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So I Google this persons name and find that they made violent, and suicidal threats on Facebook, then stabbed a man to death, and then pointed a gun at officers, and got blasted.

I really feel like I'm going crazy sometimes when I see shite like this.

This reminds me of another annoying white people post going around

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My name is [insert name here]. I am white. I have committed crimes without fear of being killed. My family has committed crimes without fear of being killed.
I can do, say, and be all of the following things without fear.
I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery).
I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothemSean and #AtatianaJefferson).
I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride).
I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark).
I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards).
I can play loud music (#JordanDavis).
I can sell CD's (#AltonSterling).
I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)
I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown).
I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice).
I can go to church (#Charleston9).
I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin).
I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell).
I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant).
I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland).
I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile).
I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones).
I can shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford) .
I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher).
I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott).
I can be a 10yr old walking with my grandfather (#CliffordGlover).
I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese).
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans).
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood).
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo).
I can run (#WalterScott).
I can breathe (#EricGarner).
I can live (#FreddieGray).
I recognize my white privilege. It's time for others to recognize theirs.
We have to do better. It’s already a scary world

How many of the names on that list were actually unjustified? And why do we pretend this doesn't also happen to other races?

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Posted by Oilfieldbiology

Member since Nov 2016

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Posted on 5/29/20 at 9:56 am to LNCHBOX

I have had that post 5 times today. I never knew I had such virtuous Facebook friends

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Posted by crazy4lsu

Member since May 2005

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Posted on 5/29/20 at 9:57 am to LNCHBOX

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How many of the names on that list were actually unjustified?

Is committing any crime a justification for being killed? What is the point of our justice system then?

I didn't vote for police to be judge, jury, and executioner all in one. I don't want them to be. And did you even read the list?

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Posted by TH03

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Member since Dec 2008

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Posted on 5/29/20 at 10:07 am to LNCHBOX

There are a few legit ones on that list, but I haven't heard of a good bit of them.

I would even call trayvon a legit one on that list. The final act of him being shot was Zimmerman defending his own life as his head was smashed into the concrete, but that's all avoided if he doesn't think trayvon looks suspicious walking through the neighborhood or if he doesn't follow him.

I still think the wrong cases get brought up and repeated all the time. Mike brown was a thug who was justifiably shot. Alton Sterling was reaching for a gun.

Michael Ramos isn't anywhere on that list and he was shot and killed outside his car with his hands in the air here in Austin just last month. Cops said he had a gun but later confirmed no gun was found in or around the car.

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Posted by bgtiger

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Member since Dec 2004

11490 posts

Posted on 5/29/20 at 11:23 am to LNCHBOX

You can’t do half of that shite in NBR unscathed

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