What would have happened if the JC Penney assault rifle guy was black or latino?

[Quixote1818]

Would reactions have been the same?

[MrSlayer]

1. Someone should try it and find out.

Or is it simply too risky?

[oldhippydude]

5. yes

let us not forget Trayvon Martin..

[2naSalit]

2. He'd already be in the morgue

or on his way, slowly and painfully.

[lunasun]

21. +1 same thought here > imagime an American of middle eastern heritage

police alert 4sure

[2naSalit]

23. Indeed and since it was in a

burb of Salt Lick City, he sure wouldn't have had a chance. If the JCP gun-nut was a member of a certain sect, they might have given him a ride in the patrol car... Just sayin'.

[valerief]

26. Yep

[Buzz Clik]

3. That picture would not have been taken in JC Penny.

He would have been stopped and arrested either:

1. In his car driving to the store.
2. In the parking lot of the store.
3. Or seconds after walking through the door.

[Brigid]

4. A black or latino who pulled that stunt . . .

Would be in jail right now. It's that simple.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. A Swat team would have been there..

[TeamPooka]

38. in two minutes

[southernyankeebelle]

39. You could count on it. Even if the person of color called in like this guy. They would

have waited for him around the corner.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

7. SWAT team shooting first and asking questions later. nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. Is there a problem officer?

[russspeakeasy]

9. If he had any guts, he'd wear a turban.

[BainsBane]

15. well, if he had guts

He wouldn't need an assault rifle to shop at JCPenney.

Love your turban comment.

[Posteritatis]

10. They'd probably be continuing to shoot him even now. (nt)

[kestrel91316]

11. He'd be dead now.

[okaawhatever]

12. The guy who did it called the police ahead of time to let them know what he was doing. Still.....nt

[840high]

29. Good to know.

[pnwmom]

31. Doesn't matter. He's still a gun nutcase.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2220511

[Beacool]

34. The guy appears to be a ticking bomb.

Hopefully he doesn't become a mass shooter.

[BainsBane]

13. He'd be dead

When you see an article like that, you don't even have to look at the picture to know the guy is white. No black or Latino man would try such a thing. They know for a fact they wouldn't live through the experience.

Now tell me again this issue has nothing to do with white privilege?

[Recursion]

14. The tea party guy 3 years ago with the AR-15 was black

What happened was that nobody would show his face.

[BainsBane]

16. who is that?

What was the story?

[Recursion]

17. Oh he's an AZ tea party nut

http://thegrio.com/2009/08/18/black-man-with-assault-rifle-at-obama-speech/

African American dude who (legally) open-carried an AR-15 to a tea party protest. Guess which aspect of his CV got left out... (it was kind of infuriating: the networks would show his shoulder, with the rifle on it, and not his face.)

[Nye Bevan]

18. Here

No SWAT team, the dude is still alive AFAIK.

[Recursion]

20. Yeah, that guy

Total nutjob. But, armed black man, and neither liberals nor conservatives seem to have processed that.

[2naSalit]

22. And this was not in Utah where the JCP guy was.

If a person of color did such a thing in Utah, they'd be dead. If not by a SWAT team, the people around him would have kicked the living daylights out of him. Where was the example video taken?

[Drunken Irishman]

28. It was also not at a protest...

Apples & oranges.

Let's see the reaction if he's just walking down the street or is inside a shopping center.

[bettyellen]

32. The context being he was surrounded by dozens of other armed men. Very different.

[spanone]

19. if he was wearing a turban.....

[Beartracks]

24. Good question. If it had looked like THIS...

... would reactions have been the same?



Would that moron in the yellow shirt have understood the "education" the African American was trying to teach?

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[mn9driver]

25. Fox News has already done stories on black people doing much worse and scarier things:

I mean, these guys were armed with berets. And combat boots!

[TeamPooka]

40. lol

[madinmaryland]

27. Too bad that teabagging motherfucker was not Shermanized.

[Odin2005]

30. He'd be called a gangster and murdered by the cops.

[CheapShotArtist]

33. You left out Asian.

[quinnox]

35. my percentages

70% chance being shot on sight by the cops when they arrived in force
15% chance being arrested after being knocked around and beaten
15% chance being arrested with civility and no violence inflicted by the police

[Thinkingabout]

36. When the Black Panthers did so some years back laws was passed.

There are people in every walk of life who has weapons and the US still has a military. It is time for the attacks on innocent Americans. We would not tolerate this from another nation and we should be civilized enough to get our citizens under control, get mental health issues managed along with fire power, we do not need weapons of war available to anyone outside of law enforcement and military. ENOUGH

[Baitball Blogger]

37. Hail no.

[Pisces]

41. He'd be dead. Shot by the police before questions could be asked.

[MineralMan]

42. There would be a funeral scheduled, I'm betting.

Had I been there, I'd have called that guy a moron to his face, right there in JC Penney.