[iStanGaga]

Originally posted by Gossamer™

He was just defining himself, Mike Brown did attack him.

Run, don't argue with them.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by Gossamer™

He was just defining himself, Mike Brown did attack him.

DeFending himself by shooting Mike Brown 6 times. 2 times in the head?

Shot him twice while sitting in the car, then as Mike ran away got out the car and shot him 4 more times...

[Bulldog]

Originally posted by Sinister

yes they are

My black dad is a cop. Sis just stop.

[RatedG²]

Originally posted by Gossamer™

He was just defining himself, Mike Brown did attack him.

Y'all stay defending MURDERERS.

[YouDaIcon]

Originally posted by iStanGaga

I had complete empathy for Trayvon and his family. I believed Zimmerman should of gone to jail. Not in this case. This one is different and that is my opinion. Sorry I'm not bias and have different opinions based on what I read and see for different cases.

Of course, because Zimmerman had no title, he was a pretend cop. Darren Wilson had authority. You already probably assumed Darren Wilson followed protocol before you even learned all the details. It all goes back to cops protecting cops. You said,

This is an issue about a young culture that is thought to disrespect ALL authority. You want change, change from within. Instead of focusing on an officer that was doing his job and attacked, focus on how to get the youth to make better decisions in their life.

Like how can you blame black youth culture for being targeted by law enforcement. When black youth never started this extermination. (because thats what it is) Since black men have been in this country we have been targeted, lynched, shot at, beat, violated, but somehow in this generation we are the source of our own misery. It has nothing to do with decades of systemic disenfranchisement, violence, and intimidation towards black bodies that created black youth culture in the first place. Instead of focusing on how to get youth to make better decisions you REALLY need to focus on how we can reform our law enforcement so they don't believe they can operate with impunity. Instead of focusing on how to get youth to make better decisions you REALLY need to focus on how we can create more options for poor black youth because as of now the number of decisions they can make in the first place is SLIM. But tell me more about how its black people's fault that they're disenfranchised.

[Newt]

And compare this to Iceland, where they had their FIRST and ONLY police killing in history last year.

America is so basic, woo lord

edit - The root of this problem is police brutality and the way this country views it's police infrastructure. We're taught so quickly to avoid the law, not work with it. This **** is so ingrained

[Bulldog]

God that fire is uncontrollable

[Thor]

Wow. This so ****ed up!

So incredibly sorry for the Brown Family.

[jax.]

Originally posted by Ace Reject

I am CAMPAIGNING for you to be banned.

You are the living reason there can never be progress in this country.

You will be PERMANENTLY BANNED by year's end. Please understand this. Get your racism out now!

asdfkaljsdlkf KII!

[Gee]

Originally posted by BeyonceHatesMe

History is being made.

and they ask for "peaceful" protest showing up like that...

[Ascension]

Originally posted by Praise Mariallah

Self-defense would mean he was in imminent danger, hun. Fear for his life. He had already shot Mike Brown twice, who then ran away from him and surrendered. He proceeded to shoot Mike Brown multiple times, choosing his skull as the kill shot. That was not self-defense, BY LAW. It wasn't.

If someone is fleeing from you, unarmed, at what point is more shooting warranted?

I read some of that monster's grand jury testimony earlier and felt physically ill. I can't believe people can even begin to consider defending and excusing a cold-blooded murder as self defense.

[lancelovesgaga]

Originally posted by Airhead

DeFending himself by shooting Mike Brown 6 times. 2 times in the head?

Shot him twice while sitting in the car, then as Mike ran away got out the car and shot him 4 more times...

why did he run out the car? to avoid being shot?

[Eternium]

Originally posted by KareBear

So selfish to use the opportunity to loot and destroy businesses. So many people are going to suffer at the end of this. Cops are too busy tear gassing innocent protesters. Now the looters are going to reflect all Ferguson in the media.

Just a quick little lesson: 5 building have been burned and not one person killed in these riots. East St. Louis's 1917 riots, where white people rioted to kick blacks out of their city, saw 244 buildings destroyed (almost 50x more buildings) and saw at least 48 people killed (48 was the most conservative number), only to peak as a city in the early 60s.

The loss of a McDonald's, a gas station and a really gross pizza place is not going to destroy Ferguson. I'm not here for the protests either but they're not some Podunk town that can't bounce back.

Originally posted by iStanGaga

Um, yeah. I know that. What is you point?

...It would explain why they reacted differently?

[Sinister]

and i just read Ida B. Wells "Lynch Law In All Its Phases" just last week
to think she wrote it in 1893 and every word of it still speaks truth

the victims were black, and the reports are so written as to make it appear that the helpless creatures deserved the fate which overtook them

The general government is willingly powerless to send troops to protect the lives of its black citizens, but the state governments are free to use state troops to shoot them down like cattle, when in desperation the black men attempt to defend themselves, and then tell the world that it was necessary to put down a "race war.

[conseeded]

Originally posted by Newt

And compare this to Iceland, where they had their FIRST and ONLY police killing in history last year.

America is so basic, woo lord

"In Iceland, police officers on routine patrol do not carry a firearm"

but nah we don't need gun laws either!

[chilicheese01]

Originally posted by Praise Mariallah

Self-defense would mean he was in imminent danger, hun. Fear for his life. He had already shot Mike Brown twice, who then ran away from him and surrendered. He proceeded to shoot Mike Brown multiple times, choosing his skull as the kill shot. That was not self-defense, BY LAW. It wasn't.

If someone is fleeing from you, unarmed, at what point is more shooting warranted? Like I mentioned earlier, by law, you can't even shoot someone who breaks into your home with the intent to rob or hurt you if they are fleeing the premises after you pulled a gun on them/shot them already. You go from "defending" yourself to hunting another human being. Why do you think so many self defense cases have been lost due to autopsies showing victims getting shot in the back?

I understand now.

But I still disagree with the rioting and don't know what the point of it is.

[Cap10Planet]

Originally posted by Ace Reject

I am CAMPAIGNING for you to be banned.

You are the living reason there can never be progress in this country.

You will be PERMANENTLY BANNED by year's end. Please understand this. Get your racism out now!

I love you.

[RatedG²]

They think we got some magic powers

[konaa]

Originally posted by Ace Reject

I am CAMPAIGNING for you to be banned.

You are the living reason there can never be progress in this country.

You will be PERMANENTLY BANNED by year's end. Please understand this. Get your racism out now!

COME ON QUEEN ACE!! Punch ha out!!

[Sinister]

Originally posted by Bulldog

My black dad is a cop. Sis just stop.

by not criminalizing the cops that do kill innocent blacks...you are allowing it to happen and making it okay
silence says a lot