11 officers shot, 1 bystander shot during protests over recent shootings

[TheBlackNaruto]

thismeintiel said:

TheBlackNaruto said:

Where is the half truth lol. Because I didn't say it looked like a real gun it makes it a half truth? How explain that to me? Whenever this discussion is brought up ALL the facts are always talked about which is this child was playing in the park by himself with a toy gun that looked real. Going up to random people acting like he shot them. Those are the facts....guess what else is a fact he died because of a trigger happy cop. Not because he was as you said "acting like a thug"  as you put it. I have to ask do you have kids? Because 99% of kids play around like they are shooting stuff and people all the time. The child may not have fully understood the situation with the cops and kept playing in his mind. So that means death? No my friend thatis not acceptable.

Well if you shot a child who you thought had a gun would you not come out and say you felt miserable? Isn't that the human thing to do if that is how you feel? And it is funny how you assume the BLM movement would not have believed them...part of the outrage was because of the lack of remorse from what happened.

Did you read that story? This man allegedly(not sure if that part is true) tried to hit the officers with his car and they opened fire and were even assumed to have a grudge against the man. Those officers were ARRESTED AND CHARGED with murder....did any of that with Tamir Rice or the most recent two shootings? Did the chilld shoot at the officers with the toy gun and justify the killing? Were they arrested and charged with murder? It is funny how you say people only see half truths but pulled up a video that goes against what you were saying because it showed the opposite of what has been happening when blacks are killed by white cops. They get off with a slap on the wrist and get to go home to their families. These officers were charged and arrested. You can't see the difference here? That's the argument that has been being made.

The half truth is how you approach the story.  You really just want it to be about a black kid playing in the park with a toy gun that was shot by a trigger happy cop.  You actually watch the vid you get the whole picture.  The kid was bullying people, not playing, with an airsoft pistol that looked exactly like a real gun.  And unless you have some sick perversion for the word play or you are just using that word to continue to push your narrative, he was not playing.  He was threatening to shoot them with what they thought was a real gun.  The police are called.  The second the kid sees the cops coming, he starts walking towards them, pulling the gun out of his pocket to point at them.  The cops open fire, fearing it was real.  No trigger happy about it.  If it had been a real gun he could have killed one of them or both.  The fact we know it wasn't real AFTER THE FACT, changes nothing.  The kid acted stupidly and got shot for it.  The cops acted how they would if that kid was yellow, white, brown, or was an adult.  You don't point a gun at a cop and expect him to do nothing, just it MIGHT not be real.  Personal responsibility.

And yes, they were charged, something that happens to a lot white cops, too.  My point was that something like that could happen to a white kid and the nation wouldn't bat an eye.  That proves my point.  The problem your side seems to have is that you only see things through the prism of hindsight and therefore people should go to jail.  The law doesn't work that way and thank God it doesn't.  A grand jury's job is to actually look at evidence and the definition of what the defendant is charged with and determine if there is enough to charge them on.  If not, it's dropped.  If so, it goes to court.  They don't judge him on mob rule.  Or the feels.  Or hindsight.  And the two recent stories just happened.  Have they even reached a decision, yet?

I think we will just have to agree to disagree here. Just different views on how things have been being handled by cops in general lately.