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Old 12-05-2014, 01:51 PM
 
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I'm sorry, but from everything I've read it seems to me like what happened in NYC was a tragic accident---not that the cop intentionally wanted to kill that man either because he was on a power-trip or hated African-Americans. The "chokehold" was idiotic to have done, but it wouldn't have resulted in death for 99.9999% of the U.S. population. Disrupting the daily lives of millions of Americans to protest "racist cops" seems counter-productive to me since people like me start hating the protesters instead of hating the cops.

It's always interesting to watch the majority tell the minority how they should perceive and air grievances. How do you feel about straight people who don't understand your life telling you what you're allowed to want to change, and how you should express it?
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Old 12-05-2014, 01:53 PM
 
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The fact that anyone thinks a simple crime of theft and/or assault equals an automatic death sentence without a jury is the most un-American thing I can think of.



You mean a grand jury who is setup to never indict any police officer in homicide in any scenario?

The game is rigged, yet people still refuse to believe that.
In fact if these people were not 1) criminals and 2) did not resist arrest they would both be alive. I am glad the police are there to protect me and the rest of the law abiding citizens.
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Old 12-05-2014, 01:54 PM
 
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So those here who agree with the protest will be attending at Ross Park Mall to help promote their belief in it?
That would require doing something more the typing words, so....
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Old 12-05-2014, 01:55 PM
 
Location: Mexican War Streets
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I'm sorry, but from everything I've read it seems to me like what happened in NYC was a tragic accident---not that the cop intentionally wanted to kill that man either because he was on a power-trip or hated African-Americans.
That's what charges like negligent homicide are for. You didn't mean to kill somebody but they died because you acted stupidly. To describe this instance as an "accident" removes all meaning from the term free will

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The "chokehold" was idiotic, against department policy and NY law to have done
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but it wouldn't have resulted in death for 99.9999% of the U.S. population.
I was unaware that, in your spare time from your happily working 12 job and "not complaining" about things you somehow managed to become a medical examiner with a sub specialty in statistics. Please link to a single shread of evidence that supports this original and inflammatory hypothesis.

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Disrupting the daily lives of millions of Americans to protest "racist cops" seems counter-productive to me since people like me start hating the protesters instead of hating the cops.
Right...it's counter productive. Let the majority continue on blissfully unaware and don't bother them. Just bury your grievances with society and take them. Your voices are disruptive.

We should protest really important police practices like ticketing delivery vehicles, right? Or maybe you should just take it, sit down and shut up.
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Old 12-05-2014, 01:55 PM
 
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It's always interesting to watch the majority tell the minority how they should perceive and air grievances. How do you feel about straight people who don't understand your life telling you what you're allowed to want to change, and how you should express it?
Protest all you want in a public space but do not interrupt those of us who are patronizing a private business on private property.
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Old 12-05-2014, 01:57 PM
 
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Protest all you want in a public space but do not interrupt those of us who are patronizing a private business on private property.
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Old 12-05-2014, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Mexican War Streets
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That would require doing something more the typing words, so....
I don't generally go to the suburbs but was outside the August Wilson center last night.
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Old 12-05-2014, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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One of my drivers was delayed the other evening due to the protesters shutting down Fifth Avenue in Oakland. We don't receive an hourly wage. We're paid by the order. This delay caused him to do one fewer order than he otherwise would have done, and he took a hit to the pocketbook so some "activists" could revolt against the police. Are the protesters going to band together to donate money to him for the income they cost him?
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Old 12-05-2014, 01:57 PM
 
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Some of the people supporting the protesters have no idea what some of the police have to deal with on a day to day basis.
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Old 12-05-2014, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Mexican War Streets
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Protest all you want in a public space but do not interrupt those of us who are patronizing a private business on private property.
Corporations are people my friend with all the Constitutional rights and responsibilities. The Ross Park mall is the modern day suburban equivalent of a town square...to me it's a very logical place for a protest.
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