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NY Times: 'There Can Never Be A Justification For Any Lethal Assault On An Unarmed Man'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/05/2014 5:58:11 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

There is some good debate and conversation happening in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. But there is also plenty of nonsense. Consider this gem from the New York Times editorial of this morning about police arrests: "there can never be a justification for any lethal assault on an unarmed man." How absurd.

In Ferguson, there is evidence that Michael Brown was attempting to wrest the officer's gun away. Should Darren Wilson have waited until Brown was successful before defending himself? Whatever the facts from Staten Island, if a single officer finds himself in a struggle with a suspect the size of Eric Garner, is he not entitled to fight for his own life?

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To: samtheman

NOW you’re getting it! See, it’s easy to be a liberal. Just disengage your brain and use of logic. Viola! Pretty soon you will start to say things like;
Printing money with nothing to back it is a perfectly fine way to run an economy.
Having sex in the oval office isn’t that bad.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.


21 posted on 12/05/2014 6:10:47 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m a grown man. I am under no obligation to BOX anyone. You approach me or my loved ones in a threatening manner and I will use whatever technology I see fit to put your underdeveloped brain on the sidewalk.

COUNT ON IT!


22 posted on 12/05/2014 6:11:01 AM PST by The Toll
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To: KeyLargo

Why do we bother with trials of anybody? Just ask the plaintiff for his opinion.

Questions of fact are for a jury to decide. Sure looked like a choke hold to my eyes.

I wouldn’t bet everything on it, but I believe it’s possible that Obama and Holder somehow manipulated this decision to keep their race narrative alive.


23 posted on 12/05/2014 6:11:50 AM PST by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: longfellow

If the un-armed person is Chuck Norris, you have already lost...


24 posted on 12/05/2014 6:13:21 AM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; PROCON; Responsibility2nd
'There Can Never Be A Justification For Any Lethal Assault On An Unarmed Man'

Then tell that to the black flash mobs playing the Knockout Game.

25 posted on 12/05/2014 6:13:34 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If you ever needed an example of why NYT thinking is incompatible with reality, this is it. Ignoring simple, obvious facts of life and the whole of the history of living things, this NYT writer suggests that we return to a state where the physically strong dominate the weak. Physical strength was the deciding factor in all interpersonal conflicts before the introduction of firearms, especially handguns.

Without handguns, gangs win and the elderly, weak, and children lose. Women become subordinate to physically stronger males in all matters.

The NYT writer and all fellow travelers are dragging people toward a societal vision that looks a lot like the brutal oppression of the dark ages.


26 posted on 12/05/2014 6:14:32 AM PST by iacovatx (Conservatism is the political center--it is not "right" of center)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
If an unarmed attacker tries to take your gun from you, let him - then you will be unarmed and the rule than states that he can't kill you.

Or you could try to run to home base or tag somebody else.

Reading the NY Times makes you stupider.

27 posted on 12/05/2014 6:14:44 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So if this guy’s wife is getting strong arm raped....
(Oh, I’m sorry, thats presumptuous to think he is married to a woman.)
So if this guy’s mother is getting strong arm raped, and he was standing there with a gun, he would say “sorry mom, I can’t shoot him, try peeing yourself”


28 posted on 12/05/2014 6:17:33 AM PST by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: bramps

Nine members of the NY Grand Jury were non-white.


29 posted on 12/05/2014 6:17:58 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Idiots.


31 posted on 12/05/2014 6:21:39 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ('The HERO of the (0bamacare) story is Mitt Romney' - "Stupid" Jonathan Gruber)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

As a people we could agree to do things this guys way, or we could simply demand that animals behave themselves and have a civilization. It’s up to us.


32 posted on 12/05/2014 6:22:24 AM PST by The Toll
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

33 posted on 12/05/2014 6:24:03 AM PST by massmike ("You only live once, but it does help if you get to be young twice.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Who approves this incindiary crap for publication


34 posted on 12/05/2014 6:27:13 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Doesn’t Marxism just make you warm all over?

Pray America is waking


35 posted on 12/05/2014 6:27:15 AM PST by bray (Palin/Perry 16 two Ps in a pod)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Any form of physical contact has the potential to be lethal. Garner died of a heart attack, not strangulation - a “non-lethal” taser or pepper spray could easily have led to the same outcome.


36 posted on 12/05/2014 6:28:17 AM PST by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: Delta Dawn
If the un-armed person is Chuck Norris, you have already lost...

Even if he really had no arms.

37 posted on 12/05/2014 6:28:45 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
First they print a pic of DW's house and publish his street address, and now this. Apparently the NYT has declared full war against the LEO community.

Hope they never need a cop.

38 posted on 12/05/2014 6:30:24 AM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I get the feeling there’s a broader narrative other than the one being forced on us. There’s more going on than just “liberal vs conservative” or one race against another.


39 posted on 12/05/2014 6:32:26 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So, if a 5’2” woman is attempting to fend off a domestic violence assault from a 6’4” d.bag is she allowed to reach for a gun?


40 posted on 12/05/2014 6:33:16 AM PST by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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