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Old 02-13-2018, 10:38 AM   #318
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Originally Posted by ResAlien View Post
This really feels like reading the takes on a case like Michael Brown’s. The dogged insistence on whistling about thugs, crime sprees, weapons the farmer apparently had no knowledge of, and the attempts to assassinate the character of the deceased young man in order to justify the farmer’s actions are wild to me. You can support him without needing to try and vilify the dead man. I suppose maybe I just don’t understand the frontier justice mindset.
It's actually interesting reading that Michael Brown thread compared to this one. Full of nuance and people recognizing the broader racial overtones even if you could argue that race didn't play a factor in this specific instance.

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=139054
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