Posted on 08/18/2014 10:26:22 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The NRA and Tea Party haven't said a word. Can we just conclude that they don't care about black people?
On August 5, a man named John Crawford was playing with a toy rifle in an Ohio Wal-Mart. Someone called 911, and police showed up and shot him in the chest. He died.
On August 9, a man named Michael Brown was walking in the street in Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer stopped him. According to the friend that was with him, Brown put his hands up to show that he was unarmed. The officer shot him in the back. Brown's body was left in the street for hours before being removed.
Since then, the incident in Ferguson has overshadowed the Ohio Wal-Mart shooting. Protesters have been gathering, and demanding answers from the police, who have become increasingly skittish and violent. Journalists are being told to turn off their cameras, local residents are getting tear gassed.
Nobody knows exactly what happened, but whatever the facts may be, things certainly look bad now. To most Americans, this is the stuff of horror films: A sleepy rural town being terrorised by an advanced military.
All of this then, begs the question: Where is the National Rifle Association (NRA), and where is the Tea Party?
(Excerpt) Read more at m.aljazeera.com ...
Jeeeeezzz....!!
Why send people in support of a dead thug?
Unless they want us to quell the unrest, they should shut up.
So Al Jazeera has no access to an autopsy I read almost two days ago that shows six shots from the front? What kind of budget are they on?
Where’s their report on Christians in Iraq?
maybe because when a pot-smoking thug punhes and rushes a cop who kills him, and the blacks go batsh1t nuts and destroy their neighborhoods, it’s not a safe place for anyone to insert themselves into.
i mean, the nra carries, but they don’t deliberately place themselves in harm’s way.
they do care about the law-abiding black people that aren’t looting and rioting, and therefore are not the ones you see on tv.
The author of the "thoughtpiece". One of those times when a picture says it all. Can't wait for FReepers to weigh in on this! :)
The Tea Party and NRA aren’t there because there is no land of rights to be defended at gun point.
The protesters in St Louis want a cop arrested and they want the police de-militarized.
...you don’t make those political points with civilian firearms. You hold protests and invite in the Attorney General.
The Tea Party has a militia?
Who knew?
Who reads Al Jazero?
Bad hair day .... every day.
Lol
Let the Amish eat each other for all I care
This is just media street theatre now...silly boyz
These people are nuts. Al Jazeera is as insane as MSNBC
Tea Partiers have too much sense to get involved in this madness.
The left might drum up some imposters to ship in.
I hate when they do that.
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/sarc
“According to the friend with him ..” The guy who said he was shot in the back?
As criminal investigators say, “Witnesses lie, but forensic facts do not.” He had no entry wounds. (That’s according to two autopsies, but the feds haven’t had a, uh, shot at the body yet so it may have one when they get done.)
In any event, if the friend lied about the back-shooting, he was probably lying about the “hands up” as well.
Is he from France?
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