I'm wondering the same thing of this UVA student.
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Police officers give kid a beatdown for having a fake ID
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I'm wondering the same thing of this UVA student.
Derec
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I see. And I'm guessing they made the Michael Brown expy an innocent victim and the Darren Wilson expy a clan member who is a love child of George Wallace and Strom Thurmond?
laughing dog
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Two things: his race and his beatdown.
Malintent
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The kids manner in the video that was taken after the incident... the color of his skin (being honest - that is prejustice.. the same kind of prejustice you might use against people in ski masks that knock on your door at 3:00 AM), the clothes he was wearing, and the language that he used and manner he expressed himself.
people of the culture he was acting in accordance to are anti "the man" (defined as all white people with any authority).
laughing dog
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How about people in white robes and white hoods?
J842P
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The clothes he was wearing?! On the night of the arrest he was wearing a pink henley shirt and what I'm pretty sure is an American Apparel hoodie. He had on some sort of slim-fit jeans or slacks, can't really tell, and brown shoes.
RavenSky
The Doctor's Wife
Wow... you actually typed that and then hit 'enter'...
So a black person is the same threat/alarm as a masked stranger knocking at your door at 3:00 a.m.
Just wow
That's a very average set of clothes. SO average, if fact, that's it's suspicious. If I were a serial killer, Al Quaida terrorist or Obama supporter, that's exactly the type of thing that I'd wear in order to try and blend in to the society so that the authorities wouldn't notice me before I killed some white people.
Sounds like this criminal was just a little bit too clever and the police saw through him.
Malintent
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Sure, if you want to cherry pick the racist part out of the list of attributes that contribute to suspicion.
Prejudice comes from somewhere... personal experience is difficult to ignore.
a person appearing a certain way, acting a certain way, and speaking a certain way all together contribute to a picture of trust that is entirely based on past experiences.
You mean after his beatdown? Yeah, can't understand why he'd come off as anti-cop just after an unearned beatdown by cops.
laughing dog
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And that somehow justifies a beatdown?
Where is the evidence of a beat down? The video showed cops with calmly wrestling a resisting suspect and trying to cuff him. If scrapes and blood is proof of a "beat down"you would have to concede Zimmerman was beat down.
He's black, therefore the police must have been in the wrong. Thus it must have been a beatdown.
laughing dog
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Interestingly, the same people who claim Zimmerman was beat down deny that this fellow was beat down.
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Logic fail: a beatdown is a beatdown regardless of the perceived justification of the perpetrator.
Yes but the posters here that still defend Zimmerman departed from reasonableness long ago. Don't be like them in the opposite direction. I often criticize police but I can't bring myself to do it here simply because the video I saw was of cops with professional composure trying to subdue a resisting suspect. It just doesn't seem likely that they would have been unjustifiably beating him before the video starts then transition to reasonable police tactics.
And who are those people? I can't think of anyone.
Martin attempted to administer a beatdown to Zimmerman. It was cut short by a gun.
laughing dog
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Then how was Zimmerman in danger of his life?
You're not required to let the other guy actually inflict serious harm before you defend yourself.
Unless, of course, you're a hoodie wearing, skittle carrying, black teenager.
RavenSky
The Doctor's Wife
bingo!!