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To: Faith Presses On
That’s not the point.

Then what is? You're trying to link it with other questionable shootings when there is no comparison. The police were not struggling with the autistic kid. They had no idea if he was holding a weapon. The eventual victim was telling the police, pleading with the police not to shoot but to let him calm the kid down. The police shot anyway, trying to blow a away an autistic and unarmed kid, missing him entirely and hitting the unarmed victim. How anyone can look at that and say, "Yeah there might be some validity to the police actions" is way beyond me.

184 posted on 07/21/2016 4:19:29 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: Lower Deck

Okay, how about this...why not you say what your opinion is, and just add that it’s a preliminary finding. What would be the harm in saying something like, “I believe the officer is guilty of a crime, but let’s wait until we hear the whole story”?


186 posted on 07/21/2016 4:22:36 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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To: Lower Deck

And let me also add, Jesus said this:

“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” Luke 6:38

What measure you use, will be measured back to you.

With social media being like a court, and the MSM following along, how would you like the public to treat you if you were accused of something that got high-profile attention and there was a narrative that inclined many people automatically to presuming you were guilty. Not everyone, but many people.

How much of the evidence would you want people to hear before arriving at a judgment about you? Would you want them to make a judgment if they haven’t even been willing to read one entire story about it? If they just hear a few sentences and jump in with their opinion, and don’t want to expend much energy to looking into the matter, but still want to arrive at some strong opinions about you. Would you want people lumping your case in as “one more example of how something is the matter with this type of person,” or would you want them to start from square one, and with the same mindset of a good citizen who wants to just pursue the truth and justice while sitting on a jury, will carefully try and consider each claim that is made? If any information came out that might make you look bad, would you like that person saying, “aha! I thought so,” or would you like the person to say, “that could be bad, but here’s a possible innocent explanation for that”?


188 posted on 07/21/2016 4:35:25 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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