re:dream wrote:I find this whole discussion a bit hard to fathom.
A black unarmed man is shot by a cop in a racially divided town.
Instead of testing the case against the man in court, the justice system decides to drop charges.
Thousands of people protest - and though there are instances of looting and violence, most of the protests are peaceful, .
Why do you want to lock your doors? Or leave planet earth? Am I missing something?
I think it's quite obvious that this black unarmed man had a physical altercation with the cop, the evidence is there for that, but there you go, by engaging you or anyone about this particular case we get to "choose sides" on what is very obviously a tragedy. Let's be realistic here though, it was broad daylight and it's very very unlikely that the cop shot him without provocation. At the very least he was resisting arrest. That alone makes this a tragedy, not at all at the level of the guy filling his tank at a gas station who reached for his ID and was shot, or the local Seattle native woodcarver who was shot within 5 seconds of the cop leaving his car, who had already folded his knife before the first shot was fired... Nope those incidences don't sell.
Instead we get a case where 'law and order' types can side with the cop, and 'freedom and human rights' types can side with the shoplifter. <--- This is why the media are scum, controversy sells, and dividing people along theses lines is why we have a false sense of outrage about what is a tragedy, whether the cop was justified or not. It's fake opinion because we don't know all the details, and we haven't asked.
Do you know what kind of drugs Brown was on if any?
Are you aware of evidence that his hand was in the cop vehicle when shot? <-- Think about that for a minute, if a cop as Brown's buddy says grabs your arm are you going to resist? Are you going to get into any kind of altercation?
I'm bringing this up because it's rendered somehow unimportant, but the facts are cops world wide are allowed to use deadly force and anyone thinking about their own health would not get into it with one. The evidence suggesting Brown did get into it with the cop makes this whole thing a tragedy, not a racially motivated slaying per say. That cops are more likely to shoot a minority is a different issue, and to me, the fact the media has made this tragedy the focus of
that discussion blurs the discussion, which fuels outrage and all of us paying attention to the media = sales of advertising.
