Utah protesters demand justice for Dillon Taylor, others killed by police

[j-mac]

Dillon Taylor, the 20-year-old man who was shot dead by Salt Lake City police outside a 7-Eleven last Monday. Police were responding to a report of a man with a gun, but Taylor’s supporters say he was unarmed.

"It didn’t make sense to me when I first heard everything, and they tried to say he had a gun," said Taylor’s friend Aaron Swanenberg, who came to the protest straight from Taylor’s funeral. "I knew Dillon. He never packed a gun."
At the time of Taylor’s shooting, court documents show he had a $25,000 bench warrant for a probation violation in connection with felony robbery and obstructing justice convictions. But Marissa Martinez, whose sister used to date Taylor, said Taylor had turned over a new leaf.
"He was trying to do better for himself. And this is what happens to him?" Martinez said. "It was really heartbreaking."
The South Salt Lake police department is investigating the shooting but has not said whether a weapon was found or why Taylor was deemed threatening enough for police to fire at least twice.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58304981-78/police-taylor-sltrib-lake.html.csp

So, I watched, no breaking banners, no MSNBC endless calls for 'justice', Al Sharpton will not appear, and Obama schedules another round of Golf...

But what is so different about this case? Oh that's right, it's a white suspect, and the shooter was a black cop.

FWIW, I actually think that this case is worse than the Brown case. Taylor never charged the cops, and wasn't trying to get their weapons, or anything like that.

So, let us see just how fast in this thread the positions magically switch sides...This should be fun...

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With the outrage over Michael Brown’s shooting death at the hands of police gobbling up the headlines, rioters and activists alike may have missed the story of Dillon Taylor. The 20-year old unarmed man was shot to death by police in Utah just days after Brown met a comparable fate in Ferguson, MO. The similarity of the two shootings is eerie, yet there are no riots, Sharptons, or Justice Department investigations in Utah. Oh, did I mention that Taylor was white?
It may come as a shock to all of the leftist pundits and civil rights activists calling for justice in Missouri that white guys actually get shot by the police too, even unarmed ones. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that on August 11 Dillon Taylor was exiting a Salt Lake City 7-11 when police, responding to a man with a gun call, shot him to death. No weapon was recovered from the scene.

http://downtrend.com/71superb/unarmed-white-man-shot-by-police-no-riots-al-sharpton-silent-obama-keeps-golfing/

In another story from New York:

A 36-year-old woman walking through Central Park was shot in the back of the head with a pellet gun in an apparent hate crime, police said Saturday.

The shaken victim told the Daily News she was leaving the park at W. 60th St. and West Drive about 12:05 a.m. Monday when she strolled past a group of black youths.


The two men and three women — all in their late teens or early 20s — said nothing as they passed by. But moments later, the woman felt a “horrible pain” in the back of her head.


“My hand went up to my head, and there was blood gushing everywhere,” said the woman, who asked to be identified only as Hanna.


“I turned around, and I said, ‘What are you doing? Why are you doing this to me? What's wrong with you people?’”


One of the women immediately unleashed a barrage of racial epithets.


“F---- you, you f------ white b----,” the woman hissed, Hanna recalled.


Then one of the men popped his head out from behind a tree and joined in the racially fueled verbal attack.


“All white people suck,” the man hollered. “F--- white people.”


The group fled, leaving Hanna bloodied and in tears.


Read more: Woman hit in head with pellet gun in alleged hate crime while walking through Central Park: police - NY Daily News

Oh yeah, tell us all again how black people can not be racist....I'd LOVE to hear it again.

 

[tres borrachos]

How come the good Reverend Al didn't show up in Utah moaning about police injustices and all of that?

 

[rocket88]

Oh yeah, tell us all again how black people can not be racist....I'd LOVE to hear it again.

That depends on how you define the word "racism." In the common, colloquial misusage, you are correct. In all technicality, what you are referring to is prejudice. Under the correct definition, one person cannot be "racist."

If you use the technical definition that requires things like power structure and usually government backing, it is basically impossible because black people are not the power structure.

As far as the race baiting goes, you can either get your own race baiting whites to go do that, or you can bitch and moan about Rev. Al. I know which you'll choose to do, because only one of them lets you be the victim.

 

[Deuce]

So, I watched, no breaking banners, no MSNBC endless calls for 'justice', Al Sharpton will not appear, and Obama schedules another round of Golf...

But what is so different about this case? Oh that's right, it's a white suspect, and the shooter was a black cop.

FWIW, I actually think that this case is worse than the Brown case. Taylor never charged the cops, and wasn't trying to get their weapons, or anything like that.

So, let us see just how fast in this thread the positions magically switch sides...This should be fun...

More from a different site:



In another story from New York:



Oh yeah, tell us all again how black people can not be racist....I'd LOVE to hear it again.

Oh please. Only a handful of wackos say black people can't be racist. I don't judge you by what the Westbrook baptist church people say.

