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EmpireWF : 8/11/2014 12:04 pm
18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by police over the weekend. It turns out he was unarmed and the preliminary story of what happened is all kinds of fishy.

Based on this LA Times story, Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of the street to Brown's grandmother's house. A patrol car pulled up and told them to get out of the street and some kind of scuffle ensued with Brown in the car. Then, Brown got out, put his hands up and was shot repeatedly?

Try to disregard all the ridiculous looting and vandalism by the opportunistic scum.

The officer who fired the shots was a 6-year vet of the force and is on paid administrative leave.
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Fatman  
dorgan : 8/28/2014 11:29 am : link
I know everything. I'm just not willing to share with the likes of you.
RE: montana..  
RC02XX : 8/28/2014 11:31 am : link
In comment 11829090 FatMan in Charlotte said:
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it really doesn't matter one way or another. The past couple days have spent speculating on speculations.

Nobody is right or wrong at this point, because nobody has the facts.

That's all i was trying to say.


Amen.
RE: Montana  
Sonic Youth : 8/28/2014 11:58 am : link
In comment 11828996 PA Giant Fan said:
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You go away. You started this shit. Now you are just providing entertainment and one would think after being proven wrong again and again on here you might find some humility but instead you keep charging forward. Which is quite fascinating. So tell us that story again of the events as you see them. Just copy paste.....

You've been consistently wrong every single time.
Really  
PA Giant Fan : 8/28/2014 12:24 pm : link
Wrong about what besides the links to the 12 witnesses which there was dozens but the story was recanted. What else was I soooo wrong about? And every time? Now you know you are full of crap because I have agreed with some items from you dumbasses too. So that means you are saying you guys are wrong all the time, every time too? Cracks me up.....

Although not understanding truth and deduction explains your comments and how you got into this predicament in the first place. I agree with the officer with the "anecdotal" evidence....I am sure he is wrong 100% of the time too...LOL LOL
A BBI endurance contest  
Headhunter : 8/28/2014 12:26 pm : link
I got the guy from PA and laying 7-5
Headhunter  
Big Al : 8/28/2014 12:36 pm : link
I will take the bet with you because you have been wrong in every post you ever made on BBI.
RE: Really  
Sonic Youth : 8/28/2014 3:22 pm : link
In comment 11829284 PA Giant Fan said:
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Wrong about what besides the links to the 12 witnesses which there was dozens but the story was recanted. What else was I soooo wrong about? And every time? Now you know you are full of crap because I have agreed with some items from you dumbasses too. So that means you are saying you guys are wrong all the time, every time too? Cracks me up.....

Although not understanding truth and deduction explains your comments and how you got into this predicament in the first place. I agree with the officer with the "anecdotal" evidence....I am sure he is wrong 100% of the time too...LOL LOL

You were also wrong about the broken orbital bone being proven. Also, what predicament? I'm not in any predicament. You're the one who is getting undressed by MontanaGiant.

But yeah, whatever you want to tell yourself. Any sensible person would find it difficult to look at that convenience store tape, and decide from that clip that Michael Brown was a someone who would try to kill cops.

You can agree with the cop all you want, but you should at least admit that the officer does have a dog in the fight, and has every reason to present things in a way that's more favorable to him, as do most police organizations. That's why I'm leery to trust the word of the police and the word of the officer when it comes to their version of the events.

I'd say that's a pretty reasonable assessment. It would be best if an unbiased outside organization would be able to conduct this investigation, but it isn't really feasible given the structure of law enforcement.

Body cameras would really mitigate a lot of this he said-she said stuff.

Unlike some people, and contrary to what you might believe, I'm not "rooting" for a particular "side". Whether or not shooting Brown was justified in this incident doesn't really erase the fact that there are institutional dysfunctions with law enforcement.

I want justice to be served, and I'm not sure police investigating police is the best way to get to that point.

I don't know what better options are out there, but I wish there was some other way that was viable.
You guys are so dense  
PA Giant Fan : 8/28/2014 3:26 pm : link
First Montana tried the orbital bone thing and realized he was wrong and then you copied his wrong mistake which makes you dumber (or worse reading skills)...Maybe if you guys could read, you would be better off....So all this undressing and accusations of being wrong yet the best you could come up with was repeating something that Montana Giant already acknowledged he was wrong about when he accused me? LOL LOL
Really?  
PA Giant Fan : 8/28/2014 3:29 pm : link
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Any sensible person would find it difficult to look at that convenience store tape, and decide from that clip that Michael Brown was a someone who would try to kill cops.


