General Police Misconduct aka Murdering Black People

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The 95 year old guy sucks but I hardly see an epidemic of cops going around randomly shooting people.

Nobody here EVER said "randomly." Nobody. You said that. Nobody here said that. (Although, links provided said 419 people were killed by cops in 2013. See Timinator's post + see this.) Again, you are not reading this thread. Nobody is ignorantly playing the race card, here. We aren't that stupid. We are discussing all legal angles, intelligently. Again, if you really want to join the discussion, you should read the entire thread and the links. The many articles posted illustrate the issues, here, and we have discussed those articles. Most of those articles have illustrated how we got here, and propose how we fix it. You can't just cherry-pick one sentence in one post that was in response to somebody else and use it to push your own agenda and not come across as somebody who doesn't know how to debate.

Here are some of the links that we have read and discussed:

http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014...ilitary/87163/
http://time.com/3111474/rand-paul-fe...medium=twitter
http://www.steynonline.com/6524/cigars-but-not-close
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5693020.html
http://m.theatlantic.com/national/ar...dition/378883/
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local...bery/14118769/
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08...source-sa.html
http://online.wsj.com/articles/what-...ras-1408320244
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._Connor


Up until the point where you came in, we had kept it pretty civil in here; we'd actually managed to keep it to legal aspects and we weighed the different sides of the stories from all sides. You were the first to come in with the race molotov troll cocktail.

And at this point, I suggest that we all ignore this aspect of it and not take the bait and keep this civil and intelligent.

How insane is it that a GOP candidate leans more left on a huge list of social topics than any democrat who could land in the white house next election? Drug War, Police militarization, Wall Street, NSA, War on Terror, etc.

I dunno, the GOP has been leaning toward Libertarianism for a while, and Libertarianism is clearly left-leaning social-wise and less-government wise. The Democratic party is actually more conservative than Eisenhower Republicans at this point. But, we probably shouldn't go all political in here, eh?