I'm from Britain so I only know what our news has told us really, from what I get a black teen was shot dead by a white officer. I don't know if he was a criminal or not, but police or not murder is murder without reason. Was the guy carrying a weapon? Was he a threat?
We had something similar last year, a soldier was run down and then decapitated in the street. This was done by two black guys who didn't know the soldier. Instead of being shot on sight they were hit with tasers and now are doing two life sentences.
I think American police from how the media and Internet describe them, are to trigger happy, and it needs to stop. And of course since Ferguson, more and more videos are popping up of unnecessary police brutality. Although personally, if you have a country where most people own guns, having armed police is going to happen
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Edited by CaptKrunch: 11/26/2014 7:32:40 PMThe office felt his life was in danger. (And the kid did physically assault him). Blame the way police are trained, not the officer for following protocol. He also said his taser was not on him. The jury was right IMO.
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Edited by Der Todesengel: 11/26/2014 5:23:25 PM[quote] Instead of being shot on sight they were hit with tasers and now are doing two life sentences. [/quote] Wrong. They were both shot by police, not "Tasered" - Der
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Ah my bad, thanks for clearing that bit up for me
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Just curious how is the whole race issue where you are from?
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About the same over here, where I live in perticuar there's a segregation of Muslim and 'white' people, the town is literally split in half, but country wise we have our equivalent of the kkk ( called the EDL) and all they do is cause problems. I think racism is pretty world wide in one way or another, I personally hate it
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Yea it is a plague. I live in the south part of the U.S. and it has always been a problem
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Officer Wilson didn't have a taser. If he did the entire ordeal might've ended differently.