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Black lives matter bias

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spreston

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Now please, PLEASE, PLEASE, don't get me wrong. I have many colored friends...whom I hold in the highest regard.

that being said...

the Black Lives Matter campaign has been taken to far, it has even been polarized by its own creators (and news media). It's outrageous! The brave men and women who serve this country don't deserve to be lambasted on the whole... The Black Lives Matter movement made a huge, faulty generalization about American police officers. Yes, perhaps a few of our American officers have done wrong, but that is no reason assume all police officers are pointedly racist. Let's stop being so racially one-sided (all of us), we see a white officer shoot a black man—people are inherently outraged; then what about the when a black officer has shot a white man (there are many examples). Let's solve this and forgive eachother.

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I want to end this problem as well, and you bring up a good point about black cops who kill whites, etc. Cops have let killers walk amongst them for far too long. We need new people on the force, good, decent people who will be happy to have the job. Not these pricks in police unions who threaten not to solve real crimes as long as their feelings are hurt because people are upset they kill so many unarmed people.
 
spreston said:
Now please, PLEASE, PLEASE, don't get me wrong. I have many colored friends...whom I hold in the highest regard.

that being said...


Comments encouraged...
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I can tell just by the way you started that this will not end well. Kind of like starting a sentence with "no offense, but......"
 
The black lives matter movement is built on lies and media manipulation... they lost all credibility with me.
It's really disappointing because, it could have been a force for good.
 
IMO, Martin Luther King would frown on this movement if he were alive today. He wanted people to be judged on their qualities, and not their skin color. Black lives matter has completely turned that around by focusing on skin color despite the qualities. If they championed true victims, they would be respectable, but they have championed so many criminals that they forfeit any credibility they might have.
 
Gardener said:
IMO, Martin Luther King would frown on this movement if he were alive today. He wanted people to be judged on their qualities, and not their skin color. Black lives matter has completely turned that around by focusing on skin color despite the qualities. If they championed true victims, they would be respectable, but they have championed so many criminals that they forfeit any credibility they might have.
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The people conservatives and authoritarians smear as criminals had no weapons, and were innocent. MLK would have seen that. MLK would have wanted an END to police killings of unarmed people.
 
Shadowless said:
The people conservatives and authoritarians smear as criminals had no weapons, and were innocent. MLK would have seen that. MLK would have wanted an END to police killings of unarmed people.
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I witnessed on tape a 300 man mountain strong arming a small store clerk while robbing him. He later tried to wrest the gun from a police officer's hands.

I guess we will have to disagree in our estimation of the character traits involved.
 
Gardener said:
I witnessed on tape a 300 man mountain strong arming a small store clerk while robbing him. He later tried to wrest the gun from a police officer's hands.

I guess we will have to disagree in our estimation of the character traits involved.
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Let's put it this way...do you agree that someone who does not have a gun or a knife/other weapon should be killed by police?
 
Shadowless said:
The people conservatives and authoritarians smear as criminals had no weapons, and were innocent. MLK would have seen that. MLK would have wanted an END to police killings of unarmed people.
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Unarmed people like Michael Brown?
 
Shadowless said:
Let's put it this way...do you agree that someone who does not have a gun or a knife/other weapon should be killed by police?
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The act of trying to take the policeman's gun certainly looks threatening to me. Do you think it wasn't?

It's not as if some rogue cop just came up and shot the guy, you know. He was advancing on the cop menacingly.
 
Shadowless said:
The people conservatives and authoritarians smear as criminals had no weapons, and were innocent. MLK would have seen that. MLK would have wanted an END to police killings of unarmed people.
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Innocent because they had no weapons? Nonsense.
 
Gardener said:
I witnessed on tape a 300 man mountain strong arming a small store clerk while robbing him. He later tried to wrest the gun from a police officer's hands.

