The E Man Suspended 15268 Posts user info edit post |
Riots in this town outside of st louis.
Seems like common sense that police should not carry guns We are the only modern nation where they do. Or are we even a modern nation? 8/11/2014 12:46:35 PM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
Certainly worthy of breaking into nearby stores and looting. 8/11/2014 12:47:31 PM |
stategrad100 All American 6606 Posts user info edit post |
Was his name Trayvon? 8/11/2014 12:50:41 PM |
Førte All American 23525 Posts user info edit post |
8/11/2014 12:52:37 PM |
BanjoMan All American 9609 Posts user info edit post |
I have no probs with Police carrying. I do have probs with the still prevailing culture of shoot first ask later when it comes to somebody that looks sketchy. 8/11/2014 12:53:02 PM |
MaximaDrvr
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especially when the officer was being attacked, how dare he shoot the person who was attacking him..... Justice for this poor innocent good kid who was just minding his own business. Even the mother says something to the effect of: why didn't they just beat him with clubs or taze him, why did they shoot him..... Retribution by stealing everything from everybody not involved.... 8/11/2014 1:23:32 PM |
quagmire02 All American 44225 Posts user info edit post |
the problem is that he left east st louis without a pass 8/11/2014 1:36:52 PM |
thegoodlife3 All American 39304 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "especially when the officer was being attacked, how dare he shoot the person who was attacking him....." |
not according to several eyewitness accounts
more will certainly come out, but you're pretty damn quick to trust the police account as gospel8/11/2014 2:00:54 PM |
Bullet All American 28414 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "especially when the officer was being attacked, how dare he shoot the person who was attacking him..... Justice for this poor innocent good kid who was just minding his own business." |
What are you basing this on and why are you so quick to believe it? (I'm assuming you weren't there)
[Edited on August 11, 2014 at 2:02 PM. Reason : ]8/11/2014 2:02:37 PM |
dmspack oh we back 25532 Posts user info edit post |
^, and ^^....yep. beat me to it 8/11/2014 2:12:51 PM |
ctnz71 All American 7207 Posts user info edit post |
Hopefully the eye witnesses aren't the ones looting 8/11/2014 2:16:02 PM |
Dr Pepper All American 3583 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "the problem is that he left east st louis without a pass" |
iswydt?
Also, you guys are ridiculous - buncha armchair/backseat/Monday morning quarterback cops8/11/2014 2:16:47 PM |
Bullet All American 28414 Posts user info edit post |
^you're going to have to be more specific 8/11/2014 2:19:01 PM |
Byrn Stuff backpacker 19058 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2014/08/_iftheygunnedmedown_shows_how_black_people_are_portrayed_in_mainstream_media.html
Folks are tweeting pictures that present opposing stories about their identities. Obviously this says a lot about what one publishes online and the persona that one creates outside of situations like these, but it also gets down to the fundamental conflict of narratives in cases like these. Cases like George Zimmerman's and Theodore Wafer's and this should make us question the message we're sending black teens. 8/11/2014 2:22:24 PM |
MaximaDrvr
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I'm just going off the two news articles I read.... 8/11/2014 2:36:46 PM |
ussjbroli All American 4518 Posts user info edit post |
Where do you get your bullshit about police not carrying guns? That's only the UK and even then in northern Ireland the police carry. German polizi routinely carry sub machine guns like mp5s 8/11/2014 2:36:54 PM |
thegoodlife3 All American 39304 Posts user info edit post |
^^ cite 'em 8/11/2014 2:38:52 PM |
MaximaDrvr
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yahoo.com right off the main page. Do your own digging. 8/11/2014 2:40:06 PM |
dtownral Suspended 26632 Posts user info edit post |
I'm not seeing it on Yahoo's front page, but I bet what the story actually said was that the officer claimed that he was being attacked and multiple eyewitnesses said the kid has his hands up 8/11/2014 2:44:29 PM |
kiljadn All American 44690 Posts user info edit post |
Multiple eyewitness accounts say nothing about the kid attacking a police officer.
News articles also gloss over the fact that the body lay in a pool of blood in the middle of the street for hours, unattended to by medical professionals while police from multiple precincts came in and tried to close off the town.
Let's be real here, the police killed an innocent kid, tried to control the narrative, militarized a town, and fabricated a story after the fact. It's like we're in some goddamned 3rd world country, and some of you dumb fucks are lapping it up and displacing blame because a small minority busted up a few shops. 8/11/2014 2:55:36 PM |
Byrn Stuff backpacker 19058 Posts user info edit post |
Anonymous steps in demanding enactment of a "Mike Brown Law" to deter police misconduct. They also threaten to seize accounts and dox all members associated with the police if LEOs respond to protesters with force.
