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TJ in Oregon
TJ in Cleve
Junior Chimp
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« on: August 13, 2014, 09:04:53 PM »

What's outrageous is (some) right-wingers are already defending the cop, trying to say that we don't have enough evidence and that Brown could've been violent. No matter what, what the cop did here and what they do across America on a weekly basis is unacceptable. The evidence is that this cop shot multiple times when Michael Brown didn't pose a threat, as he had his hands in the air. The core problem is that they assume people are guilty until they are proven innocent, not the other way around. Especially if your a young black male walking around the streets at night. I do think that this had a racial element to it, they assume people like Brown are violent just because the way the look and/or stereotypes. Nothing makes my blood boil more than when people like Hannity or O'Reilly try and defend this injustice.

Yeah, unless more information comes out that makes this vastly different than it appears, some heads need to roll in the Ferguson Police Force for this one. And it would be nice if people stop trying to defend the indefensible.
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TJ in Oregon
TJ in Cleve
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 8,948
United States


Political Matrix
E: 0.13, S: 6.96

« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2014, 02:09:08 PM »

I don't understand why the media keeps portraying him as some innocent teenager who "avoided most of the traps that dragged down many of his peers". Obviously he did not as he liked to rob corner stores.

Because whenever a lightning-rod like event such as this shooting happens, some fraction of the country sees the need to canonize the guy and another fraction wants to paint him as Charles Manson. Both because they need to fit him into the narrative they want to story to fit into.
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