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Old 10-26-2014, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by finnbow View Post
I'll readily admit to a lack of empathy for a felon who robbed a store, assaulted a cop and ended up dead in the street, particularly when the event gets all twisted up in partisan politics and dissected/manipulated, ad nauseum, by people who have as little of idea of what occurred as I do. I'm perfectly content to let the grand jury and DOJ do their jobs without being told that I should react as a loyal liberal to one of thousands of murders that occur every year in this country.
Not so. You are not paying attention, because you don't care, and are actually repelled by the story, for some reason.

It follows that people who are able to pay attention may indeed have more of an idea of what happened than you do.

It's interesting that you do call it a murder, though.
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