St. Louis Cops Declare Rams' "Hands Up Don't Shoot" To Be "Offensive"

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[TigerClaws]

St. Louis police officers condemned the NFL's Rams today, calling their pre-game display of the "hands up don't shoot" gesture to be "tasteless, offensive and inflammatory." The lengthy statement issued by the St. Louis Police Officers Association demanded Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens, and Kenny Britt be punished for the act:

[BookmanTheJanitor]

oh good grief

[Don W]

No kidding. That’s the exact reaction I have when I read postings from intelligent people who use unfathomably stupid “words” that exist only in the minds of the illiterate.

[MHT]

Another stupid example of St. Louisians doing the wrong thing...but the press is there to overexpose it without distraction.

Why aren't they (and Jackson, Sharpton, etc.) focusing on the 12-year-old who was shot in two seconds by TWO white policemen in Cleveland (betcha they are going to call that incident by "Tamir Rice" rather "Cleveland", not indicting an entire community as they did in "Ferguson")? Why aren't they checking out the unarmed white young adult shot by a black cop in Colorado? Why isn't this called "Michael C. Brown" like "Treyvon Martin", "Rodney King", or "Tawanda Brawley"?

[trebb]

If they want to make political statements on their own time, I’m fine with it. Making them while in team uniform and during a game should be stepped on.

[cloudmountain]

:o) I was bored.

[cloudmountain]

You fordot: You’ve got to be kidding me, Hahahahahaha, Get stuffed, Yeah, right, WHO? etc...

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