Officer Wilson not indicted in killing of Michael Brown

by Simon 551 Replies latest social current

  • breakfast of champions
    breakfast of champions

    Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but here's what I thought when this whole thing started:

    I'm a white guy. I live in a middle/upper-middle class area with mostly white people.

    Most of the cops in our town are white.

    So I decide to go down to the convenience store, and I steal a pack of cigarillos (actually, I dont smoke, so it might be some booze).

    I leave the store, the storekeeper calls the cops.

    Town cops pull up to me walking down the street. Words are exchanged. Then I physically assault the cop and tell him he's a fucking pussy and he wouldn't dare shoot me.

    Then I start waking away.

    The cop starts chasing me.

    So I charge him.

    He takes three shots at me.

    I stop. Then I decide to keep charging him.

    He then shoots me dead.

    Now honestly tell me: why did I get shot?

    Because this is pretty much what I expect would happen to me if I did all the things this guy supposedly did.

  • Simon
    Simon

    It does seem obvious doesn't it? Anyone in their right mind presented with that story would say that the person was shot because they attacked the cop.

    But change the color of the actor to black and suddenly *they* become the victim and the policeman the criminal (to some).

  • designs
    designs

    What do you think you've missed in that scenario.

  • sammielee24
    sammielee24

    Let's hope that the young man found murdered in his car last night wasn't one of the witnesses from Ferguson that was scared to go public because of threats..he was a friend of Dorion Johnsons apparently. sw

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    (Via Daily Mail) A man has died during the Ferguson riots just yards from where Michael Brown was shot dead. Residents on Canfield Drive said that DeAndre Joshua, 20, was shot whilst in his car though police at the scene refused to confirm any details.

    DeAndre’s grandmother Renita Towns said that ‘somebody killed him’ during the carnage.

  • Simon
    Simon

    What do you think you've missed ...

    Oh yeah - if you're white you wouldn't be on the news or have a riot in your honour?

    Or is it "the president wouldn't give a shit" ?

  • breakfast of champions
    breakfast of champions

    What do you think you've missed in that scenario.

    You're right. I missed this:

    I also tried to wrestle the gun away from the officer.

  • Marvin Shilmer
    Marvin Shilmer

    What do you think you've missed in that scenario.

    Missed?

    What is there to miss? A thief acts to engage an armed police officer. Right? Did I miss something?

    What is an armed police officer supposed to think when a criminal suspect engages him knowing the policeman is armed?

    Does the thief expect the policeman to think this is the thief's way of showing affection, or perhaps offing a lollipop?

    No one in their right mind would think that a fool who knowingly engages an armed adult is doing anything other than attempting an assault with intent to harm.

  • breakfast of champions
    breakfast of champions

    Oh yeah - if you're white you wouldn't be on the news or have a riot in your honour

    Okay, so right now, if I was shot by the cop, you know what people would do where I live?

    They'd say " What in the hell is wrong with that guy? He must be insane! Rob a store, attack a police officer?! That guy was cracked."

    They would then order a Mocha Latte.

  • designs
    designs

    Try again its there....

  • Simon
    Simon

    Is it something to do with relatives inciting arson?

    This is hard ... at least give us a clue?!

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