8/11/2014 2:58:15 PM |
HUR All American 17732 Posts user info edit post |
Let's show our protesting spirit and stand up to injustice by rioting and looting local businesses .
I believe the police were wrong in this situation and hope that justice is on the side of the killed teen. Regardless the pillaging and looting I have heard going on in the wake of this incident is incredibly ridiculous and does not help the cause of those minorities who feel the police unjustly killed a member of their community.
Can someone please explain the looting from a mob mentality standpoint. It almost seems that the murder of the kid merely gave an excuse to a subset of the protesting population to go ballistic and to act barbarians.
[Edited on August 11, 2014 at 4:53 PM. Reason : a] 8/11/2014 4:51:45 PM |
Bullet All American 28414 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Can someone please explain the looting from a mob mentality standpoint." |
Well, people like you are talking about it, and it's bringing attention to the possible killing of an unarmed kid.
[Edited on August 11, 2014 at 4:56 PM. Reason : but no doubt, it's just an excuse for some. but it's a small minority.]8/11/2014 4:56:22 PM |
dtownral Suspended 26632 Posts user info edit post |
Young kids with nothing better to do, a small minority of some protests, all amped up from adrenaline and anger, sometimes loot.
Mystery solved. 8/11/2014 4:59:13 PM |
y0willy0 All American 7863 Posts user info edit post |
what are you talking about?
at the height of the civil rights movement it was always a preferred tactic to haul off an ATM. 8/11/2014 5:02:42 PM |
ussjbroli All American 4518 Posts user info edit post |
Someone needs to link to all the black people in twitter telling people they need to not loot their own neighborhoods but instead need to go loot and burn down the white ones 8/11/2014 5:08:04 PM |
rjrumfel All American 23027 Posts user info edit post |
Reports say he was unarmed.
But I clearly see at least one arm in that video. 8/11/2014 5:14:29 PM |
BigMan157 no u 103354 Posts user info edit post |
just duct tape gopros to popos already 8/11/2014 5:19:35 PM |
kiljadn All American 44690 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Someone needs to link to all the black people in twitter telling people they need to not loot their own neighborhoods but instead need to go loot and burn down the white ones race baiters on the internet deflecting attention from the fact that an innocent man was shot dead in the streets by the police for no fucking reason" |
FTFY
stop trying to change the narrative you fucking piece of shit
[Edited on August 11, 2014 at 5:51 PM. Reason : .]8/11/2014 5:51:15 PM |
dtownral Suspended 26632 Posts user info edit post |
this dudes on point 8/11/2014 5:52:10 PM |
eleusis All American 24527 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Someone needs to link to all the black people in twitter telling people they need to not loot their own neighborhoods but instead need to go loot and burn down the white ones race baiters on the internet deflecting attention from the fact that an innocent man was shot dead in the streets by the police for no fucking reason" |
we don't know anything about the innocence of the deceased or if the shooting was justified at this point. If the police car has a random bullet hole in it coming from some confrontation that occurred like the police are claiming, there's got to be more to this story than "racist cop grabs kid through the window, kid runs away, gets shot repeatedly" like the media is currently hyping up.
