09-26-2016, 05:16 PM
(09-26-2016, 01:24 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: HotD, just make sure that you're equally outraged when a white guy gets killed by the cops.
That's all we ask O Great Purveyor of Truth.
Hitting the bottle today, MS?
If not, why are you asking me to express the same distress when white guys (or women or children) get killed wrongfully when I already do that and have done that for years? You can see that clearly in my comments posted throughout this thread, the Officer Down thread, and a few other threads as well.
As for your second bullshit-riddled post:
1. Cars posted about how ignorant citizens need to be trained to obey whatever cops command or suffer the consequences, including death (which is illegal police action, unless there's a real or reasonable perception of life endangerment). The two cases under discussion when he posted that comment pertained to (1) someone who was shot when he did appear to be complying and was not posing a threat to anyone's life, and (2) someone who had a documented brain injury which the cops were told about by his wife -- he may or may not have threatened the cops (the chief says the video doesn't show him pointing a gun at the cops, but maybe he did) and thus I don't have an opinion about whether the shooting was justified. But I don't blame the deceased or anyone for not following commands IF they don't have the mental capacity to understand what's happening.
No one, including me, has ever said cops don't have the right and responsibility to shoot or otherwise use force against people who are threatening the cops' lives or the lives of others (or can REASONABLY be perceived to be an imminent threat to them). But, obviously, not every person killed (even justifiably) failed to obey PO commands, and not everybody who fails to obey PO commands is presenting a threat to cops or other people and can be legally/justifiably killed for it.
What part of that offends you, MS? Why are you claiming that I brought up Tamir Rice specifically again? I didn't, read back. Tamir is one of several, including Andy Lopez near me, which still very much saddens me. Who did I call a racist? Nobody, that's who. As for ignorance, it's rampant alright, mostly by choice in my opinion. Less so here than in general, in my observation. I didn't call you or Cars ignorant and I didn't post a narrative. I posted facts and my opinion based upon those facts. Read back.