In jest, Ben Carson tells the whole truth about police shootings, then quickly backs off of it

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/01/1426652/-In-jest-Ben-Carson-tells-the-whole-truth-about-police-shootings-then-quickly-backs-off-of-it

On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson reflected on his youth. Remembering when he and his friends would be chased by police for mischief, he said, "That was back in the day before they would shoot you."

There was laughter from the almost exclusively white crowd. Carson, perhaps sensing that he went too far, then immediately backed off of the statement and said, "I'm just kidding, you know they wouldn't do that."

Except that is exactly what police do nowadays. They shoot and kill young black men and women in instances where lethal force was absolutely preposterous.

Rekia Boyd, Tamir Rice, Kendrec McDade, and hundreds of other completely unarmed African Americans have been shot and killed by American police in the years since they playfully chased Ben Carson and his buddies.

[Generic Other]

1. Are we sure he didn't just steal some other guy's identity?

Because he does not seem smart or competent for a so-called doctor. Did he have a traumatic brain injury that forced him to give up practicing medicine?

[Downwinder]

2. Neurosurgeons are an odd lot.

[Ken Burch]

3. Indeed.

I mean, ask yourself this...

would you want ANY of the characters on GRAY'S ANATOMY to become president?

[Octafish]

4. GOP hypocrisy at its worst.

A guy smart enough for neurosurgery who isn't willing to defend injustice because there's no money in it will go far.

[Recursion]

5. Umm... I'm pretty sure cops shot unarmed black people back then too

Probably more often than they do now, it's just people didn't have camera phones at the time.

[Number23]

6. That's the first thought that went through my head. They were shooting black folks for nothing

and framing them back then too. Even worse than it is today.

I do not understand anything about this man.

[Recursion]

7. Right, and you can't tell me he doesn't know that too

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That's what makes this even worse.