Posted on 10/28/2014 9:58:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The frustration from Charleston Daily Mail's editor and publisher Brad McElhinny was clear when TPM reach him by phone on Tuesday afternoon.
"I've had better days," he said.
His exasperation was understandable. On Saturday, Don Surber, the West Virginia paper's lone editorial columnist, took to his personal blog to offer his thoughts on "police brutality" and the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
"This summer I had an epiphany as I watched packs of racists riot in Ferguson, Missouri, in support of a gigantic thug who was higher than a kite when he attacked Ferguson Police Department Officer Darren Wilson, who unfortunately had to put this animal down," Surber wrote.
By Sunday morning, Surber appended an update to the top of the post and crossed out the final phrase of the sentence.
"I made a factual error. Michael Brown was not an animal but a man. Big. Brutal. High," Surber wrote in the update. "His death was a justifiable homicide and not a putting down."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...
Truth sometimes hurts.
Does Don Surber work for Eric Holder?
That kind of moronic statement is guaranteed to keep the trouble in Ferguson alive through election day.
“Truth sometimes hurts”
so I wouldn’t say its true he had to be put down like an animal. but the other extreme also is not true. the usual narrative when a black youth gets killed, he was gentle, a good son, and turning his life around.
Truth is illegal. Report to the Ministry of Truth for reeducation.
You can use the statement in a bar...but not publish it. Fuel=fire.
No, Micheal Brown was not an animal, he just acted like one.
12 more stores and 256 more LED TV’s will be looted because of this.
So sorry, on my way ... my bad. ;-)
A speck in the ocean compared to the thousands of idiots who declared Wilson guilty from the get go, not to mention tearing up property and injuring innocent people.
Including the publicity seeking, PC pandering Governor of Missouri
the media makes a very big deal out of the fact that the cop didnt know that brown had just knocked off a convenience store, but that’s not the point. The point is that brown assumed that the cop knew that he had just knocked over the store, and that was the reason he was being detained.
thus, the attack against the cop.
His words are tame, and carefully chosen not to offend in my opinion.
IMHO Brown forced Wilson’s hand, and while I wouldn’t blink if I was in the same situation, I don’t envy Wilson in the least. I’ve carried a gun in the course of my employment for over a decade; I’ve come close to dropping the hammer many times but thankfully all of my contacts took my warnings seriously.
Really can’t argue with that.
If a rabid dog was charging me, I’d shoot it, and I love dogs a lot more than... ah never mind.
When the racist black thug murdered 6 and shot 20 in the Long Island Railroad Massacre, a local official called the thug an “animal” for his cold blooded murders, Jessie Jackson called the man a racist for using the term:
http://blackracismandracehatred.blogspot.com/2011/12/long-island-railroad-massacre1993-black.html
And on a related note. This is where it is all leading to:
http://blackracismandracehatred.blogspot.com/search?q=Long+Island+Railroad+massacre
Hey, calling a n***uh a thug is perfectly respectable.
While you’re at it, no white boy is a thug, even if he is a gangsta rapper named Einem.
Dem da rulz.
Brown was no rabid dog; he was the product of a warped culture and piss-poor parenting. That said, his actions still merited the response he received. It’s a shame he had no one in his life to point him in the right direction.
You and I could pour through national papers each day for a week, and find over a hundred instances where a relative, stranger, or cop has had some doped up guy/gal threaten them, and they responded. Some lived....some died.
This is America in 2014. On a given day, you might be at some grocery store parking lot, and note some guy picking up steam from his drug of choice and about to assault some older gal entering the store. It shouldn’t happen, and you shouldn’t have to be the one fixing the problem. By the end of the day....one less doper on the streets.
The nation doesn’t see this for the most part. Cops and prosecutors almost never want a toxicology report done because it’s best to leave these episodes as “mysterious”. If we did one on each single guy/gal put down....after a while, we’d all agree, there is s drug issue and it’s gotten way out of hand.
Kudos vote to you. Also for your tagline
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