gbaji wrote:
angrymnk wrote:
When you say "acted identically" would you be willing to elaborate?
I mean "acted identically". As in, whatever Brown did, this hypothetical white version of him did. What part of the phrase is confusing you?
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What do you think happened?
What do you think happened? Let's pretend that whatever version of events you believe is true. Now, replace Brown with a white male of the same age and size, who did exactly the same actions that Brown did. Now. Ask yourself if the cop would have done anything differently.
I don't believe that the cop would have. You're free to disagree though. I just happen to think it's a crappy argument to blame it all on skin color purely because one of the people involved was black. It's utterly circular and meaningless to do that. Why don't you point out specifically what you think happened and what you think the cop would have done differently if the subject in question had been white instead of black.
Can you do that? And I don't want generalities. Be specific. Not sure why I'm asking this because the last thread where I asked you to provide an example to support your case, you just tap danced around for two pages. I expect more of the same.
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I have read a good portion of gj transcript ( I may have even linked it ) and I am not convinced to supports cop's version of the story.
Or are we immediately siding with his version?
Not immediately, no. However, the physical evidence supports his story and not the "hands up, don't shoot" version. The eye witness accounts largely corroborate his story as well. How much do you need to accept that his version is at least mostly accurate on the core details?
Eh, I occasionally forget that I am talking to you and I each sentence should be written in a way that is easily understood by you.
When I ask you to elaborate on acting identically, I do mean I would like you to elaborate. No joke, no fooling, no april fools; I would like you to tell me a little bit about what YOU THINK TRANSPIRED so that then we can compare it to the white version of events and then see if they could be identical.
Why you ask? Well, many reasons really, but it may be illuminating either way. So I want you to do the same thing you, apparently, want me to do. I am not holding my breath as you already shown general unwillingness to bend to any kind of polite requests ( as you did in previous unrelated thread - see what I did there ).
As for witness testimony, it seems somewhat contradictory. Naturally, the cop stated it was justified. No conflict of interest there. The dead kid can't say anything, but he was a thug so it is ok. He probably would incriminate himself anyway. As for the rest, it varies. His friend certainly did not support cop's statements.. But yeah, the cop's word is worth three regular Joe's words.
And there is a reason for this, we all know cops are not human. They are paragons of justice sent from heaven by God himself to defend us against the darkness and all that it brings with it. They are not human and certainly would not lie to serve their agenda. They certainly would not alter the story. They certainly would not resort to distortion, omission, character assassination, intimidation, violence if it suited their purposes. Nop.
So Gbaji, why is the cop, who is also happens to be a suspect here, more trustworthy here?
Is he not human?
Also, by your demand, what I think happened ( based by the testimony of the friend and link to the guy doing the nasty with new gf over skype ), cop saw kids jaywalking, cop talked to the kids through the window, grabbed the bigger kid, the kid managed to break away and started running away, the cop emptied entire magazine from the car ( mind you ) at a kid that was running away.
How is running away less plausible than demon like thug chaerging at me? If I had a gun pointed at me, I would run.