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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou cannot watch the Ahmaud Arbery murder case without realizing
that these murderous thugs would NOT HAVE BEEN CHARGED if the video had not come outJust watched some of the police body cam footage from after the shooting. Cop was greeting the shooters father like he was a long lost relative. At one point, the officer assures the killers father that, "of course little Travis wouldn't be handcuffed", and "we've just got him in the ambulance cleaning some of the blood off of him".
Seems like the hunting and murder of a black man was just SOP for this community.
I think it is way past time to pick a side, because the other side has already chosen.
They want people like this to be able to murder with impunity
BTW - people who think like this have been the majority power in this country for over 200 years. From Georgia to Maine, from New York to California, the reality is that yes...this is who we are.
If we truly want to be different, we need to use the ballot box to destroy these people.
To me, that is why there is so much extremism on the right.
The America where armed white men can hunt down those that are different (and that includes not only race, but political ideology), murder them, and get away scot free is what they want.
No, let me correct that...IT'S WHAT THEY ALREADY HAVE
They will do whatever it takes to hold on to that America.
We simply MUST take it from them.
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You cannot watch the Ahmaud Arbery murder case without realizing (Original Post)
maxrandb
Nov 2021
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I wonder, though. Would the prosecutor have more power to demand that police
Baitball Blogger
Nov 2021
#1
What I realize is what a difference a competent judge makes as compared to Rittenhouse's judge.
marble falls
Nov 2021
#2
Baitball Blogger
(46,738 posts)1. I wonder, though. Would the prosecutor have more power to demand that police
cam video to show the jury, if the other video did not exist?
marble falls
(57,112 posts)2. What I realize is what a difference a competent judge makes as compared to Rittenhouse's judge.
malaise
(269,063 posts)4. So true
One of the murderer's lawyers was begging for a plea deal - too late.
moondust
(19,993 posts)3. Slave patrol.
21st Century Edition
Ray Bruns
(4,098 posts)5. "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
JI7
(89,252 posts)6. Yes, that's why Trump gets soo much supporr.
live love laugh
(13,118 posts)7. They're now bolstered by Rittenhouse. nt
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)9. Yes! I don't want to hear anyone, ever again, say
"This is not who we are"
got to unwaveringly...
Skittles
(153,169 posts)10. correct
because they believe the only word available - that of the murdering scum