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Soundwave on 08 July 2016
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thismeintiel said:
TheBlackNaruto said:

So me stating that a 12yr old boy playing with a toy gun in a public park proves your post huh? So because it was a realistic looking gun that makes it all okay that he was shot and killed. It makes it okay because people thought it was real yet there had been no issues no shots fired nothing of the sort. Heck I have seen many kids playing with toy guns that looked real talking about I am going to shoot you etc but I didn't go straight to saying look at this thug or this kid acting like a thug....because guess what it was just a child playing but I guess that is just me. To you though a child playing is the equivalant of "acting like a thug so die like a thug"....yeeeeeaaaaahhhh that makes perfect sense and clearly proves your point of perpeuating a lie because none of what I said was a fact.  YET you LABELED this boy as thug because he was playing lol. Or did nou not label him as one but just added that part just for the heck of it? No other options than to shoot to kill because this was clearly someone acting like a thug and deserving to die like one? Come on man you can't be serious. And even so again I ask because someone is doing something wrong they deserve to be shot and killed?

Also where did I state that he was shot while being black? Because I gave you two examples of people not doing anything wrong that just means shot while being black? Doesn't show that cops just handled situations poorly just shot while being black? wasn't just countering your post about them not doing anything stupid/wrong that clearly deserved death. Come on now things like this are inexcusable and should not have happened. Esepcially in these two situations that I just gave you.

Yes, you proved my point.  Like many who jump to "cop bad, 'criminal' just made a mistake" mentality, you HAVE to present only one side of the story or half of it to gain support.  If people knew the whole truth, they would not be so quick to support your side. 

And I never said the kid was a thug, only he was pretending to be one.  Which means he may have looked up to them, so who knows what his future would have brought.  But either way, you brandish a gun, act like a thug, and don't put it down when a cop tells you to (yes, even if you're white), and you will get shot.  It also doesn't help that he was all by himself, not playing with any other kid.  If he had been, instead of threatening random people who walked by (which is NOT an acceptable form of play, by any standards), then he'd most likely be alive.

The problem with your side is you see everything in hindsight.  Which is 20/20 as they say.  You don't think those cops felt miserable when they found out it was a toy?  Of course they did.  It probably still haunts them.  But, there was NO way for them to know.  And the second he won't put it away and points it at them, you're damn right they fired.  You would have done the same damn thing, though I doubt you would admit it.

As for your last paragraph, let's be honest here.  The only reason we are even hearing about any of these instances is because the victims are black.  It allows people to push an agenda and even more vile people to make their living.  Without the race war, many would be out of a job.  For example, had that child been white and the cops black, which I'm sure has happened plenty of times, it would have been buried as a local story for us to never hear of again.  Of course, I would have had the same opinion, regardless of race.

How many white kids get shot by cops for having a toy gun? I don't recall it happening much at all. A kid with a toy gun shouldn't be shot period. How about that?

There is racial bias, of course there is, cops are human, and as such some of them are going to be shitty people. Just like the real world has shitty people. 

The problem with the police department is these cops in most cases get off scott free after murdering someone because the police are loathe to admit that they may have some officers who acted poorly. With social media they can't hide it anymore, there's a camera now everywhere.