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Update on Michigan Courthouse shooting: 3 cops dead - Shooter barricaded inside [Now Dead]
twitter.com/Cronikeys ^ | 3:20 PM - 11 Jul 2016 | Alison Arkin @Cronikeys

Posted on 07/11/2016 12:52:37 PM PDT by Trumpinator

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To: Mark17

That’s comforting,
Crazy don’t goaway!


181 posted on 07/11/2016 9:23:35 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Cops: Shoot first and forget about asking questions later...


182 posted on 07/11/2016 10:36:00 PM PDT by Netz
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To: Timpanagos1

Dead is dead and all dead leave loved ones behind. But the bottom line is we’re being programmed to automatically think it’s a black perp when a cop is shot. If it’s a black that is shot by a cop we know it right up front because that’s the way it’s reported.

And we’re programmed to automatically think it’s blacks killing blacks in Chicago. Because it usually is.


183 posted on 07/12/2016 12:15:30 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (hammer management)
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To: VerySadAmerican

“But the bottom line is we’re being programmed to automatically think it’s a black perp when a cop is shot.”

I don’t think intelligent people can be “programmed” however, there are people that prefer to construct a narrative in their head, and often time that narrative does not fit actual events.

The danger of that narrative or as you called it programming, is that police officers cannot hold that bias as at any moment they can be killed and it makes no difference if the shooter is black or white, a cop is dead.


184 posted on 07/12/2016 12:35:39 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1

IT’s the media’s fault. They make the reader assume the perp is black by typically not reporting race unless it’s a white perp.

There are also way too many who automatically assume the black is guilty. There are also way too many who automatically assume the cop is guilty. We must wait on the facts but facts are hard to come by anymore.


185 posted on 07/12/2016 12:41:39 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (hammer management)
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To: Trumpinator
If Obama had a son

If Obama had a gun...

186 posted on 07/12/2016 12:41:54 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

“the media’s fault. They make the reader assume the perp is black by typically not reporting race unless it’s a white perp.”

The reader is responsible for their own assumptions.

As for that narrative, I think when we first hear of a mass-shooting, most people make an assumption regarding the race of the perp.

Dallas, Charleston, Sandy Hook and Aurora were pretty easy to figure out before the perp’s identity was released. Today’s shooting in Michigan was a little more difficult to figure out.


187 posted on 07/12/2016 12:55:11 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Mears

BS, the members allow the leaders to donate money to democrats. All the time you hear police say we need giun control.


188 posted on 07/12/2016 1:46:37 AM PDT by stockpirate (Make America Mexico Again - MAMA end sarcasm)
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To: little jeremiah; CityCenter

AMEN.

Enough with all these false phobias.

The real and dangerous one that afflicts the PC crowd is Virtuephobia; isn’t it time to start hearing more about that phobia?


189 posted on 07/12/2016 3:40:28 AM PDT by Repent and Believe ("...to neglect to confspound evil men...is no less a sin than to encourage them." Pope St. Felix III)
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To: Netz
I grew up on the cops and robbers movies where this line was in a LOT of them:

STOP! or I'll shoot!


190 posted on 07/12/2016 4:13:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: saminfl

That’s my association with the city name. I miss Heathkits.


191 posted on 07/12/2016 5:28:33 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: servantboy777

Of course he was black. If he were white, the story would be headline news all over the country.


192 posted on 07/12/2016 5:38:01 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

For Soros Clinton better win or Putins assassins will always know exactly where he and his family is. Yeah he’s motivated


193 posted on 07/12/2016 6:44:23 AM PDT by datricker (Its morning in America! Sorry Rush, Jim Robinson is the new mayor of Realville)
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To: reg45
I miss Heathkits.

And RadioShack&REG kits; too!


Technology has RACED past us old coots. Where there used to be actual components you could touch and solder; now the electronic things cannot be repaired cheaper than buying a new widget or gizmo.

194 posted on 07/12/2016 7:17:46 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dfwgator


195 posted on 07/12/2016 7:19:23 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Nothing special about the words "Radical Islam", "Nation of Islam!", "Isis" It is just Islam.)
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To: Trumpinator

Any pics and name of the killer, yet?


196 posted on 07/12/2016 7:21:43 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Nothing special about the words "Radical Islam", "Nation of Islam!", "Isis" It is just Islam.)
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To: metmom

The President cannot CONSTITUTIONALLY institute/initiate Martial Law. It is illegal according to the founding documents.


197 posted on 07/12/2016 7:33:46 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: MHGinTN

Since when has the Constitution meant anything to him besides toilet paper?

It only means something to him when it benefits him.

Let him try to institute martial law. You’ll see the second revolution pretty darn quick.


198 posted on 07/12/2016 9:43:58 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: dragnet2

Would not be the first time a male LEO as disarmed, as well.


199 posted on 07/12/2016 2:31:11 PM PDT by CityCenter (By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept...)
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To: little jeremiah
Thank you for that, LOL.

As conservatives I was under the impression that our emphasis was on the individual and not their affiliation. I think we do ourselves a disservice when we practice what the left does and pigeon hole people based on their physical characteristics.

200 posted on 07/12/2016 2:34:24 PM PDT by CityCenter (By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept...)
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