Or, masks are slipping.
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
Posted on 11/24/2015 6:52:30 PM PST by hole_n_one
Protesters took to the streets in the wake of the release of dash cam footage showing police shooting a teen being shot by police, chanting "16 shots" for the number of times the officer allegedly shot him.
The dash cam video, released by police today a day ahead of a court-ordered deadline, shows officers confronting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who later died at a hospital, as he walked down the street on Oct. 20, 2014.
Chicago police officials said they were responding to a report of a person walking down the street with a knife and that McDonald refused to drop the knife when ordered.
The video shows puffs of smoke coming from the ground at some points, which court documents said were caused by bullets.
A prosecutor at Officer Jason Van Dyke's hearing said that McDonald did not step towards the officer, but the officer allegedly took at least one step towards him.
Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder and stripped of his pay and policing powers, police officials said today. He was held without bond.
"It's certainly everyone's right to make a judgment about it but I would just state that the judgment made by individuals who have viewed this tape from the comfort of their living room, on their sofa ... it's not the same," Van Dyke's lawyer, Dan Herbert said.
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Black Crime Matters, especially to civilized people.
Yes is, and BLM to other races means Black Crime Matters and so do Black Lies.
Very good point. It was a strategic release.
We must stick to this poor black child presented as the icon of innocence, not that Black Crime Matters. Whitey has to pay for this, and he will.
Good one.
A single anecdote is insufficient evidence to indict thousands. This is African logic at best.
“There is no doubt this was wrong and the cop should be prosecuted to the highest degree. But here is what outrages me and I suspect many others. It is the fact that blacks can kill blacks, blacks can kill whites and it is just regular every day murder. Yet there is selective memory when a white kills a black because it becomes a national murder, obviously racism was involved, that black life matters far more than anyone else’s. No excuse for cops, but let’s get real, they see the crime, the violence the hatred every day. They see the aftermath of murders like Amanda Blackburn and every other innocent white person, as well as cops. The cops are on edge, they know society is at war and they DO want to go home to their families alive every day. Hell yes, many are ready to pull the trigger way too soon, can’t blame them. There are communities throughout this country that are battle fields, like bombs were dropped, and the cops have to go in walking on eggshells, kissing criminals asses, and no one is made reaponsible for these third world zones except whitey.”
Best comment on the thread. Africans have murdered a dozen whites in St. Louis since the ferguson fabrication. Black Crime Matters
“A single anecdote is insufficient evidence to indict thousands. This is African logic at best.”
I have a few more if you’d like, but I didn’t indict thousands. As far as “african logic” is concerned, I’d have to catogorize that comment as unworthy of a response! We need good police officers now more than ever, but we also have a responsibility to weed out those who sully the badges that they wear.
I lived in Northern Ca for 6 years when I was a young teenager, mostly in the Bay Area. I spent 3 days in Red Bluff about 6 years ago instructing LEOs, and I wish I owned one Corvette. I do own 4 John Deere tractors.
Sorry for the remark. I don't know the whole story on the cop shooting the punk and I don't know the prior record of the victim.
Or, masks are slipping.
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
+1,000
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