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Nice Planet 5: Insert Catchy Title Here

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DrDemento said:
And the excuses start immediately-head trauma, mental illness, etc etc. I suspect they will claim he was a good boy who wanted to become a marine or a police officer or perhaps a pediatrician.:rolleyes: No, it was the gun's fault!
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Head trauma, eh? That sounds like a good idea. Somebody get a nine iron and beat that punk's brains out.
 
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Priceless said:
How is that like Trayvon Martin?
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Has little to do with Trayvon Martin, but the media will treat it as such.

EDIT: Looking back, I guess my original language could be misconstrued. I meant to reflect upon the sad state of the media looking for any story they can fluff up. It's a tragedy that this apparently trigger-happy cop has needlessly killed someone, and I'd feel that way regardless of the victim's skin color.
 
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Priceless said:
How is that like Trayvon Martin?
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It's not, for reasons FTB&G elaborated upon. That said, that article is light on the details (and perhaps the police report is, as well), so we don't know if maybe there are some elements to the woman hitting a panic alarm and calling the cops that should be raising our eyebrows. We also don't know if the cops' claim that he was "charging" at them is something that warrants a second look.

One bright side- if you can call it that- is that one of the cops involved has been charged with voluntary manslaughter and the local PD has at least acknowledged in statements that excessive force was used (not like you could get any more excessive than killing a guy, but still). While I won't hold my breath on there being any actual justice served in this case (and again, what justice should be due here might depend on more details that aren't in that news story), we are seeing a lot more motions being gone through than there normally are in Cops-Shoot-An-Unarmed-Man cases.
 
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Handyman said:
If Social Media did one thing, it showed us how many truly deplorable people exist all over this country and how stupid the average nimrod is these days.
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Go read the comments on your average article on CNN.

Then realize that these people are your doctors and your lawyers and your engineers and your teachers and your construction workers and all the other people that make modern society run.

Then weep.
 
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