Ok. Kill a cop? Maybe not be sure. But he sure has no problem with menacing and attacking people. So when a cop ends up shooting him 10 minutes later in broad daylight, in the middle of the street, I tend to think Brown probably had something to do with it and not some racist cop killing some innocent kid because he was black
Lots of LOLs  
BeerFridge : 8/28/2014 3:36 pm : link
You are quite jolly
I am quite jolly  
PA Giant Fan : 8/28/2014 3:38 pm : link
Headed out for a vacation too.
RE: Really?  
Big Al : 8/28/2014 3:52 pm : link
In comment 11829715 PA Giant Fan said:
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Any sensible person would find it difficult to look at that convenience store tape, and decide from that clip that Michael Brown was a someone who would try to kill cops.



Ok. Kill a cop? Maybe not be sure. But he sure has no problem with menacing and attacking people. So when a cop ends up shooting him 10 minutes later in broad daylight, in the middle of the street, I tend to think Brown probably had something to do with it and not some racist cop killing some innocent kid because he was black


I think that this could be considered an example of Bayes' Theorem of conditional probability.
Big Al  
Headhunter : 8/28/2014 5:16 pm : link
This might be my streak breaker, he has staying power
sonic. what exactly are  
halfback20 : 8/28/2014 5:31 pm : link
The institutional dysfunctions in law enforcement?
RE: RE: Really  
montanagiant : 8/28/2014 8:25 pm : link
In comment 11829695 Sonic Youth said:
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Wrong about what besides the links to the 12 witnesses which there was dozens but the story was recanted. What else was I soooo wrong about? And every time? Now you know you are full of crap because I have agreed with some items from you dumbasses too. So that means you are saying you guys are wrong all the time, every time too? Cracks me up.....

Although not understanding truth and deduction explains your comments and how you got into this predicament in the first place. I agree with the officer with the "anecdotal" evidence....I am sure he is wrong 100% of the time too...LOL LOL


You were also wrong about the broken orbital bone being proven. Also, what predicament? I'm not in any predicament. You're the one who is getting undressed by MontanaGiant.

But yeah, whatever you want to tell yourself. Any sensible person would find it difficult to look at that convenience store tape, and decide from that clip that Michael Brown was a someone who would try to kill cops.

You can agree with the cop all you want, but you should at least admit that the officer does have a dog in the fight, and has every reason to present things in a way that's more favorable to him, as do most police organizations. That's why I'm leery to trust the word of the police and the word of the officer when it comes to their version of the events.

I'd say that's a pretty reasonable assessment. It would be best if an unbiased outside organization would be able to conduct this investigation, but it isn't really feasible given the structure of law enforcement.

Body cameras would really mitigate a lot of this he said-she said stuff.

Unlike some people, and contrary to what you might believe, I'm not "rooting" for a particular "side". Whether or not shooting Brown was justified in this incident doesn't really erase the fact that there are institutional dysfunctions with law enforcement.

I want justice to be served, and I'm not sure police investigating police is the best way to get to that point.

I don't know what better options are out there, but I wish there was some other way that was viable.


Don't bother getting dragged into his delusion...You will feel dumber just from the fact you have given him the time of day. It will be hours of correcting him, pointing out his fabrications, keeping him focused on what the hell he was claiming, then repeat the whole cycle again.

It sucks the energy out of the whole thread
Gentle giant a murder suspect?!  
derpaderp : 8/28/2014 8:43 pm : link
Say it ain't so!

Oh, and a member of the Crips, to boot.
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bradshaw44 : 8/29/2014 1:07 am : link
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The horror....It hasnt been proven he hit him the face? And the gun didnt go off inside the car? And they weren't struggling. Except some want you to believe he was pulling a 300lb man into the car.....but whatever.. You have been proven to be a troll. congrats...


This is so fucking stupid. You sit there and keep repeating "OMG YOU CLAIM HE PULLED A 300 LB INTO A CAR LOL TROLL TROLL TROLL"


While it's equally as stupid, if not even more stupid, to assume someone would fight a cop, run away from a cop, then turn around and faced an armed cop, while unarmed, and charge at him.

The truth is, NEITHER of those things probably happened. But in a vacuum, the latter is less plausible than the former.

but oh yeah, Brown shoved a clerk and took $48 worth of cigars. Clearly he was ready to fight cops to the death.

It's like you wish he was a crazed, cracked out "thug" (i.e nigger) hellbent on killing a cop. Well even if he was, him stealing a box of cigars while shoving a cop isn't really proof of that, sorry. It's fucking bullshit.




