You are out of line for implying I am a racist. My opinion has nothing to do with his color and everything to do with his own behavior as being a proud gangbanger in the picture his family provided to the press. It is likely that the unknown “male” he was walking with was also a gangbanger, no? And you will take his word as gospel?
Speaking of gospel, how can you possible put any faith into a CBS story? If you read other articles, you’ll see there is a lot of conflicting info coming from the family about what he was doing there or even where he was living. The family at one point said he was visiting his grandmother after going to the store, another article said he was living with her for the summer?
Regarding the police covering themselves, the shooting was by a young cop alone on a urban street, a member of the Furgusen P.D. They immediately turned the investigation over to the St. Louis County P.D.
I’m just saying that there is a lot of reason to suspend judgment on this case until more info is out rather than be knee-jerk “anti-cop”.
“You are out of line for implying I am a racist.”
your words. “And why would you believe these people anyways?”
You might as well have used neo-nazi aka neoliberalnot’s term of “Affie.” FYI, I’m white as Irish and sick of a lot of reverse racism. But I’m not blind to a statement clearly based on race.
I have little doubt he is going to be portrayed as a saint by his family. I also have little doubt that the cops will vilify him.
He may not be a saint, but there is little doubt that there has been a rise in cops shooting people without cause. Most of the time, no one can prove they are lying. Once in a while, like the knife shooting incident, they are caught in their lies.
The cops were amazingly silent on this one, though I see now they are making claims. Unsurprisingly, their claims require we take them at their word.
But cops have no word worth taking. They long since tossed aside any concept of truth. Time and again, they are caught lying.
“Regarding the police covering themselves, the shooting was by a young cop alone on a urban street, a member of the Furgusen P.D. They immediately turned the investigation over to the St. Louis County P.D.”
Yes, cops investigating cops. You trust they’d be as hard hitting as on anyone else? History suggests otherwise.
As for anti-cop, I only wish I didn’t have ample evidence to justify it. But I do. If cops don’t like that, they have only themselves to blame.