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would you guys be alright with blake (if he had a gun) shooting down the white male who charged and tackled him?
i dont really see the difference between this white and michael brown. the white male was plainclothes officer who didn't say who he was (for all blake knew he could've been trying to kill him), and feeling threatened blake should've been able to defend himself by shooting the aggressive white male.
Imagine a white male officer in plain clothes refusing to identify himself, just charges you like a bull while you are texting on a phone outside of a hotel. My question is why couldn't have Blake feared for his life and shot the charging white bull?
(How about if it was an INNOCENT, but shabby looking, thuggish looking black man? Would it be OK with you then? EG: Do rights apply to all people, or not?)
I play tennis. I watch tennis.
No idea who that guy is.
None of this is right. Famous athlete or accountant or janitor.
Just love how the media ratchets up an already terrible, stupid, unacceptable situation with their exaggerations.
They just bumrush and tackle people that buy cellphones with stolen credit cards? How about approaching the guy and asking him for his I.D. first?
Oh yeah...i forgot. The unarmed man looked like a dangerous thug standing outside of an expensive hotel waiting for a taxi service.
But hey, i'm sure they treat all people this way....right?
Well....he's black. He probably is able to run as fast as Usain Bolt or leap tall building like Micheal Jordan....in which case the officers would have feared for their lives, as he fled or bounded away, and would have shot him. I mean, when you put all the statistics on blacks together....look at the Olympics, the NBA....blacks disproportionately running fast and jumping high. Add that to the statistics showing blacks disproportionately committing crimes....and the officers behavior makes PERFECT sense. Hell....he probably saved the the tennis players life, lest he would have had to shoot him for buying a phone with a stolen credit card.....oh...and he probably could fight like Mike Tyson and statistically probably had a low IQ, which mean he probably would have made a bad decision if the officers just walked up to him and asked questions....all of which is rooted in the fact that he was likely one of the 73% of black kids born out of wedlock. If had had not killed someone, YET, it was just a matter of time. The phone was just the beginning. Yeah....yeah....that't the ticket.
I play tennis. I watch tennis.
No idea who that guy is.
None of this is right. Famous athlete or accountant or janitor.
Just love how the media ratchets up an already terrible, stupid, unacceptable situation with their exaggerations.
You sure you watch tennis, Blake was in the US Open in 2003-2006, Australian Open, Olympics, Davis Cup. He left Harvard to play tennis. He had a run in at the US Open where Leyton Hewitt claimed that the black referee was giving Blake an advantage because they were both black, right in the middle of the match. He handled it with class.
Totally class act, this is not going to be a banner moment for NYPD.
How many athletes do you know that were mistakenly wrestled to the ground coming out of a hotel in Manhattan.
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