I love how you so casually dismiss his behavior and then go on to further your argument by describing what he stole AND it's value. And it wasn't just a shove. When the clerk tries to keep Brown from leaving the store, Brown makes an agressive charge or movement toward him. I guess that could alleged kidnapping by the store owner.

And forget all that... You flat out clearly don't give two shits about the clerk who just went through a traumatizing situation.



Ok, does ANY of that have to do with whether or not Brown should be shot dead in the street?

What are you trying to say here? The clerk was traumatized, so Brown deserved to die in the middle of the road?

I'm bringing up the value of the item and the fact that it was a shove because I am trying to dispel the notion that the robbery somehow implies Brown was a crazed maniac on a deathwish trying to murder cops.

If he was a crazed murderer on a deathwish who didn't care about killing cops, he'd have likely stolen something of greater value, and actually injured the clerk.

But regardless of what happened, regardless of how traumatizing the situation was for the clerk (I mean, he didn't even call 911 but regardless, there could have been other reasons) - it doesn't matter, because we have due process in this country, and Brown committing a robbery shouldn't be some kind of roundabout justification for him being shot dead in the street.

Regardless of how much you want to break down the robbery, the fact of the matter is that nobody deserves to be shot dead for something of that magnitude, unless you think we should be doling out the death penalty for unarmed robberies.

And the retort to this is that it shows that Brown was in a certain state of mind that would lead people to believe he was likely to kill a cop. And my response to that is how I ended my last post: it's fucking bullshit. Shoving a clerk and stealing something of comparatively value makes you a criminal, but doesn't equate to someone being down to just start killing cops.



It's simple. You've chosen to defend a criminal and down play his behavior because you hate cops. And further you ignore the innocent store clerks assault to further your cause. You've allowed your hatered to cloud your judgement. I probably have what could be described as an unhealthy dislike of police officers. Yet I'm able to use simple reason in my thought process of any situation.

Again, please tell me, all the chips on the table; if you're a betting man, you're betting on the the belief that after exhibiting such dangerous behavior on that tape, he just happened to stumble across a racist cop that was out to kill a black kid, in the middle of the street, in the middle of a neighborhood of his peers, in the middle of the day???

There are times when you have to step back and really allow yourself to look at things logically and not let bias cloud your judgement.


Give me a break. I'm stating that someone committing an unarmed robbery of a convenience store isn't automatically someone who is likely to fight to the death with cops.

You're doing exactly what you're accusing me of: Trying to make what occurred seem as violent and dangerous as possible to postulate that Brown was someone who was ready to take a cop's life.

There's a huge jump between his crime and cop-killing.

And no, I don't think that he just ran into a racist cop who felt like shooting a black guy. I think there was some sort of incident, probably Brown trying to escape - but it very well could have likely ended up in a myriad of ways other than an unarmed dead teenager.

When an unarmed person is shot by the cops, there better be some solid evidence that a cops life was in immediate danger.

I'm also stating that police do not have enough accountability or controls on their power, and are ineffective when tasked with investigating their own organizations or other police organizations.



Then I don't understand why you're so worked up?

And if you don't see how dangerous that young mans behavior was in that video then I don't think we can get on the same page. That behavior was frightening to say the least. Had that little man shut that door, brown would have fucked him up. That wasn't just "stealing" it was a strong armed robbery. He didn't give a fuck what happened. You can't convince me otherwise. And that behavior supports the belief that he was acting irrationally that day.
It is called denial  
PA Giant Fan : 8/29/2014 1:13 am : link
Pretty frigging obvious the kid was a thug....known plenty in my time too...dangerous and didn't give a fuck. ...but no it is a racist cop that decided to shoot him dead in the street, in broad daylight, for no reason......

Like I keep saying folks hitching their ride to the wrong horse here.
PA...  
Mike in St. Louis : 8/29/2014 9:54 am : link
are you being sarcastic or just trying to keep the pot stirred? A "racist cop?" Where are you getting that from?
extremely sarcastic  
PA Giant Fan : 8/29/2014 10:06 am : link
Mocking Montana trolls BS.
RE: RE: Really  
M in CT : 8/29/2014 10:22 am : link
In comment 11829695 Sonic Youth said:
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Unlike some people, and contrary to what you might believe, I'm not "rooting" for a particular "side".


i gotta say, in a thread full of hilarious shit posted by people who have no clue what they're saying, this is perhaps the funniest comment of all. you're not rooting for a side??? you expect people to believe that?

