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    So all NBA cancelled due to players sitting out in protest.
     
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    I'm sure someone will be disappointed.
     
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    Thank God! I wish it would dissolve...
     
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    So I am still not sure what is going on. It says he drove across state lines to be there. Was this some kind of vigilante deal? Was he protecting a family members' or friends' business? This all is so uncivilized to me. I am all for protecting yourself and property..but I just don't know enough about this one.
     
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    What I thought was the case,is not the case.

    He went there from IL to, basically as you referred to, act as a keeper of the peace ala vigalanteeism and supposedly he was illegally in possession of the rifle he used.

    Seen somewhere his dad is LEO, but nit sure the validity of it. I was basing all of my assumptions on a somewhat reliable but not always unbiased source. Didn't have internet signal to watch all videos involved and their information this morning was obviously all incorrect.

    Ignore anything I said previously as a result :lol:

    Most of what's transpiring today, the rioting and destructiin, is a direct result of Ferguson/Baltimore and allowing it to happen and then in Ferguson armed militia groups moved in to protect businesses so now more will see that as the next step.
     
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    Hell my kid tried running away from home and I forced the cops to put out an arrest order on him....he then called me and said " Whats wrong with you having me arrested!!! Im your kid"
    My responsibility until your 18 so heres,your choice . Jail or straighten your azz out. He was home within the hour. Never tried that again. So nope I can't imagine!
     
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    Note he kept saying his " job" and " part of his job " I thinkhe was recruited and paid.
     
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    Yeah, after watching Tucker a few weeks back it was obvious what had happened, yet no one can say it.

    When the cop approached the car, the way he came up from the steering wheel as if almost passed out, the erratic behavior, paranoia, inability to follow directions and an endless list of tell tell signs to something more is amiss than a man in fear of the police. yet, much like the "hands up don't shoot mantra, the I can't breathe mantra will stand.

    That in no way justifies the officers kneeling action, but it will likely lead to an acquittal as while negligence was seen by the officer, I doubt they can beyond reasonable doubt his death was a result of the knee to the back of the neck and not an overdose once this gets to trial.
     
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    Saw this and it applies to me perfectly.

    “I’m smart enough to realize that I’m too stupid to know the answers to complex social issues.”


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    I think 85% of Americans fit that statement, if only we could find that remaining 15% and listen to them.

    I don't know what the answer is, I just know that I don't believe reparations will solve it, money only lasts so long, getting rid of law enforcement won't solve it, why would we need laws, socialism won't solve it, that would definitely make it worse.

    I wish the answer was as simple as the multi decade law and policy makers State/Federal alike would lead us to believe every two years, yet year after year their promises go unmet and not kept, yet year after year the same ones are elected in.

    Hate Trump? How about we start holding those that make the same promises year after year after year accountable? I think congressional term limits need to be implemented, same 8 years as the presidential term limits.

    Lets start at the top and work our way down, see where it improves and where it still has issues and work from there.

    Don't know where else to start other than those who have controlled the longest.
     
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