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Toni
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You mean Rhea's math? Because she actually engages in some discussion of distances, speeds, acceleration. With some actual authority deriving from her actual experience. Unlike...well, you who appears to be link challenged.
Look, you have a loooooooooooooooooooong history of making statements without backing them up and then getting all pissy and/or absent if someone actually asks you to provide a link. Somehow, that's beneath you. Here's the thing: you are not god. You are not even particularly well informed. And considering the opinions of most of the folks around here about supreme beings, you maybe should just take a different tact and explain yourself. Maybe document your claims. Or qualify them with statements such as: It seem to me.... or In my opinion.
fast
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It's not the sort of society I want. I appoligize for I how I sounded. I just have this idea that if racism isn't the true underlying cause of disproportionate statistics regarding certain racially referenced statistics, certain people would prefer non-disproportionate statistics even if it meant ... .
I shouldn't post when moody. My bad.
Derec
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It shows quite clearly that being "unarmed" doesn't mean you do not pose a threat. Yet that has been the claim in cases like Michael Brown's. Had this cop shot the perp before the perp gained control of the cop's gun I am there would be those on here calling it a "murder".
Police are never going to be trusted by criminals.
Crazy Eddie
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There's no "math" to rebut. Runburgundy pulled a stack of very specific figures out of his ass and didn't bother supporting them with anything, thus you finding them to be credible is somewhat revealing.
On the other hand, I've already shown that the car had not moved yet when Tensing pulled his gun.
You're entitled to your opinion, LP, but not to your own facts.
I rebutted your math.
Sigh.
Running backwards in the same line as the movement of the car. His camera points into the car, and at times angles backwards to the driver as it would from someone standing forward, such as at the mirror (not exactly, but in the direction.) So by "backwards, I meant facing rearward, toward the driver, running backwards alonside the car to keep the camera pointed toward the drivers face/
All the animals I've killed (mostly woodchucks, chickens and rabbits) seem to do it quite a lot. I don't know the physiological mechanism.
The relevant characteristic would be "a person who is black" When you write "a black" it has a different meaning. Which you know. And if you really didn't before, you do now.
laughing dog
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No, the claim is being unarmed is not an automatic deadly threat.
There are always people who say stuff. Just like if the police officer had just pulled out his firearm at the stop and executed the driver, there would be people justifying the shoot because black men are scary or that a police officer was scared.
I realize this is a difficult concept for some people, but most people are not criminals, most protesters are not criminals, and most black people are not criminals. The problem for the police is that a growing proportion of the regular citizenry does not trust them as much or at all.
I think it comes down to the criminals.
Repeating yourself does nothing about rebutting the point.
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A society in which it's proper for people to attack law enforcement is a society without meaningful law enforcement. Somalia.
It wasn't my math. And you called it wrong without correcting it.
"Sigh" is your response to being caught arguing a point that makes no sense??
It makes no more sense this way.
Of course the body relaxes. That's not going to push the gas, though--one's heel is usually on the floor of the car, the only available weight to apply pressure is from the foot itself and most of that is downward through the heel on the floor of the car. You might get a small effect, you won't get a stomp on the gas. That takes the muscles actually pressing down.
No. I'm saying he's being defended because he is black. His race is not incidental to the issue, it's the important issue. Hence "a black", not "a person who is black."
laughing dog
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I didn't repeat myself. I repeated what you said, just in case anyone missed that nugget of bias.
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Duh, she is dealing with your counterfactual realities.
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In what way do US criminals differ so significantly from criminals everywhere else in the world?
The only difference I can see that seems plausible is the relative ease of access to firearms in the US. Perhaps the solution to all this shit is sane gun control laws?
Derec
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He certainly made a major blunder in reaching into the car but I don't see how he wasn't being dragged at that point. He fired before he was dragged far but you're not required to actually be seriously harmed before acting in self defense.
Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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Loren, even his lawyer admitted he only thought he was being dragged.
laughing dog
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Save your effort - facts mean nothing to LP when it comes to defending the police.
The car was moving. I don't see how it is only "thought". He wasn't dragged far but that's not the same as not being dragged.
Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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The video doesn't show that and it is not a logical conclusion and his lawyer doesn't even say that. Can't you be objective??
