Quote:I can't see it any other way. Dude has his hands in the air, three shots were fired, apparently, and he was laying on his back.


are you saying that there isn't some bias that came into play based on the poor guy being black?

 

Do you know for certain that 3 shots were fired?  Just because that's what CNN reported doesn't make it so.  I tend to believe the local report from the Miami news station more.  I happen to think that it had nothing to do with race.  It was probably a cop that was too jumpy and nervous given the recent attacks on law enforcement.  He had his finger on the trigger when he shouldn't have.

 

However, I do understand that your ilk has to jump to conclusions and immediately call it a racial incident.  Based on what we know there is nothing that indicates or proves that it was a racial incident. 

 

 

Quote:I don't know what happened. That's why I'm confused. I've seen nothing clear cut that says he pulled the trigger three times. All I've seen is that he was holding a rifle (many police rifles are full automatic), three shots were fired and a man was hit in the leg. There's no video showing him aiming the rifle or intentionally pulling the trigger. There are legitimate hard questions to be answered, and those answers will lead to more questions that may eventually indicate that this was a blatant abuse of power/attempted murder by a pig in a blue shirt, but it's just so weird and so little is known at this point that I'm genuinely confused. I'm really feeling like this was a completely preventable accident on the part of a miserable excuse for a cop.

 

Wait a second... TJ is actually thinking and waiting for the actual facts to come out?  There might be hope for you yet.   :thumbsup:

 

By the way, many police rifles are not full automatic.  In fact, very few are used and only used by members of their special units (SWAT).

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