The only thing we seem to know for certain right now is that there are some opportunistic shitheads out there using this tragedy as an excuse to go steal shit.8/11/2014 8:01:06 PM |
ussjbroli All American 4518 Posts user info edit post |
^^^ the narrative depends on who you want to believe. The cops say he was resisting and fighting for an officers gun. Some eyewitnesses say he was running away. Other reports say he was a known gang member. The truth isn't known yet. The bigger story has become the looting and rioting and people making this racial like I alluded to by the twitter statements telling the looter to go burn white neighborhoods. As far as I know, the officer has not even been publically identified yet. There is a good chance he's not even white
[Edited on August 11, 2014 at 8:07 PM. Reason : .] 8/11/2014 8:06:56 PM |
dmspack oh we back 25532 Posts user info edit post |
I don't think it's as black and white as people wish it was. We'll probably never know exactly what happened. 8/11/2014 8:11:56 PM |
The E Man Suspended 15268 Posts user info edit post |
I heard the police forced him to convert to islam and then murdered him anyway 8/11/2014 8:29:42 PM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
rofl 8/11/2014 8:29:56 PM |
moron All American 34142 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.empowermagazine.com/iftheygunnedmedown-teaches-great-lesson-black-stereotypes/ 8/11/2014 8:41:24 PM |
The E Man Suspended 15268 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "there is a good chance he is not even white" | Nobits not because the racist department only has 3 black officers in a 70% black county.8/11/2014 8:43:37 PM |
TreeTwista10 minisoldr 148439 Posts user info edit post |
8/11/2014 8:47:28 PM |
moron All American 34142 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "And such is the quandary of being a black person in America and not wanting to “make everything about race” when so often, others have already done so for me. People who accuse me and others who write and speak about race of “playing the race card” or “making everything about race” don’t seem to get that we did not create racism, and that addressing it is not the same as intentionally perpetuating it. " |
http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/i-intervened-on-behalf-of-a-young-man?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=post%5C8/11/2014 8:52:33 PM |
0EPII1 All American 42541 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I don't think it's as black and white as people wish it was." |
ISWYDT
BTW, FUCK YEAH MURRCA, that's how we roll! Take that, pussy ass world.8/11/2014 11:30:51 PM |
BrickTop All American 4508 Posts user info edit post |
can you please come up with something else
or i don't know, maybe your america hatred is your way of dealing with most people hating you 8/11/2014 11:48:15 PM |
AndyMac All American 31922 Posts user info edit post |
I was so outraged by the police misconduct here I had to smash a shop window and get myself a new Blu-ray player.
You see what you have made me do?! Damn cops.
[Edited on August 12, 2014 at 1:52 AM. Reason : ] 8/12/2014 1:51:44 AM |
kiljadn All American 44690 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Let's be real here, the police killed an innocent kid, tried to control the narrative, militarized a town, and fabricated a story after the fact. It's like we're in some goddamned 3rd world country, and some of you dumb fucks are lapping it up and displacing blame because a small minority busted up a few shops." |
Quote : | "Let's be real here, the police killed an innocent kid, tried to control the narrative, militarized a town, and fabricated a story after the fact. It's like we're in some goddamned 3rd world country, and some of you dumb fucks are lapping it up and displacing blame because a small minority busted up a few shops." |
Quote : | "Let's be real here, the police killed an innocent kid, tried to control the narrative, militarized a town, and fabricated a story after the fact. It's like we're in some goddamned 3rd world country, and some of you dumb fucks are lapping it up and displacing blame because a small minority busted up a few shops." |
Quote : | "Let's be real here, the police killed an innocent kid, tried to control the narrative, militarized a town, and fabricated a story after the fact. It's like we're in some goddamned 3rd world country, and some of you dumb fucks are lapping it up and displacing blame because a small minority busted up a few shops." |
"we don't know what happened"
fuck you
Everyone knows what happened because as soon as it happened it was online and a matter of public record.8/12/2014 8:05:57 AM |
EMCE balls deep 89771 Posts user info edit post |
This entire situation is so incredibly sad. 8/12/2014 8:31:55 AM |
NyM410 J-E-T-S 50085 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Folks are tweeting pictures that present opposing stories about their identities. Obviously this says a lot about what one publishes online and the persona that one creates outside of situations like these, but it also gets down to the fundamental conflict of narratives in cases like these. Cases like George Zimmerman's and Theodore Wafer's and this should make us question the message we're sending black teens." |
The whole premise of this article is weird. Trayvon had pictures of him as a kid plastered all over the national media. The conservative media circles are abhorrent and far more dangerous than the 'liberal media,' don't get me wrong, but using Trayvon as an example is off point.8/12/2014 8:59:32 AM |
dtownral Suspended 26632 Posts user info edit post |
i'm annoyed by all the calls to "be reasonable"
how many more unarmed people should the cops be allowed to kill before we are allowed to stop "being reasonable" about it? 8/12/2014 9:00:11 AM |
NyM410 J-E-T-S 50085 Posts user info edit post |
Read one WRAL comment section on this and you'll understand why this keeps happening and why the larger populace doesn't give a fuck. 8/12/2014 9:03:29 AM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
how many more pairs of tennis shoes must be stolen before we realize looting is not a solution to all of your problems? 8/12/2014 9:04:15 AM |
BanjoMan All American 9609 Posts user info edit post |
wow, I know I catch a lot of shit from people, but some users ITT are clearly fucked up and delusional. 8/12/2014 9:08:02 AM |
NyM410 J-E-T-S 50085 Posts user info edit post |
Is the looting any different than a bunch of rednecks fucking up central campus during the last legit campout in 2000?
Bored younger people full of piss and vinegar fuck things up. Always have. Always will. It should be secondary to this story and not the main coverage like it currently is. 8/12/2014 9:09:11 AM |