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Riots in St Louis after white officer who killed black drug suspect acquited

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by MojoMan, Sep 18, 2017.

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  1. MojoMan

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    For example, this one just finished being tried for murder.
     
    #21 MojoMan, Sep 18, 2017
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    See now this is a reasonable opinion that everyone will agree wi....

    Oh wait, never mind.
     
    #22 Anticope, Sep 18, 2017
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  3. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Thugs, racial hysteria, rule of law, etc. etc. Look at Mojo playing his white guy race card. Sad.
     
    #23 CometsWin, Sep 18, 2017
  4. okierock

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    LOL... White people would just say... "idiot deserved his a$$ kicked". Seriously, this would not work and the proof is in the fact that if this would cause ANY kind of uproar, it would be on TV and media.
     
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    How do you propose we do that? :p

    Seriously, I've not seen BLM get excited about Hispanic, Asian, or White victims. And in the case of Whites, many BLM supporters believe that Whites CAN'T be victims. So honestly, how the hell do you convince BLM to care about non-blacks?
     
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    It's amazing to me how many people can't hold two completely unrelated ideas as true in their heads at the same time.

    Yes, rioting is bad.

    Yes, police have an absurdly high standard of guilt for their own misdeeds.

    These two things are both profoundly true, yet this concept causes some to blow an internet warrior gasket when they encounter it.
     
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    I didn't disagree with the statement, what he said was true, it's just that only one of the 2 things is actually happening.....and that should be a reasonable opinion that everyone should agree with. Cops are not going around indiscriminately killing people and if they were, they wouldn't get away with it as evidenced by the fact that even in instances where there is a completely justifiable shooting there is usually a trial anyway.

    If you believe that cops are in fact going around just murdering people indiscriminately, I'd ask that you provide some proof of it.
     
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    Dear Rioters - you gain nothing by engaging in this violent behavior. In fact, you turn people off and damage your cause. Violent rioting is not the answer.
     
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    The police seem to be learning, if the protests both here and in Berkeley are any indication. There have been problems when the local police in areas run by Democrats have been ordered to stand down and not do their jobs, such as happened in Ferguson, during the Baltimore riots after the Freddie Gray trial, and most recently in Charlottesville, Virginia (Governor Terry McCauliffe, D-VA, presiding) in connection with the protests of the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.

    Of course it helps that the police do not have to fear the US DOJ coming down to bully them into supporting an agenda that makes some citizens off limits from policing, lest they be tagged and racists, and then being forced to allow the DOJ to basically take over the local police department. Now the cuffs are off, as it were, and the police are free to do their jobs.

    This is working much better now, don't you think?
     
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    What is working better and how?

    Regardless of who is in the White House, the police need to be subject to oversight from the DOJ.

    Local law enforcement has to be held responsible when they abuse their power.

    Everyone should be able to agree on that.
     
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    I think everyone does agree on that, and it's something that happens already.
     
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    But that is not the extent of what Obama and his DOJ did. Not by a long stretch. AG Sessions is still working to clean that mess up even as we speak. But the first fruits were seen in St. Louis this weekend. If Hillary Clinton was president, chances are those police officers would have been ordered to stand down, lest they meet with serious reprisals from Hilrod's DOJ. The violence and the damage would have in all probability been much greater as a result.
     
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    Well I wasn't talking about anything Obama did, I was just stating the fact that local law enforcement are held responsible when they abuse their power. No one supports the police or anyone abusing their power, so we should talk about it if anyone finds examples of it that go unpunished.
     
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    I agree.
     
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    Are you seriously so lazy that you're just copy/pasting from your own previous posts now? This is literally the last 3 paragraphs from your original post in this thread. We get it you're here to b**** about liberals and Democrats even if it means just copying and pasting the same crap that you've already spewed. Try a little harder, clown.

    P.S. has Ted Cruz made his move yet? Any updates there?
     
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