subrosaDom
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy Yes, unarmed intruders in the home should be shot / killed (Alzheimers's patient, black man knocking on door of house, German exchange student in garage, man wanting to see a 3rd party in the home) but when an unarmed, 18 year old, black teenager, bound for college is shot dead for no reason by the POLICE, you feel well positioned to tell the victims to suck it up and behave. From what I've read and gathered, this incident is not an isolated one in the community -- it's just the one that pushed everyone over the edge. It's funny that the Heretic, one of the most absolutely tone-dead posters on race relations -- starts up this thread -- just moments after claiming Obama won the 2012 election based on Bigotry. Here's what I notice. His lead is not outrage that POLICE shoot an unarmed black teenager, no his umbrage is directed elsewhere (at the usual target.) 1) Rioting against innocent people is wrong. Period. 2) We don't have the details on what actually happened. I think the police do plenty of crappy things, although I think prosecutorial abuse is actually worse. There are also plenty of heinous criminals. It is possible the police officer was entirely at fault, it's possible he was defending himself or it's possible the evidence is not absolutely clear. So let's see what the evidence is.
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