Any of your white buddies ever throw a shot at a cop? Didn’t think so. I guess that might be the primary difference, not the white part.

14 year old with a gun usually isn’t out selling cookies.

The movie mostly takes place in 1940's England...the question was just silly...though Burton’s response was equally rediculous...I guest he interviewer got what they came for

The best defense against hate speech is to out the hate speakers, not to ban them.

No, you don’t need to physically do that. But you need a whole lot more than wearing offensive shit to a protest for speech to be sufficiently threatening to lose First Amendment protection. This doesn’t meet that standard.

No, we definitely don’t.

The law requires threats or intimidation, and those terms are very narrowly interpreted under First Amendment doctrine. You aren’t “preventing” anyone from using free speech by wearing a mask.

Unless there is more to this than what’s reported here, hard to see how he can be prosecuted under that statute consistent with the First Amendment for this, reprehensible as it is.

Even on a 5150 call, a cop has the obligation to defend himself if he truly believes he’s about to be killed.

You’re correct. He may have been the nicest guy in the world, simply out of his mind. However, the officer who thought he had a gun pointed at him and believed he was about to be shot didn’t have the luxury of sitting back and contemplating the scope of this guy’s life history, unfortunately.

Guess he shouldn’t of pointed it like a gun, dumb mutherfucker that he is.

Seems like it, at least in that moment. Why else would you quickly pull a three inch piece metal out of your pocket and point it at a cop with a gun? Aside from mental illness.

If you’re the one getting something pointed at you by someone in a shooting stance, any long object- dildo, black painted banana, cigar- looks like a gun.

There have been plenty of instances of white guys shot by cops this year. Google them.

Pulled something out of his pocket and got into a shooting stance. For now I’m gonna have to say justified.

I’m pretty sure that getting in a shooting stance and pointing what looks like a gun at an armed police officer is tantamount to suicide.

Yes, dummy.

After seeing the photo, where the victim was in a clear shooting stance with what looked like a gun pointed at the officer, I’d have to say that if I’d been the officer, I would likely have shot him as well.

Suicide by cop, very sad.

Most telling behaviour of the debate was at the end.