[ChildOfThe60s]

A Man has his neck snapped — and your reaction is to post a racist cartoon?

If, as it seems to appear so far, the victim's death was a serious travesty, then justice is required.

While I agree with your comment, I must admit an observation occurs to me. I don't believe my observation is racist, yet I imagine it would be considered so.

One is given to wonder why white people aren't rioting and retaliating against blacks when a white person is crippled or murdered by a black knockout attack, which is 100% racially inspired, everyone knows it to be so and it probably happens more frequently than white police killing a black man.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

One is given to wonder why white people aren't rioting and retaliating against blacks when a white person is crippled or murdered by a black knockout attack, which is 100% racially inspired, everyone knows it to be so and it probably happens more frequently than white police killing a black man.

Of course your observation is not racist (and, of course, there are some who would portray it as racist).

That said, your observation misses the point. The difference between "knockout-game" type attacks and police abuses is that the former are crimes carried out by private citizens, while the latter are carried out by police officers, acting in their capacity as agents of the state. That is, or should be, troubling to anyone and everyone - black, white, hispanic, asian, whatever.

[justa-hairyape]

Have no sympathy for thugs who want to live the thug live but fail to stand up like a man to the consequences. If you run from the police, you need to consider that, you could get shot in the back or hurt in an aggressive take down. That is exactly what would go through my mind if caught in that circumstance. What the heck is going through these pansies minds ? Oh the police wont shoot me cause my brothers will riot ? That is no man. That is no thug. They want the thug life with no consequences. If they get it, goodbye Orioles, goodbye Baltimore then goodbye country.