 

[j-mac]

That depends on how you define the word "racism." In the common, colloquial misusage, you are correct. In all technicality, what you are referring to is prejudice. Under the correct definition, one person cannot be "racist."

If you use the technical definition that requires things like power structure and usually government backing, it is basically impossible because black people are not the power structure.

As far as the race baiting goes, you can either get your own race baiting whites to go do that, or you can bitch and moan about Rev. Al. I know which you'll choose to do, because only one of them lets you be the victim.

Might I remind you of these two men today?



But anyway, nice to see that your usual response is to attack the poster rather than let your thoughts on the subject stand to be debated.

 

[j-mac]

Oh please. Only a handful of wackos say black people can't be racist. I don't judge you by what the Westbrook baptist church people say.

You don't? Good to know, I'll keep that in mind.

 

[Lursa]

Imma go to Hell for this:

"He got confused, he went to pull up his pants to get on the ground, and they shot him," Jerrail Taylor said.

Stupidest, ugliest trend in "fashion" or "culture" I've ever seen.

 

[Montecresto]

So, I watched, no breaking banners, no MSNBC endless calls for 'justice', Al Sharpton will not appear, and Obama schedules another round of Golf...

But what is so different about this case? Oh that's right, it's a white suspect, and the shooter was a black cop.

FWIW, I actually think that this case is worse than the Brown case. Taylor never charged the cops, and wasn't trying to get their weapons, or anything like that.

So, let us see just how fast in this thread the positions magically switch sides...This should be fun...

More from a different site:



In another story from New York:



Oh yeah, tell us all again how black people can not be racist....I'd LOVE to hear it again.

Thought you were the dude that wasn't going to be deciding what happened till investigations, hearings or trials were over. Suddenly you 'know' that Brown charged the cop and tried to take his weapon. Despite the fact that there's testimony to the contrary as well.

 

[Montecresto]

How come the good Reverend Al didn't show up in Utah moaning about police injustices and all of that?

He has articulated that his complaint is white cops shooting unarmed black men, that's why. You're the one that's suppose to be showing up in Utah. This Utah case is equally tragic, and eventually something is going to be done about cops shooting unarmed men.

 

[Demon of Light]

There are distinct differences beyond race. With Wilson there is not yet any clear indication that he actually committed a crime (it is suggested the video shows him paying for the cigarillos), but this guy obviously did commit a crime and was in violation of the terms of his clemency. Another key difference is they were apparently responding to a complaint of someone waving around a gun and when they confronted Taylor his brother says he "got confused, he went to pull up his pants to get on the ground, and they shot him." Not hard to imagine them thinking he was the person waving a gun and was reaching for the gun so they shot first. If he really was unarmed then this is a tragic case of a police shooting where the officer or officers misjudged an action and fired.

 

[Deuce]

Imma go to Hell for this:

"He got confused, he went to pull up his pants to get on the ground, and they shot him," Jerrail Taylor said.

Stupidest, ugliest trend in "fashion" or "culture" I've ever seen.

I take it you didn't live through the 70s.

 

[tres borrachos]

He has articulated that his complaint is white cops shooting unarmed black men, that's why. You're the one that's suppose to be showing up in Utah. This Utah case is equally tragic, and eventually something is going to be done about cops shooting unarmed men.

I'm "suppose(d)" to show up in Utah? Why on Earth would I show up in Utah, and who is expecting me to do it?

 

[tres borrachos]

Oh please. Only a handful of wackos say black people can't be racist. I don't judge you by what the Westbrook baptist church people say.

Posters on this board claim black people can't be racist.

Is j-mac a member of the Westbrook Baptist Church?

 

[Montecresto]

I'm "suppose(d)" to show up in Utah? Why on Earth would I show up in Utah, and who is expecting me to do it?

I don't know. I thought you had issues with the killing of an unarmed man.

 

[tres borrachos]

I don't know. I thought you had issues with the killing of an unarmed man.

What on Earth are you talking about? Who said anything about me going to Utah? Nobody.

Pay attention to what you're posting.

 

[Montecresto]

What on Earth are you talking about? Who said anything about me going to Utah? Nobody.

Pay attention to what you're posting.

So you don't have a problem with the Utah incident?

 

[ThePlayDrive]

It's amazing to me how people criticize Sharpton and others for not giving crimes against white people as much attention as crimes against blacks. He's a CIVIL RIGHTS leader, LOL. It's like getting mad at a feminist for not focusing on crimes against men as much as crimes against women.

People are allowed to focus their efforts on a single, or primary, cause. Jesus Christ people. Your irrationality and pettiness are not a good look.

 

[tres borrachos]

So you don't have a problem with the Utah incident?

I don't know enough about it. I can turn on the news and don't see it 24/7. In fact, until he posted about it, I never heard of it.

And what does that have to do with your insane comment that I'm supposed to be in Utah anyway?

 

[tres borrachos]

It's amazing to me how people criticize Sharpton and others for not giving crimes against white people as much attention as crimes against blacks. He's a CIVIL RIGHTS leader, LOL. It's like getting mad at a feminist for not focusing on crimes against men as much as crimes against women.

