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You seem to be happy enough to judge the victim guilty, though.
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Stop trying to drag race into this, skin colour has nothing to do with it. Either an officer is justified in shooting someone or they are not, the skin colour of the person has no relevance in that. At his trial, the prosecution will argue that Scott presented no danger. Slager will argue he was justified in shooting him. The jury will decide who is correct. Will you accept their verdict even if it doesn't go the way you want Blueblade?
I can't believe you can say that with a straight face. |
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Please tell me you are not serious, given the debate on this issue in America?
I can't believe you can say that with a straight face. Skin colour has absolutely nothing to do with it. Skin colour very very rarely has anything to do with it in regards to the shooter and the victim. It has everything to do with it for the noisy minority who revel in playing the victim for their gains, afterwards. |
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Please tell me you are not serious, given the debate on this issue in America?
I can't believe you can say that with a straight face. |
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Either a cop is justified in killing someone or he is not, skin colour doesn't play a part in that decision making process, so why are you hellbent on making it one. Do you WANT skin colour to play a part in a cops decision making process, maybe like "I'm justified in shooting this person but they are black so I better not just in case I'm seen as racist"?
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Isn't it your own policy to wait and find out the facts before making a judgement? Colour can play a part in a decision making process but shouldn't you wait for some convincing before dismissing it as a possibilty entirely?
Double standards anybody? |
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Watch my very straight face...
Skin colour has absolutely nothing to do with it. Skin colour very very rarely has anything to do with it in regards to the shooter and the victim. It has everything to do with it for the noisy minority who revel in playing the victim for their gains, afterwards. |
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Was he basing this on him having studied the personal interaction of gun carrying Americans over a period of time or just voicing his own opinion? He may have a point if that logic was applied to our culture in our country but over there it's a very different culture. Guns are as an integral part of life as your house keys, and contrary to what you might think, the majority of those who carry don't just lose their temper and suddenly turn into Psycho. Why do you think that someone who is carrying a gun and arguing with someone else would ever even CONSIDER drawing it? There just isn't any point and they know it.
Ok so if the police and the public are disarmed, who will stop the next person who goes on a shooting spree? You would have armed police, just more specialised. When part of your culture is to have a gun with you at all times, or certainly in your house then you are asking for trouble. |
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Either a cop is justified in killing someone or he is not, skin colour doesn't play a part in that decision making process, so why are you hellbent on making it one. Do you WANT skin colour to play a part in a cops decision making process, maybe like "I'm justified in shooting this person but they are black so I better not just in case I'm seen as racist"?
Just putting an opposing view for objectivity. |
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Either a cop is justified in killing someone or he is not, skin colour doesn't play a part in that decision making process, so why are you hellbent on making it one. Do you WANT skin colour to play a part in a cops decision making process, maybe like "I'm justified in shooting this person but they are black so I better not just in case I'm seen as racist"?
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The nationwide furor over the growing number of unarmed black men shot dead by police officers in recent months has put the public spotlight on a much bigger trend in the US: cops are much more likely to shoot and kill black people than any other race.
An analysis of the available FBI data by Vox's Dara Lind shows that US police kill black people at disproportionate rates: black people accounted for 31 percent of police shooting victims in 2012, even though they made up just 13 percent of the US population. THE DATA HIGHLIGHTS THE VAST DISPARITIES IN HOW POLICE USE FORCE Although the data is incomplete, since it's based on voluntary reports from police agencies around the country, it highlights the vast disparities in how police use force. Police were 21 times more likely to shoot and kill black teens than white teens between 2010 and 2012, according to a ProPublica analysis of the FBI data. ProPublica reported: "One way of appreciating that stark disparity, ProPublica's analysis shows, is to calculate how many more whites over those three years would have had to have been killed for them to have been at equal risk. The number is jarring — 185, more than one per week." |
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Some interesting FACTS from death row USA:
Race of Defendants Executed in the U.S. Since 197 BLACK 486 34% LATINO 113 8% WHITE 782 56% OTHER 24 2% Race of Victims Since 1976 BLACK 312 15.2% LATINO 141 6.6% WHITE 1567 76.0% OTHER 45 2.2% Persons Executed for Interracial Murders in the U.S. Since 1976 White Defendant / Black Victim (31) Black Defendant / White Victim (293) http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/race...-executed-1976 |
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Some interesting FACTS from death row USA:
Race of Defendants Executed in the U.S. Since 197 BLACK 486 34% LATINO 113 8% WHITE 782 56% OTHER 24 2% Race of Victims Since 1976 BLACK 312 15.2% LATINO 141 6.6% WHITE 1567 76.0% OTHER 45 2.2% Persons Executed for Interracial Murders in the U.S. Since 1976 White Defendant / Black Victim (31) Black Defendant / White Victim (293) http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/race...-executed-1976 |
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So white people are almost ten times more likely to be killed by a black person than a white person ?
