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In reply to the discussion: Singer at Police Officer benefit compares Michael Brown to a dog and King Kong in racist song [View all]MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)62. "Racially charged shooting"
It's a "racially charged shooting" not because any evidence in the case indicates that, or because any history of the individuals involved indicates that, but solely because people are calling it such.
If I say enough times that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, then it must be so, even if there is zero evidence supporting that assertion. Right?
Yet another completely unjustified police murder of a private citizen? Absolutely. But there is ZERO evidence that the shooting was racially charged except for the fact that the 2 main individuals involved had different skin hues.
Have we really now decided that in any case, the fact that people of different races were involved is the sole determiner of whether race played a role?
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Singer at Police Officer benefit compares Michael Brown to a dog and King Kong in racist song [View all]
951-Riverside
Dec 2014
OP
He's a private investigator and former Federal investigator who also writes "funny" parody songs....
marble falls
Dec 2014
#54
And all the good cops? Everyone keeps telling us there are so many good cops?
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#60
A song about a racially charged shooting of a black by a white cop, one of many, many, many isn't...
marble falls
Dec 2014
#57
Its a racually charged shooting because it is one of many. This didn't happen in a vacuum. Black....
marble falls
Dec 2014
#67
DING DING DING DING, and you are the only one I think who pointed this out, I was dying to
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#51