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dawg day

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1. My god. That's appalling.

Reply to StarfishSaver (Original post)

Mon Dec 7, 2020, 08:55 PM

Dec 2020

We can keep going on--
Philando Castille was shot only because he told an officer (correctly) that there was a gun-- legal, licensed-- in the car.

Tamir Rice- 12 years old- was killed because he was playing in a park with a toy gun.

Michael Brown was shot because he jaywalked.

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I don't EVER want to hear anyone again say, "If he'd just obeyed orders, he wouldn't have been shot" [View all] StarfishSaver Dec 2020 OP

My god. That's appalling. dawg day Dec 2020 #1

A pernicious lie. K&R. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #2

Well it WAS a female cop, maybe she was black? angstlessk Dec 2020 #3

Breonna Taylor was asleep in her own apartment. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2020 #4

I can do you one better - The amount of begging these cops are doing - Keith Sweat level tulipsandroses Dec 2020 #5

A black driver would have been wnylib Dec 2020 #6

I don't know if I should be angry, sad or just laugh at this video. I did laugh at how hapless these tulipsandroses Dec 2020 #12

+1 dalton99a Dec 2020 #11

"If he'd just obeyed orders" wnylib Dec 2020 #7

Whaa? davekriss Dec 2020 #8

Daniel Shaver obeyed police orders, but was still shot to death dustyscamp Dec 2020 #9

KnR Hekate Dec 2020 #10

Makes me fuckin sick uponit7771 Dec 2020 #13

A militarized racist police state will kill Black folk for just living. ancianita Dec 2020 #14

Officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that. joshcryer Dec 2020 #15

K&R Solly Mack Dec 2020 #16

Based on past history, the inescapable truth is that there is NO strategy or behaviour... BobTheSubgenius Dec 2020 #17

K&R for visibility Blue Owl Dec 2020 #18