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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It happens fairly often, ironically in favour of white offenders quite often. There's an op ed piece from last year that talks about the different way we treat young white criminals vs young criminals of colour.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtm...-is-terrorism/
The Aurora shooter, as well as Brock turner were good examples. |
No, no, no PepsiFree. I asked you for current police force, not media. Not sure if you're being purposely obtuse or what mental gymnastics you're doing but again, I asked about the police force coming up and defending the assailants an hour after the story breaks. Media is trash, we can agree. But don't act like it's common for the police force to go to the podium and downplay the serious of the situation as fairly often and trying to label something as kids being kids or stupidity. Especially when we're talking about 18-24 year olds. If anything, they love to build up the crime to make them look like they did a badass job.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
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I don't disagree. Again. But you're seriously downplaying what the cops said. They didn't say, we need to investigate more thoroughly. They made up their own narrative. They clearly downplayed it. They said kids make stupid decision. They said it looks like stupidity. All they had to do was say "We are continuing to investigate that aspect of the crime." So why did they consciously call it stupidity, why did they make a point to mention it was kids and young adults, especially when it involves a 24 year old? They wanted to form their own narrative of the crime, give up another explanation for it that didn't involve race relations. And that's simply not what the police should be doing.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
As I said, we'll agree to disagree because I dont know how you're seeing it from the angle you are, when considering the whole story (police said kids, corrected themselves, said the act was horrible, charged them with 4 different crimes... but were somehow racist against whites and defending the criminals... don't get it at all).
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And yet, you can't seem to see it from the other angle. Four kids assault a white person for apparently no reason. Torture him for a day. Cut into his scalp. Burn him. Make him drink from the toilet. While yelling "#### white people." From the perspective of a lot of people that's a clear case hate-crime.
Now, hate crimes are tricky. The officers could have said "We need to gather more evidence and determine if it was based on the colour of his skin or disability before calling it a hate crime." And again, no one is up in arms.
There was no need for the police to stand up there and call that portion of the crime "stupidity" or "kids making stupid mistakes." They certainly didn't need to say" at this point we have anything concrete to really point us in that direction" when you have a video of these guys yelling #### white people. And, evidently, are charging them with a hate crime a couple hours later...what changed to the police?
All they had to do was say it was continued to be investigated and the (I'll call it for lack of better term) "moderate alt-right" has nothing to cry about. Sure, the far ones, will still try to blame BLM and minorities in general, but to these moderates, they see a video of deranged individuals committing heinous crime while yelling "#### white people" and the police force making excuses for it. The same divisive bull#### that led to a Trump presidency reared it's ugly head is once again "confirmed" by that group.
If you aren't going to offer an explanation as to why the police chose the words they did, then I think you need to concede it was a stupid choice by the cops. All you need to do is see how the right-wing media is eating up.