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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe stabbed a cop in the neck - and guess what happened next?
Important clue: he's white ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/CN8VLj-lX1R/?igshid=b7vghl8oe0zz
HipChick
(25,615 posts)Waiting for cop apologists to run in...
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,700 posts)This kid is very lucky he didn't get shot.
I know you are trying to make a point about Ma'Khia Bryant, but it doesn't change the fact that the cop saved that other girl's life.
HipChick
(25,615 posts)who are not committing major crimes and are unarmed...only crime is being black..
Does change the fact, that police force has an issue that they have failed to address for decades
ExciteBike66
(2,700 posts)does not apply to Ma'Khia Bryant.
malaise
(297,987 posts)uponit7771
(93,532 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,700 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Depends on all of the facts. But I do think the relative ages of the people involved in the altercation - and how the altercation began, who instigated it, etc. - could make a difference.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,542 posts)But I googled police officer stabbed in neck.
There are like 20 of them
uponit7771
(93,532 posts).... other absurd shit like multi-shot tasers most likely wouldn't stop a 15 ye old girl.
We still got people on the left sleep on this issue of disproportionate killing of black people In similar circumstances, we got a lot of work to do.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)There's always an excuse.
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