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In reply to the discussion: Add "Being Naked While Black" to the list: "Being Naked Doesn't Remove the Threat" [View all]tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)83. I don't know what caused the victim's behavior
It sounds a lot like PCP but that's irrelevant. The man was naked and unarmed. The cop is a racist wuss if he felt that a naked black man could actually kill him. When all you have is a hammer everything is a nail.
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EffieBlack
May 2018
OP
The man was likely mentally ill and posed no threat-especially to a trained law enforcement officer
EffieBlack
May 2018
#3
No, it's a perfectly valid question, you just choose to ignore it because it's uncomfortable.
X_Digger
May 2018
#15
Or maybe it really is a leading question, designed with its own inherent narrative.
LanternWaste
May 2018
#16
Especially when they popped into the thread to attack someone for not answering someone else's
EffieBlack
May 2018
#40
So you'd take a beating, potentially letting a disturbed individual get your gun? Okay..
X_Digger
May 2018
#38
There's that false dichotomy again. There are more possibilities than shoot or take a beating while
uppityperson
May 2018
#84
If a cop is so poorly trained (or just stupid) that he can't engage in the first levels of subduing
EffieBlack
May 2018
#86
Good thing there wasn't a cop on the scene, from recent events the officer probably would....
George II
May 2018
#52
Says a person who jumped in the thread to demand to know why I didn't answer someone else's question
EffieBlack
May 2018
#39
I answered your question. Care to respond? Or do you and your wingman just want to keep playing dumb
EffieBlack
May 2018
#46
You agree with everything the person posted there? Not from where I stand, you dont.
Eliot Rosewater
May 2018
#77
In my personal experience if you don't have a gun you've got nothing to worry about.
hunter
May 2018
#59
Only white people who massacre lots of people get the Burger King treatment ...
EffieBlack
May 2018
#33
What we KNOW is if that was a black man in America he would be dead now.
Eliot Rosewater
May 2018
#79
My whole point is that unarmed people kill twice as many people as ALL rifles..
EX500rider
May 2018
#60
How many armed, trained POLICE OFFICERS are killed by unarmed people vs. armed people
EffieBlack
May 2018
#62
So something that is not designed to kill people kills more people then something that is..
EX500rider
May 2018
#94
Actually homicide rates and gun control laws and gun ownership rates are not very connected.
EX500rider
May 2018
#101
That also means that, when confronted with a toddler, police should just shoot them
EffieBlack
May 2018
#68