What has that got to with psychopathic, murdering nazi , smelly ugly, state executioners gunning down nice elderly black men going to church ? [ sorry, I've been reading too many of Blueblade's posts, the red mist came down ] |
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According to him racism is a factor to be instantly dismissed as it doesn't exist.
Double standards anybody? |
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So white people are almost ten times more likely to be killed by a black person than a white person ?
What has that got to with psychopathic, murdering nazi , smelly ugly, state executioners gunning down nice elderly black men going to church ? [ sorry, I've been reading too many of Blueblade's posts, the red mist came down ] Quote:
In 82% of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e., those who murdered whites were found more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks."
- United States General Accounting Office, Death Penalty Sentencing, February 1990 |
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What the hell seriously? I never said anything like that. We aren't talking about racism, we're talking about a cop who shot a fleeing suspect. Hence my confusion about why some people seem determined to bring race into it. I don't understand why you feel the need to specifically mention the suspects skin colour. It's like if newspapers suddenly decided to start referring to our PM as "white man David Cameron". While it's true that he is white, it would be a rather odd statement to make, because it has no relevance to the story. While Walter Scott was black, I don't see the need to bring up such an irrelevant pieces of information. It's like mentioning the football team he supported - Absolutely no relevance to the shooting. Either the cop was justified in shooting him or he wasn't, skin colour isn't relevant to that decision.
I'll leave you to it. |
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Isn't it your own policy to wait and find out the facts before making a judgement? Colour can play a part in a decision making process but shouldn't you wait for some convincing before dismissing it as a possibilty entirely?
I don't know why people seem determined to play the race card. There are a minority of racists in America just like any other country and those who are guilty of racist attacks do deserve to be punished. But it worries me how quickly some people are to assume guilt every time a white officer hurts or kills a black man instead of having patience, waiting for the full facts to become known. This applies for every case not just this one; Why shouldn't we be waiting to hear what both sides of the story? In other situations, a white officer may have killed a black man in self defence, but the public will just see "white cop kills black man" and assume it to be racism even though it could be completely justified self defence. |
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I am totally bemused that you can spout such total and utter tripe. To suggest that race doesn't enter into this debate - even in the face of the evidence presented to you - is too farcical to even laugh at.
I'll leave you to it. |
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Strangely enough in countries whereby there are strict gun laws there is less gun crime and certainly less massacres.
You would have armed police, just more specialised. When part of your culture is to have a gun with you at all times, or certainly in your house then you are asking for trouble. |
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there`s a report today of eight officers in california beating a man senseless.
i`ll fetch a link. apologies if it`s already posted. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...er-camera.html |
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there`s a report today of eight officers in california beating a man senseless.
i`ll fetch a link. |
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Please do because that statement is completely meaningless without proper context. Depending on the exact circumstances it could be completely justified or completely unjustified.
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see above.
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I'm not judging anyone as guilty because I haven't seen enough evidence to make a decision either way. I'm simply suggesting possible reasons why things occurred as they did, that's a long way from saying that Slager was innocent. I don't like to judge people based on unclear video footage. We don't see what happened before Scott ran away. While I personally think it's unlikely there's anything in those missing moments that justify this, there's enough doubt that I'm holding off on condemning Slager until we have all the facts. We lose nothing by being patient on this, Slager is in custody, he's secured, he's not going anywhere, I'd just need to see all the facts before I'm willing to condemn a man for murder.
So lets face it, he killed the guy for a broken tail light. He then tried to call it in as having shot him while they struggled for his stun gun ( another lie) but his dashcam footage contradicted what he said and clearly shows who was to blame. |
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