He killed a state trooper, was armed but was still captured alive....

[HipChick]

Hmm...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/accused-pennsylvania-cop-killer-eric-frein-captured/

[Lex]

1. . . . what is WHITE, Alex?

[Cal Carpenter]

2. ...

(I laugh to keep from crying...)

[flamingdem]

3. Ding Ding Ding

[pinboy3niner]

4. DUzy!

[malaise]

10. Thread winner

and then some

[Fawke Em]

55. You forgot... what is Christian, Alex?

[Scootaloo]

58. Also forgot - Right-wing

Clive Bundy's chuckleheads didn't even get arrested for threatening to kill federal agents.

White, christian, right-wingers with guns. You know, the most deeply oppressed class in the US, according to themselves.

[whistler162]

71. If the OP is talking about

the cop killer in Rochester NY... nope.

http://www.localsyr.com/story/d/story/accused-rochester-cop-killer-indicted-on-aggravate/25137/x8rPfBv_ok2H8xb3p5TnXA

[Lex]

75. The OP provided a link

so . . .

[whistler162]

77. So you don't get the point.. okay

African american accused of killing police officer not killed seems to be ignored news. While white american accused of killing police officer not killed seems to be used to prove some convoluted argument that all police are bad.

[rock]

80. Not all cops

Most of us think the percentage is not over 95%!

[Lex]

81. Your point is that a few exceptions means the over-whelming majority is erased?

Nice point you have there. lol

[Jenoch]

5. I think the reason this guy is not dead is because

he got away on the day he murdered those two state troopers and the day he was caught, he not not engage the troopers in a gunfight. He did not aim eitger weapon at the cops. Had he done so, he might not be alive today.

[still_one]

6. Absolutely correct.

[femmocrat]

18. Not correct.

He is suspected of killing one officer and wounding another. Trooper Douglass is recovering from his injuries.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/30/360209844/eric-frein-suspect-wanted-in-shooting-death-of-trooper-in-custody

[KingCharlemagne]

7. Plus he hadn't stolen any cigarillos or jaywalked. There's that to consider. - nt

[Jenoch]

8. He was hiding in the woods.

I don't know that it is possible to jaywalk in the woods.

[KingCharlemagne]

9. Or to steal cigarillos. - nt

[lob1]

29. There are more jays in the woods than in town. Thus, more jay walking.

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. +1 ...

Great response.

[valerief]

13. and he was white

[butterfly77]

24. Correct...

[cherokeeprogressive]

31. Randy Weaver is white. They didn't kill him; they killed his white wife who didn't hurt ANYONE, and

his son.

Explain that?

Or does it matter that the US Government did it, and not a local police force?

[AnalystInParadise]

39. Good luck

trying to convince some people to not believe their conspiracy theories in the face of factual evidence.

[Fawke Em]

57. Good luck trying to subert evidence.

[valerief]

63. This thread is about someone else. Who is Randy Weaver?

[scarystuffyo]

64. A man who had his family murdered by the FBI, ATF and the justice dept on his own property

http://www.biography.com/people/randy-weaver-578518#synopsis

[valerief]

65. Oh, yeah, one of those insane militia apocalypse guys. nt

[scarystuffyo]

66. If you want to look at it that way

[ecstatic]

15. But do you see the point that was being made?

There's a really high bar set for when it's appropriate to use lethal force on a white man. A black guy can get gunned down just for following a cop's orders to show license and registration.

[butterfly77]

25. Exactly...

[JI7]

34. many don't want to see it

[AverageJoe90]

21. Yep, that is probably the most accurate explanation: Occam's Razor has it's uses. nt

[malaise]

11. But but but

he was not Driving, Walking or Living WB

[kelliekat44]

12. No matter what is said here about his capture...we all know what 99% of America is really thinking..

[AnalystInParadise]

40. I doubt 99%

of Americans believe in racial conspiracy theories.