I guess we will have to disagree in our estimation of the character traits involved.
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You do realize the cop in question was his size and full grown...?
 
mak2 said:
You do realize the cop in question was his size and full grown...?
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That makes it okey dokey to try to get his gun so he could be killed now, is it?

What a strange rationalization.
 
GunFora said:
Innocent because they had no weapons? Nonsense.
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It is very difficult to justify deadly force if the dead one is unarmed. Not impossible, just more difficult. Also police are and should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us.
 
Gardener said:
That makes it okey dokey to try to get his gun so he could be killed now, is it?

What a strange rationalization.
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See post above. These kind of arguments are exactly whe we should have firearm training classes in high school.
 
mak2 said:
It is very difficult to justify deadly force if the dead one is unarmed. Not impossible, just more difficult. Also police are and should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us.
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I agree it is more difficult due to the fear of guns some people have. It is perfectly acceptable IMHO to shoot someone who is unprovoked and attacking you. Especially if they are much bigger and could overpower the person. The guy with the gun will always be made out to be the bad guy by the media and the rest of the left, when in fact he was the victim.
 
GunFora said:
I agree it is more difficult due to the fear of guns some people have. It is perfectly acceptable IMHO to shoot someone who is unprovoked and attacking you. Especially if they are much bigger and could overpower the person. The guy with the gun will always be made out to be the bad guy by the media and the rest of the left, when in fact he was the victim.
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Yes, if someone is unprovoked and attacking you and are huge and can probably crush you the deadly force threshold is passed very quickly and in arguably. That is why i mentioned the police officers size. It was his job and moral obligation to end the confrontation without having to kill the perp, and he had options at some point. Sometimes you have to use deadly force....but the responsibility is very heavily on the person who is armed.
 
Grim17 said:
Unarmed people like Michael Brown?
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Yes. If he charged at a cop, the cop can use a taser. You cannot just go around killing people of they have no weapon. Highly unprofessional.
 
Gardener said:
The act of trying to take the policeman's gun certainly looks threatening to me. Do you think it wasn't?

It's not as if some rogue cop just came up and shot the guy, you know. He was advancing on the cop menacingly.
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So use a taser. That's what they have them for.
 
Shadowless said:
So use a taser. That's what they have them for.
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You sure are justifying a lot of criminal behavior, here.

The color of one's skin should not provide an excuse for lawlessness, you know.




.....or perhaps you don't.
 
Gardener said:
You sure are justifying a lot of criminal behavior, here.

The color of one's skin should not provide an excuse for lawlessness, you know.




.....or perhaps you don't.
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Is most crime punishable by death?
 
Shadowless said:
Is most crime punishable by death?
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Is trying to wrestle a policemen's gun so as to murder him totally unimportant to you?

Is this something only black men should be allowed to do? At any point in time, this criminal could have made a decision in such a way as to avoid the outcome. He could have decided not to rob the store clerk of rough him up. He could have decided to not draw attention to himself by disregarding basic modes of conduct walking down the street. He could have cooperated with the policeman instead of making it clear he wanted to kill him.

Like I said, if the black lives matter wanted to defend real injustice, they wouldn't make this criminal into a hero. He isn't a hero at all -- just a common criminalwho thought he was above the law.
 
Gardener said:
Is trying to wrestle a policemen's gun so as to murder him totally unimportant to you?

Is this something only black men should be allowed to do? At any point in time, this criminal could have made a decision in such a way as to avoid the outcome. He could have decided not to rob the store clerk of rough him up. He could have decided to not draw attention to himself by disregarding basic modes of conduct walking down the street. He could have cooperated with the policeman instead of making it clear he wanted to kill him.

Like I said, if the black lives matter wanted to defend real injustice, they wouldn't make this criminal into a hero. He isn't a hero at all -- just a common criminalwho thought he was above the law.
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I asked you a question you didn't answer. Which of these is under law punishable by death?
 
Shadowless said:
I asked you a question you didn't answer. Which of these is under law punishable by death?
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You have not answered any of my questions.

Why should I answer yours?
 
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