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Killing by Vallejo police drives home all-too-common tragedy
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Feb. 17, 2019 | Otis R. Taylor Jr.

Posted on 02/18/2019 12:12:06 PM PST by artichokegrower

They struck again.

That’s what Marquita McCoy thought when she heard the Vallejo Police Department had fatally shot another young black man. But this time the victim was family. Her brother, Willie McCoy, died Feb. 9 in a Taco Bell drive-through lane. He was 21.

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KEYWORDS: crime; stolengun
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McCoy was found asleep in his car in the drive-through lane of the fast food restaurant on Admiral Callaghan Lane. He had a handgun in his lap. The police say McCoy’s windows were rolled up and the doors locked.


Passed out not asleep. Stolen handgun which he reached for. Minor details to author I suppose but important.

1 posted on 02/18/2019 12:12:06 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

He was a pool shootin’ boy.

Back home, they called him “Slim.”


2 posted on 02/18/2019 12:15:53 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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...but,but,but...he used to drive to church and fall sleep with his stolen gun all the time....outside of course


3 posted on 02/18/2019 12:18:35 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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powerless against the heritage of slavery, repression and incarceration in this country.
McCoy... He had a handgun in his lap.

SIGH

4 posted on 02/18/2019 12:19:58 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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+1

Dang it!!! I was just logging in to type the same thing!!!


5 posted on 02/18/2019 12:19:59 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: artichokegrower
Photo of Otis R. Taylor Jr.

The author has no reason to be biased..

6 posted on 02/18/2019 12:20:27 PM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: artichokegrower

The comments to the article are extremely interesting

The bigger question I ask is - even the readers of the leftist San Francisco Chronicle disagree with the author and the article nearly 100% - and yet, it doesn’t change the content and editorial of the newspaper at all. Why?


7 posted on 02/18/2019 12:22:07 PM PST by PGR88
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To: artichokegrower

Nothing their relative does ever matters at all.


8 posted on 02/18/2019 12:28:21 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: artichokegrower

How about an all too common tragedy (almost every day it seems) of a police officer shot by a black perp. Just like Democrats caught in the act of committing a crime...move on nothing to see here.


9 posted on 02/18/2019 12:29:11 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: chief lee runamok
The author has no reason to be biased

"If McCoy were white, I think he’d be alive."

If McCoy were white, I think he wouldn't have passed out in the drive-thru with a loaded gun in his lap in the first place, so I guess I have to agree with the author here.

10 posted on 02/18/2019 12:29:43 PM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity (Even my cat voted Republican)
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To: MrEdd

Don’t cut on Superman’s cape.


11 posted on 02/18/2019 12:30:02 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Whenever I fall asleep in the drive through lane of a Taco Bell in the ghetto with a gun in my lap, I am sure to wear a red MAGA hat, that way the cops NEVER bother me


12 posted on 02/18/2019 12:34:41 PM PST by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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Turning their life around starting junior college aspiring rapper...................


13 posted on 02/18/2019 12:35:23 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Maybe part of the problem is shown if you click through to the Chronicle’s website. Right to the right of the story is a map that you can click to track “in close to real time” the car break ins occurring in San Francisco.


14 posted on 02/18/2019 12:36:03 PM PST by hanamizu
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He wasn’t really gonna rob the restaurant with that stolen gun.
He was just looking for a pool hustler driving a drop-top Cadillac.


15 posted on 02/18/2019 12:36:23 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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It took me a few seconds, but now I can’t stop laughing! ;)

And thanks a LOT (Not!) for the Ear Worm! Grrrr!


16 posted on 02/18/2019 12:36:43 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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...but she knows her promises of protection are powerless against the heritage of slavery, repression and incarceration in this country.

Slavery? Bull crap! You have to ask how that racial perception got started. There are a lot of other non-white races (e.g., Asian) in this country who are not persecuted. Why is that? If I'm a white guy and my car breaks down in an Asian community, I'd feel safe in seeking help on foot. If the same thing happens in a black neighborhood, I don't feel safe. Why not. Because blacks are prejudiced against whites. Prejudice is based on experience and until blacks work to change that perception, things will remain the same.

17 posted on 02/18/2019 12:37:58 PM PST by econjack
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He was a rising rapper …

https://www.thizzler.com/blog/2017/10/07/fbg-ft-chippass-glock-spit-music-video.html


18 posted on 02/18/2019 12:41:10 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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Well then at some point you gotta buy that plane ticket or walk across the border to a better, freer place where you have a chance for a brighter future :)

Even give a thousand to any of them willing to leave, but they can NEVER come back.


19 posted on 02/18/2019 12:41:38 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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If the same thing happens in a black neighborhood, I don’t feel safe. Why not. Because blacks are prejudiced against whites.

*******************************************

Because black communities are dangerous to everyone, blacks included.

The greatest killer of black people in America is black people.


20 posted on 02/18/2019 12:42:06 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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