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You must get a lot of exercise what with all that rushing to judgment and jumping to conclusions. Evidence has yet to be released and trials have yet to occur. Why, you're running so fast to condemn you've gotten ahead of yourself.
You must get a lot of exercise what with all that rushing to judgment and jumping to conclusions. Evidence has yet to be released and trials have yet to occur. Why, you're running so fast to condemn you've gotten ahead of yourself.
Maybe you're just not moving fast enough to keep up.
Lots of folks here don't have a problem with cops shooting thugs.
I got a big problem with cops going on a killing spree and totally discarding legal due process and taking it upon themselves to act as judge/jury/executioners to any given demographic they dont particularly like,in this case a group of bikers,thugs some of them may be they still dont deserve to be hunted down by a group of heavily armed vigilantes who may have very well set up the whole event to achieve precisely the outcome that occurred.
Looks like the truth is finally coming out. Two to three shots fired by bikers and everyone mowed down by SWAT. And underneath it all, as usual, was an undercover cop pushing for the confrontation.
The longer the police suppress the surveillance video from the restaurant next door, the longer they withhold autopsy and ballistic reports, the worse this is looking for law enforcement. You couldn't pay me enough to be a cop anywhere right now let alone one in Texas.
So you're making the assumption that because they ride motorcycles and were involved in some kind of mysterious altercation with police - they're thugs and their deaths were justified?
....and you're OK with the facty that all external evidence is apparently being suppressed?
Perhaps you have access to different information than we've seen here.
Right or wrong, people do not have a lot of respect for biker gangs such as the Bandidos or Cossacks. They've had bad reputations for decades. Biker gang members have been responsible for horrible rapes and murders over the years. This makes an impression on people.
LE insists biker gangs are made up of career criminals and make money from illegal enterprises. Then there were those bikers who beat up the SUV guy in NYC. Are they all thugs? Probably not, but they are not looked upon as model citizens.
If it were a group of black teens, the comments in the forum would be along the stereotyped lines of: they are thugs and gangstas....If they were on their way to the library or to study, they wouldn't have had a run-in with the police...If they were behaving themselves like good members of society, the police wouldn't have been involved, etc., etc., ad nauseum. This is the problem with stereotypes--assumptions are made.
So if these bikers were just out for a pleasant Sunday meal with friends, why did the police show up? Why were people stabbed? Cops don't carry knives. Most law abiding members of society are not going to protest in the streets that bikers are having their rights infringed upon. It is simply not going to happen.
Unfortunately, due to their history and their often violent and illegal activities of the 60s and 70s, biker gangs have themselves a lasting reputation as outlaws, i.e., thugs (which they definitely have been in the past). Huge brawls involving weapons do not really help to transform the negative impression society has of them.
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