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Question about Michael Brown leads to beating
CNN ^ | 3/29/15 | Ben Brumfield

Posted on 03/29/2015 9:56:11 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck

When one man sat down next to a second man in a St. Louis light rail car and asked him his opinion on the shooting of Michael Brown, it was not the beginning of a discussion.

It was the start of an assault, police said.

The second man, who was white, didn't want to answer the question. Then the first man, who was black, boxed him in the face. Two more African-American men joined in the beating, according to a police report about Monday's incident.

It was caught on surveillance cameras on the MetroLink train and a passenger recorded it with a cell phone and posted the video online. It has gone viral.

Police confirmed to CNN that the online images came from the attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: michaelbrown; race
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To: KC_Conspirator

Headline News just showed a rerun of this story from 2005:

http://thecontextofthings.com/2014/07/10/maury-travis-old-home/


61 posted on 03/29/2015 2:30:53 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: ek_hornbeck

I wonder how they’d react if you said “Waste of ammo.”


62 posted on 03/29/2015 2:57:20 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: ek_hornbeck

I’m stunned CNN would report this...

CNN’s traditional position is to hide black violence... pretend it doesn’t exist... or blame it on white victims.


63 posted on 03/29/2015 3:09:08 PM PDT by GOPJ (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist. - Freeper RipSawyer)
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To: Red in Blue PA

And its whitey fault so many are in prison.......


64 posted on 03/29/2015 8:11:57 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: sten

bttt


65 posted on 03/30/2015 6:04:36 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: Company Man
I think your emotions got ahead of your thoughts here. Not to worry, happens to all of us.

What did I say that was inaccurate?

66 posted on 03/30/2015 6:51:49 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

The white man displayed microaggression against the three yutes. The one yute only wanted to use his cell phone, the white man declined. This was a microinsult to the yute. Furthermore, by not expressing an opinion of Michael Brown, the white man committed microinvalidation which led to the microassault. The white man then tried to assert his white privilege and then it really got bad.


67 posted on 03/30/2015 7:10:14 AM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: ek_hornbeck

Did you even bother to re-read your post? You said any instance of ‘black on white’ crime is shouted from the rooftops by the media, which is hardly the case. Unless ‘black on white’ crime means whites attacking blacks in your world. In mine, it does not.


68 posted on 03/30/2015 10:20:38 AM PDT by Company Man (ob Princess Bride quote here)
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To: Company Man

Well, it’s not obvious which of my posts you were referring to, but yes, I did mean to write “white on black crimes get shouted from the rooftops by the media”, not black on white. Should have been clear from the context. Unfortunately, FR doesn’t have an edit feature once you post.


69 posted on 03/30/2015 12:22:40 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck; AEMILIUS PAULUS
When I wrote

Seems to be increasingly the case, and keep in mind that the media tries to keep stories like this [black on white crime] under wraps (whereas every possible case of black on white crime, however dubious, gets shouted from the rooftops).

, it should be clear from the context that I meant to say "whereas every possible case of white on black crime, however dubious, gets shouted from the rooftops." Thanks to "Company Man" for pointing this out.

70 posted on 03/30/2015 12:32:32 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

I knew what you meant.


71 posted on 03/30/2015 11:04:58 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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