People are allowed to focus their efforts on a single, or primary, cause. Jesus Christ people. Your irrationality and pettiness are not a good look.

He's an MSNBC pundit to me.

But you're right, he isn't out to draw attention to police crime. Just police crimes against blacks. I think everyone knew that already, or at least I did.

 

[poweRob]

Funny how you play this angle that you don't give a crap about race yet if the racial aspect of the Michael brown case was unknown to you you'd not ever thought to have sought or known about these cases. Yet because of Ferguson you decided to go on a racial hunt to try and play an equivalence card. You are every bit the race baiter that al sharpton ever was. You two are peas in a pod. Its all about race with the both of you.

Meanwhile with the consistent folks... Authority always needs oversight and to be questioned thoroughly regardless of race. Not just when its black or white.

*edit

My bad ...I give you too much credit. You just visited a couple of race baiting sites like downtrend.com and nydialynews.com that conveniently did all the race baiting research for you so you could just link to their fake race outrage and bring it here for the rest of us to feel pity for you. So sorry. Just watched the notebook so i'm all out of tears for you and your hack sites at the moment.

So, I watched, no breaking banners, no MSNBC endless calls for 'justice', Al Sharpton will not appear, and Obama schedules another round of Golf...

But what is so different about this case? Oh that's right, it's a white suspect, and the shooter was a black cop.

FWIW, I actually think that this case is worse than the Brown case. Taylor never charged the cops, and wasn't trying to get their weapons, or anything like that.

So, let us see just how fast in this thread the positions magically switch sides...This should be fun...

More from a different site:



In another story from New York:



Oh yeah, tell us all again how black people can not be racist....I'd LOVE to hear it again.

 

[TeleKat]

So now that it was a black cop killing a white man, all the Ferguson police apologists have decided police brutality/unaccountably is actually worth protesting. Funny how that happens...

I'm starting to think that race just shouldn't be provided in criminal cases anymore. Too many racists out there, on both sides, making presumptions simply based on the color of the individuals involved.

 

[Montecresto]

I don't know enough about it. I can turn on the news and don't see it 24/7. In fact, until he posted about it, I never heard of it.

And what does that have to do with your insane comment that I'm supposed to be in Utah anyway?

About as much as your insane comment that Sharpton should be there.

 

[Objective Voice]

So, I watched, no breaking banners, no MSNBC endless calls for 'justice', Al Sharpton will not appear, and Obama schedules another round of Golf...

But what is so different about this case? Oh that's right, it's a white suspect, and the shooter was a black cop.

FWIW, I actually think that this case is worse than the Brown case. Taylor never charged the cops, and wasn't trying to get their weapons, or anything like that.

So, let us see just how fast in this thread the positions magically switch sides...This should be fun...

More from a different site:



In another story from New York:



Oh yeah, tell us all again how black people can not be racist....I'd LOVE to hear it again.

I fully understand why you're upset about the lack of reporting on the death of the White men and the clear racial attack of the elderly White woman. You hear all the media reports of young Black male teens being killed by cops or White people being harassed by Black teens or killed by Black cops and you wonder "where's the fairness and justice" being shown to Blacks when these same crimes are happening to Whites. Believe me, as a Black man, I understand your frustration here. But as I've said to other posters here who have identified themselves as White, the reason there doesn't seem to be much outrage over such stories is because historically Whites haven't been mistreated and oppressed in this country in the ways Black and other minorities have for as long as they have. Culturally speaking, the wounds are deeper when it's a Black person or a Black community that is perceived to have been unjustly treated and the media makes sure the nation sees the gaping wholes. Unfortunately, the absence of such storylines also prove to reflect a purposeful disparity in White people can also be mistreated.

None of this justifies the lack of reporting/lack of attention of such cruelty. But hopefully this sheds some light on why much of it never makes the national news. That leads me to why you won't see Pres. Obama speak out on such matters. IMHO, contrary to what many would like to believe, I don't think he purposefully selects what racial shooting he'll hold a press conference on. Remember: It's the national storyline that affects the entire country that brings him before the podium. I'm sure if the country became riveted by the brutal, senseless killing of a White kid by a Black cop or a Black gang, he'd speak out about that, too. But until such killings make the national headlines - CNN, FOX, NYTimes, Washington Times/Post, etc., etc., you likely won't hear him talk about it. Not defending him; just telling it like it is. You can blame the media for that, though. No the President.

 

[Buck Ewer]

This SLC case is another example of cops gone wild.
Why wasn't this kid Tasered?
When your favorite tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
When your favorite tool is a gun, everything looks like a target.
It would have taken this stupid trigger-happy cop 2 seconds to ready his Taser...
...This kid will be dead forever.

 

[Lursa]

I take it you didn't live through the 70s.

You'd be wrong. I have never seen anything stupider, not even high heels, than the 'pants-crotch-between-the-knees' look. Not corsets, not leg warmers. Ridiculous and unmasculine in the extreme IMO.