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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Firstly, I've said multiple times that I understand your reaction based on your interpretation of what the police said. Again, we'll agree to disagree because I think you're given the least charitable interpretation and purposely distorting it to further your bias. Placating the alt-right is, honestly, not a very compelling argument as to why someone should act or speak differently. There isn't a reason they're the ones still beating this drum. That's not admirable company to keep.
As per your request for an explanation, straight from the source:
http://www.rt.com/document/586ecc68c361885a408b4622/amp |
"We have the four suspects in custody."
"What about the Donald Trump and racist terms used throughout the video, was this politically or racially motivated?"
"We are still investigating that aspect of the crime."
"Will this be looked at as a hate crime?"
"We are gathering evidence. The evidence for the hate-crime needs to be based on facts, not emotions, and can't be assessed by a couple of soundbites in a video."
There, no outrage. And that's what would be said 99.999% of the time during an ongoing investigation. Instead the police force refer to them as kids, something that doesn't happen pretty much ever for 18 year olds committing a heinous crime...let alone 24 year olds. Even his "correcting himself" to young adults he was still talking about how young adults make stupid decisions. They certainly didn't have to say there was no concrete evidence that this was a hate-crime. Eddie Johnson didn't have to literally say that he thought it was "stupidity. You know, people just ranting about something they think might make a headline." The narrative they were clearly painting, downplaying the racial aspect of the crime, was not the one they are discussing today.
You're acting like placating the alt-right is a poor argument. I counter that with President Donald Trump. We're never calling Donald Trump the president without the divisiveness of the nation. There was no reason for the police force to try and create their own narrative, pissing off half the population doing so. The alt-right may be poor wording on my part. This isn't the fringe crazies anymore. It's half the population. Heck, it's liberals as well who didn't like what the police said. Insinuating that the people who are still beating this drum are doing so because of "reasons" is the exact #### that got Donald Trump elected. Some people just don't think that the police should downplay and defend people who kidnap and torture mentally disabled people...but they're old fashion like that. Simply put, the police force should not have acted politically, but they did.
Ironically, if you don't believe those idiots are part of a malicious incompetent corrupt police force, they probably did have a good intention of downplaying the racial aspect of the crime. Race relationships are heated and any type of XXX-on-YYY crimes are resulting in increased hate by all sides and type of people, they probably were trying to avoid that. But it backfired, it was a mistake. I don't see the need to defend that mistake or turn a blind eye to it.