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Old 08-12-2014, 02:22 PM
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The truth will out soon enough.
Maybe.

The cops are going to investigate the cops.

Good luck with that.

Hopefully there were some people around that got video of it on their phones.

Video that they haven't turned over to the cops yet.
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Old 08-12-2014, 02:23 PM
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Two versions here. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...780f79d8f.html

Another eyewitness corroborated parts of the first. The kid was running away when shot a second time, he stopped and raised his hands in surrender and the officer pumped two more rounds into him.

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Old 08-12-2014, 02:26 PM
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It's a shame when you can no longer believe the police man's version of events.
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Old 08-12-2014, 02:27 PM
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What I see is an 18 year old kid summarily executed for the crime of obstructing traffic and showing a cop some attitude.
Not much different than choking a man to death for selling loose cigarettes.
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Old 08-12-2014, 02:38 PM
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What I see is an 18 year old kid summarily executed for the crime of obstructing traffic and showing a cop some attitude.
Then you're blind.

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And I see a cop that starts a fight rather than show a little discretion.
He got out of the car without a weapon drawn. That is discretion.

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We don't need cops out on the street that are looking to start shit over nothing.
We don't need kids walking in the road and refusing to move for traffic.

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I know, you don't do shit when my bike gets stolen. I get that. I'm OK with that. You need to be out hunting murderers and rapists and other really bad people. But not out harassing kids that are loitering in the street.
The reason some folks turn into thugs is because they are allowed to do things like loiter in the street without correction.

Recall, this only became an incident when the request to move was met with derision.
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Old 08-12-2014, 02:39 PM
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Not much different than choking a man to death for selling loose cigarettes.
While not good, let's be clear about what occurred: he was choked to death on accident for resisting arrest.

If you don't resist arrest, you don't get choked.
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Old 08-12-2014, 02:43 PM
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And get what you have coming.

EDIT: You do see the ridiculousness of the above, right? There are folks in this thread who don't believe that forcing an officer back into his car will get you shot?

Again, we do not have all the facts but it doesn't actually matter. If you force an officer back into his car, you're getting shot regardless of what may have occurred, before.

At that point? GOOD SHOOT.

If you desire to whine about what may have occurred, prior? The answer is simple: get out of the damned road where I am driving.
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Old 08-12-2014, 02:44 PM
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We don't need kids walking in the road and refusing to move for traffic.
So let's kill em if they do.

The black ones that is.

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The reason some folks turn into thugs is because they are allowed to do things like loiter in the street without correction.
Yeah, and before you know it you got trouble, right here in River city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad9XtHUjf64
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Old 08-12-2014, 02:50 PM
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Why? I have no input into the laws made. Most of the laws on the books were made by people before I was born and they do not represent me one bit. Today's reality is a bunch of rich white assholes rule over this land and dictate to us lower class people, the working class, the middle class what we can and can not do. We have no say in the matter. We have no representation in the government.

So why pray tell should we respect their laws when all "they" are out for is to screw us over?
The cops don't make the laws either they are just enforcing them and that's there job. They would like to be able to go home after work just like you and be able to go back the next day.
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Old 08-12-2014, 02:52 PM
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So let's kill em if they do.

The black ones that is.



Yeah, and before you know it you got trouble, right here in River city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad9XtHUjf64
You see, one of us dissects every point, knocking each down one-by-one. (That's me.)

The other cherry picks, creates straw men, and is still unable to make a salient argument. (That's, ahem, "not me.")

You're not very good at this.
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