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Is the media inciting the Ferguson riots?

Is the media inciting the Ferguson riots?

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rabbitcaebannog said:
We have police shooting unarmed kids and teens in the street. That is a problem that should be addressed.
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I'm begging. Please answer this. Imagine a three hundred pound kid who is unarmed attacks a much smaller police officer and tries to take his weapon. Should the kid be classified as un armed? Should the police officer just let him go or try to detain him? If the kid attacks the police officer again does the police officer have the right to defend himself?

Saying that we have police shooting unarmed kids in the street is just ignorant. Nobody gets shot because of who they are. They get shot because of what they do.
 
sawdust said:
I'm begging. Please answer this. Imagine a three hundred pound kid who is unarmed attacks a much smaller police officer and tries to take his weapon. Should the kid be classified as un armed? Should the police officer just let him go or try to detain him? If the kid attacks the police officer again does the police officer have the right to defend himself?

Saying that we have police shooting unarmed kids in the street is just ignorant. Nobody gets shot because of who they are. They get shot because of what they do.
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It could be debated that that kid was fleeing the police. I'm very skeptical about a person charging a person with a gun. Sounds like a good excuse though. It should have been brought to court and argued on both sides.
 
sawdust said:
I'm begging. Please answer this. Imagine a three hundred pound kid who is unarmed attacks a much smaller police officer and tries to take his weapon. Should the kid be classified as un armed? Should the police officer just let him go or try to detain him? If the kid attacks the police officer again does the police officer have the right to defend himself?

Saying that we have police shooting unarmed kids in the street is just ignorant. Nobody gets shot because of who they are. They get shot because of what they do.
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Do your police not have tazers at hand..that would have stopped him..
 
twixie1 said:
I'm not too over enthusiastic about Wiki..you can change the text..
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Me either ... but it asserts the stats come from the British Government. Do they?


whatever America does, Britain follows..
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And apparently you use the same mitigating excuses over there.


Poverty stricken black people, living in ghettos, who's only option in life is to enter gang cultures...to ''make something of themselves''
It is a violence born of poverty!
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Then those factors make it not racial.
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jamesrage said:
Is the media inciting the Ferguson riots?


I say yes.There is no reason to mention the races of the individuals involved is such a shooting unless it is to instill the idea that the reason that one individual was shot because of skin and the individual who did the shooting did so because of race. When someone burglarizes a house they don't say a hispanic,black, white or whatever burglarized the the home of a white,hispanic, black of whatever homeowner. Other police shootings do not get as much attention as this story. If the media did not do these things I seriously doubt there would be any riots in Ferguson.
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Probably. I forget which network, I think MSNBC, had a reporter commenting on air along the lines of "I can't believe there isn't any rioting going on after this decision" before Obama's remarks and then afterwards it was "Run for your lives, they are now shooting and rioting!!!". I got a good laugh out of that.
 
MMC said:
How would using a taser in the car, work when grappling?
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Well..I'm not a cop..but when I saw it kicking off..I would have got out of the car..turned my taser onto full power..and let him have it..
 
twixie1 said:
Of course it does..these are the ones being shot dead like a dog on the streets..it's not us whites is it?

We don't have to succumb to ''stop and search' on the streets in broad daylight!!
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Yes it is.
Yes you do.
 
Declan said:
Probably. I forget which network, I think MSNBC, had a reporter commenting on air along the lines of "I can't believe there isn't any rioting going on after this decision" before Obama's remarks and then afterwards it was "Run for your lives, they are now shooting and rioting!!!". I got a good laugh out of that.
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Did they give them all a hundred bucks??
 
jamesrage said:
Is the media inciting the Ferguson riots?


I say yes.There is no reason to mention the races of the individuals involved is such a shooting unless it is to instill the idea that the reason that one individual was shot because of skin and the individual who did the shooting did so because of race. When someone burglarizes a house they don't say a hispanic,black, white or whatever burglarized the the home of a white,hispanic, black of whatever homeowner. Other police shootings do not get as much attention as this story. If the media did not do these things I seriously doubt there would be any riots in Ferguson.
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I can't really say I think the media is inciting violence, no. The race-baiters are inciting violence. The Al Sharptons of our country are inciting violence. Opportunists in Ferguson and around the country are inciting violence. I just haven't noticed the press intentionally aggravating the situation.

