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Old 05-02-2015, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Ft. Myers
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So & 3 of them were white. So what's the point? They all deserve punishment.

The point (in case we need to explain it to you ) is that everyone was assuming this was a case of white cops beating the hell out of a black man. Now it comes out that half the accused are of the same race as Grey. That kinda takes away the racist part of the story, now it just becomes a matter of if they did something wrong period.

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Old 05-02-2015, 07:27 AM
 
Location: Southwest Michigan/Miami Beach Miami
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The same conservatives who mention that three cops are black are the same conservatives who think racism ended in 2008 when Pres. Obama was elected to the White House.

I don't see why race even matters...
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Old 05-02-2015, 07:27 AM
 
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The same conservatives who mention that three cops are black are the same conservatives who think racism ended in 2008 when Pres. Obama was elected to the White House.
I respect and appreciate ALL cops. All I look at is the uniform because to me they represent the law that protects my family and me.
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Old 05-02-2015, 07:28 AM
 
Location: Southwest Michigan/Miami Beach Miami
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The point (in case we need to explain it to you ) is that everyone was assuming this was a case of white cops beating the hell out of a black man. Now it comes out that half the accused are of the same race as Grey. That kinda takes away the racist part of the story, now it just becomes a matter of if they did something wrong period.

Don
In the VIDEO you can clearly see one of the cops were black.

Not that RACE should matter anyway...

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Old 05-02-2015, 07:29 AM
 
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Back in the days of slavery, black overseers whipped black slaves just as eagerly as white overseers, that didn't change the racist nature of the enterprise.
That IS an insult right there comparing free Americans who happen to be "Black" to ANY reference to slavery!
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Old 05-02-2015, 07:30 AM
 
Location: DFW
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The same conservatives who mention that three cops are black are the same conservatives who think racism ended in 2008 when Pres. Obama was elected to the White House.
No, most of us know that since 2008 one of the biggest racist in the US was elected to be President.

He has done more to promote Racial division than any previous President or American leader in the last 100 years.
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Old 05-02-2015, 07:34 AM
 
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They have a right to be trialed, but isn't the video enough of evidence?
Freddy Gray was a known heroin dealer, have you considered the possibility he may have swallowed his dope? These are the types of things that need to be considered and will come out in trial.
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Old 05-02-2015, 07:34 AM
 
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I respect and appreciate ALL cops. All I look at is the uniform because to me they represent the law that protects my family and me.
Yep. I completely agree. Cops put themselves in harms way every day to protect the rest of us. God bless them and their families.
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Old 05-02-2015, 07:34 AM
 
Location: Steeler Nation
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The driver was a black officer. He is the one that murdered Gray. He took him on a tour of pain through Baltimore streets.
That is not what the other guy in the van said, he said they went strait to the police station.
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Old 05-02-2015, 07:36 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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I don't see why race even matters...
You're right, it doesn't! This is about police brutality, and seeing as that 3 of the 6 charged are black, it shows that the problem is endemic in police departments across the country.
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