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By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 27 Nov 14 6:12 PM | 57 view(s)
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where are the cases that clearly demonstrate racism in the legal system?

why do we keep getting presented with cases that require a law-respecting person to set aside the obvious? the victims are contributing to their own fate by pushing the envelope.

i am as vehement as the next liberal person about getting rid of guns. but i also see that in a gun-owning society which employs armed cops, the grey areas are going to get no respect. cops are trained to defend themselves. you just don't beat them in their car or charge them when they have a gun in their hands. who does that and expects to survive? regardless of their colour.

brown seems to have been having a superhero fantasy about his invulnerability which began in the store. it may not have been his usual character. but in this window of time, sadly for him, it was present. everything flowed from there.


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Re: looting
By: Cactus Flower
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Thu, 27 Nov 14 12:55 AM
Msg. 16313 of 54959

it looks to me like a lot of folks work backwards from the event to decide if a person behaved wrongly. whereas wilson had to live forwards relying on his training to define his actions in an uncertain environment.

it's just like zimmerman and martin.

you're not an innocent simply because you are a dead black teenager. it is tragic that this occurred and that brown acted in the way that he did for no obvious reason. but it does not make the officer a bad actor because he responded as a police officer is expected to do.


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