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Rapper The Game’s Response To NYPD Officers Shot Dead: “I Guess Y’all Can’t Breathe Either”
Business2Community ^ | December 20, 2014 | Muyen Peng

Posted on 12/21/2014 1:39:07 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

West Coast hip hop rapper The Game sends a tweet to the NYPD officers shot dead in their vehicle.

Handsome Ass Nigga ✔
@thegame

I guess y'all "can't breathe" either. #RIPEricGarner
#AllLivesMatter @ Brighton & Hove, UK
http://instagram.com/p/w2H2PJGot1/

4:41 PM - 20 Dec 2014

329 Retweets 198 favorites

Not surprisingly, many are condemning the tweet, and a lot of those tweets are from fans, some of which are now proclaiming to be ex-fans in light of the cold-hearted message directed at the slain police officers.

@thegame wow I use to be a huge fan of your music. I will NEVER SUPPORT YOU EVER AGAIN YOU ARE A DISGUSTING ANIMAL KARMA WILL FIND YOU

— . (@lexylushh) December 21, 2014

News has just broke of two Brooklyn, New York, police officers who were shot and killed in an ambush attack in their patrol car. While the story is still developing, the lone gunman has been identified as 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley. Immediately after executing the two officers, Brinsley fled the scene on foot and into a subway where he turned the gun on himself.

Just hours before the murder, Brinsley posted a cryptic message on his Instagram, in which he made the statement:

“I’m putting wings on pigs tonight. They take 1 of ours… Let’s take 2 of theirs.”

An image of a pistol accompanied the post, which is presumably the murder weapon. The hashtag #ShootThePolice was also used along with two other ones making reference to Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

As for rapper The Game’s response to the NYPD officers killed, a second post has been sent in response to the immense criticisms he received. He maintains that the original post was not directed at the murdered police officers but rather at a pic of New York counter protesters donning shirts that read “I can breathe.” The shirts were a response to the popular protest slogan “I can’t breathe,” which Garner uttered when he was taken down by a group of NYPD officers, one of which had him in a chokehold.

Read his entire post in his Instagram page.

In the lengthy response, The Game also chastised his critics for taking his first post out of context and reiterates his anger of the recent incidents that involved the death of black men at the hands of white police officers.

Rapper The Games’ response to the NYPD, whatever his intentions were, is clearly not the right way to gain favor with his fans.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Government; Local News; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: billdeblasio; blacks; ericgarner; leo; newyork; newyorkcity; nypd; rapmusic
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I guess thugs stick together.
1 posted on 12/21/2014 1:39:08 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thugpublic.

There, I coined the phrase of the year....replacing republic with the new agenda.


2 posted on 12/21/2014 1:43:33 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There used to be a huge amount of empathy for the plight of blacks, their poverty and bad education made many whites strive to try to fix it. That’s how the various civil rights laws got passed.

I think an increasing number of white people are losing their feelings of good will towards blacks.


3 posted on 12/21/2014 1:56:27 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Studio gangsta. And likely on the “down low”.


4 posted on 12/21/2014 1:59:42 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

May this two bit punk end up like that another punk, two pack, just one more in a long line of thug punks all shy of a six.


5 posted on 12/21/2014 2:04:09 AM PST by nomad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blue Flu coming up!


6 posted on 12/21/2014 2:11:36 AM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"As for rapper The Game’s response to the NYPD officers killed, a second post has been sent in response to the immense criticisms he received. He maintains that the original post was not directed at the murdered police officers but rather at a pic of New York counter protesters donning shirts that read “I can breathe.”


7 posted on 12/21/2014 2:20:27 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Remind me again why the GOP always goes out of its way to protect the interests of the “entertainment” industry (endless copyright term extensions, special tax breaks, etc.) while that industry gleefully promotes this kind of thing.

Seems like there’s a lot of political leverage that could be used to get those companies to behave (and dump the contracts of clowns like “The Game”), if only the party had the will to stand up and start using it.


8 posted on 12/21/2014 2:29:37 AM PST by seacapn
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To: Veggie Todd

What would we do if all police had Blue Flu?
http://www.centralmaine.com/2014/12/09/what-would-we-do-if-all-police-had-blue-flu/


9 posted on 12/21/2014 2:33:17 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Republican party could take some real leadership here. Rank and file black have been trained to hate Republicans, so they have nothing to lose by telling the truth: liberals drive black racism as a means of winning elections. Say it loud and clear. Brand white libs and the Sharptonites as the true racists.msay it over and over. Put on big boy panties because the MSM will condemn Republicans loud and clear. That’s what they’ve been trained to do.


10 posted on 12/21/2014 2:36:35 AM PST by JusPasenThru (Posting here = IRS audit.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe The Game blew all of his record money on crack cocaine and expensive call girls. Now he has to generate new interest in his records. It is the same old game to generate publicity.


11 posted on 12/21/2014 2:37:20 AM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: seacapn
-- Remind me again why the GOP always goes out of its way to protect the interests of the "entertainment" industry --

"Follow the money," and its close friend "follow the power."

12 posted on 12/21/2014 2:48:00 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
-- What would we do if all police had Blue Flu? --

There would be a period of adjustment as the good people necessarily return to self-help. Plenty easier in low population density areas, which are already generally well armed and lightly policed.

If there was a significant uptick in the already unacceptable rate of crime in some area of the country that is overrun with a violent culture, some military force would pick up the slack. Nobody and no profession is indispensable. See PATCO.

13 posted on 12/21/2014 2:55:51 AM PST by Cboldt
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“In the lengthy response, The Game also chastised his critics for taking his first post out of context and reiterates his anger of the recent incidents that involved the death of black men at the hands of white police officers.”

Didn’t get the response you were hoping for? Blame your critics for being stupid! And get some incitement lessons from Sharpton and the administration.


14 posted on 12/21/2014 3:05:07 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What do we want? DEAD COPS. - YouTube
15 posted on 12/21/2014 3:10:14 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: JusPasenThru

Why bother anymore?

Do we really want these thugs in our political community? You can’t change them or reach out anymore. You just can’t. I’m tired of seeing on these threads how we need to reach out and have htem become conservative, law abiding members of the Republican party. They don’t want to change.


16 posted on 12/21/2014 3:31:47 AM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: SauronOfMordor

When blacks champion vile criminals, then yea. It’s kind of hard to feel sorry for any black. Especially since we know it’s victimization , and no longer hardship. Any black can be anything any white can be today in America, it’s as simple as that.

All men are created equal but the end result is not always the same.

At this rate we will have a full on race war, all blacks can do is hurt a few innocent whites here and there. Just wait till whites get ticked off enough, blacks will be driven out of North America. I really wish more blacks would apply themselves. But this thug subculture disgusts me, and that’s really all I want gone.


17 posted on 12/21/2014 3:37:18 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Cboldt

If police went on strike for fear nationwide, Obama would seize power indiscriminately. It would be the start of CW2, Holder and Obama would make every unemployed black teen an officer of the law. Guarantee it. It’s what they want.


18 posted on 12/21/2014 3:42:23 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028
Holder and Obama would make every unemployed black teen an officer of the law.

"Papa Doc" Duvalier's Tonton Macoutes.

It's gonna happen eventually anyway.

Might as well start and get it over with.

19 posted on 12/21/2014 3:47:53 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Cboldt

We need to know who they are so we don’t buy their Classic Hymn Christmas dvd.


20 posted on 12/21/2014 3:48:16 AM PST by huldah1776
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