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04-20-2015, 09:13 AM | #161 (permalink) |
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I've noticed that when a big news event like Ferguson blows up in the media, only the more conservative pundits ask whether or not it was justified. Shouldn't that be the first question on everyone's minds? But when the news pulls up something that could suggest that it was justified for the officer to enforce the law with deadly force, they're often accused of forming a false narrative. When that 'false narrative' is pretty damned compelling, a lot of people prefer to stick their fingers in their ears and stick to the story that they decided was true upon hearing the incomplete facts of the case. These incidents bring up serious issues that do exist, so I think people just cling to that in hopes that it's relevant enough to bring about change.
One thing that people forget about policemen is that they're enforcing the law, and a majority of times they've killed someone on duty (but not all, like with the Garner case), it was because that someone was breaking a law. Not every black man shot by a policeman was an innocent angel, regardless of what Soulflower would have you believe.
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04-20-2015, 09:20 AM | #162 (permalink) | |
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04-20-2015, 09:23 AM | #163 (permalink) | |
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It's there so you only have to scroll up & down to read stuff as opposed to up, down and sideways.
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04-20-2015, 09:33 AM | #164 (permalink) |
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That was what I meant, I guess I just worded it poorly.
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04-20-2015, 12:50 PM | #167 (permalink) | |
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04-20-2015, 01:23 PM | #168 (permalink) | |
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Wasn't there a space between the "c" and the "l" on one of them? So if you write (that's "clap" with the colon either side and no spaces) you get the smiley but if you write :c lap: you don't?
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04-20-2015, 01:27 PM | #169 (permalink) | ||
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And that isn't right, and you are deluded into thinking it happens like that. **** happens, yes, but not nearly like you are making it sound. I'm not afraid to go get a gallon of milk because a cop is gonna gun me down. I get a little neverous when I see gumballs but that's cause I still do a little dirt. I don't feel like they are gonna shoot me, I feel like they may want to write me a ticket or take me to jail.
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