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elias7

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15. No

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 05:06 AM

Jun 2015

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.

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Anybody else find it odd that Roof was arrested without incident? [View all] Damansarajaya Jun 2015 OP

Not particularly odd nadinbrzezinski Jun 2015 #1

Another aspect of White Privilege. Half-Century Man Jun 2015 #2

+1 well said! nt Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #3

Which explains our overwhelmingly white prison population. linuxman Jun 2015 #9

lol Solomon Jun 2015 #18

I suppose a clapping smiley and lack of a coherent response is as good a place as any... linuxman Jun 2015 #19

LOL! As opposed to your non proof statement to begin with? Rex Jun 2015 #27

Exactly. LeftOfWest Jun 2015 #10

McVeigh is a dumb example. He was initially arrested for having a gun under the seat. CBGLuthier Jun 2015 #4

He was arrested for driving without a license plate . . . Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #8

Don't annoy those with an agenda. cwydro Jun 2015 #16

What's the agenda? nt Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #43

and black people get killed for no crime whatsoever. uncle ray Jun 2015 #25

No. He went quietly. 840high Jun 2015 #5

the truth is on a roll here tonight olddots Jun 2015 #6

ditto for the DC killers Skittles Jun 2015 #7

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombers, Unknown Beatle Jun 2015 #11

Tsarnaev isn't white? cali Jun 2015 #12

Well, I guess being Russian is white. Unknown Beatle Jun 2015 #14

Yeah - but he's Muslim. Fawke Em Jun 2015 #46

Are you freaking serious malaise Jun 2015 #20

Yeah, but if you go back that far you wind up Igel Jun 2015 #34

I defer to a clearly deeper understanding of the history of malaise Jun 2015 #48

He was wicked white.... Marrah_G Jun 2015 #24

Betcha FOX "News" would say it's because those guys followed the cop's orders. Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #13

No elias7 Jun 2015 #15

Precisely. Lizzie Poppet Jun 2015 #40

Yes, that is true. Were they armed at the time? nt Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #44

Didn't work out for cwydro Jun 2015 #17

I find it odder that the smirking young man who was arrested yesterday Skidmore Jun 2015 #21

Yeah Dorian Gray Jun 2015 #22

He wants to be a martyr Marrah_G Jun 2015 #23

Rachel Maddow had a great story about the North Carolina florist who saw Roof's car Gothmog Jun 2015 #26

Sadly, not odd. Standard Operating Procedure in the US. progressoid Jun 2015 #28

Also that guy down in Texas Bethany Rockafella Jun 2015 #29

Given his racist attitude, I wonder if any of the arresting officers were non-white? Shamash Jun 2015 #30

So now we're upset that cops made a clean arrest? B2G Jun 2015 #31

I know, right? cwydro Jun 2015 #33

I think confusing "upset" with "curious" is a sub-literate mistake people sometimes make. LanternWaste Jun 2015 #38

My literary skills are just fine. B2G Jun 2015 #39

As long as one continues to confuse simplistic and easily defined words LanternWaste Jun 2015 #41

I bet you think you're smart with the way you try to insult people without getting hides. Comrade Grumpy Jun 2015 #47

Of course not. Just pointing out how different races are treated differently. nt Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #45

Many mass killers kill themselves or opt for 'suicide by cop'. This one didn't. randome Jun 2015 #32

I find it odd that the police are murdering innocent people Taitertots Jun 2015 #35

No police pre-justice required, since he was white. Baitball Blogger Jun 2015 #36

People like that seem to meet the police in one of two ways One_Life_To_Give Jun 2015 #37

I find it odd that he didn't kill himself.... Paladin Jun 2015 #42

Not really. Throd Jun 2015 #49

Weren't the Beltway Snipers arrested without incident? (nt) Nye Bevan Jun 2015 #50