SWB: Shopping While Black

[Murkwood]

I'm not saying if Justice has been served or not. I'm just saying that neither you nor I can know.

And since you weren't on the jury you can't know whether I know.

It's seriously like you're intentionally missing my point.

That's impossible, as you commented on the case in this thread. If you were on the jury then you just broke the law, which I doubt you'd do. If you were on the jury and had proof of a miscarriage of Justice then I doubt your first reaction would be NSG.

Also, doesn't the acquittal have to be unanimous?

[The Black Forrest]

My iPhone is black; does that count?

[The Rich Port]

My iPhone is black; does that count?

HE HAS A BLACK MAN IN HIS POCKET. SHOOT HIM.

[Mavorpen]

And since you weren't on the jury you can't know whether I know.

It's seriously like you're intentionally missing my point.

That's impossible, as you commented on the case in this thread. If you were on the jury then you just broke the law, which I doubt you'd do.

I never said I was on the jury. Yeah, really seems like you're trying to miss the point.

[Murkwood]

That's impossible, as you commented on the case in this thread. If you were on the jury then you just broke the law, which I doubt you'd do.

I never said I was on the jury. Yeah, really seems like you're trying to miss the point.

You said I can't know if you weren't on the jury, which is the only way you could know if Justice had been served.

You aren't on the jury, so it's extremely unlikely for you to know if Justice has been served or not.

You aren't on the jury, so it's extremely unlikely for you to know if I know if justice has been served or not.

[Mons Garle]

You'd think the title is a joke, but it's not.

22 year old John Crawford was shot and killed by police, in an Ohio Walmart store.
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His crime? Shopping for an air gun in the store. His sentence? Death by cop.

Basically, a racist fuckwit called the police because he saw a black man with the audacity to consider purchasing a wal-mart product. Is he certainly racist? No, maybe he's just really, really fucking stupid. Like, really stupid.

Thoughts, NSG? Should the dumbass who called the police face time for this?

Even if there wasn't a racial bias, there was no particular reason why this man should have been shot dead - so of course the policeman should be punished for it. From what I can see here he had absolutely no justification to shoot him. If it was racially motivated then that just adds to the seriousness of it all.

This "Shopping While Black" thing shocked me when I first heard of it in the UK - I saw an episode of the show What Would You Do, where this phenomenon was featured, I was stunned! And so were the Brits who walked out of the shop with the black lady!

[Ifreann]

And since you weren't on the jury you can't know whether I know.

It's seriously like you're intentionally missing my point.

That's impossible, as you commented on the case in this thread. If you were on the jury then you just broke the law, which I doubt you'd do. If you were on the jury and had proof of a miscarriage of Justice then I doubt your first reaction would be NSG.

Also, doesn't the acquittal have to be unanimous?

To be clear, there wasn't a trial. A grand jury issued no indictments. No one was acquitted of anything.

[Mavorpen]

I never said I was on the jury. Yeah, really seems like you're trying to miss the point.

You said I can't know if you weren't on the jury, which is the only way you could know if Justice had been served.

You aren't on the jury, so it's extremely unlikely for you to know if I know if justice has been served or not.

No, I didn't. Read it again. I mean, ACTUALLY read it.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

And, of course, the grand jury chose not to indict. This is a gross miscarriage of justice.

You don't have all the facts, so you can't know.

Holy shit.

The man was talking on the phone. The "gun" was pointed downwards, not pointed towards the police or anyone else. His finger was not on the trigger. He was facing AWAY from the officers, and in fact, was not facing any person or people. There was absolutely no threat whatsoever taking place.

Is there no straw that you will not grasp at, no depth that you will not sink to, in order to justify the utterly unjustifiable shooting of an innocent black man?

[Yumyumsuppertime]

what the fucking fuck marinated in fuck sauce this makes me so angry

watch the language, try to be more civil

Fuck that. You're not a moderator, and not either of Thafoo's parents.

[Pope Joan]

My supervisor, a full professor, came here from West Africa. He was unable to live near our headquarters, because whenever he went shopping security would tail him from the time he entered the store until he got in his car. This is supposedly a "classy" town.

[Imperializt Russia]

Why are you writing off the possibility of a miscarriage of justice?

I'm not writing that off. I'm doing the opposite. I'm saying that the jury acquitted him, so obviously they were convinced by something. Maybe that's right, maybe that not. We can't know either way.

"A miscarriage of justice primarily is the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime he or she did not commit. The term can also apply to errors in the other direction—"errors of impunity", and to civil cases."