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Chris Fox's avatar

I figured you would say that. I don't blame you for being weary of the racial presumption when we're talking about cops. But this was a kid ringing a doorbell.

Do you think he pulls a gun on Mormon missionaries? Jehovah's Witnesses? Census takers? Fedex deliveries? His mailman?

Sorry, but in my mind this one is cut and dried. And after he made his statement the conclusion of racist motive was amplified.

Ralph Yawl plays bass clarinet. He's a rarity, not rotting his mind on hiphop. I feel especially supportive and I hope his assailant rots in prison.

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Steve QJ's avatar

“But this was a kid ringing a doorbell.”

Oh, make no mistake, I’m not in any way defending him. But the cultural and psychological forces that make a tragedy like this possible are just as unthinking as those that power gender ideologues and Trump fanatics. It’s one of the few topics where I have no hope of reason and logic or even human decency breaking through. If it could, it would have after Sandy Hook.

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