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With regard to the Dempsey shooting, there is a legal term for what lying about circumstances surrounding one's actions in the commission of a crime might indicate. The term is "consciousness of guilt."

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Needz moar "fuck off's."

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http://www.freep.com/story/...

Posted this yesterday. Posting again because same facts as NYPD shooting. FWIW, witnesses did not see the victim in this case hitting the shooter. Shooter, who was 69 yeas old, got 27 to 50.

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of course the cops have no problem when fans wear Confederate flag tee-shirts

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while there are a few there are nowhere near the weekly, all too often daily, ones for black or brown peoples...

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RG should stick with Opera Buffa. Opera Seria is not his forte.

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Data is based on number of shootings, beatings, etc. per incident of police detention. So if your article says that a black guy is, say, 90% as likely to get shot by a policeman as a white guy per stop, and if black guys get stopped and detained by the police twice as often (e.g. "driving while black") then it works out that black guys get shot 1.8 times as often. Now guess how many times Philandro Castile got stopped by police in the last 14 years.

http://www.twincities.com/2...

How many times were you stopped by the police in the last 14 years?

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Have we seriously entered a phase where people will piss someone off, then get so scared that they will be treated just as poorly that they feel justified in shooting the person they mistreated.

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You know when I hear Rudy Giuliani speak I'm reminded that this guy was a fucking US attorney....part of his job was to bring cases against police officers for federal violations of civil rights. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the number his office investigated and brought against police: 0.

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You should say that....I've come out and asked Trump supporters if the reason they support Trump is because they can say "wetback" again.

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All of this. Too bad they can't say "white person with a gun" like they want to.

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Hey, Rudy: yes, black youth, as citizens, must learn to respect cops and the rule of law. On the other hand, cops, also as citizens, must respect the rule of law and the lives of those whom they have sworn an oath "to serve and protect." See? So simple even a media whore can understand it.

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He didn't even say "911"! Is he feeling okay?

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FFS to infinity and beyond.

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I literally think it every time she says something dumb about BLM. She's a nice woman, just dumb and raised in the South, so I try to just let it roll off my back. You have to hold your tongue a lot when you live in the South.

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Oh, I think you're overestimating the ability of media whores to understand pretty basic concepts.

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