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Thursday, 5 January 2017
quote [ â??Video of a brutal act towards an adult male with mental health challenges made its way onto social media,â?� Johnson said. â??The images in the video put on display the brazenness of the offenders who assaulted the victim and then broadcast it for the entire world to see.â?� ]
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spazm said @ 8:15am GMT on 5th Jan
Good thing you'll never run out of numbers, right? Account useless, on to the next one.
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rylex said @ 9:06am GMT on 5th Jan
lets hope you dont find yourself in chicago numbers.
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7 said @ 2:31pm GMT on 5th Jan
I'm posting the link in case anyone wants to see the video without commentary. Not recommended viewing, of course.
https://vid.me/jgEa |
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sanepride said @ 5:25pm GMT on 5th Jan
Nothing gives a white supremacist a raging boner like a good 'black on white' violence story, especially if it could be considered a 'hate crime'.
But at least here the perps got caught and face appropriate charges, so righteous indignation is denied. |
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HoZay said @ 6:06pm GMT on 5th Jan
They should be able to work the "New Black Panthers" into the story somehow.
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EvilNinjaX24 said @ 9:31pm GMT on 5th Jan
[Score:1 Informative]
Oh, there was already a huge attempt to tie it to Black Lives Matter - the hashtag #BLMKidnapping was trending on Twitter all night, and the posts there... well, I didn't read much, but what I read was more than enough. Chicago PD came out today and said there was no evidence of BLM involvement, so hopefully that'll shut that bullshit down some.
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GordonGuano said @ 2:13pm GMT on 7th Jan
Well, it has as much to do with BLM as white supremacy has to do with the ascendance of God-Emperor Trump. Which is to say nothing, but apparently it's fair game anyway.
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sanepride said @ 6:29pm GMT on 5th Jan
Or Obama. But act fast, time is running out.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 8:39pm GMT on 5th Jan
Nonsense. Conservatives will continue to blame Obama for everything that goes wrong for many years to come.
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damnit said @ 12:27am GMT on 6th Jan
Only if it's in their favor.
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GordonGuano said @ 2:19pm GMT on 7th Jan
Gentle reminder that the unsimmerable George Zimmerman was also caught, charged, and received justice, but that didn't prevent a cottage industry from springing up (on both sides of the issue) trading up on the outrage generated.
FWIW, I'm not a big fan of hate crime legislation in general. Outlawing emotion has all the potential for success as ordering the tide not to come in. |
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sanepride said @ 6:27pm GMT on 7th Jan
Gentle reminder that Zimmerman did not, in fact, receive justice- having been acquitted, and was also never charged with a hate crime. So it could be argued that the outrage generated was understandable and justified.
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maximumtodd said @ 12:16am GMT on 6th Jan
Now we see who the deplorables are.
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Loki said @ 2:13am GMT on 7th Jan
If someone who actually gave a shit posted this, I might have given it +1 Sad or +1 WTF.
(And by "gave a shit," I mean someone who I believed had actual compassion for the victim, as opposed to someone looking to score points in his dumb-ass game of "me versus all these people who keep downvoting me because they're sick of my shit.") |