Posted on 07/30/2016 4:50:12 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Yes, Alton Sterling got into an altercation with the police and ended up getting shot. The blacks looking for trouble erupted in violence and caused even worse problems. The media failed in its job to point out WHY Alton Sterling died.
First of all, Alto Sterling was selling pirated DVDs on the street which is ILLEGAL. To many people, that is no big deal. But, it was a big deal. The store owner knew he was doing it and was probably getting a cut of the profits to allow him to do his illegal transactions on his store property. Sterling was dealing in cash, not traceable checks and certainly not credit cards. If he were well known, he had a LOT of customers looking for him and was probably at the time raking in a lot of CASH. The clientele he was dealing with were NOT upstanding, law-abiding citizens. They too, were criminals because they KNEW they weren't supposed to be buying pirated DVDs/CDs.
So, you have the perfect retail storm developing. Mr. Sterling is selling illegal goods tax-free, collecting a big lump sump of cash and one of his customers who was also a criminal decided (s)he wanted some of that cash and threatened Sterling about taking it. That's when Sterling waved his gun around and told the person to get lost. That's when the phone call went in to police that something was wrong at the scene.
When they show up, Sterling is aggressive and uncooperative since he is doing something illegal, store owner starts filming to protect his source of side income in the event the police have to get rough and then we saw what happened next. The police did not cause Sterling's death. Sterling caused it.
The only alternative he had when confronted was to surrender and he chose to fight with the police WITH A GUN IN HIS POCKET. And, when he tried to reach for that gun (because "...nobody gonna tell me what to do cause I dindu nuffin....") he got shot because a policeman didn't want to get shot in the face. The media knows all of this because they also have lots of experience with criminal confrontations from their jobs AND logical thinking skills (same experience that I have), but they didn't report it. The real criminals in this case are the media types who didn't tell the whole truth.
The same behavior that killed the morbidly obese guy selling "loosie" cigarettes, who instead of cooperating with arresting officers fought them and subsequently died of a heart attack after saying "I can't breathe". Then the criminal community screamed about an "illegal choke hold", which never occurred.
Yep.
Yeah a police officer is going to risk a great job to buy a bootleg DVD? You gotta be kidding me. The 70’s are over...
Yep. Truth puts a damper on the pity party... probably why they leave it out.
Yes, they will, because they don’t see it as piracy. I have seen it myself, not my agencies officers and I told you even the Feds don’t care much less the locals.
The hawkers do it all day long in the parks in St.Louis.
Also, Alton Sterling in 2009 had had a very similar previous experience with BRPD involving resisting arrest and threatening the life of an officer.
Those cops knew his history.
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