now, back to the point, at the point Brown was shot, he was 148 feet away from the officer and some witnesses say he had his hands up. There was not an immediate threat that justified deadly force.
     
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    Yea because criminals are far more violent here, more often when confronted by police. So it makes sense that more die to police.

    And thier pay is justified, as they handle far more stress and danger than most of us.

    You sound jealous lol.

    The immediate threat was absolutely there, he was charging him after beating him to a pulp. You are objectively wrong. It was absolutely justified due to that immediate threat. His death was on him.

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    Yea because criminals are far more violent here, more often when confronted by police. So it makes sense that more die to police.

    And thier pay is justified, as they handle far more stress and danger than most of us. Thier heaviest critical are also the weakest, who benefits the most from thier protection.

    You sound jealous lol.

    The immediate threat was absolutely there, he was charging him after beating him to a pulp. You are objectively wrong. It was absolutely justified due to that immediate threat. His death was on him. And he didn't have his hands up, multiple sources who examined the body confirmed this. And most of the witnesses admitted to lying about that. You are wrong.
     

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