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CincyDem

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12. Well - now that I know it was EVC vs. choking...

Reply to Atman (Original post)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 06:28 PM

Dec 2014

...now it all makes sense. If someone had just said that in the beginning, I would have never even paid attention to this one.

At some point, there will be a catalyst. We think we've seen it with Ferguson or what might be coming in Cleveland but it's hard to imagine that the combination of 1% pressure and DWB (dying while black) will start some day.

I really hope I'm wrong but it almost feels like institutional ketteling - instead of individual protesters being surrounded and pushed into a no win situation, it's an entire culture.

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Don't worry, it was not an illegal "choke hold." [View all] Atman Dec 2014 OP

What is even more upsetting is the victim told him he couldn't breathe. This was murder still_one Dec 2014 #1

I cannot listen to that, I have an extreme fear of claustrophobia and inability to breathe NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #3

Ah, like the ever-popular "enhanced interrogations". n/t hughee99 Dec 2014 #2

So now two white cops have gotten off (pun unintentionally intended) for killing black suspects. Atman Dec 2014 #4

Those pricks said that about cameras? NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #5

No. The President is not a dictator. yeoman6987 Dec 2014 #8

They can STOP buying tanks and buy cameras. Obama could tie losing funding to it NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #13

Every surf/ski/snowboard punk has a GoPro. Atman Dec 2014 #11

Alice winetourdriver Dec 2014 #6

You'd think they're doing on purpose to incite a race riot. GeorgeGist Dec 2014 #7

This is why I can't participate in protest demonstrations. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #9

I agree 'shit's gonna get real' elias49 Dec 2014 #10

Well - now that I know it was EVC vs. choking... CincyDem Dec 2014 #12

Another defender said on cable news it wasn't a chokehold, it was a 'seatbelt maneuver' pinboy3niner Dec 2014 #14