Anybody else find it odd that Roof was arrested without incident?

[Damansarajaya]

This is a known mass murder, a terrorist, armed and dangerous.

He's arrested without a mark on him.

Ditto for Timothy McVeigh, Mark Chapman, John Hinckley Jr., the Unabomber, BTK, and Ted Bundy.

Meanwhile we've seen what happens to unarmed blacks: Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Walter Scott, Freddy Gray, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Icarus Randolph, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker . . .

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Not particularly odd

more like yes, will say it, privilege

[Half-Century Man]

2. Another aspect of White Privilege.

White criminals are brought to justice, other-than-white criminals are brought down.

[Damansarajaya]

3. +1 well said! nt

[linuxman]

9. Which explains our overwhelmingly white prison population.

Riiiiiiiiiight...

[Solomon]

18. lol

There's so much denial in your comment I don't know where to start. You take the prize. Stunning!

[linuxman]

19. I suppose a clapping smiley and lack of a coherent response is as good a place as any...

[Rex]

27. LOL! As opposed to your non proof statement to begin with?

Pot meet kettle.

[LeftOfWest]

10. Exactly.

This.

[CBGLuthier]

4. McVeigh is a dumb example. He was initially arrested for having a gun under the seat.

Not for murdering 176 people.

[Damansarajaya]

8. He was arrested for driving without a license plate . . .

then the policeman saw his weapon.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oklahoma-city-bombing-20150419-story.html#page=1

As McVeigh reached into his rear pocket for his driver's license, his windbreaker tightened, and Hanger noticed the bulge of a shoulder holster under his left arm. McVeigh was wearing a loaded Glock pistol and had a 6-inch knife on his belt.

"My gun is loaded," Hanger recalled McVeigh telling him as Hanger grabbed the bulge under the jacket.

"So is mine," the trooper responded, putting his own gun to McVeigh's head before arresting him for unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon. If he hadn't spotted the bulge, he would have let McVeigh go with a ticket.

[cwydro]

16. Don't annoy those with an agenda.

This is stupid.

[Damansarajaya]

43. What's the agenda? nt

[uncle ray]

25. and black people get killed for no crime whatsoever.

[840high]

5. No. He went quietly.

[olddots]

6. the truth is on a roll here tonight

Kick this .

[Skittles]

7. ditto for the DC killers

[Unknown Beatle]

11. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombers,

was found unarmed hiding in a boat and he came under a barrage of police gunfire. He wasn't white either but he was definitely a monster.

[cali]

12. Tsarnaev isn't white?

[Unknown Beatle]

14. Well, I guess being Russian is white.

A white Russian.

I stand corrected.

[Fawke Em]

46. Yeah - but he's Muslim.

That negates the white part.

[malaise]

20. Are you freaking serious

He's as white as the region from whence he came. Indeed whiteness was defined there.

[Igel]

34. Yeah, but if you go back that far you wind up

with Ethiopians and Somalis being defined as "Caucasian". Most S. Asians were also considered "Caucasian," but I'm not sure that most consider M. Ghandi as white as the driven snow. It was based on the S. Caucasus, anyway, Georgians and Azeris. Dear Dzhohar was a northerner.

Of course, we'll ignore the fact that Azeri and Turkish and the bearers are these languages are close cousins. Turks, of course, were not Caucasians. Nor were Hungarians. I guess Hungarians are people of color but Asian Indians are white?

It used to mean something different than just "white." The redefinition happened later, and along the way the Caucasians (those who lived in the Caucasus) were taken as inferior examples of Caucasians (which came to mean, with a few other traits involving hair, skull, and nasal fossa, "white&quot . The original Caucasians were assumed to have been driven out and Caucasian speakers supposedly moved in; Urartu, if I remember correctly, was a possible origin for them. The redefinition partially goes back to Bopp and Grimm and some of attempts to locate the Indo-European Urheimat in the Caucasis on the basis of reconstructed meaning and forms for words like "beech" and "salmon"; some of the redefinition occurred later in the 1800s.