When "man bites dog" the press reports. It's always been thus. Would you have the press become gender neutral as well? Perhaps we should start reporting that humanoids are committing crimes. ;)
 
twixie1 said:
Maybe where you live..but certainly not here...
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If you robbed a store and then did something to attract attention to yourself, shouldn't you be stopped? day or night?
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
It could be debated that that kid was fleeing the police. I'm very skeptical about a person charging a person with a gun. Sounds like a good excuse though. It should have been brought to court and argued on both sides.
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It was brought to the court, the grand jury had all the evidence, much more than you and I have and they made the determination that Brown was at fault. The debate is over. The only issue now is wether Holder will seek revenge. He doesn't care much about justice.
 
sawdust said:
It was brought to the court, the grand jury had all the evidence, much more than you and I have and they made the determination that Brown was at fault. The debate is over. The only issue now is wether Holder will seek revenge. He doesn't care much about justice.
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A piece of that evidence was unethical.
 
twixie1 said:
Do your police not have tazers at hand..that would have stopped him..
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I have no idea, I wasn't there, neither were you. Michael got himself killed because he attacked a cop, tried to take his gun and thought he was bad enough to take the cop down. For me, that's all I need to know. If Brown would have moved out of the middle of the street when Wilson asked him to instead of turning into a thug, he would be alive today.
 
twixie1 said:
The guy may have been high..not a reason to lose your life..
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Pinning a cop in his car while punching him in the face will likely increase the odds of loosing your life. Perhaps that bit of truth people want to ignore should be remembered.
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
A piece of that evidence was unethical.
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Says who? There was enough evidence, and as many eye witnesses as the grand jury needed to not charge Wilson. Neither of us have the background that the grand jury had. Any judgement that we can make which differs from the grand jury is not based on the evidence, it's emotional. Take your emotions out of it and I think you will see that Michael Brown was a petty criminal and a bully. You can watch him abuse the store owner of the place he strong arm robbed. The powder burns on his hand indicated that he was holding the barrel when the gun went off in the policeman car. Browns blood was in the car. How much more evidence do you need to know that Brown was at fault in the events that led to his death?
 
twixie1 said:
The guy may have been high..not a reason to lose your life..
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doesn't answer the question I asked you.
are you suggesting he was high and had agreed to a tox test?
or are you suggesting being high is an exoneration for robbery in the UK.
 
sawdust said:
Take your emotions out of it and I think you will see that Michael Brown was a petty criminal and a bully. You can watch him abuse the store owner of the place he strong arm robbed. The powder burns on his had indicated that he was holding the barrel when the gun went off in the policeman car. Browns blood was in the car. How much more evidence do you need to know that Brown was at fault in the events that led to his death?
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Talk about irony:lol:
 
ocean515 said:
Pinning a cop in his car while punching him in the face will likely increase the odds of loosing your life. Perhaps that bit of truth people want to ignore should be remembered.
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But he had other options..he was a trained cop..not a rag doll!!
 
Here's my thoughts on it and they won't buy you a cup of coffee.

There's a group in this country that are radical left who hate this country and want to change it into something else. A very large group of the MSM are like minded with these people. The media was suppose to be the truth seekers that investigated issues fairly and reported the news without bias. Today because they have become so politicized, purposely sit on stories that may harm the agenda they seek and overplay any incident that will help further their agenda.

News media outlets these days sound like parrots of one another. Why? Because an activist group wanting to sensationalize an event that would promote their cause puts out a story through the AP or Reuters and the media outlets pick up these stories and repeat them word for word never investigating it, just repeating it. For example, it is no secret the left promote greater gun control laws, some to the point of having them banned, so any story where a gun was used to kill a person(s) gets amplified. Anytime someone goes berserk shooting and killing many, they begin to promote the idea it is guns that are the problem, making excuses for those who pulled the trigger often making him out to be a victim of society for one reason or another lessening personal responsibility on the wrongdoer.

Leftist activist groups, who have nothing but disdain for this country use race baiting to make the case for promoting "social justice" or socialism. They use stats that show more black people being incarcerated as a sign that white cops are racists. Race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have made a mighty fine living being ambulance chasers to any incident they could milk to promote such a claim. By doing so, they cloak the real problem within the black community that has led to so many arrests and convictions. They don't care to look at the stats that show over 70% of black babies born are to single mothers and black men have failed to take personal responsibility for the children they helped produce. Regardless of race, these fatherless kids are prone to aggressive behavior and criminal activity. These kids grow up in poverty and often their only provider is Uncle Sam. And then you have people like Lois Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam as a leader in the black community with his legion of professional agitators stating "we are going to tear this country apart".

Every leftist activist group is designed to go after an institution in this country that was part of making this the best damn success in history. And every last one of them is designed to remove personal responsibility for a person's poor choices. Because without personal responsibility are system crumbles. And with a major part of the media in their pockets, they have the propaganda machine they need to promote it.
 
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