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In reply to the discussion: My nephew is a 29 year cop said this about Ferguson. [View all]uppityperson
(115,677 posts)59. You call Trayvon Martin an alpha male douchebag? Gotcha. And bull.
From the quickly accessed and sourced wiki, sounds like a decent teen with teen issues, not an alpha male d-bag you claim he was.
When Martin was nine years old, he saved his father's life by pulling his father, who had been immobilized by burns to the legs, out of a fire in their apartment
Martin had wanted to fly or fix planes and in the summer of 2009, enrolled in "Experience Aviation," a seven-week program in Opa-locka, Florida, which introduced him to aviation. During the time Martin was enrolled in the program, it was run by Barrington Irving, the youngest person ever to fly solo around the world. Irving said Martin was a polite youth who enjoyed flying and had an interest in football. After Martin graduated from the program, he spent the next summer as a volunteer, helping out new students in the aviation program. According to his parents, Martin had hoped to attend the University of Miami or Florida A&M University.
When Martin started high school, his goal of playing professional football was put aside in favor of a career working with airplanes.[21] Martin attended Carol City High School in Miami Gardens for his freshman year and most of his sophomore year, before he transferred to Krop High School in north Miami-Dade in 2011. While in his first year at Carol City, Martin attended classes in the mornings at the high school and then went to George T. Baker Aviation School for the rest of his school day. Martin's ninth grade teacher, who taught him three classes of Aerospace Technology at the Baker Aviation School, said he was a normal student, well-behaved and passed all the classes. According to another teacher at Carol City, math was his favorite subject, and she said she never saw Martin show disrespect. Some students at Carol City, compared Martin's death to that of Emmett Till, one of the nation's most infamous civil rights cases.
At the time of the shooting, he was serving a ten-day suspension for having a marijuana pipe and an empty bag containing marijuana residue. He had been suspended twice before; for tardiness and truancy and marking up a door with graffiti.
Martin was not charged with any crime related to these suspensions and did not have a juvenile record.
Martin had wanted to fly or fix planes and in the summer of 2009, enrolled in "Experience Aviation," a seven-week program in Opa-locka, Florida, which introduced him to aviation. During the time Martin was enrolled in the program, it was run by Barrington Irving, the youngest person ever to fly solo around the world. Irving said Martin was a polite youth who enjoyed flying and had an interest in football. After Martin graduated from the program, he spent the next summer as a volunteer, helping out new students in the aviation program. According to his parents, Martin had hoped to attend the University of Miami or Florida A&M University.
When Martin started high school, his goal of playing professional football was put aside in favor of a career working with airplanes.[21] Martin attended Carol City High School in Miami Gardens for his freshman year and most of his sophomore year, before he transferred to Krop High School in north Miami-Dade in 2011. While in his first year at Carol City, Martin attended classes in the mornings at the high school and then went to George T. Baker Aviation School for the rest of his school day. Martin's ninth grade teacher, who taught him three classes of Aerospace Technology at the Baker Aviation School, said he was a normal student, well-behaved and passed all the classes. According to another teacher at Carol City, math was his favorite subject, and she said she never saw Martin show disrespect. Some students at Carol City, compared Martin's death to that of Emmett Till, one of the nation's most infamous civil rights cases.
At the time of the shooting, he was serving a ten-day suspension for having a marijuana pipe and an empty bag containing marijuana residue. He had been suspended twice before; for tardiness and truancy and marking up a door with graffiti.
Martin was not charged with any crime related to these suspensions and did not have a juvenile record.
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Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown are "d-bags"? Do you think Zimmerman was ok in shooting
uppityperson
Nov 2014
#55
What is this with rw'er a and their obsession with alpha. Really says something not
seabeyond
Dec 2014
#76
there are cops in my family and prison guards and I am one semester away from a bachelors
roguevalley
Nov 2014
#30
I've wondered off and on whether the gloating boast of that shitstain Ancuna
KingCharlemagne
Nov 2014
#70
I recommended a previous thread of yours where you said Wilson is guilty of bad police work.
John1956PA
Nov 2014
#11
it's actually very relevant that he can't tell if the confrontation was necessarily racial,
MisterP
Nov 2014
#12
Doctors are mot sued for making "stupid" choices, however, they may be liable for "negligence."
branford
Nov 2014
#21
Johnnie Cochran made his name and got rich over the repeated negligence of the LAPD
kwassa
Nov 2014
#67
I certainly understand the frustration, particularly in a case like the Brown shooting.
branford
Nov 2014
#25
"5- If all of this was in accordance to Wilson's training, an idiot trained him." I've read in this
Cal33
Nov 2014
#22
No disrespect to the nephew but he is demonstrating what must be baseline wisdom for the position.
TheKentuckian
Nov 2014
#33
Great post. I think my FIL - 25+ years in law enforcement, 23 more in military - would say similar.
Hoyt
Nov 2014
#31
Like the King beating. Even if every word the cops said initially was true, it should have
brewens
Nov 2014
#39
I remember my dad, a cop for 30 years, being disgusted and horrified by what those LAPD cops did to
catbyte
Nov 2014
#40
The right wing yahoos seem to think Wilson was required by law to chase and stop him.
Hoyt
Nov 2014
#44
Your nephew sounds like a decent human being and competent law enforcement officer,
Enthusiast
Nov 2014
#46
Plausible interpretation. A cowardly scumbag starting shit instead of defusing it.
True Blue Door
Nov 2014
#49
This is why I support hugely increasing cop pay and hiring fewer of them.
True Blue Door
Nov 2014
#60
Agree, I do not understand why Wilson and others can't just walk away. Grow up already I say!
OrwellwasRight
Dec 2014
#103
Your nephew sounds like a police officer with lots of commone sense and good training
TxVietVet
Dec 2014
#86