Currently N. Caucasians are considered "dark skinned" or "swarthy" and discriminated against by Russians.

[malaise]

48. I defer to a clearly deeper understanding of the history of

that region

[Marrah_G]

24. He was wicked white....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Betcha FOX "News" would say it's because those guys followed the cop's orders.

[elias7]

15. No

The DC snipers Muhammmed and Malvo might be better comparisons than Tamir Rice et al. If you need to claim white privilege in this matter, sobeit. But you're OP is comparing apples and oranges.

[Lizzie Poppet]

40. Precisely.

But let's not derail the poutrage train with reason, shall we?

[Damansarajaya]

44. Yes, that is true. Were they armed at the time? nt

[cwydro]

17. Didn't work out for

Bonnie and Clyde.

[Skidmore]

21. I find it odder that the smirking young man who was arrested yesterday

is on suicide watch this morning.

[Dorian Gray]

22. Yeah

if he didn't kill himself after the incident or when he was being arrested, he's not going to kill himself now.

I hope he survives to live through the hatred that the nation is going to heap on him. Life in prison. As a pariah. What he deserves.

[Marrah_G]

23. He wants to be a martyr

But yes, police react differently when it's a black person.

[Gothmog]

26. Rachel Maddow had a great story about the North Carolina florist who saw Roof's car

It was a great segment

[progressoid]

28. Sadly, not odd. Standard Operating Procedure in the US.

[Bethany Rockafella]

29. Also that guy down in Texas

That traveled all the way from Utah to Texas looking for his ex wife but the woman's family wouldn't tell where she was so he shot up and murdered the whole family including like 5 kids (one of them survived). He was missing for a bit but they finally surrounded him and they brought him in with not one bullet fired.

[Shamash]

30. Given his racist attitude, I wonder if any of the arresting officers were non-white?

If they were, that would make the "arrested without incident" even more interesting.

[B2G]

31. So now we're upset that cops made a clean arrest?

[cwydro]

33. I know, right?

DU can always find something to be upset about.

[LanternWaste]

38. I think confusing "upset" with "curious" is a sub-literate mistake people sometimes make.

I think confusing "upset" with "curious" is a sub-literate mistake people sometimes make.

[B2G]

39. My literary skills are just fine.

There are plenty of folks who are disappointed the Shelby police didn't beat the everloving crap out of him.

[LanternWaste]

41. As long as one continues to confuse simplistic and easily defined words

As long as one continues to confuse simplistic and easily defined words, the observer is left to wonder if the confusion is merely sincere and stems from a lack of education, of if the confusion is intentional and predicated on no more than melodramatic bias.

[Comrade Grumpy]

47. I bet you think you're smart with the way you try to insult people without getting hides.

But I find it obnoxious.

[Damansarajaya]

45. Of course not. Just pointing out how different races are treated differently. nt

[randome]

32. Many mass killers kill themselves or opt for 'suicide by cop'. This one didn't.

Yes, there is an enormous difference in how police treat white killers and how they treat black suspects. But this isn't automatically another example of that.
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[Taitertots]

35. I find it odd that the police are murdering innocent people

Taking someone into custody while following the law is not "odd".

[Baitball Blogger]

36. No police pre-justice required, since he was white.

[One_Life_To_Give]

37. People like that seem to meet the police in one of two ways

Either going down in a Blaze of Glory like the Texas Univ. sniper Charles Whitman or North Hollywood shootout guys.

or

Arrested very passively with that stupid grin on their face.

[Paladin]

42. I find it odd that he didn't kill himself....

....as is the usual practice for young, white, well-armed, psychotic mass murderers.

I am pleased that he's still alive and able to spew hateful racist invective. I think it will do the country good to see just how bad things have gotten.

[Throd]

49. Not really.

[Nye Bevan]

50. Weren't the Beltway Snipers arrested without incident? (nt)