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Ferguson: Trayvon Martin's mom shares pain
krdo.com ^ | 8/19/14 | Emma Lacey-Bordeaux

Posted on 08/19/2014 5:45:43 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

...."I hate that you and your family must join this exclusive yet growing group of parents and relatives who have lost loved ones to senseless gun violence" she writes in the letter published in Time magazine. "But Michael is much more than a police/gun violence case; Michael is your son."

Two and a half years ago on Feb. 27, 2012, Fulton's son was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watch captain. The case quickly drew national attention as weeks went by without formal charges....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: guns; race; thugs
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“In the Brown case, I agree with you to the extent that, the penalty for shoplifting or petty crime, is not to be shot by the police.”

Assault and robbery, not shoplifting. It is a 5-15 year felony in MO.

You can’t say you want to wait for the facts before judging, and then ignore the facts.


41 posted on 08/19/2014 7:31:05 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I think why many are upset here, is because of liberal racial biases that we are supposed to make excuses for ghetto culture and the bad choices these young men made.

They throw out the racist chum and the sharks circle and so the cycle continues ad nauseam. The stereotypical response to the baiters is to blame the thug culture and bad parenting. What gets shuffled aside is individual identity and responsibility.

Group think is counter productive, no matter which area of the spectrum it comes from.

42 posted on 08/19/2014 7:32:23 AM PDT by randita ("Is a nation without borders a nation?"...Noonan)
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To: randita

There is not nearly enough ridicule of the thug culture.

Look how people like Bill Cosby get shouted down when he dares speak out against it.


43 posted on 08/19/2014 7:33:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SoFloFreeper

and tips on how to make Free Money


44 posted on 08/19/2014 8:12:13 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sob...sniff... my baby was a thug who died trying to deliver a beat down too.

Definitely parallels.


45 posted on 08/19/2014 9:17:30 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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