And exactly what does it change? And what's the huge difference between the two photos above anyway? In one picture he's lighter? He was still and unarmedmurdered teen.
Him wearing a hoodie does not make him a bad person.
His APPEARANCE should play no part in ANYTHING.
OnlyRACISTS believe that.
Only a PREJUDICED, RACIST, NARROW-MINDED FOOL would say how someone LOOKS constitutes or justifies them being MURDERED.
Completely agree. Sadly, America's dumb. Looks mean everything, and the media wanted to portray Trayvon in as innocent of a light as possible. It's unfortunate that to gain such support, they had to literally change his image, but it was to escalate the necessity of getting the word out. Doing wrong things for the right reasons, really.
Basically. Obviously the boy was about THAT life, and unfortunately many young black males are. He should have never had a gun in the first place. His reasons for aiming it at the police are unknown and at this point aren't important. The police was in the wrong for going undercover in the first place especially in an area where crime is high. There was no reason for it and if there was, there was no reason to follow the boy undercover if his activities were suspicious. The police is suppose to be a deterrent of crime, that's the reason they have uniforms. That way people can realize when they shouldn't be doing suspicious actions. Going undercover does nothing productive for society.
Going undercover is a well established practice, clearly it has benefits at times. It's silly to fault the police officers for being undercover.
Lets not act like hes the victim. The young man was pointing a gun at the officers. Thankfully the police took this troubled young man off the streets before he hurt someone.
Anyways this is a more accurate picture of the "boy"
liberals always twisting things.,.
But isn't this YOU in this video? YOU should be locked up too!
For the record, I actually agree with the way the police acted.
However, I do not agree with anyone posting his picture and/or Trayvon Martin's and saying by how someone dresses is the determining factor in the type of person they were.
My final words: This is exactly what happens when children try to act "grown." It's a cruel world when you're hit by the reality that it's not as against you as you think.
They could have tackled him or something like that, there is a reason why they get trained.
What mistakes? We don't know anything about his life, the only thing we know is that he pointed a gun at the cops and then they shot him.
You do realize that a bullet travels significantly faster than we do, correct? As they're lunging forward, it'd take literally nothing to pull a trigger and shoot them. It is dangerous to try to physically make contact with someone armed. Regardless of if they're trained, when someone points a gun at you, you don't try to use your high school football moves to help. You pull out a gun. Age doesn't matter. Race doesn't matter. It's about safety of both yourself and the people around you.
The mistake I was referring to was that he had a gun on him, and probably (as he was 16) acquiring it illegally.
lickmycody, you know damn well that if the media had used that other picture all hell would have broken loose.
Instead of making a already fragile, racially tense situation worse with a picture that could constitute negative stereotypes about black males, why not use another picture? Either picture means nothing anyway.
But you know what, whatever. I'm done,. you're a messss
I absolutely CANNOT and WILL NOT at anybody acting like this is another case of a black kid vs. white cops. Just because someone is white does not mean they're racist. The ignorance, the BS, the close-mindedness.
If someone points a gun at you it does not matter what color their skin is, they are pointing a gun at you. If everything is always going to be a cry of "RACIST" then why even try to fight bigotry and racial profiling? Why even bother trying to get along? After all.... all white people and all white cops hate all black kids, right? The stupidity.
Perhaps people should think about who they point guns at. It doesn't matter if you're white, black, yellow, or glittering...
Going undercover is a well established practice, clearly it has benefits at times. It's silly to fault the police officers for being undercover.
There wasn't much benefit in this instance. Their reason for following him is fishy as well. This was not a good situation in general. I do agree with how they acted when he pointed the gun. That's any person's obvious reaction. But I'm just not buying their reason for following him undercover, especially when their only reason was "suspicious" activity. A very vague statement. Obviously the boy was doing something more or the officers are being really shady.
lickmycody, you know damn well that if the media had used that other picture all hell would have broken loose.
Instead of making a already fragile, racially tense situation worse with a picture that could constitute negative stereotypes about black males, why not use another picture? Either picture means nothing anyway.
The only people that create "negative stereotypes" are the communities themselves. I guess you could classify me as a minority because of my sexual preference but i choose to be more than than.
As a half-black liberal, I'm sort of alarmed by the fact that people don't understand that this kid pointed a gun at the police. I don't care if he's black, I don't care if they're white. He threatened their lives, they responded with self-defense. If he did not have a gun and did not aim it at them, I guarantee he would not have been shot it.
And a thing about the whole race issue. Quite frankly, if you automatically assume that these white cops are racist just cause they shot an African American (who, again, threatened their lives), you're just as bad for racial labeling. Not every white guy who has an altercation of some sort with a black guy is racist, I'm sorry.
My condolences to both him and his family, but it was his fault. I feel bad for saying that, and I wish I didn't have to say that he put it upon himself, but he did.
We don't know anything about his life, the only thing we know is that he pointed a gun at the cops and then they shot him.
