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You have an annoying habit of not reading things posted.
And you have an annoying habit of thinking my posts are directed at you. And I quoted verbatim what Gerlado said by the way.
And your verbatim quote had him saying that this was a social issue, not a civil rights issue as you mischaracterized it (by apparently not actually reading what he had to say)
So Gerlado said nothing about this being a civil rights issue? Here is what he said at the beginning of his appearance before the part I quoted above...
You might want to spend less time in here pursuing your personal vendetta with me, because this is now the second night in a row you look really foolish.
Dude, I was going off of what you quoted and you did not provide the full text or a link to the quote in the OP. Don't say I look foolish when you based your argument on a quote that you omitted in the OP and also failed to provide a link to. I am not psychic and can't know what Geraldo said on O'Reilly tonight if you don't either quote it in the OP or provide a link to the entire text.
Couldn't be bothered to provide a link? I was quoting an appearance on Hannity that just happened, as I stated in my post. You want a link to my DVR? I went way above and beyond by pausing my DVR after each sentence and typing it out. I'm not typing out the entire segment for you - not gonna happen. So quit being a tool and can the personal vendetta ####. I'm sure everyone else in here will agree that it's getting obnoxious hearing us argue every night about inane crap.
You said that Geraldo called this a civil rights issue but nothing in the quote you provided said that. Then you reprimanded me for pointing out that your claim that he said that was not true. Realizing you screwed up and didn't provide the quote or a link to begin with, you then added the quote and once again reprimanded me for not knowing the quote you failed to provide.
Why was Obama ideally equipped to deal with these issues when that does not fit the liberal agenda that he has always stood for?
So you expect someone who is commenting on a tv show they are watching not to paraphrase what a person is saying? Did I in any way paraphrase what he said wrong? I'm not writing for the ####### Washington Post here. It would be like someone saying, "Hey, Tom Brady just said on tv that integrity is the biggest issue in the game", and then went on to quote the most important lines of what he said - that he didn't cheat - and then a guy like you comes in and writes a horse #### post about how Brady's quote had nothing to do with the integrity of the game.Tell you what squid - concentrate more on bringing positive content to this place and less on playing childish games of gotcha on items of minutia that nobody cares about. You do it all the time and it brings nothing of value to the place. Make your points, add content, or stay the #### out of the conversation. I'm done talking about this.
Which was why I originally challenged the post which failed to include the quote about this being a civil rights issue, which also had no link to verify that Geraldo actually made this incorrect statement. That is the problem with the General, he runs with things that are misleading, like "81% of Al Jazeera readers support ISIS"
so when he posts a supposed quote without any documentation, it naturally will be questioned by anyone who has followed his posting history (see Patriots thread in SP) as he has shown repeatedly that has no idea what he is talking about.
Activists and pundits try to shoehorn everything into being "a civil rights issue" because they think that will make the public care more or, at the least, will scare away opponents from challenging their activism. People don't want to be viewed as not caring about or being against "a civil rights" issue.
I thought you lived in Gary, Indiana. The poster you show is for Los Angeles, but I digress.
I moved from Gary to Los Angeles a long time ago. I'm one of the Jackson brothers.
Yes, those hard-working people who live in impoverished areas and now can't count on police to respond to even blatant daylight shootings in their neighborhoods are really working the system.
That is a odd leap in logic from what happened in the Gray case. Even if the arrest of Gray flowed from a legal arrest, that doesn't excuse the officers behavior that allowed or caused him to be fatally injured in the transport to jail - criminal charges would still be warranted against some of the officers (particularly the driver).
An odd leap? that false imprisonment charge was complete horse####. If she is going to charge officers for crap like that they are right to back off on arrests. Nobody wants to get caught up with an overzealous prosecutor.
They shouldn't have thrown the whole police department under the bus if they weren't prepared to have them back off on arrests.
The "leap in logic" does not seem odd at all. It seems logical.
I specifically stated that the false imprisonment charges - which seemed strange at the time and have since been dropped - are the source of the Police's slowdown. That was a big mistake by Mosby, of whom I have generally been very supportive.
Why is it dereliction of duty to make fewer arrests? Isn't that what the protestors wanted? Gray should have never been hassled in the first place?
When the Mayor, Governor and Police Commissioner are so happy To throw a cop under the bus as easily as they did in Baltimore and when you try to investigate a crime and you get a crowd of 50 gang members aggressive towards you. Yeah I have no sympathy for the community.
As long as they arrest the "right" people. I am sure you would be right out there among the enemy, including your supervisors.
When an 8-year-old kid gets gunned down execution-style in his home, like happened this morning, I feel sympathy for him. So we're different there.
If the USG hadn't created ISIS to topple Assad, I might lean Syria.[icon] said:
Cops investigate and make arrests. They can't stop a murder before it occurs. Are the communities in the neighborhoods where the killings are taking place cooperating with police? My understanding is the tension is so bad that they aren't. Coupled with a higher bar for actually making arrests and you have your problem right there.The_Man said:
How's that? You guys argued in here recently that a black citizen facing disparate violence from black cops equated to an act of racism. Yet a black citizen facing disparate violence from black criminals isn't a civil rights issue? Would it be a civil rights issue if the perpetrators of the violence were white? You can bet that if blacks were being killed in disproportionate levels by whites it would most certainly be framed by the Left as a violation of civil rights, whether or not the violence came from a governmental entity like the police or from private citizens. Seems like another intellectual double-standard.
I am to drunk to address all the stupidity of this post.The_Man said:
I mentioned this earlier, but this exact same thing happened in NO (though the increase in crime wasn't a bad as what you're seeing), and it will continue to happen. A lot of cops will likely quit too. I agree, it's not ok (either people high fiving or what the cops are doing).
No doubt the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow alive and well in the systemic racism of the police community caused the finger to pull those triggers.
Nope.The linked article above confirms the legitimacy of the picture and guest ringmaster appearance. The below linked Baltimore Sun article does as well.
That discussion about this being the literal and perfect metaphor for a three ring circus comes from The Root by the way.
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