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Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows

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Post by tekknik »

darkerside wrote: post #329
gravy wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only person doing this mental chase here is you. Why don't you just come out and say what you mean? If you're really this confrontational about "the color" black being tied to darkness since pre-history (not much of a stretch there) and the significance of darkness being the physical manifestation of something like "evil" (also since pre-history) EDIT: and why "evil" is "intimidating", then nobody should take you…

Thank you, and I'm sorry!

No I’m sorry. We still don’t have a reason why grown adults are scared of a color and we can’t even talk about it without it becoming a race thing. What a world the democrats have made.

Re: Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows

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Post by darkerside »

tekknik wrote: post #331
darkerside wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you, and I'm sorry!

No I’m sorry. We still don’t have a reason why grown adults are scared of a color and we can’t even talk about it without it becoming a race thing. What a world the democrats have made.

I didn't make it a race thing. With all due respect, which is very little based on your comportment in this discussion, kindly find another community to flame.

Re: Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows

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Post by tekknik »

darkerside wrote: post #332
tekknik wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No I’m sorry. We still don’t have a reason why grown adults are scared of a color and we can’t even talk about it without it becoming a race thing. What a world the democrats have made.

I didn't make it a race thing. With all due respect, which is very little based on your comportment in this discussion, kindly find another community to flame.

what exactly are you talking about? Read. nobody but you two are making it a race thing. It’s a simple question, why does the color black make something look intimidating. You said it first and now you’re trying to make it a race thing to avoid explaining why the color black is scary on a gun. If you can answer a non racial question about a color then perhaps you should grow up?

Let’s make this real simple for you two what makes a black gun more scary or dangerous than one painted pastel? A rational human would say there’s no difference. A gun is a gun. But you have a certain class of people claiming very interesting and dangerous things about the looks of items. It has nothing to do with color, nobody is overtly calling you a racist, it’s a question to find out why you think the way you do because maybe public education on why guns are black is warranted.

Re: Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows

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Post by yeetawayhn »

jakelazaroff wrote: post #180
yeetawayhn wrote: post #158

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People conveniently leave out that it was the front door of a suspected drug dealer who had a previous weapons charge and had guards. https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/30/us/georgia-toddler-injured-st... So the suspected drug dealer was using the baby as a human shield.

Your article does not support your assertion: > Because the suspected drug dealer, Wanis Thonetheva, had a previous weapons charge, officers were issued a "no-knock warrant" for the residence, Terrell said. > Thonetheva, 30, was not at the home at the time of the raid, but the toddler's mother and father and their other three children were inside. Not only was the raid unannounced, but the suspected drug dealer wasn'…

None of that refutes the comment you are responding to.

The suspected drug dealer did have a weapons charge, and the baby was placed in the way of the the front door of his residence.

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Communitivity wrote: post #34

We should be careful to draw a causal relationship here. It might not be that getting the military equipment causes police to be more aggressive and therefore have more killings. It might instead be that the more aggressive police departments are the ones that more seek to purchase military equipment, and the more aggressive police are the ones with more killings. I tend to think that's the case. Regardless, there is…

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