Are you speaking in regards to all my replies, or is there one specifically you don’t like.

I think I’m doing a pretty good job here, I dunno. How am I coming off as smug, btw? I feel like I’m being way more respectful to opposing opinions in my replies than most normally would.

Regardless of what you think about incarceration levels, 1 in 4 black males will go to prison at some point. 

Yea, I agree with that. That’s why I’m sitting here debating and replying with as many people as I can because I fully accept that their side is justified.

I’m not trolling. How am I trolling? I thought we were having a good discussion on this, and I’m willing to hear your evidence on what you’re claiming.

OK, so you don’t want to link me to some literature that supports your statement before? Because it’s pretty damning what you said, that it was a cover-up.

So you’re implying I’m racist then?

OK, fair enough. Your opinion is noted, and I will google and look into that case to read articles that support your argument here. Actually, if you don’t mind, could you perhaps link me to something that supports what you’re saying here? An article perhaps that you believe in. No worries if you don’t, I’ll just…

Really, nothing? I feel like people are capable of learning through the written word.

Right. I would also add that my sympathy wanes when the protesters turn out to be wrong about what happened in the case they’re protesting.

Right, and fighting against that police policy of reassigning “bad eggs” to desk duty has to stop, and honestly, I support BLM if that is a primary goal of their movement, if not the primary goal.

Well, I’m civilly talking to a lot of people who support BLM right now on this thread.

No of course not. Just because one cop is a racist, trigger happy dick doesn’t mean all cops are. It’s not right to be racist against blacks just as it’s not right to believe all cops are inherently evil.

Really? The official account rejects everything you just said, so are you saying it’s a conspiracy?

I dunno, but in Ferguson, it took a year or something for the truth to come out about what actually happened.

Fair enough, the guy’s a dick, no question about it, but his point is that a lot of these protests are bullshit. It wasn’t a token white guy with a southern accent firing at small black children here. It was a black cop who shot him for reasons we don’t fully know yet. So lumping this case in with “racism” is calling…

Come on, really?

Again, I’m not 100% sure he was calling black people animals, or if he was calling protesters who destroy property animals. It’s possible he’s a racist, I have no idea. But I don’t think it’s wrong to call people animals who destroy property, regardless of their race.

I think if BLM clearly outlined what they’re trying to do and then actually sticking to it, I would support them. Frankly, they’ve made everyone be suspicious of all police now, which in of itself is discriminatory, and I find that hypocritical.

I agree with that completely. But again... what exactly are they peacefully protesting? Because it could turn out that the cop was justified in his actions once all the facts are presented.