Running gun violence thread

"No justice, no peace."

Tonight is going to be a bloodbath.

 

He was a good boy. Nobody's an angel.

 

Why am I hoping this was a black cop that shot a white criminal?

 

There are too many rubberneckers there.
Any journalist not there in a professional capacity needs to GTFO.

 

A black sheriff's deputy in Lakewood, CA was brutally beaten by an unarmed man last weekend.

Life altering injuries.

http://ktla.com/2014/08/16/l-a-sheriffs-deputy-in-critical-condition-after-lakewood-mall-attack/

 

Thanks for the link ... sadly, quite a few metro areas around the U.S. are carved up in a similar fashion.

 

Imagine how well that chant would have played in Mississippi and Alabama in the 50s and 60s. The cops wouldn't have used hoses and dogs, they would have been using guns and tanks.

 

Sure, as long as the people don't defend the actions of violent criminals.

 

Probably not as starkly. In any such study, St. Louis always ranks as one of the most segregated areas of America. Detroit, Boston and Milwaukee are consistently up there as well.

 

If they're college students, wouldn't most of them be over the age of 17?

 

Baron's take: Blacks can protest, but only on the white man's terms.

 

Yeah, shame on that Martin Luther King. Wanting his followers to peacefully protest instead of burning down the neighborhood.