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EffieBlack

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37. "Private citizen" being the operative term

Sat May 19, 2018, 08:28 AM

May 2018

Cops aren't private citizens. They are law enforcement officers with special training and special rights and powers. They aren't supposed to operate based on the fear that just any private citizen would have. That's why they get to have badges and guns and authority. I don't want untrained "private citizens" walking around with that kind of weaponry and the life and death power to use it because they got scared.

But if I, as a private citizen, witnessed the naked guy you described, I'd be scared. And if I, as a private citizen witnessed a man with an AR-15 who had just shot up a school, killed 10 people and shot a law enforcement officer, I'd be scared poopless.

So, please just stop trying to justify the unjustifiable. You're not going to win this argument.

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Armed, actve shooter taken alive in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting [View all] EffieBlack May 2018 OP

Don't even have to say a word, Effie dear. We Know Why. Wwcd May 2018 #1

Why don't you know it's the melanin Effie malaise May 2018 #2

Yes. sunRISEnow May 2018 #3

This is your take away from this horrific school shooting? oberliner May 2018 #4

That is one thing that can be taken away from it. MineralMan May 2018 #6

Do you understand that police officer was shot during the active shooter attack and presumably LisaL May 2018 #22

You've missed the point EffieBlack May 2018 #23

Cop who shot the naked guy is also black. LisaL May 2018 #25

It doesn't matter EffieBlack May 2018 #28

Innocent blacks get shot first, captured second. Whites who shoot up schools.... George II May 2018 #10

Because tazing him did not stop him. NCTraveler May 2018 #5

Why did they need to taze him in the first place? EffieBlack May 2018 #7

"Why did they need to taze him in the first place?" NCTraveler May 2018 #8

Wow EffieBlack May 2018 #9

I'm not sure what you are doing here. NCTraveler May 2018 #11

My recollection is that your made excuses for the Starbucks arrest EffieBlack May 2018 #12

Back it up. You simply doubled down. NCTraveler May 2018 #13

Whatever EffieBlack May 2018 #15

There is the triple down. NCTraveler May 2018 #16

I took another look at my post EffieBlack May 2018 #17

You are kind and fair beyond words. NCTraveler May 2018 #21

Things can get prickly in the heat of the moment - I was taking a lot of incoming and you got caught EffieBlack May 2018 #24

I yearn for the day public outcry mourns lives lost from police running away. nt greyl May 2018 #18

I really feel for this guys family, friends, and all involved. NCTraveler May 2018 #20

Not sure what incident you are talking about. LisaL May 2018 #27

Penis envy? TheBlackAdder May 2018 #14

Well, the active shooter managed to shoot the police officer who presumably was trying to take him LisaL May 2018 #19

I don't want them to still shoot him. I just want them to stop shooting black people EffieBlack May 2018 #26

The naked guy wasn't exactly behaving rationally when he was shot. LisaL May 2018 #29

Being irrational is not a capital offense meriting being summarily shot dead in the street EffieBlack May 2018 #31

So if you as a private citizen witness a naked guy driving, hitting cars, running into the LisaL May 2018 #33

"Private citizen" being the operative term EffieBlack May 2018 #37

Would you think you had a right to defend yourself if a naked guy was running toward you? LisaL May 2018 #38

Oh, please - stop EffieBlack May 2018 #39

I guess there is no point in arguing since you won the argument. LisaL May 2018 #41

Exactly EffieBlack May 2018 #42

In other words, he shot a cop and still got to live. Solomon May 2018 #30

Police should have shot and killed him even if they didn't need to? oberliner May 2018 #32

Because he shot a cop that cop couldn't shoot him back. LisaL May 2018 #36

I don't get it either Bettie May 2018 #34

Cause he was black Effie, cause he was black. Glamrock May 2018 #35

Gutless cops? HAB911 May 2018 #40