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I want justice to be served, and I'm not sure police investigating police is the best way to get to that point.

I don't know what better options are out there, but I wish there was some other way that was viable.


so, in sum...i don't like it because i don't like cops, but i have no solution, so i'm just going to spend three weeks arguing about it on the internet anyway, despite the fact that i offer nothing of substance.

awesome.
RE: It is called denial  
BeerFridge : 8/29/2014 10:26 am : link
In comment 11830757 PA Giant Fan said:
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Pretty frigging obvious the kid was a thug....known plenty in my time too...dangerous and didn't give a fuck. ...but no it is a racist cop that decided to shoot him dead in the street, in broad daylight, for no reason......

Like I keep saying folks hitching their ride to the wrong horse here.


There's a fair amount of space between thug who got what he deserved and racist cop deciding to shoot him dead on the street. If you're sure it's either of those options with what we know today you are seeing what you want to see.
RE: PA...  
montanagiant : 8/29/2014 2:15 pm : link
In comment 11831135 Mike in St. Louis said:
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are you being sarcastic or just trying to keep the pot stirred? A "racist cop?" Where are you getting that from?

Ha...Yes when you point out this idiots mistakes he calls it trolling...
except I haven't been  
PA Giant Fan : 8/29/2014 5:18 pm : link
And things continue to point towards my being 100% correct....keep telling us how bad this cop probably was and how you see what actually occurred. In fact repost it for everyone....that should he good for a laugh.

And you are a troll....pretty obvious by now. So repost it again....lol
kid was a thug. ...without question  
PA Giant Fan : 8/29/2014 5:20 pm : link
Cop most likely was doing his job and the shooting was legal...Most likely based on what we know....now Montana troll can go spin some yarns about this nice kid and this probably racist cop....but the evidence weighs very heavily in one direction.
Just stop.  
Peter in Atlanta : 8/29/2014 5:25 pm : link
Seriously. Enough already.
The  
Big Al : 8/29/2014 5:59 pm : link
last word.
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Sonic Youth : 8/29/2014 7:57 pm : link
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The horror....It hasnt been proven he hit him the face? And the gun didnt go off inside the car? And they weren't struggling. Except some want you to believe he was pulling a 300lb man into the car.....but whatever.. You have been proven to be a troll. congrats...


This is so fucking stupid. You sit there and keep repeating "OMG YOU CLAIM HE PULLED A 300 LB INTO A CAR LOL TROLL TROLL TROLL"


While it's equally as stupid, if not even more stupid, to assume someone would fight a cop, run away from a cop, then turn around and faced an armed cop, while unarmed, and charge at him.

The truth is, NEITHER of those things probably happened. But in a vacuum, the latter is less plausible than the former.

but oh yeah, Brown shoved a clerk and took $48 worth of cigars. Clearly he was ready to fight cops to the death.

It's like you wish he was a crazed, cracked out "thug" (i.e nigger) hellbent on killing a cop. Well even if he was, him stealing a box of cigars while shoving a cop isn't really proof of that, sorry. It's fucking bullshit.




I love how you so casually dismiss his behavior and then go on to further your argument by describing what he stole AND it's value. And it wasn't just a shove. When the clerk tries to keep Brown from leaving the store, Brown makes an agressive charge or movement toward him. I guess that could alleged kidnapping by the store owner.

And forget all that... You flat out clearly don't give two shits about the clerk who just went through a traumatizing situation.



Ok, does ANY of that have to do with whether or not Brown should be shot dead in the street?

What are you trying to say here? The clerk was traumatized, so Brown deserved to die in the middle of the road?

I'm bringing up the value of the item and the fact that it was a shove because I am trying to dispel the notion that the robbery somehow implies Brown was a crazed maniac on a deathwish trying to murder cops.

If he was a crazed murderer on a deathwish who didn't care about killing cops, he'd have likely stolen something of greater value, and actually injured the clerk.

But regardless of what happened, regardless of how traumatizing the situation was for the clerk (I mean, he didn't even call 911 but regardless, there could have been other reasons) - it doesn't matter, because we have due process in this country, and Brown committing a robbery shouldn't be some kind of roundabout justification for him being shot dead in the street.

Regardless of how much you want to break down the robbery, the fact of the matter is that nobody deserves to be shot dead for something of that magnitude, unless you think we should be doling out the death penalty for unarmed robberies.

And the retort to this is that it shows that Brown was in a certain state of mind that would lead people to believe he was likely to kill a cop. And my response to that is how I ended my last post: it's fucking bullshit. Shoving a clerk and stealing something of comparatively value makes you a criminal, but doesn't equate to someone being down to just start killing cops.



