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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
No It was a lot of Hyperbole.
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OK, this is obviously an exercise in futility, so I'll cut to the chase and leave it at that.
Here's some hyperbole for you (thanks to Nik for the big word).
Let's start a thread called 'Police shooting of unarmed teen'. Not just a teen, which would be horrifying enough, but an
unarmed teen. Oh, the humanity. Let's basically portray it as an execution (seriously, go back and read post #1 - you wrote it). Damn pigs! The poor kid was trying to surrender and everything! Hands up, don't shoot!
But I'm the one that's exaggerating.
Uh oh. Here come the facts. The poor unarmed teen was in a life and death struggle with the police when he was shot? He was basically in the cruiser fighting with the police? Well, that's problematic. Based on those pesky facts, it's almost as if this was a great example of when deadly force was justified ('but he was
unarmed though!').
But let's not let that get in the way of some good ol' police bashing. The fact that this thread is built on this foundation seems fitting to me.
I'm all for holding the few bad apple cops accountable, but I'm sorry if I can't sit back and listen to cops in general get bashed while 'innocent' victims and fricking half-wits going gangnam-style are the heroes. Maybe the dancing idiot will show up instead of the police the next time you need help. Good luck.