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Soundwave on 17 July 2016
sc94597 said:
Soundwave said:

Lots of young kids here who don't remember the early 90s even. But yeah, this has been a problem for ages, only difference now is we have smartphone cameras and two black people have decided to shoot back. 

I wasn't even born until a year after this happened, but I know about it well, because it has been used in political debates for different sides. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdZ5xuZOlbk

Well here's the Rodney King beating for those who are too young to remember it for context. 



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tokilamockingbrd on 17 July 2016
Soundwave said:
sc94597 said:

Yes it was. In fact, it was worse. 

"More than 60 people lost their lives amid the looting and fires during the Los Angeles riots that ravaged the city over five days starting April 29, 1992. Ten were shot to death by law enforcement officials. Forty-fourpeople died in other homicides or incidents tied to the rioting."

And two years later. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban

Lots of young kids here who don't remember the early 90s even. But yeah, this has been a problem for ages, only difference now is we have smartphone cameras and two black people have decided to shoot back. 

shoot back is not correct term. Take revenge or whatever would be a better way to say it. Shoot back would be other blacks shooting the cop after he shot someone they saw as an unjust shooting. 



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Soundwave on 17 July 2016
tokilamockingbrd said:
Soundwave said:

Lots of young kids here who don't remember the early 90s even. But yeah, this has been a problem for ages, only difference now is we have smartphone cameras and two black people have decided to shoot back. 

shoot back is not correct term. Take revenge or whatever would be a better way to say it. Shoot back would be other blacks shooting the cop after he shot someone they saw as an unjust shooting. 

OK revenge killing, whatever term you want to use there. 



hershel_layton on 17 July 2016

Oh God, why



 

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KLAMarine on 17 July 2016

Gonna wait for more information to come out.



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SolidSnack on 17 July 2016
KLAMarine said:
Gonna wait for more information to come out.

generally the right approach (to everything)



KLAMarine on 17 July 2016
SolidSnack said:
KLAMarine said:
Gonna wait for more information to come out.

generally the right approach (to everything)

Indeed. My current question is was this shooting motivated by recent events in the same state?



Soundwave on 17 July 2016
KLAMarine said:
Gonna wait for more information to come out.

Sounds like there was some other shooting between two civilians, then the cops came, then they got shot from what I'm hearing from an eye witness on CNN. 

So this might not be a shoot out related to any other event it may have simply just be some kind of criminal event gone wrong. 



Arminillo on 17 July 2016

Is revenge killing really even tge correct term? They killed three people who had nothing to with the Baton Rouge shooting besides profession. If a doctor commits malpractice, is it revenge to shoot a different doctor?



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AlfredoTurkey on 17 July 2016

I wonder how long it's going to take before we all just stop giving a shit. I know I personally have. I see "mass shooting" or "bombing" and I go... meh... what's my sports team doing.

In my experience, it's pointless to invest emotions in something you neither have a hand in causing, nor fixing. People do fucked up things... it's life.