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It's good that they feel this way. But it's of limited value. For comparison, a person who commits vehicular homicide while intoxicated will often also wish they could take it back. That doesn't change the nature of their actions. I'm not directly comparing the two, just pointing out that post event remorse isn't all that impressive.

I agree.

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And the post event remorse becomes really inconsequential when you have all the police apologists showing up to tell us all how Garner got what he deserved

Here is where you are dishonest and go off the rails. They don't think he "deserved" it. THEY THINK HE GOT WHAT THE LAW PRESCRIBES (obviously talking about arrest and not death). Surely you know the difference. And it's law that has the OVERWHELMING support of the same Democrats that are all aflutter.

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Does rhetoric from the police or their unions count as fanning the flames of animus? Or does that just go one way?

When thousands of pro-cop demonstrators take to burning businesses, assaulting and killing people in the streets, we will talk.

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

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Posted on 12/22/14 at 12:01 pm to Lsupimp

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. THEY THINK HE GOT WHAT THE LAW PRESCRIBES

Well, the law has gone too far. Perhaps everyone should take a step back and consider that instead of just mindlessly bleating what the law says.

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Posted on 12/22/14 at 12:01 pm to Lsupimp

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When thousands of pro-cop demonstrators take to burning businesses, assaulting and killing people in the streets, we will talk.

Which businesses were burned in NYC?

The protests in New York were overwhelmingly orderly and non-violent. The only serious incident I remember hearing about was when two officers tried to arrest the guy who threw the trash can and several people intervened and assaulted the officers in the process. But considering that tens of thousands of protesters marched on multiple dates over the span of several weeks, I'd say the NYC protesters, as a whole, did a pretty good job of being peaceful.

edit: to be clear, I don't count the cop-killer as part of the protesters, even if he was motivated by the Brown/Garner cases. He did not act as part of the organized protests and his actions should not reflect on the protesters who were overwhelmingly peaceful

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

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Posted on 12/22/14 at 12:05 pm to Lsupimp