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Second Video of Alton Sterling's Shooting Death Seems to Contradict Police Claim That He Was Holding a Gun

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smilesammich
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cops do not get to execute people depending on their priors, none of what you're going on about has anything to do with that fact.

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This is the best, most rounded, unbiased post on the issue to date

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What I find so interesting is the folks who swear we're becoming a police state are the same folks who give the police an infinite amount of benefit of the doubt. The same ones who say white people ar

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It may be YOUR thought process. But it certainly isn't mine.

Oh yes it is. In fact, what's interesting is, a white kid was killed by the police, unarmed. Like this weekend, and not a single person here has posted it. Janelle and I have both said something about it, but it seems to fall on deaf ears. Why is that?

Why does slang and other racist words get used in theses threads, but when the killer is white, it's either dead silence or mild trepidation? Even Muslims get more love(read hate) than when the killer is white.

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge." -Toni Morrison

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

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Does a shrill whine from the PC mean the fan's going out or is it potentially something worse?

Nah, just saying if you can't play without being a racist, why bother? Because if we go in on your family connections in reference to the topics you love talking about, that tough guy demeanor fades rather quicky.

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge." -Toni Morrison

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Nah, just saying if you can't play without being a racist, why bother? Because if we go in on your family connections in reference to the topics you love talking about, that tough guy demeanor fades rather quicky.

Lol gets me suspended every time

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Oh yes it is. In fact, what's interesting is, a white kid was killed by the police, unarmed. Like this weekend, and not a single person here has posted it. Janelle and I have both said something about it, but it seems to fall on deaf ears. Why is that?

what i seriously don't get is when folks bring up white kids killed by cops and they're like.."you don't see us protesting and rioting and acting like animals when that happens"

first, the animal comment? backhanded. second, why not???

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Thanks TBone, good to see someone take the bull by the horns!

He even included my sales pitch for platinum upgrades. You get good service when you pay for it. I may have to buyou the extended warranty for getting out of jail free. I think I have used mine up.?

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I visit a forum that has a few cops on it and every time a video comes out of a cop shooting they automatically defend the cops. But, one explained why: it's because they are falsely accused constantly, just all the time, so it's become instinctive. They did the same to the alton sterling video. I actually was willing to give alton the benefit of the doubt, but that link is quite telling. It's obvious that although I believe two guys SHOULD have been able to restrain this guy's arms, they clearly hadn't, for whatever reason. The cop obstructed in the video obviously does not have control of sterling's right hand and, after the closest cop pulls his gun and puts it to sterling's chest there is more talking and waiting for a couple of seconds. During this time sterling is clearly fighting.

I am now of the impression sterling, while resisting arrest, was reaching for his piece, which the cops knew about and verbalized.

I also predict the cops will get off for this and it will probably be the right thing.

Good luck!

 

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