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Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby brad3579 on Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:44 pm

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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby Bearcatrp on Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:48 pm

Let's see if he pulls the race card to try getting out of this.
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby Ghost on Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:49 pm

Sounds like a good charge
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby Holland&Holland on Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:49 pm

Interesting is a relative term. Now if there is a call to disarm the police that comes out of this, that would prove interesting :twisted:

I mean a 19 year old shoots up a school and we all of a sudden can't have anyone under 21 with a gun so, quid pro quo right? :bolt:
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby Holland&Holland on Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:53 pm

Bearcatrp wrote:Let's see if he pulls the race card to try getting out of this.

What race card? Help me understand the argument, that because he was a Somali he feared for his life from an Australian because everyone knows Australians hate Somalis?
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby sansooshooter on Tue Mar 20, 2018 1:14 pm

I have to admit , I am surprised he is being charged.
I will be knocked on my backside if he is convicted.
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby Bearcatrp on Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:47 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:
Bearcatrp wrote:Let's see if he pulls the race card to try getting out of this.

What race card? Help me understand the argument, that because he was a Somali he feared for his life from an Australian because everyone knows Australians hate Somalis?

Anyone NOT white charge in a crime most of the time brings up the race card, especially if its a white prosecute. After watching the news conference, sounds like they will get a conviction. Lets see if the Somalia community start burning the city for convicting this low life.
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby Ghost on Tue Mar 20, 2018 5:03 pm

Bearcatrp wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:
Bearcatrp wrote:Let's see if he pulls the race card to try getting out of this.

What race card? Help me understand the argument, that because he was a Somali he feared for his life from an Australian because everyone knows Australians hate Somalis?

Anyone NOT white charge in a crime most of the time brings up the race card, especially if its a white prosecute. After watching the news conference, sounds like they will get a conviction. Lets see if the Somalia community start burning the city for convicting this low life.

Will they point out white cops who shoot blacks go free while black cops shooting a white goes to jail?
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby atomic41 on Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:27 pm

sansooshooter wrote:I have to admit , I am surprised he is being charged.
I will be knocked on my backside if he is convicted.


He will be convicted. The tell tale sign was way back when the union bailed out on supporting him. He's done.
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby yukonjasper on Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:38 pm

Not sure it's fair to call him a low life. I do think he made a very bad mistake that cost someone their life. I believe he will pay for it but I doubt we'll really understand why he did it.
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby sansooshooter on Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:57 am

atomic41 wrote:
sansooshooter wrote:I have to admit , I am surprised he is being charged.
I will be knocked on my backside if he is convicted.


He will be convicted. The tell tale sign was way back when the union bailed out on supporting him. He's done.

we shall see and yea the union walking away is usually a very bad sign.
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby Hmac on Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:35 am

Bearcatrp wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:
Bearcatrp wrote:Let's see if he pulls the race card to try getting out of this.

What race card? Help me understand the argument, that because he was a Somali he feared for his life from an Australian because everyone knows Australians hate Somalis?

Anyone NOT white charge in a crime most of the time brings up the race card, especially if its a white prosecute. After watching the news conference, sounds like they will get a conviction. Lets see if the Somalia community start burning the city for convicting this low life.

Why is he a "low life"? I think he was just a poor scared kid who was not emotionally equipped to make life-or-death decisions, panicked, and killed an innocent person and almost killed his partner. Clearly manslaughter, but I don't see any evil intent that would qualify him as a "low life". I think he was culturally and politically pressured into taking a job that simply was not capable of doing. I'm sure the various police departments see people like that coming through their academies all the time, but this was their opportunity to score political points and by god, they determined that his guy was going to be a cop. Good for their political image, which is of course more important than his ability to perform safely and effectively as a policeman.
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby BigBlue on Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:56 am

I wonder if his defense will be that he was scared for his life because the situation was looking a lot like a setup? Given the climate of police-hatred boiling over at that time due to the Castile situation he may have been ultra on edge and then made a really, really bad decision. Not excusing it in any way. He should be held responsible for what he did. But this to me seems like a possible avenue of defense.

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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby yukonjasper on Wed Mar 21, 2018 7:06 am

That seems to be the most feasible explanation.
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Re: Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman

Postby LarryP on Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:39 am

Remember- We are suppose to forgive
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