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thistlechaser) wrote2010-07-08 09:34 pm
thistlechaser) wrote2010-07-08 09:34 pm
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Stupid, stupid people.
"Oh boy, our sports team won!" *riots*
"Oh no, our sports team lost!" *riots*
I don't know how far out of California this story got, but on Christmas a white cop shot a black man. Black guy (with multiple priors) was resisting arrest. Cop warned him he was going to use his taser on him. One of two things happened: The cop grabbed his gun by mistake and shot him, or he said to himself 'This guy is pissing me off, I'm going to kill him'. Trial's been going on for a week or so, jury came back this afternoon. Involuntary manslaughter. Seemed a reasonable decision to me (cop had just a couple hours training on the taser and depending on the model (department had both kinds) it could be on his left or right side, it varied by day which side it was on).
Resisting arrest is a damned, damned stupid thing to do. Yes, you shouldn't get shot for it, but still. An adult should know better. That's not the point of the post though.
The family of the man killed asked for people not to be violent, no matter how the decision went.
For the last four or five hours, various religious and other "community leaders" have been blanketing the airwaves, asking people not to be violent.
These idiots are rioting anyway. They're robbing stores in their own city, likely owned by their neighbors. They're spraypainting the "victim's" name everywhere... hurting their neighbors. This is the city that THEY have to live in. If there was any justice, the copy who were trying to stop all this would not have to live in that city, too.
Posts like this make me feel very not-liberal. I'd be all for putting these people in a cage somewhere and treating them like the animals they're acting like. (I know, I know, insult to animals...)
I just don't get how people think it's their right to riot and loot, burn, steal, do all sorts of bad things, just because they'restupid unhappy.
They're treating the guy who got shot like a hero. Women are on camera crying his name, men holds their hat before them and whisper his name. He was a criminal and he was stupid. He died because he was stupid. Not because he was a black man stopped by a white cop, but because the cop told him to do something and instead he fought.
...on second though, I suppose it makes sense he's a hero to them.
"Oh no, our sports team lost!" *riots*
I don't know how far out of California this story got, but on Christmas a white cop shot a black man. Black guy (with multiple priors) was resisting arrest. Cop warned him he was going to use his taser on him. One of two things happened: The cop grabbed his gun by mistake and shot him, or he said to himself 'This guy is pissing me off, I'm going to kill him'. Trial's been going on for a week or so, jury came back this afternoon. Involuntary manslaughter. Seemed a reasonable decision to me (cop had just a couple hours training on the taser and depending on the model (department had both kinds) it could be on his left or right side, it varied by day which side it was on).
Resisting arrest is a damned, damned stupid thing to do. Yes, you shouldn't get shot for it, but still. An adult should know better. That's not the point of the post though.
The family of the man killed asked for people not to be violent, no matter how the decision went.
For the last four or five hours, various religious and other "community leaders" have been blanketing the airwaves, asking people not to be violent.
These idiots are rioting anyway. They're robbing stores in their own city, likely owned by their neighbors. They're spraypainting the "victim's" name everywhere... hurting their neighbors. This is the city that THEY have to live in. If there was any justice, the copy who were trying to stop all this would not have to live in that city, too.
Posts like this make me feel very not-liberal. I'd be all for putting these people in a cage somewhere and treating them like the animals they're acting like. (I know, I know, insult to animals...)
I just don't get how people think it's their right to riot and loot, burn, steal, do all sorts of bad things, just because they're
They're treating the guy who got shot like a hero. Women are on camera crying his name, men holds their hat before them and whisper his name. He was a criminal and he was stupid. He died because he was stupid. Not because he was a black man stopped by a white cop, but because the cop told him to do something and instead he fought.
...on second though, I suppose it makes sense he's a hero to them.
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I still say we just remove the warning labels off everything and let the problem take care of itself. If someone sues a company because they didn't know taking their hairdryer into the shower could get them electrocuted then they will immediately be put into a rehabilitation program to attempt to cure them of their stupid. Of course, this will only be a one time thing. Repeated offenders will just be left to their own devices until they end up killing themselves by shoving a fork into a toaster or something.
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I had a friend over my house that night. We lost track of time. So where my normal stops to take him home and go to McDonalds meant I had to be a bit sneaky about it. And it's hard to be sneaky when EVERY route open leads past the police station. They had closed down an extremely dangerous intersection to make it better.
I take no stance on the situation because it's not my job. If Timothy Thomas wouldn't have been the one that got shot, the riots would've ensued when Maquéte Jackson (Fictional name) got shot.
Findlay Market was built to give people in that community a chance at honest work. It's been around for years. It was one of the first things the rioters went after.
Stupid, stupid people.
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I also remember my accounting teacher near going off on the couple girls in the class who said they went to join the riots.
And Findlay Market is great. I've never been, but my parents went fairly often. They got a lot of good food there. I should go up there sometime.
In the daytime.
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On the teacher: Woo! That's what I would have done.
And you should totally go! Sounds like a good place.
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The LA riots was one of the major reasons why we decided to move out of So California. Having seen what they did to Koreatown(mom had a business there), we did not want to stay in an area where neighbors turned into animals at a moment's notice. At least with coyotes and bears, I know what I am getting.
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If there were no police we'd be screwed...
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