RE: Brown and the word "robbery".....
August 22, 2014 at 10:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2014 at 10:31 pm by paulpablo.)
I don't think the police should have the authority to go round killing people like that but I'm not sorry the guy was shot and killed, he looks like the kind of guy who would be a neighbor from hell.
I don't see how the word robbery is bullshit, it just means taking something by force or threatening behavior. I'm not a lawyer but surely shoplifting is something different, where there's no aggression and the the goods are taken unlawfully either by stealth or by speed (grabbing and running).
I live in England and I think the police sometimes act tyrannical over here so in America I've heard it's much worse, but on the other hand I don't think the word robbery is bullshit and this is one of those cases where I'm not sorry the guy was shot dead, he looked like a gangster or wanna be gangster and a bully.
And NOT just because he was black, I would say the same thing if he was a white 6ft 4inch guy pushing people around in a shop, stealing things, and after seeing photos of him holding up gang signs.
I always think before people give sympathy to someone like this they should imagine what it would be like to live next door to them, or be a store owner in their neighborhood.
I don't see how the word robbery is bullshit, it just means taking something by force or threatening behavior. I'm not a lawyer but surely shoplifting is something different, where there's no aggression and the the goods are taken unlawfully either by stealth or by speed (grabbing and running).
I live in England and I think the police sometimes act tyrannical over here so in America I've heard it's much worse, but on the other hand I don't think the word robbery is bullshit and this is one of those cases where I'm not sorry the guy was shot dead, he looked like a gangster or wanna be gangster and a bully.
And NOT just because he was black, I would say the same thing if he was a white 6ft 4inch guy pushing people around in a shop, stealing things, and after seeing photos of him holding up gang signs.
I always think before people give sympathy to someone like this they should imagine what it would be like to live next door to them, or be a store owner in their neighborhood.
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