[AverageJoe90]

42. And what is that? nt

[BlueCaliDem]

79. Oh, yeah they are. Even the naysayers on this thread are thinking the SAME thing

even thought they'd rather bite their tongues off and cut their typing fingers off with a dull knife than admit it. Hence their passionate "naysaying" as proof.

[maced666]

16. But...but he didn't try to wrestle officers gun away...

Or any of those other annoying facts.

[BklnDem75]

19. Nor did he try to reach for his license...

He only killed a cop, that's all.

[blue neen]

17. What's your point?

I'm missing something.

There is no doubt that police abuse black people in this country. It's horrible, obviously. Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, every town, every city.

In the case of Mr. Eric Frein, however, the biggest indignity to that cold-blooded murderer was to be taken alive by the very cops he despised...to suffer the humiliation of the trial, a life spent in jail, or the death penalty.

The innocents in minority groups abused by police in this country deserve our sympathy and our help. The innocent police and their children who suffered from pre-meditated murder by Eric Frein also deserve our sympathy.

[AverageJoe90]

22. This is possibly the best response anyone ever could have typed to this OP.

*Applause*.

[cwydro]

26. Good post. nt

[840high]

35. +10

[kwassa]

37. The point, since you didn't get it, is obvious.

Mr. Eric Frein, a white cop killer, was accorded a treatment that no black man who shot a police officer would be accorded.

That was the point of the OP. You went off on your own very nice tangent, but it has nothing to do with the OP.

[blue neen]

60. Actually, I did get it.

It's what I expressed in my post. I mentioned the treatments that blacks get at the hands of the police. It's a huge national problem. So my answer, or tangent, as you call it has everything to do with the OP. Please re-read my post.

Our difference in opinion is that Mr. Eric Frein will certainly not be getting any kid gloves treatment by the police in this case.

He is a pre-meditated murderer of an innocent man, and he will pay the consequences.

Thank you.

[gladium et scutum]

83. U.S. Marshal Service

Is considerably a different organization than the local police departments. How many unarmed African Americans have the Marshal's Service killed in the last few years?

[Scootaloo]

59. The point is the different standards exercised by police

[blue neen]

61. Thanks, Scootalo.

I cry for Trayvon Martin's parents. I cry for Michael Brown's parents. I cry for PA Trooper Dickson's parents, wife, and two little boys.

Senseless murders, all.

[Nye Bevan]

20. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo killed 10 people, injured 3, and were armed

but were still captured alive.

Hmmmm.

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. Randy Weaver's wife was white, and she didn't hurt ANYONE.

She was shot in the head while holding a baby. HER baby.

[JI7]

33. wasn't that a shootout with weaver and some others shooting also

and that's how she ended up getting shot ?

[cwydro]

45. And, the entire Branch Davidian sect

was bombed into fiery hell.

Their leader was WHITE.

[kwassa]

48. The Branch Davidians were firing guns at the ATF at the time.

This is an action that might cause one some problems.

and also is no analogy to what we are discussing here.

[cwydro]

52. Yes there is.

Since you want to make it about race.

But you proved my point.

Most of these incidents are not in any comparable.

But DU only cares about race these days.

Justice in this country has more to do with wealth than race.

But I think you know that.

[GGJohn]

53. Again, you're wrong,

the Branch Dividians were under assault by the ATF without any warning, the ATF wanted to do a "dynamic entry" to justify their request for a boost to their budget.

Pls do learn what the hell you're talking about.

[GGJohn]

46. No.

They were running for the safety of their cabin after attending to the body of Randy's son who was killed by US Marshal's, as they ran for the cabin, an FBI sniper shot and wounded Kevin and then shot at Randy as he entered the cabin, killing Vicky who was holding the door open for them.

[cherokeeprogressive]

54. She was shot by a sniper. Head shot. One shot, one kill.

[kwassa]

41. She was shot accidentally. The FBI sniper was trying to hit Weaver ...

whom he had already wounded.

What this has to do with the price of rice in China, I will never know.