It's simple. You've chosen to defend a criminal and down play his behavior because you hate cops. And further you ignore the innocent store clerks assault to further your cause. You've allowed your hatered to cloud your judgement. I probably have what could be described as an unhealthy dislike of police officers. Yet I'm able to use simple reason in my thought process of any situation.

Again, please tell me, all the chips on the table; if you're a betting man, you're betting on the the belief that after exhibiting such dangerous behavior on that tape, he just happened to stumble across a racist cop that was out to kill a black kid, in the middle of the street, in the middle of a neighborhood of his peers, in the middle of the day???

There are times when you have to step back and really allow yourself to look at things logically and not let bias cloud your judgement.


Give me a break. I'm stating that someone committing an unarmed robbery of a convenience store isn't automatically someone who is likely to fight to the death with cops.

You're doing exactly what you're accusing me of: Trying to make what occurred seem as violent and dangerous as possible to postulate that Brown was someone who was ready to take a cop's life.

There's a huge jump between his crime and cop-killing.

And no, I don't think that he just ran into a racist cop who felt like shooting a black guy. I think there was some sort of incident, probably Brown trying to escape - but it very well could have likely ended up in a myriad of ways other than an unarmed dead teenager.

When an unarmed person is shot by the cops, there better be some solid evidence that a cops life was in immediate danger.

I'm also stating that police do not have enough accountability or controls on their power, and are ineffective when tasked with investigating their own organizations or other police organizations.




Then I don't understand why you're so worked up?

And if you don't see how dangerous that young mans behavior was in that video then I don't think we can get on the same page. That behavior was frightening to say the least. Had that little man shut that door, brown would have fucked him up. That wasn't just "stealing" it was a strong armed robbery. He didn't give a fuck what happened. You can't convince me otherwise. And that behavior supports the belief that he was acting irrationally that day.

If you think that Brown's actions as shown in the video, while deplorable, would make him a threat to kill someone (particularly a cop) later that day, then please don't walk down Easton Ave in New Brunswick and observe the drunk college guys walking around. Because they consistently beat the shit out of eachother and do way more harm to eachother than the shove in that video, especially after stealing from one another or eachother's houses... and based on what you've said about Brown, they are all ticking time bombs that could go off and start killing cops later.

I'm sure I'll get called out for a supposed false equivalency but it's more accurate than you think.

There are a lot more violent crimes committed on a day to day basis than Brown's robbery. and I don't think all of those people are time bombs of lethal danger enough to the extent that the cops can shoot them.

Like I said, if something can be proven to have happened during the interaction with the cop it's one thing, but it's bullshit to say based on that video that Brown was ready to start killing people and fighting cops till he was shot.
RE: sonic. what exactly are  
Sonic Youth : 8/29/2014 8:05 pm : link
In comment 11829921 halfback20 said:
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The institutional dysfunctions in law enforcement?

The lack of accountability for police and the fact that the vast, vast majority of go uninvestigated, as concluded by a variety of studies in a variety of locations.

Harassing people who record them. The fact that a cop's word is automatically always assumed to be true in the court of law simply because someone is a cop, unless there is video evidence, and the subsequent lack of willingness to implement video evidence to protect both citizens from police abuse and police from false accusations.

The absurd disparity between arrests across races, and in the NYPD in particular, the way stop and frisk targets minorities (according to the statistics).

As discussed at length, the heavy handed military-esque responses to certain situations.

The lack of effectiveness of internal affair investigations.

These are just a few things that jump to mind immediately.

Someone gets choked to death for selling cigarettes in the street, someone else gets shot to death after an altercation after stealing cigarettes... whether or not some of these actions were justified on an individual basis, the pattern is alarming.

Basically, way more accountability and not automatically taking a cop's account as gospel when they technology is available to do so. I'm not saying cops are always wrong, or necessarily lying 100% of the time, or even a majority of the time. I'm just saying they aren't always right or being completely honest 100% of the time.
RE: RE: RE: Really  
Sonic Youth : 8/29/2014 8:08 pm : link
In comment 11831219 M in CT said:
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Unlike some people, and contrary to what you might believe, I'm not "rooting" for a particular "side".



i gotta say, in a thread full of hilarious shit posted by people who have no clue what they're saying, this is perhaps the funniest comment of all. you're not rooting for a side??? you expect people to believe that?



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I want justice to be served, and I'm not sure police investigating police is the best way to get to that point.

