" Way down South in the land of Cotton,....Old times there are NOT Forgotten......."

[Dog Wonder]

Those issues are a lot squishier topics.

First the gummint try to take away our bought and paid for human beings, next thing ya know them people will want to eat in respectable places.

 

[Zom JFK]

Ignorance again, Bears? If the War of Northern Aggression were really all about slavery, then why did it take Lincoln ~18 months to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?...

Liberals love to teach that the war was about slavery, but it was ultimately about self determination, and the Federal Government trying to limit state sovereignty and their rights to secede. Those issues are a lot squishier topics, especially when you see how the Feds still try to dictate what individual states can and can't do.

I gotta say, I'm with Eolesen on this one. 100% true.

 

[Dog Wonder]

Celebrating 150 years of losing that war this week?

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Our Boy just got  I N D I C T E D  for MURDER  !

 

[eolesen]

Hardly shocking that he's been indicted, given that he's been in jail for the last two months on the charges.

Still, being indicted is a far ways off from being convicted.

Proving malice and intent? Isn't quite as easily done as it is to show grand jurors a video.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

The ONLY GOOD Thing to come out of it ?
 
It happened in.......SOUTH CAROLINA !!!

 

[eolesen]

Only you would try to find the good in a murder case, Bears...

All I see is two families and seven kids permanently impacted by 15 seconds of poor judgement.

Slager's wife just gave birth, and now has three kids to raise by herself without any hope of child support if he's in prison.

Scott's four children will presumably get SSI, assuming he paid enough years into Social Security, but they'll continue to grow up without their father, and their mother will probably never see any of the $18,000 in child support he owed at the time of his death.

Nope, no good came from any of this.

 

[Kev3188]

Not "good" per se, but my hope is that this case continues to foster the discussion in this country about the use of deadly force, and that some meaningful changes are made.

 

[WorldTraveler]

very true, Kev and E, but let's also not forget that evil must be met with force that is used correctly whether overseas or in the US.

 

[eolesen]

Not "good" per se, but my hope is that this case continues to foster the discussion in this country about the use of deadly force, and that some meaningful changes are made.

When do we start seeing the conversations about meaningful change regarding black-on-black murder, or Latino-on-Latino murder?... Those are something the black and Latino communities should be entirely capable of dealing with head-on, and yet we only see the outrage when it's able to be painted as racism via deadly force.

 

[southwind]

When do we start seeing the conversations about meaningful change regarding black-on-black murder, or Latino-on-Latino murder?... Those are something the black and Latino communities should be entirely capable of dealing with head-on, and yet we only see the outrage when it's able to be painted as racism via deadly force.

Don't want to bring black on black murder into the conversation......doesn't help with the libtards racial agenda!

 

[Kev3188]

I'm not painting it as racism at all. This case is clearly an over reach and misuse of deadly force.

The overall issue is one that transcends race/class.

If someone can explain to me how an unarmed man running /away/ from an officer is a threat, I'd love to hear it.

 

[700UW]

Don't want to bring black on black murder into the conversation......doesn't help with the libtards racial agenda!

BIGOT

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

BIGOT

 
 
Your words '700,..............but I'd change it to.....M O R O N I C ....BIGOT !

 

[eolesen]

So, the people who focus only on white-on-black crime are normal, and those who ask about black-on-black are bigots?

If #BlackLivesMatter then it shouldn't matter what the race is of the shooter. Why is nobody mentioning the names on the evening news for all the black youth killed in Baltimore or Chicago over the last two weeks who *didn't* get their five minutes of race shaming from Sharpton or Jackson?