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Old 07-15-2018, 11:11 AM
 
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The kid looks like Prince.
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Old 07-15-2018, 11:22 AM
 
Location: NJ
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if you see something, say something...unless it is one of the protected groups listed below.


There are many house confined older folks and medically compromised who sit by the window and watch the neighborhood like a hawk as it makes them feel useful and relevant.


To make this a racial incident is race baiting.


the real story is, people who still get newspapers????????????? aside from those with parakeets who use the paper to line the cages or housebreak puppies.
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Old 07-15-2018, 12:46 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Some people have too much time on their hands and too little sense. I got the police called on me while I was watering new sod.
I gather that you didn't run to the media and try to make something racist out of it though. Makes me wonder just how sad and pathetic a "news" station has to be to try to make a story out of this. Let alone a washed up talking head trying to make a name for himself.

CNN, a national embarrassment.

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Old 07-15-2018, 12:52 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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But as to him picking up the papers -- why didn't the grown up who called the police not approach the child and ask what he was doing.
A few possibilities:

1) They were afraid of being accused of being a racist if they asked a black kid what he was doing.

2) They were afraid the kid would pull a Travon on them and assault them if they asked.

3) They have been told that they should not get involved and just let the police do their jobs.
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Old 07-15-2018, 01:34 PM
 
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Of course you surprised, the ignorance of Europeans about America knows no limits.
That's not ignorance, that's reality and the U.S. You'll just have to understand why no one is surprised when a kid does get shot:

https://japantoday.com/category/feat...ed-20-years-on

The ignorance of some Americans as it applies to their well earned image abroad knows no limits.
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Old 07-15-2018, 01:36 PM
 
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]if you see something, say something...unless it is one of the protected groups listed below.
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There are many house confined older folks and medically compromised who sit by the window and watch the neighborhood like a hawk as it makes them feel useful and relevant.


To make this a racial incident is race baiting.


the real story is, people who still get newspapers????????????? aside from those with parakeets who use the paper to line the cages or housebreak puppies.
Yeah because in the USA nothing says terrorism like a young child with a newspaper bag picking up newspapers.

Get on that!
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Old 07-15-2018, 01:43 PM
 
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Paper boys don't normally take newspapers off your porch. It was obviously suspicious and unsurprising that someone called the police. I'd love to meet (and laugh at) the goofball CNN media guy that decided this story supports the current calling-the-police-while-white narrative.
Unsurprising to call the cops for someone taking newspapers? Really? In what world do you live in that that type of situation warrants calling the cops? That is beyond paranoid & a complete waste of time & money. Give me a break.
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Old 07-15-2018, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Stasis
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Unsurprising to call the cops for someone taking newspapers? Really? In what world do you live in that that type of situation warrants calling the cops? That is beyond paranoid & a complete waste of time & money. Give me a break.
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Yeah because in the USA nothing says terrorism like a young child with a newspaper bag picking up newspapers.
Get on that!
He didn't have a newspaper bag. He was in a car, jumping out and running to front doors to take stuff off porches. There was a legitimate concern that he was a porch pirate stealing deliveries.
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Old 07-15-2018, 01:49 PM
 
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A few possibilities:

1) They were afraid of being accused of being a racist if they asked a black kid what he was doing.

2) They were afraid the kid would pull a Travon on them and assault them if they asked.

3) They have been told that they should not get involved and just let the police do their jobs.
A grown up that hasn't figured out how to be kind and engage in a conversation with someone is someone who is paranoid, uninformed and biased.

Hey there son, how are you?

I see you picking up the newspaper -- is there a problem?

No -- oh good -- Nice to talk to you today.

Nobody would call anybody racist for that.

An 11 year old child -- assault them -- ugh
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Old 07-15-2018, 02:47 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Some people have too much time on their hands and too little sense. I got the police called on me while I was watering new sod.
Were you using a hose?
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