S/he’s a shitty troll who stumbled on the world’s easiest way to tweak people/divide well meaning people. This happens to be an issue where going in with a lazy troll is fucking deplorable, of course.

There’s nothing more dangerous than knowledge.

TF is wrong with you. She looks beautiful.

I get the inclination. Hell I share it on some level, I’m still frosted that the only person seeing charges from the Eric Garner case is a Black woman who wasn’t even involved in the scuffle with him but they went after her for not controling the asshole who actually killed him. However, the timing (and number of…

Not the OP, but I felt something similar. It’s not that I think she shouldn’t be prosecuted, she definitely should, but I have the, possibly ugly, feeling that cases like this -- where a minority offender is wheeled out to face justice -- are just a Judas Goat. As if the PTB are loading up their least valued members…

But but

LPF is a he-troll, and definitely of the Blue Lives Matter variety. He managed to stumble next to a point (that the only time cops seem to get prosecuted, let alone convicted, of these crimes is when those cops are not white men, but the “sacrifice” bit tips his hand that he’s of the mind that it’s unfair for any cops…

5. Do not be black.

Just because male police officers often don’t get prosecuted doesn’t mean we should sweep this case under the rug. We have to change it to “everybody gets prosecuted for killing someone”, not “men and women have equal rights to shoot black people”.

Having a white woman have the impunity that white men get is not equality.

If he had only lain down on the ground with his hands visible and clearly articulated that there was no gun and he was simply trying to do his job and deescalate a situation - he might only have been shot in the LEG.

So to review:

Yes, as Shakespeare famously said, the book is mightier than the semi-automatic pistol.

You know what they say: guns don’t kill people, books kill people.

in her defense, he may have had a book in that hand.

Yes. How “strange” that a black man, when confronted by a cop, would put his hands in the air. It couldn’t possibly be that he wanted to preemptively signal that he was unarmed, given that so many other black person-cop interactions turn deadly without provocation.

I know many people there, from ministers to young radicals, and they ALL back up this account.

A protestor told WBTV that the night’s protests started out peacefully, but the police started firing tear gas into the crowd without provocation.