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[BadAss2961]

Dear OP, your thread was shitty. Not only did you go for an inflammatory title, but you dropped a video link in with almost no commentary. If you feel like we need further conversation on Michael Brown and his alleged crime, you're welcome to try again.

Kinda hard for him to try again when he's banned.

 

[Siegcram]

nvm

 

[Xcellere]

That was one quick banning.

 

[mre]

Dear OP, your thread was shitty. Not only did you go for an inflammatory title, but you dropped a video link in with almost no commentary. If you feel like we need further conversation on Michael Brown and his alleged crime, you're welcome to try again.

In a week, a month or a year?

 

[HerbertFish]

Was he banned for making this thread?

 

[ishibear]

This shit is repulsive. Stealing does not make someone deserve to die.

 

[Foxy Fox 39]

I find this thread to be in bad taste but I didn't see the OP say he deserved to die. I checked his previous posts and didn't see anything, either.

By why is being an A-hole even relevant to anything? Again, anytime a black person does something wrong -- something a white person would get away with --- people decide the black person shouldn't be allowed to live anymore.

Black people are held to an impossible standard, and when we fail, just like any other human, our lives are no longer valued.

Black people = violent object
White people = complex subject

 

[Ol No Bones]

I don't care if they are trying to imply he may have provoked the cops or not, he didn't deserve to be shot since he was unarmed.

I really haven't been following this at all so please forgive my ignorance. What was the context of the officer firing because I see a lot of people saying Brown was unarmed but being armed is not the only reason that a cop can use deadly force. Please forgive my ignorance on this specific shooting. There is a lot going on in the world kinda hard to keep up these days.

 

[EatinOlives]

Was he banned for making this thread?

Yes. Original thread title was "So it turns out Michael Brown was an asshole", with the same OP.

 

[perfectchaos007]

I'm surprised this thread remained open after the user was banned. That doesn't happen too often. He can't even update the OP with more information if he wanted

 

[stufte]

Was he banned for making this thread?

 

[tfur]

Also, I see nothing in that video that is a "robbery." Larceny, perhaps, but not robbery.

Unless there's a contention that the clerk was holding the cigarillos that Brown grabbed.

I see intimidation and some physical force in that video. A judge would eat that up in a second as robbery.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

By why is being an A-hole even relevant to anything? Again, anytime a black person does something wrong -- something a white person would get away with --- people decide the black person shouldn't be allowed to live anymore.

Black people are held to an impossible standard, and when we fail, just like any other human, our lives are no longer valued.

Black people = violent object
White people = complex subject

So I'm going to go ahead and mention THIS again. Because it's very relevant.

 

[John Rabbit]

Seven years ago I was arrested, tried, and convicted on felony theft charges. I stole several thousand dollars worth of electronics and sold them for cash. So actually theft and trafficking.

Never once was I forcibly detained, and the only time I saw a gun it was safely holstered on the hip of the arresting officer. He never threatened me, yelled at me, or got physical with me. Not once. You can clearly see my race in my avatar.

This black kid snatched some cigars and then lost his life, and we're not even sure that those two things are even related. Unless Michael Brown was an armed assailant leaving the scene of a crime, nothing that has happened since leaving that convenience store makes any sense, and is certainly not justified.

 

[The Lamonster]

Was he banned for making this thread?

Yeah, but I think he had an inflammatory title that has since been updated.


edit: beaten

 

[Kabouter]

Kinda hard for him to try again when he's banned.

Not every mod is a big softie like besada, and the thread title was sort of noticeable.

 

[antonz]

And the Slimy motherfucker that is the Police Chief has just stated the video has no connection to the incident as there was no call to police or anything.

Its nothing but character assassination by the Chief

 

[HerbertFish]

Yes. Original thread title was "So it turns out Michael Brown was an asshole", with the same OP.

Oh that makes more sense. I thought he got banned for simply lifting the title from the article.

 

[phaonaut]

And the Slimy motherfucker that is the Police Chief has just stated the video has no connection to the incident as there was no call to police or anything.

Its nothing but character assassination by the Chief

So no phone call was ever placed? That kills all the weak theories popping up in the other thread.

 

[Draxal]

Could a mod please edit the original post using the edit function so this doesn't look confusing?

 

[studyguy]

The fact that they can't even point to this video as some flimsy justification makes the whole issue that much worse since no one knew about it at the time... In any case that whole situation got way out of hand. Slinging mud on the victim at this point does little good for anyone.

 

[shattyboombatty]

I missed what the original thread title was, but I didn't get the impression the OP was trying to imply anything that took place was justified. Maybe I'm wrong though.


I'm not fully up to speed on the Ferguson case, but was the original statement by the police that Michael Brown was NOT a robbery suspect? If so, this video adds new information to the situation... not that it actually changes anything, but it's information that wasn't previously known. If the police originally claimed he WAS a suspect, then this is not new information, and wasn't really thread worthy.

 

[Hellion]

Someone post a YT link so we can read op comments on his/her banning.

 

[KevinRo]

Also, I see nothing in that video that is a "robbery." Larceny, perhaps, but not robbery.

Unless there's a contention that the clerk was holding the cigarillos that Brown grabbed.

I guess you didn't see the part where he bent over the counter to snatch a giant pack of rellos from the clerk? Oh, yes. He was definitely going to smoke those mini-cigars and not gut them and roll marijuana in it. What an angel. So nice of him to gently move aside the clerk who was going out of his way to use a disproportionate amount of force in stopping this young man from borrowing his store products.

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

Aren't all black people in america "robbery suspects"

 

[besada]

If someone wants to redo the thread, you're welcome to do so.