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Why do we allow toy guns to even be sold if holding one in public is a crime? Is holding a toy gun in public a crime?
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Probably not, but why risk it? You’re better off brandishing a real one. Then you’ll not only be completely blameless, but you’ll become a champion of oppressed gun lurvers everywhere.
So the next time you have an urge to twirl a toy gun on your finger inside the confines of your car, do the smart thing: bring a real shot gun into Walmart and rack a few shells in there instead. One creates a “public concern” and the other doesn’t. This is just common sense, people.
Police responded to both calls. Problem solved.
VICE has the story and the video.
Here is a direct link to the video.
I see Ferrell walking calmly towards the officers, then for some reason at about :07 he accelerates. Much yelling and gunshots follow, all of it off-camera.
The VICE article says there is other dashcam footage that will likely be played at trial.
LA Times fires editorial cartoonist Ted Rall over “polite encounter” with police.
Ted was fired because his encounter as a pedestrian with a motorcycle cop in 2001 did not jive with the evidence presented by the LAPD according to his editor, Nicholas Goldberg.
In the meanwhile, others investigated the evidence more deeply and concludes that Ted was indeed speaking the truth. It goes downhill from there.
So far, the LA Times has not responded to the new information as of this posting.
The Ted Rall story has been blowing up all over the internet the past couple of days since Rall posted the enhanced audio. Sure seems like he’s got more evidence on his side in both that incident and in his notions of what kind of people the LAPD really are, IMO. (And now we know that at least one guy at the LA Times is a schmuck too.)
Ted Rall and Dan Perkins are my two current fav political/social cartoonists, so I’d hate to Ted take a fall for this. Even if the LAPD version was 100% accurate, this doesn’t seem to rise to the level of Brian Williams-type embellishment to me, but that could be my own bias.
That solved the problems, did they? The kid with the toy got handcuffed; the rednecks with the shot-guns got Twitter followers. Hardly an equitable state of affairs for both calls (only one of which was an actual dangerous situation in the first place).
Life isn’t fair. In fact, sometimes, life’s a bitch. You seem to forget that the shotgun toter was arrested.
Twitter followers are still Twitter followers. Bless their hearts. :eek:
I find your use of the term “rednecks” to be offensive. You know the PC liberal/progressive rule about just one person finding something offensive, don’t you?
No, but I know the Jack Batty rule. Guess how many shits I give.
One per post, but I’m just guessing.
When will people learn: going on dates with members of the opposite sex is dangerous!
You’re a little high. As I always suspected.
I liked this tweet that was included in the article:
Arlington, Texas this time. Anyone want to guess the skin colors of the deceased and the cop who shot him?
When will our barbaric society stop acting like Driving Through The Front Of A Building While Black is a crime or something?
I’m not sure why you keep commenting. We already understand that you want the police to be judge, jury, and executioner. Some of us actually like suspects, particularly unarmed suspects, to live long enough to actually be indicted and tried in a court of law.
So it was automatically a crime in progress and the suspect got what he deserved, is that it?
There’s not enough information in this article to come to a conclusion. Your leap to “White cop executes innocent black youth because RACISM” is the unfounded one.
Your lot keep throwing the word “unarmed” around like it’s some sort of magic talisman that grants someone immunity from the consequences of their actions.
I, for one, am shocked that no one here wants to call out the blatantly racist cops who are hunting down and executing people for Driving While White.