Posted on 07/09/2010 1:42:01 AM PDT by citizenredstater9271
On January 1st 2009 Officer Johannes Mehserle shot Oscar Grant in the back after he was already handcuffed and on the ground. Today they announced that officer Mehserle was guilty of "involuntary manslaughter, not murder.
After hours of peaceful protesting the energy and frustration of the crowd became too intense to express in words. In this video you can see some windows being smashed and people looting a Foot Locker.
This is a rough cut. More video to come.
I don’t understand the rioter mentality: “We’re upset about some perceived injustice (or happy that our favorite sports team won), so let’s go set some cars on fire and steal some TVs.
Anything is just an excuse to destroy and steal;dumba**es stoleTVs in New Orleans as it was being flooded.
It's the law of the jungle.
No, the jungle is more polite.
How many white people were out there committing violence?
And who cares anyway? If a bunch of blacks thinks it logically follows that to riot, ruin and loot their “brothas’” businesses because they’re mad about a trial, why should anyone stand in their way? When the cops want information from these people about a serious crime, they clam up.
Tell me why we’re paying cops and they’re risking their lives ..... to save these people from themselves?
They want to live in their own “black thang” community, they want their own black this and black that, they vote as a bloc, hold their “Gibs me dat....” hand out as a bloc and all spew the same BS. Let them clean up as a bloc ..... if they want to. Usually they don’t. It’s already a slum anyway. Let it burn.
“Tell me why we’re paying cops and they’re risking their lives ..... to save these people from themselves?”
I can’t think of a good reason. I believe that society would be better off to just let them destroy themselves.
Such is life in a third world country.
In this case I am (a little) sympathetic to the rioters.
A cop shoots and kills a guy he already has handcuffed...
His defense was that he thought he reached for his taser (they are allowed to taser handcuffed suspects?)
I would be PO’d too.
If it is a racist riot, of blacks against whites,
then the racist DOJ (who stoked it up in the first place)
will be there to protect the rioters, with thousands of lawyers, if they happen to be even caught.
The DOJ is now the tool of the enemy, foreign and domestic.
Especially stupid when the businesses they trash are usually black and minority owned. Real brillant
I don’t understand the rioter mentality: “We’re upset about some perceived injustice (or happy that our favorite sports team won), so let’s go set some cars on fire and steal some TVs.
It is the “I’m entitled” mentality. I deserve to smash and get. These tantrums are aided and abetted by our government which does not end them quickly and decisively.
Thanks for the post; thanks for the ping granny while you’re listening to the police scanner about the riot (post #921)...here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2490938/posts?q=1&;page=901
And honestly, why manslaughter? Say what you want about the victim but he was handcuffed and on the ground. There was absolutely no reason at all to shoot him in the back.
That’s pretty rough, and some might say, racist. The problem is, I don’t see anything in your comment I disagree with. You nailed it.
If it is a racist riot, of blacks against whites,
then the racist DOJ (who stoked it up in the first place)
will be there to protect the rioters, with thousands of lawyers, if they happen to be even caught.
The DOJ is now the tool of the enemy, foreign and domestic.
Perhaps the lawyers are the enemy too?
Or do they just want the money.
Or...I’m mad as hell that a hurricane came through my town, so I’m going to steal something.
Two gangs fighting a turf war. Whether or not shops get looted determines who is winning.
Murder, as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent (or malice aforethought), and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter).
The law generally differentiates between levels of criminal culpability based on the mens rea, or state of mind. This is particularly true within the law of homicide, where murder requires either the intent to kill - a state of mind called malice, or malice aforethought - or the knowledge that one’s actions are likely to result in death; manslaughter, on the other hand, requires a lack of any prior intention to kill or create a deadly situation.
Source: Wikipedia
A cop shoots and kills a criminal he already has handcuffed.
It was an accident have you ever seen what a cop carries on his belt its quite possible go grab the wrong thing it is unfortunate he was killed but in do respect he was doing something that he was arrested for. Not exactly a model of a good citizen in the first place.
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