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⌈ Secret Post #2782 ⌋

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This thread is about the opposite-about people claiming the victim was 100 percent innocent and a pillar of the community, when he was anything but. No one ever talks about the black teenagers who murdered that Australian athlete for fun, or the black teens who beat a world war II vet to death in an attempted robbery, or the two black teens who shot a toddler in the head at point black range after the mother claimed she had no money.

There is a problem in America, and it goes both ways.

Uh, what? That news story about how that Australian that was murdered was front page fucking news. It was talked about a lot.

nayrt, but I've never heard of it. I'm Canadian, so maybe that one didn't get that far up the radar - but we have had extensive coverage of this current shooting and the Trayvon case.

hold on now, this one happened a lot closer. I can't think the australian news is covering this the same way we are, and at the same time I bet that other story got a lot more time down there.

Because those things - while awful - are not quite the same as the police, who are supposed to protect us and look after our interests, who we entrust with weapons and the ability to use violence to enforce the law, (apparently) murdering a kid. The problem of police violence and state violence against anyone, but especially against the poor and people of color, is a different problem from the problem of violence in society generally. And so people react to it differently. And, Jesus, how's any of that stuff relevant now? Is there any amount of that stuff that could possibly justify a cop shooting an unarmed teenager, assuming that is in fact what happened?

And there's plenty of posts in this thread (by I don't know how many posters) arguing that the kid was a terrifying menace and that he must have attacked the cop and that we can't trust any testimony but that of the cops. I don't think those claims are broadly supportable - the most we can say is that we don't know. But even if they were somehow valid, that still wouldn't justify the intense and frightening overreaction of the police department to the broader situation, which is another part of the issue of state violence.

Thank you. +1

If (and I stress if) he really did go for the cops gun, I'd say it is justified shooting him. unless he has indeed surrendered and got on the ground.

Just criminals killing criminals in the Australian case.

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