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    NumberTenOxBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 6:51pm

    Interesting how white cops generally just get dismissed from the force, while non-white cops are charged with crimes for doing the same things.

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      ad infinitumNumberTenOx
      12/10/15 6:54pm

      Hell, most of the time they don’t even get dismissed. They get a paid vacation, and then they go back to work.

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      CaptainButtersNumberTenOx
      12/10/15 6:55pm

      The Greenhouse Effect?

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    jrfunkensteinBrendan O'Connor
    12/11/15 6:28am

    Things might have been different had these two had the benefit of McCarthy, Emanuel and Alvarez on their defense team.

    Ever notice how when a Black cop does something unlawful, there’s no attempt to suppress video evidence, no hue and cry fom the police union and no effort made to vigorously defend him/her?

    Why can I fucking gurantee you won’t see that murderous cop apologist Harry Houck claiming these two are innocent because they did their duty and followed the letter of the law?

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      No Thang but a Chicken Wangjrfunkenstein
      12/11/15 8:40am

      Because the cases are different. Since so many people are comparing this case to the Tamir Rice case. With Tamir Rice there was a report of an armed teenager pointing a gun at people and the video was not the best quality. This is different from this case where the boy and his father were cornered and executed and reports of rampant corruption like in Louisiana.

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      ARealBarnBurnerjrfunkenstein
      12/11/15 11:21am

      “Ever notice how I’m using this one case to generalize without citing any study, other examples, or anything besides how I feel things are?”

      Fixed that for you.

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    NefertittiesBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 6:52pm

    It’s kind of surprising that this isn’t bigger in the right wing media. Although I guess I wouldn’t necessarily know if it were, since most of my media from that side of the cliff comes a few errant facebook folk. I don’t want to get out my tinfoil hat or anything, but you have, on the one hand, two brown suspects who killed a white child. On the other hand, they are police officers. I wonder if this fell into some sort of Amurrican conundrum vortex of velveeta and half-hearted chants of “USA”.

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      DelMonteFashionPeasNefertitties
      12/10/15 7:05pm

      Given the reportedly bizarre structure and duties of this particular police force, I would think any honest, rational discussion of this story naturally leads to a discussion about police standards and the need for greater consistency from department to department. This doesn’t seem like a high priority for the political right in this country.

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      ElectricSonNefertitties
      12/10/15 7:22pm

      It’s pretty simple how it works. Black males can be killed with impunity by white cops. Black males can be killed with less impunity by black cops. White males can usually be killed by white cops with minimal hassle. White males killed by black cops triggers a deep investigation, more often than not resulting in the officer being cleared. Black male children generally follow this pattern. White children killed by black cops results in rapid indictment, release of video footage, naming of involved officers and near certain punishment. Black officer killing white female = death.

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    Bernie's DanderBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 6:54pm

    I feel so badly for these marginalized people of color that I....oh, wait a minute! This story doesn't fit that narrative at all.

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      youarokBernie's Dander
      12/10/15 6:59pm

      Very true. The black men were arrested immediately and indicted while Tamir Rice’s murderer is still walking free. Had the races been reversed, these cops would be getting rich off gofundme while vacationing in the bahamas.

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    Uncle-Remus-reaming-fetusBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 6:43pm

    This just goes to show you that police brutality is so systematic that it has completely transcended race. The officer who shot the man in the back in South Carolina is white, three of the officers in the Freddie grey case are black, the officer and victim in the Miami bank robbery shooting are both white (officer Latino, actually), and these two officers who killed the tot are black. Perhaps #alllives do matter, after all.

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      foolyooUncle-Remus-reaming-fetus
      12/10/15 6:49pm

      Or we would all benefit from policing reform that BLM demands.

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      Pedestrian2000Uncle-Remus-reaming-fetus
      12/10/15 6:51pm

      One white kid tragically gets shot by ignorant, militarized police, and all of a sudden police brutality isn’t a racial thing. Hmm. Well, if I squint my eyes tightly enough and ignore decade after decade of evidence to the contrary, yeah, I could see your point.

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    Fresh Courage TakeBrendan O'Connor
    12/10/15 7:00pm

    Oh, yeah . . . this is the case where the crooked cops tried to execute the grifter dad in some kind of drug deal gone wrong on the Bayou.

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      DasGuruBrendan O'Connor
      12/10/15 7:03pm

      I used to live about 45 minutes away from Marksville and they have had a casino there for about 15ish years that is the sole reason that entire town isn’t abandoned. You can imagine what type of corruption that creates. Marksville is also about 45 minutes away from Jena, La which is where the whole Jena 6 debacle happened several years ago. Needless to say race relations aren’t the best around there.

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        sk04Brendan O'Connor
        12/10/15 8:07pm

        It’s a step.

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          redrobot5Brendan O'Connor
          12/10/15 7:24pm

          loooking forward to reading about their painful incarcerated demise a few years from now.

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            BusyHornsBrendan O'Connor
            12/10/15 6:47pm

            Mardis’s grandmother, Cathy Mardis, said she wants the footage of her grandson’s shooting to be made public. “There may be some graphic, disturbing images, but I think it needs to be seen,” she told the Advocate.

            Fuck.

            I’m sad, and maybe a little inspired by her strength and sense of right.

            When Cathy Mardis heard State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmondson refer to the video as “one of the most disturbing scenes” he’d ever seen, she said she felt “physically ill.”

            I can’t imagine how that felt. Good god.

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