I don't know what better options are out there, but I wish there was some other way that was viable.



so, in sum...i don't like it because i don't like cops, but i have no solution, so i'm just going to spend three weeks arguing about it on the internet anyway, despite the fact that i offer nothing of substance.

awesome.

Yeah, contrary to what you may believe, I'm not rooting for a side. What, you think I'm gonna be all bummed out if it a video turns up that shows Brown legitimately tried to take the cops gun and tried to shoot him?

No, not really. It wouldn't change my mind about the concerns I've voiced on a macro level. So seriously, I don't give a fuck and am not "rooting" for anybody. It's an all around shitty situation and I think it's fucking pathetic that people are rooting for one of these two people.

And your second point is fucking stupid. It's not "I don't like cops", it's that there's issues with the integrity of the system in place. It's not my job to come up with solutions, I don't have the expertise or education to do so. That doesn't mean I can't voice my displeasure with how things currently are, so your point is idiotic.

Otherwise, don't complain about the Giants defense unless you can come up with a better scheme.
And M in CT  
Sonic Youth : 8/29/2014 8:10 pm : link
You can say whatever the fuck you want or disagree with me as much as you fucking want, but I've brought articles, figures re: cost of cameras, numerous links, and clearly articulated points, so fuck your "nothing of substance" bullshit.

Sonic Youth said  
Big Al : 8/29/2014 9:40 pm : link
"Yeah, contrary to what you may believe, I'm not rooting for a side. What, you think I'm gonna be all bummed out if it a video turns up that shows Brown legitimately tried to take the cops gun and tried to shoot him?

No, not really. It wouldn't change my mind about the concerns I've voiced on a macro level. So seriously, I don't give a fuck and am not "rooting" for anybody. It's an all around shitty situation and I think it's fucking pathetic that people are rooting for one of these two people."

Unlike you, I will be honest about this rooting thing. Yes I do hope it was a correct shooting in accordance with police protocol, if that is what you mean by "rooting". I always hope that police act in the correct way in such incidents (and yes we know they do not always). If not, let the chips fall where they may,
Here is an example of where I do find the police were at fault  
steve in ky : 8/29/2014 10:27 pm : link
but apparently will not face any consequence's.

Not relative to this case at all, but just pointing it out for those who suggested those not instantly condemning the Ferguson officer must be pro cop.


Police Officer Will Not Be Charged For Killing Napster Exec While Texting And Driving - ( New Window )
RE: Sonic Youth said  
Sonic Youth : 8/30/2014 5:53 pm : link
In comment 11832481 Big Al said:
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"Yeah, contrary to what you may believe, I'm not rooting for a side. What, you think I'm gonna be all bummed out if it a video turns up that shows Brown legitimately tried to take the cops gun and tried to shoot him?

No, not really. It wouldn't change my mind about the concerns I've voiced on a macro level. So seriously, I don't give a fuck and am not "rooting" for anybody. It's an all around shitty situation and I think it's fucking pathetic that people are rooting for one of these two people."

Unlike you, I will be honest about this rooting thing. Yes I do hope it was a correct shooting in accordance with police protocol, if that is what you mean by "rooting". I always hope that police act in the correct way in such incidents (and yes we know they do not always). If not, let the chips fall where they may,

Well, I guess good for you if you're "rooting" for a side. Officer Wilson can be cleared in this incident, and it doesnt' change the issues at large. This case can go one way or the nothing, but it won't impact the larger trends at work.

So have fun "rooting". It definitely explains your attempts to make Michael Brown to look like a dangerous, cracked out "nigger" (aka "thug") who was ready to start cop killnng. At least youre honest so your intensions are clear, and if you're being honest about "rooting" for one side or another, most reasonable people won't take your assessment of Brown seriously.

After all, you'd legit be happy if more news came out to make him look like a bad guy. It's like your glossing over the fact theres a dead teenager. But yeah, fuck it, i mean he was a "thug" right? It's not like people can turn their lives around at that point after committing $50 robberies that didn't actually physically hurt anyone. He deserved to be shot dead in the street, after all, he was a crazed "thug" (codeword for nigger).

Fuck rehabilitation. Let's just shoot all teenagers who make bad decisions and commit unarmed robberies dead.

Fuck it, those stupid "thugs" deserve it, right?

I'm sure you don't care that Michael Brown died because he's a "thug", right? Fuck due process, fuck the court systems, he deserved to be shot dead in the middle of a street, cause fuck "thugs", they don't deserve due process.

the most deplorable disposition is that it doesn't matter that Brown died cause he was a "thug" (i.e nigger). As if the fact he committed a $50 robbery where he shoved a clerk just shows he's a crazed "thug" about to go on a killing spree.


