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Originally Posted by PaulS
Damn right Spence - your missing the big picture. They shouldn't have been walking while black w/o id, or sitting in their air conditioned car on a hot day, or had been a landlord on his property when the police pulled up looking for some one else, or they shouldn't have been around when the town needed the police to up the amount of fines bc they viewed fines as a money maker or they shouldn't have been driving while black bc they should have known they would be 2x as likely to be pulled over even though searches of white drivers where more likely to have illegal things. And all the cases of white people getting tickets dismissed was just a coincidence.
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I thought I was clear, that force needs an overhaul.
But that's not what people were protesting against (maybe you witnessed different protests than the ones I saw). They were protesting one specific encounter between one specific officer and one specific citizen. All those demonstrations (including on the floor of the US Congress), all the idiots holding their hands in the air, despite the fact that the evidence shows that never happened.
You want to protest a general pervasive racism in the dept? That's justifiable, based on what we now know. But that's not what the nuts were protesting, they were protesting Darrel Wilson, and they went bonkers when he got acquitted. And none of them can admit they were wrong.