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[–]Richard_Parker[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Right, if the neighbor guy did not post it, it would have all been swept under the rug.

I think it is a borderline case. I do not like that it galvanizes this lefty attitude that we should sit and take blackies committing all sorts of crime with impunity.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Yes, that attitude is wrong too, but killing a dude, black or not, on SUSPICION OF THEFT is not right. Take a cellphone, film the guy. Point a gun at him and tell him to stop and get his hands up while the cops are coming. Shoot him in the leg. I don't know...

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Oh for fuck's sake. Travis did not shoot him on suspicion of burglary. He shot Arbery when the Arbery went for the gun.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

He obviously didn't have the competence of using a firearm correctly then. When you pull out a gun, it's either because your life is threatened, or you MAKE DAMNED SURE the target isn't coming for it. There were 2 of them, no reason for shooting.

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Wrong.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I meant to write there SHOULD HAVE BEEN no reason for shooting.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Point a gun at him and tell him to stop and get his hands up while the cops are coming.

That can still be legally dicey. But that's exactly what they did, or tried to do. However, Africans are a highly psychopathic race*, and one of the characteristic traits of psychopathy is fearless dominance - the sort of thing that makes someone think charging someone who's holding a shotgun is a good idea.

*Jews are a highly psychopathic race too, but they have a high enough average intelligence to do more white-collar crimes, rather than winding up in prison for impulsive violent crimes, the way 1-in-3 black men do.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Legally dicey for sure, but probably carries a lesser sentence than outright killing the guy even if completely unwarranted.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think that's where this went bad. Arbery ran around the truck to take the gun away from McMichael, but McMichael went out of his way to put himself in that position. He should have kept following him in the truck while talking with the police on his cell phone. The only way Arbery could have gotten away was by cutting through someone's yard. One look at that security camera video and the police would know exactly who he was and could have, at the least, served him with a notice of no trespassing. I would have thought that only Travis would have been convicted of murder, and only manslaughter at that, but I guess the jury thought intent was there when they got the "posse" together. Maybe something will happen on appeal since the judge took "citizen's arrest" off the table.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, you point a gun at somebody, just make damn sure he stays put. Keep some distance, get your helper to tackle if the guy charges, etc.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I couldn't agree more.