[GGJohn]

47. False.

Randy Weaver was never wounded, it was Kevin Harris that was wounded, the FBI sniper, Lon Hourichi, who took a shot at Weaver as he entered the cabin door, held open by Vicky, killing her as she was holding her baby.

[kwassa]

49. whatever, Vicky was accidentally killed, either way. Therefore, no analogy.

[GGJohn]

51. The only reason Vicky was killed is because the ROE's were changed

and in the aftermath, the FBI was severely critized for those changes.

[cherokeeprogressive]

56. Yeah: "whatever".

[kwassa]

43. Muhammed didn't kill a police officer.

Hmmmmm.

and in other local news, in the same area:

A 19-year-old man suspected of killing a Prince George's County police officer was strangled in the county jail two days after his arrest, the state medical examiner's office concluded yesterday.

Ronnie L. White, who was found unresponsive Sunday morning, died of asphyxiation, and two small bones in his neck were broken, according to preliminary autopsy findings. County officials said he was separated from other inmates; only seven guards and an undisclosed number of supervisors had access to the area where White was held.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001156.html

[cwydro]

44. Thank you. Nt

[Glassunion]

23. According to every single news report I've read, he was unarmed.

cnn.com
msnbc.com
cbs.com
nbc.com
...
...
Even philly.com

They all stated I their articles he was unarmed when captured.

What article states that he was armed? I'm dying to see it.

[FlyingFluck]

69. He was armed according to the article that was linked in the OP...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/accused-pennsylvania-cop-killer-eric-frein-captured/

Frein was arrested Thursday evening by U.S. marshals in an abandoned airplane hangar Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. A law enforcement source told CBS News that Frein was carrying a handgun and a sniper rifle at the time, and gave up without a fight.

[Glassunion]

72. Other sources.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/30/pennsylvania-trooper-eric-frein-reported-captured/18203907/

He said Frein "did not have a gun on his person'' when captured

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hunch-us-marshals-nab-eric-frein-26618523

Frein finally realized he wasn't alone. Malkowski identified himself as law enforcement and ordered Frein, who was unarmed but had weapons in the hangar, to get on the ground

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/31/us/pennsylvania-eric-frein-arrest/index.html?c=&page=2

And he wasn't armed at the time of his capture, according to police, much to the relief of authorities who feared a violent showdown.

[arcane1]

27. Lucky for him he didn't try to reach for his wallet! n/t

[TBF]

28. No hoodie or Skittles involved -

I rest my case.

[maced666]

68. He wasn't armed.

I rest mine...

[TBF]

70. Neither was Trayvon.

But there was one glaring difference.

[bravenak]

30. He wasn't smoking devil weed and armed with a sidewalk.

[Cha]

36. ..

Michael Brown

[bravenak]

38. Yes.

Michael Brown, victim of Police Violence, august 2014.

[pinboy3niner]

50. Armed with a sidewalk evokes Trayvon

[dembotoz]

62. what is sad is the fact that he is alive is news

[maced666]

67. He wasn't armed.

Not sure how that was missed, reported everywhere.
"He had nowhere to go. There is nothing he could've done," Malkowski identified himself as law enforcement and ordered Frein, who was unarmed -----'but had weapons in the hangar'
http://news.yahoo.com/just-had-hunch-us-marshals-nab-eric-frein-045133293.html

[TeeYiYi]

73. Because...

...he wasn't a scary 18-year-old, 6’4” and almost 300 pound man child with a tan and, more than likely, a hoodie at home in his closet.

(Requisite /sarc inserted here for the DU sarcasm challenged.)

TYY

[Throd]

74. What about the guy who murdered two NorCal cops last week?

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article3348287.html

Kinda blows holes in your theory.

[Lex]

76. Exceptions don't overturn all the instances otherwise. nt

[whistler162]

78. Shhh... mustn't show the netdiots

why they are incorrect.

[Lex]

82. Oh yes, please show us your statistics on the matter.

Please.

[Sunlei]

84. They used the deceased cops handcuffs and car on their capture.Ghoulish & unnecessary ritual.