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Why I Changed the Way I Write about Police Shootings
National Review ^ | 12th September 2018 | David French

Posted on 09/12/2018 2:47:55 PM PDT by Ennis85

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1 posted on 09/12/2018 2:47:55 PM PDT by Ennis85
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“man in the darkness”
Yet they claim it was a racist thing.


2 posted on 09/12/2018 2:50:42 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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French is a neverTrump douchebag. I changed the way I read FR by never reading hin.


3 posted on 09/12/2018 2:51:33 PM PDT by jyo19
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To: I want the USA back

Yesterday’s thread: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3686895/posts


4 posted on 09/12/2018 2:52:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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— even to the extent of suggesting that police sometimes are more trigger-happy than our soldiers deployed in war zones.

Pretty lazy effort there. Couldn't he have worked in NRA members, deer hunters and suthanuhs into that insult?

5 posted on 09/12/2018 2:55:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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it damages the fabric of trust between the government and its citizens.

I'm not nit-picking. This is a serious error, one widely believed by government agents and citizens, and it contributes to the problem.

We the People do not belong to the government. The government does not own citizens.

Quite the contrary, in fact.

We the People own the government. It exists to serve us.

The correct phrase is "between the citizens and their government".

Nevertheless, many entities have managed to turn this right relationship on its head. Government agents have forgotten that they are servants wearing our livery; they have begun to think of themselves as masters.

And that leads them to treat We the People with contempt.

6 posted on 09/12/2018 3:00:46 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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This case is not about race, this case is about murder.

Amber Guyger entered a domicile that was not her own, nor was it a domicile where she was invited, and she shot and killed the rightful occupant.

In no circumstance should our society or our legal system excuse a person claiming they accidentally walk into a person’s home and shoot and kill them.

If you condone Amber Guyger’s actions, you must also condone any burglar who claims that he accidentally walked into your home and shoots your family member.


7 posted on 09/12/2018 3:01:06 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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Racism still plagues our land

The racism I see is being committed by "black" people against "white" people.

8 posted on 09/12/2018 3:02:42 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: jyo19

I’ve changed the way I read NRO/TWS/etc by never reading them again and rooting for their bankruptcy. I’ve never read the French guy in the first place so especially no loss there. His tweets are tedious and stupid enough, so I can’t imagine ever subjecting oneself to the long form version of them.


9 posted on 09/12/2018 3:03:30 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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Police shootings are indeed a problem. But for BLM types to grandstand on cops shooting blacks, yet clam up on black on black violence is the elephant in the room that the media does not want to talk about.

One thing is abundantly clear. Let the “teens” clan up their own messes and police shootings will soon be a non event.

Am I blaming blacks for when cops shoot an innocent unarmed man - like what just happened to that poor back guy in Dallas?

Yep. You bet I am.


10 posted on 09/12/2018 3:03:57 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Rats, RINO's and O-Tips. They all want Sessions to stay.)
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To: Blue House Sue

Bingo.


11 posted on 09/12/2018 3:06:15 PM PDT by fullchroma
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"...are more trigger-happy than our soldiers deployed in war zones."

Yeah, I caught that too. So this guy is a service-avoider as well as a NeverTrumper. Nice backhand from somebody who has no idea at all how our troops handle combat - which is enormously disciplined, but he wouldn't know.

12 posted on 09/12/2018 3:07:38 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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How could Amber Guyger have known that Botham Shem Jean was black?


13 posted on 09/12/2018 3:08:22 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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lol


14 posted on 09/12/2018 3:08:28 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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It’s hard to understand how these “cuckservative” (and there’s really no better way to describe these faux-conservative voices who are more loyal to those who hate them than they are to those for whom they are supposedly being paid to represent in the public square) don’t understand that their attempts at kow-tow to the race hustlers accomplishes nothing. They aren’t building bridges of bipartisan unity; they’re just reinforcing a false narrative that only results in more death and suffering.


15 posted on 09/12/2018 3:09:08 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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If he had a logical point to make, I couldn’t find it.

I’m willing to believe there’s a problem - I suspect if has to do with the presence of female cops and how training has adapted for their physical weakness.


16 posted on 09/12/2018 3:09:48 PM PDT by donna (Corporations are using censorship to destroy President Trump and achieve Globalism.)
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To: Blue House Sue

I was just reading about this. I agree with your assessments.

However, apparently, “legal minds” who have opined on this case think it may be very hard to get a murder conviction and easier to get manslaughter.

Now that his family has called in Trayvon’s Martin’s race baiting team, it’s going to become a black lives matter travesty and cover the range of racial grievances.

They had a photo of her [the shooter] and two of her family members in the paper yesterday ... they were accused of openly giving white supremacy hand signs and her mother was wearing an “All Lives Matter” tee-shirt.

The hand signs were a male of the family trying to “sign” 6-9 for the 69th birthday they were celebrating and the tee-shirt is a sign that you hate blacks.


17 posted on 09/12/2018 3:18:39 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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"...while also noting that the same DOJ that refuted “hands up, don’t shoot” also found evidence of systematic police misconduct in Ferguson.... "

Would that be the same DoJustUs who can't find any wrong doing by running an internal RICO conspiracy to commit Sedition against PDJT (VSG)?

18 posted on 09/12/2018 3:20:20 PM PDT by Paladin2
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There was so much stupidity in this article by the time I got to that line (only sentence #8) I gagged and couldn’t take anymore.

The purpose of the article is bad enough, defending a previous article and his POV in general. What a Soy Boy! He should write a 500 word essay on why he’s sorry that he’s white a male and was born in America then move to a third world country and hand dig wells for the rest of his life.


19 posted on 09/12/2018 3:22:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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“...and it’s not the only terrible police shooting to shock the American conscience.”

“shock the American conscience”???

You mean with all that is going on, my conscience was supposed to be shocked. It was not, because it involved complete stupidity and incompetence that happens quite often nowadays. It reminded me of the Muslim that murdered the Australian women up North. He was hired because he was Arab and Muslim, not because he was competent.

It occurred because a completely incompetent person was hired because she was female, not because she was competent. She bumped much better qualified males because the department wanted to celebrate their diversity and not because of embedded corruption which is what would shock the conscience.

It was a miserable killing that had the same result as a cold blooded murder. The responsibility also lies with the people who hired her.

If someone barged into my house, I don’t think I would grant them the authority to order me around, either.

Now, my conscience is shocked by the millions of aborted babies, for the thousands of Americans murdered by illegal aliens, and plenty more.


20 posted on 09/12/2018 3:25:45 PM PDT by odawg
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