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Baalzamon said:
NiKKoM said:

Instead of race.. Shouldn't you americans be talking about improving law enforcement or gun laws? Maybe more tasers, making it mandatory to always patrol with 2 cops or maybe they wouldn't be as triggerhappy when not everyone can buy a gun..

Its really sad how bad our law enforcement is. Seriously.


You know whats also f'd up.. There are like Reality TV shows about American law enforcement.. Highway chases, spectacular crashes, police blowing out tires with shotguns or spike strips.. The version my country? People who are speeding.. And the action? Wether he may lose his driver license.. Lets not even talk about COPS.. Even the UK version is extremly boring compared to that.. With highlights as: a drunk woman walking home, are those teens hiding weed or does he have car insurance?



 

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NiKKoM said:

You know whats also f'd up.. There are like Reality TV shows about American law enforcement.. Highway chases, spectacular crashes, police blowing out tires with shotguns or spike strips.. The version my country? People who are speeding.. And the action? Wether he may lose his driver license.. Lets not even talk about COPS.. Even the UK version is extremly boring compared to that.. With highlights as: a drunk woman walking home, are those teens hiding weed or does he have car insurance?

Don't you diss COPS! Those shows are actually kind of amusing to watch lol.



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Baalzamon said:
NiKKoM said:

You know whats also f'd up.. There are like Reality TV shows about American law enforcement.. Highway chases, spectacular crashes, police blowing out tires with shotguns or spike strips.. The version my country? People who are speeding.. And the action? Wether he may lose his driver license.. Lets not even talk about COPS.. Even the UK version is extremly boring compared to that.. With highlights as: a drunk woman walking home, are those teens hiding weed or does he have car insurance?

Don't you diss COPS! Those shows are actually kind of amusing to watch lol.


Ow i like them.. They are shown daily on tv but i do always think: not gonna happen here.. I don't even think our police have shotguns in the cars..



 

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cuz it's the media of course!



As a Black guy, I hate this double standard with the media. The media likes to make Blacks think it's the 1950s. People have been brainwashed to thinking it is. Racism isn't a one way street. The media agenda is to cause separatism and I'm sick of it.



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I'm going to lay out a few things comparing the situations. Infer what you will...

67.4% of the Ferguson, MO populace is black; that's 14,228 people.
Incident took place August 9th.
212 arrests as of August 22. Copious amounts of looting and vandalizing. Accusations of racism abound.

71.5% of the Salt Lake City, UT populace is white; that's 143,576 people.
Incident took place August 11th.
No arrests as of August 26. Peaceful protests. No mention of religion playing a role. (A lot of Mormons in UT)



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Smear-Gel said:
Baalzamon said:
Smear-Gel said:

We don't pick and choose what gets media attention.

You cannot possibly be serious.

None of us decised that this shooting would be the one to spark riots and looting over any other, whether it was a white or black person who got shot. No, not even news stations are that good.

most of the rioting is because people wanting their 15 minutes of fame, if there wasnt so much media coverage, and al sharptons and jesse jackson being race pimps, there would be very little rioting going on. this is made especially evident as most of the looters are non fergeson residents



 

Kid identified himself as hispanic. I think he was mixed race. Not sure how this changes things, but if you're talking about this as a race issue, it's a pretty big thing to leave out.



NiKKoM said:

Hmmm.. One had eye witness say that his hands were up in the air and got shot cause the police stopped him from jaywalking and the other the police responded on to a call people seeing a man with a gun and the kid, who unfortunely fitted the description, reached for his waistband and got shot...

Instead of race.. Shouldn't you americans be talking about improving law enforcement or gun laws? Maybe more tasers, making it mandatory to always patrol with 2 cops or maybe they wouldn't be as triggerhappy when not everyone can buy a gun..


one also had eye witnesses making contridictory and proven false claims, as the only people who said he had his hands up also said he was shot from behind, and his friend said he fell to the ground in pain. while the autopsy shows these claims to be false. all the shots entered from the front, and he felt no pain as he was falling, as the headshot that killed him did so instantaneously



 

JWeinCom said:
Kid identified himself as hispanic. I think he was mixed race. Not sure how this changes things, but if you're talking about this as a race issue, it's a pretty big thing to leave out.


but is he a white hispanic. 

if he is white hispanic that changes everything. like george zimmerman. lol