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Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thread

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:14 pm
by Mongrel
http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-jury-m ... d=22503778

More fun news about white men shooting black teenagers until they are dead


Everything else aside, how could basic facts like "Was he in or out of the car when shot to death" and "Was there a pistol in the SUV?" be in doubt? This obviously just an initial reaction, but it seems like you should be able to find out the former in all but the weirdest situations and have a pretty good chance at finding out the latter. Seems like someone on the investigative/prosecution side fucked up.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:17 am
by TedBelmont
Well, it's the same prosecution team that failed to put George Zimmerman away, so...yeah.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:54 am
by Mongrel
TedBelmont wrote:Well, it's the same prosecution team that failed to put George Zimmerman away, so...yeah.


Holy crap, you've got to be kidding me. :facepalm:

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 1:38 am
by Mothra
A good reflection on the case by, of all people, an actor from Grey's Anatomy. Worth a watch:


Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:08 pm
by Bal
I've never seen that man before in my life, but that was very, very good the way he put all of that.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:05 am
by Mongrel
Image

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:11 am
by beatbandito
You know you're desperate when making your graphs upside down is the only way to make things seem like an improvement.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:46 pm
by Classic
I also note it says "murders".
Which presumably does not include deaths ruled justified by stand your ground.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:46 am
by Joxam
Lets not even get into the fact that the real problem with guns is that there are about twice as many gun suicides a year than murders.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:57 am
by Classic
If for no other reason than it would be really difficult for such violence to fall under the purview of "white guy shoots black teen".

EDIT:
And I know I'm feeling weird again because the first thing I wanted to do was see how the suicide method stats for countries where firearms are more restricted have changed in the past couple of years. Going to not do that.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 6:03 pm
by Mongrel
In lieu of having a general "racial stuff" thread, I'll just put this here. If anyone thinks of a better thread title, post it and I'll change this one.

The Case For Reparations It's another long Atlantic article, one of their better ones.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 11:48 pm
by beatbandito

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 3:06 pm
by Thad
Dunn convicted of murder, gets life without parole.

That's the guy who killed the kid in the SUV in Florida for playing music too loudly. Seeing as, y'know, there have been so many at this point that it's hard to keep track of which is which.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:19 pm
by Mongrel

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:56 pm
by Classic
The kicker on that one is that the indiegogo fundraiser for the Defense Fund for people arrested while demonstrating has less than 10% of its goal at time of writing.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:42 am
by Mongrel
Rudy Giuliani still a complete sack of shit, news at 11
Giuliani: ‘White police officers wouldn’t be there if you weren’t killing each other.’

Stay classy, Rudy!

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 4:33 am
by Joxam
I hate the tired old trope that is "black on black crime". Why can't people understand that almost all crime is intra-racial? This is commentary on segregation not commentary on fucking societal breakdown in a specific race! People are fucking stupid and this shit pisses me off! SO MAD RIGHT NOW.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 4:33 am
by Joxam
Put another way, White on White crime is out of control!!! Possibly even more so than black on black crime.

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 5:28 am
by Mongrel
That Yglesias article is so good. Awww yisss. :D

Re: Sadly, we still need a "white guy shoots black teen" thr

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:14 pm
by Mongrel
No indictment in Ferguson.

Stand by...