Jon from PA, I don't think you hate black people, and I don't think youre racist at all. But why don't you come out and say you dislike "niggers" (aka thugs), which are pretty much poor black people in terrible economic areas.

We aren't stupid. We can all see the subtext. "Thug" is the PC way to say nigger. its very obvious and has been for a while.
You're going way over the top here...  
Dunedin81 : 8/30/2014 6:02 pm : link
and you're going to end up getting yourself banned. "Thug" may have enough racial baggage by now that it isn't worth trotting out to make a point, but not everyone who uses it to describe a grown ass man who commits a robbery just minutes before the interaction at issue is using it synonymously with that most offensive of epithets.
Clearly emotion trumped  
halfback20 : 8/30/2014 6:05 pm : link
reason for a lot of posts in this thread, including Sonics last post.
...  
Sonic Youth : 8/30/2014 6:18 pm : link
If it gets me banned, so be it. I haven't called anyone a nigger, nor have I insulted anyone in my last post. I'm just calling the obvious subtext as I see it.

There's been various articles about how "thug" has replaced nigger, in common conversation. I'm not saying "thug" is racist, but come on, it's obvious.

You can replace "thug" with nigger and see if it has any affect on the sentences as constructed, cause it doesn't.

I want to reiterate that I don't think Jon from PA is racist. Having said that, I do believe, Brown being black AND his "rooting" interest in the cop definitely skew how he views the situation.

People like M in CT can claim I have a "rooting" interest one way or the other, but I don't care one way or the other with regards to this partiular incident. IMO, it doesn't change the larger issues.When someone admits a rooting interest, they've essentially admitted they will take the opportunity to disparage the opposing "team". That's why Jon in PA's attempts to make a dead 18 year old kid look like a lethal danger to humanity make sense in context.


It's not a word that should be tossed around...  
Dunedin81 : 8/30/2014 6:20 pm : link
just to make a point. You're tossing it around to make a point. An emotion, over the top point. If you can't make an argument without flinging shit, maybe a. you're a monkey or b. you're arguing with monkeys and it isn't worth reducing yourself to their level.
RE: Clearly emotion trumped  
Sonic Youth : 8/30/2014 6:24 pm : link
In comment 11833911 halfback20 said:
Quote:
reason for a lot of posts in this thread, including Sonics last post.

I really don't think so, my friend. I'm don't think anyone is overtly racist, at all. I don't want it come off as if I am calling Jon from PA a racist person.

But I do believe that Michael Brown being black is a factor in determining his "mindset", personality, and danger level.


I don't get how people are saying the video proves he was ready to start fighting/kiilling cops.

Go down Easton Ave in New Brunswick in the fall and you'll see way more violent encounters and people getting their teeth smashed in, kicked in the face, etc. But Brown shoves a clerk in the process of a $50 robbery, and now he's a legit candidate to start killing cops.

That's a huge leap of logic;
Hard  
Big Al : 8/30/2014 6:27 pm : link
to have a conversation with someone who has lost touch with rationality.
RE: It's not a word that should be tossed around...  
Sonic Youth : 8/30/2014 6:28 pm : link
In comment 11833931 Dunedin81 said:
Quote:
just to make a point. You're tossing it around to make a point. An emotion, over the top point. If you can't make an argument without flinging shit, maybe a. you're a monkey or b. you're arguing with monkeys and it isn't worth reducing yourself to their level.

All I'm saying is the subtext is very obvious. I'm not a guy that throws around the word "nigger", but I'm not afraid to say it in a context where it isn't an insult and used as a platform for discussion.

There's a great deadspin article about how "thug" is essentially the PC way to say "nigger", (cue the insults re: deadspin, apparently for some reason they aren't a legit site)... and the article makes a lot of sense.

It's sad to me people are saying Brown was a "thug" so it's okay he died. As if the laws and courts don't matter, and cops can just shoot anyone considered a "thug" without any issues. I'm still maintaining that if Officer Wilson's life was in danger, he had every right to subdue Brown. Bot the onus should be on him to prove his life was in danger. after all, he's not the one who was born in 1996 and shot dead a few weeks ago.
RE: Hard  
Sonic Youth : 8/30/2014 6:30 pm : link
In comment 11833938 Big Al said:
Quote:
to have a conversation with someone who has lost touch with rationality.

