http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/08/BART.shooting/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

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"Footage from CNN affiliate KTVU-TV showed demonstrators rampaging through the streets of Oakland, California, protesting the death of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old father who was killed on New Year's Day in a crowded train station."

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"Oakland police tried to keep protesters at bay Wednesday night as they smashed car windshields and storefront windows. KTVU footage shows one protester jumping up and down on a police car hood, while another demonstrator pushes a flaming Dumpster up against it."

Surely smashing windows, destroying other peoples cars, and lighting dumpsters on fire will get our point across!
I am outraged at the act of police brutality also and feel for the family of the guy killed. This does not mean i am going to go out in the street and blow up my neighbors car. I think some people look for any excuse to be cause civil unrest and excuse this kind of chaotic behavior. Also, had this been an asian or white person murdered by police i do not think riots would have broken out.

1/8/2009 6:25:18 PM

1/8/2009 6:59:59 PM

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"Surely smashing windows, destroying other peoples cars, and lighting dumpsters on fire will get our point across! "

It worked for the people of Cyprus when a cop shot a kid.

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"Also, had this been an asian or white person murdered by police i do not think riots would have broken out."

LOL it depends where you live. Rioting has much more to do with perceived socioeconomic standing than anything else.

Chinese riot because police killed girl: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/01/asia/riot.php (and the rioting actually lead to police re-investigating things)

I guess white people don't care about police brutality, but soccer really gets their blood pumping: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/world/europe/13italy.html?_r=1&ref=world

Nothing gets Estonians going like statues: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/estonia-removes-soviet-monument-amid-riots-446516.html

(white) Danish youth riot because the city tried to shut down some kind of hostel: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/03/world/main2533538.shtml

French riot because Sarkozy won the election: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,481677,00.html



^, ^^ racist

1/8/2009 7:56:26 PM

^I'm not racist but I would agree that

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"had this been an asian or white person murdered by police i do not think riots would have broken out"

I fail to see how any of your examples demonstrate how the rioting people had a different socioeconomic standing than others.
If you wanna make an arguement for that then find an example in the US.

1/8/2009 11:14:53 PM

because this is exactly what america needs less than a fortnight before we get a black president

1/8/2009 11:20:38 PM

Did you stock up on ammo?

1/8/2009 11:24:47 PM

directed at me?

1/8/2009 11:44:55 PM

^^yes i did...aint gonna have no president take away my 2nd amendment rights

1/8/2009 11:49:45 PM

^^yes, but sort of jokingly.

Anyway on a serious note, I always have "enough" ammo.
If I didn't have some then now would be a pretty good time to get some...you never know what will happen (aside from gun & ammo ban scares).
Hell, some idiot redneck could start a fight with a black person in rocky mount on the 20th and we could be wrapped up in riots.

1/9/2009 12:12:58 AM

No, if this happened to a white or Asian guy, riots probably would not have broken out.

That's because Oakland does not have a history of perceived racial profiling against whites or Asians. They have a history of perceived racial profiling against blacks.

1/9/2009 12:38:41 AM

i think i riot would be really good mental therapy for me. maybe one will come here. i already kinda flip out on my own sometimes, but it usually ends up badly.

1/9/2009 12:41:09 AM

Sweet Baby Jesus, DNL is armed?

i would gladly surrender my 2nd amendment rights if it keeps guns out of his hands

1/9/2009 12:57:46 AM

^ Regretfully, it wouldn't. He has access to a machine shop and has demonstrated his ability to manufacture a gun from scratch.

1/9/2009 1:52:36 AM

I guess white people don't care about police brutality, but soccer really gets their blood pumping:

lol

1/9/2009 1:58:47 AM

^^uh what

1/9/2009 2:19:41 AM

White people got all their rioting out of the way around, say, 1860-1865. It went so well that we changed laws to give blacks the right to get upset and riot as well.

Also, HUR, from all of us -- we get it. You don't have to constantly go out of your way to remind us that you're racist.

1/9/2009 2:38:10 AM

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[Edited on January 9, 2009 at 4:40 AM. Reason : ...]

1/9/2009 4:39:20 AM

Um, Kent State?

1/9/2009 9:46:23 AM

Obama will fix it.

1/9/2009 9:53:39 AM

If they destroy all of Oakland, we'll be out about $47.50.

1/9/2009 11:41:42 AM

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""had this been an asian or white person murdered by police i do not think riots would have broken out" I fail to see how any of your examples demonstrate how the rioting people had a different socioeconomic standing than others. If you wanna make an arguement for that then find an example in the US."

I showed examples of both asians and whites rioting from police actions. What is there to disagree with?

Do you think that the asians and whites I linked to are somehow different biologically or genetically than the asians and whites here in the US? Or could it be other factors, and not maybe skin color or heritage, that affect rioting propensity?

If I were hispanic, this would make me want to riot: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/08/baseballer.shot/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

[Edited on January 9, 2009 at 8:39 PM. Reason : ]

1/9/2009 8:36:14 PM

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"Sweet Baby Jesus, DNL is armed?"

Woodfoot

LOL! That is a bit scary, I admit.

1/9/2009 9:23:27 PM

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"I showed examples of both asians and whites rioting from police actions. What is there to disagree with? "

But you said...

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"Rioting has much more to do with perceived socioeconomic standing than anything else."

Maybe I'm slow, but I don't think police actions = socioeconomic standing.

1/11/2009 11:44:37 PM

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"WEATHER FUCKIN UNDERGROUND"

[Edited on January 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM. Reason : ya dig]

1/12/2009 12:57:21 PM