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MrScorpio

(73,709 posts)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 08:49 AM Aug 2016

Cops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them Part 10

Jesse Williams: “We know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.”

10. After engaging in a shooting spree that ended in a standoff with the New Orleans Police Department, Derrick Daniel Thomas, was arrested.



He was later booked on five counts of aggravated assault.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/04/suspect_who_terrorized_7th_war.html
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Cops Successfully Disarm A White Person Without Killing Them Part 10 (Original Post) MrScorpio Aug 2016 OP
We know it about all people... pipoman Aug 2016 #1
If police officers continue to kill minorities without cause it will lead more to LiberalFighter Aug 2016 #2
And the result of that is more shootngs Travis_0004 Aug 2016 #6
Yeah - well - cuz we know "White lives matter" right ? sheesh. n/t CincyDem Aug 2016 #3
Well, sometimes all lives matter. Sometimes. DetlefK Aug 2016 #4
All lives never mattered Coolest Ranger Aug 2016 #8
Is this supposed to be a bad thing? Leontius Aug 2016 #5
Yes Coolest Ranger Aug 2016 #7
And you know they don't ? Leontius Aug 2016 #9
I know that for a fact Coolest Ranger Aug 2016 #10
I just find it odd that you say it was a bad outcome that this man was not shot and killed. Leontius Aug 2016 #11

LiberalFighter

(53,452 posts)
2. If police officers continue to kill minorities without cause it will lead more to
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 09:04 AM
Aug 2016

minorities fighting back. Because it will be in their mind that if they don't they will die.

Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)
10. I know that for a fact
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 06:46 AM
Aug 2016

but do you get off on coming into the African American group and telling someone who is black they don't know what they are talking about when they been on the receiving end of police harassment and who sees this happening in his community day in and day out

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