Cry me a river, dude. It's quite obvious to everyone who "rational" you are. You've consistently gotten facts about the case wrong, and admitted to having a "rooting interest", which inherently means you are biased. It isn't a huge leap in logic to assme you'd LOVE for any more info to come out that makes Brown look like a worse person.

I'm glad you're "rooting interest" would be served by making a dead teenager look like more of a bad guy.

So yeah, if you can point out where I lost rationality, I'd appreciate it.
The problem is that any generic  
ctc in ftmyers : 8/30/2014 6:32 pm : link
word used is now considered "code".

Can I describe some one as a hoodlum, ne'er-do-well, etc without it having a different meaning.

Just what is the generic term for a piece of shit reguardless of race now a days.

Inquiring minds want to know.

wow  
PA Giant Fan : 8/30/2014 6:33 pm : link
Now "thug" = n#/%%er?

Come on now. I think anyone that claims that needs to think deeply about how they reached that conclusion because at the root they will ultimately find the problem to all of this.

I keep stating it that in general I do not trust the police but those concerned about police abusing power are attaching their credibility to the wrong horse here.
What facts have i got wrong?  
Big Al : 8/30/2014 6:36 pm : link
In your wild tirades, you lump everyone together who disagrees with you? A lot of the stuff you attribute to me were stuff others said, not me.

And l am sorry for the crime of hoping police officers acted in the right way. If that is what you call rooting, I am proud.of rooting
RE: The problem is that any generic  
Sonic Youth : 8/30/2014 6:36 pm : link
In comment 11833943 ctc in ftmyers said:
Quote:
word used is now considered "code".

Can I describe some one as a hoodlum, ne'er-do-well, etc without it having a different meaning.

Just what is the generic term for a piece of shit reguardless of race now a days.

Inquiring minds want to know.

haha. Good point. I think I'd go with "douchebag" or "asshole".

Look, you do raise a good point. But "thug" is so obviously nigger nowadatys... Like I said previously, I'm not the only one who has pointed that out previously.

not sure if you saw my response in the other thread, but thanks for your help CTC. I am really grateful, and can truly appreciate that you can cast aside our difference in opinions with regards to this contentious issue and still help me out with other things. I owe you one, friend.
RE: What facts have i got wrong?  
Sonic Youth : 8/30/2014 6:41 pm : link
In comment 11833953 Big Al said:
Quote:
In your wild tirades, you lump everyone together who disagrees with you? A lot of the stuff you attribute to me were stuff others said, not me.

And l am sorry for the crime of hoping police officers acted in the right way. If that is what you call rooting, I am proud.of rooting

I can respect hoping that an officer acted within the parameters of his power, and it'd be better for everyone if that was the case.

But that disposition shouldn't expect to finding ways to try and show Brown was a crazed "thug" ready to start kill cops that day. Can we at least be realistic and honest? Someone who committed the robbery that Brown did isn't really likely to start turning around and charging cops with the intent of fighting cops to the death.

So I guess "root" all you want, but when you have a rooting interest, its only natural to try and disparage the "opposition"... so it's not a surprise nobody takes your opinion seriously.

People can call me anti cop and claim I'm a cop hater, etc, but honestly I just want to see them get it right. Unfortunately, I don't have faith in the internal processes of police departments to objectively investigate.
Here is something  
PA Giant Fan : 8/30/2014 6:42 pm : link
If Thug = N%##er now...

Maybe thug didn't change....maybe N%##er did?

Just something to think about.

And I am rooting for the cop to he right. Wouldn't want to live in a society where a cop would just kill a kid dead in the middle of the street middle of the day for no reason....which obviously didn't happen.

And Brown was a thug. It is not just just a simple theft. You are being an apologist. It is the menacing behavior...which makes him a thug. Look up the word menacing if you need help.
Nobody worth arguing with has made that claim...  
Dunedin81 : 8/30/2014 6:43 pm : link
what they have said is that because he committed what is considered by the law to be a violent crime a few minutes before this happened, it suggests that the officer's side of events is plausible. It does not mean that it'd couldn't have been a bad shoot, it just means that based on what is now known it seems reasonable. And it also suggests that the narrative that gave rise to a cause celebre and a lot of righteous indignation, not to mention a lot of anger and some violence, was quite possibly bullshit. If the kid played trombone in the marching band and was headed to Mizzou to major in biochemistry it would certainly argue in the other direction.
Can  
Big Al : 8/30/2014 6:44 pm : link
you show me the post where I said he was a crazed thug ready to kill a cop? I don't recall saying that.
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