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Our police kill more Americans than ISIS could ever hope to kill. (Original Post)
Drunken Irishman
Apr 2015
OP
stupid statement, and detracts from the real focus of the situation that African Americans are
still_one
Apr 2015
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Renew Deal
(81,843 posts)1. There are problems with the cops, but that's just not true.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)2. Yes it is.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)3. Certainly
Even if you factor in that many of their fighters were in the 2003-2011 "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and the # Americans they have killed it still doesn't stack up to the # cops are killing on a daily basis.
I'm more scared of making a sudden or wrong move around a cop than ISIS.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)4. Men. They kill men.
Mostly.
Ligyron
(7,615 posts)5. I see what you did there!
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)6. I don't get it.
Response to Bonobo (Reply #4)
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Rex
(65,616 posts)7. That's scary when you put it that way.
still_one
(92,060 posts)9. stupid statement, and detracts from the real focus of the situation that African Americans are
having their civil rights taken away
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)11. LOL what a gross simplification of what's going on.
It's more than just having their civil rights taken away. Oy. talk about stupid statements.
still_one
(92,060 posts)12. Sorry sir, but making "open season" on African Americans is a gross violation of ones civil rights
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)10. Somebody tell Wolf Blitzer. n/t