The Old Folks Home

[The Yakima Kid]

If i go to the convenience store take what i want by force; would all my neighbors blame the police? I am trying to understand all this.

It isn't intelligible to anyone who is prone to rational thought.

Remember, these are the folks who demanded that a park be named for Oscar Grant, and who rioted over police brutality when the SWAT team killed a paroled felon who had murdered two traffic cops and was shooting at the SWAT team at the time.

 

[bamadude]

Shoplifting? Did u watch the video?

 

[The Yakima Kid]

To help you understand, they're not blaming the police for him shoplifting. They're blaming the officer for killing an unarmed man standing some distance that the officer, according to the chief of police, didn't know was involved in the convenience store incident. The confrontation began as a jay walking incident.

You do understand that unarmed people kill other people every day?

 

[The Yakima Kid]

To help you understand, they're not blaming the police for him shoplifting. They're blaming the officer for killing an unarmed man standing some distance that the officer, according to the chief of police, didn't know was involved in the convenience store incident. The confrontation began as a jay walking incident.

That wasn't the shop he was lifting up by the neck and choking - that was the store clerk.

Referring to what happened in that store as shoplifting is like describing a rape as a flirtation.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Thank you Oz. I knew someone that knew something would chime in.

I had excellent employee paid health care for over 30 years. We then had to buy our own. Initially the cost was about 500 a month, it went to 2000 and that was 5 years before Obama was elected. I had to drop it cause I couldn't afford it. My son had a terrible accident and medical bills approached a million dollars.
We now all have affordable health care thanks to the ACA.
A friend of mine owns his own chain of hair salons. The ACA cut the cost of his insurance in half and coverage improved.

 

[Wisher1000]

The confrontation began as a jay walking incident.

....only for the officer.

 

[bamadude]

That wasn't the shop he was lifting up by the neck and choking - that was the store clerk.

Referring to what happened in that store as shoplifting is like describing a rape as a flirtation.

very well said

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Shoplifting? Did u watch the video?

Okay, there was thuggery. We're supposed to have a legal system. Even if he knew he was the perpetrator, which the Ferguson chief of police said he didn't, that doesn't give the policeman the right to be judge, jury and executioner.

 

[bamadude]

If i was the store owner, he would have never made it outside after robbing me. Thugs comei all colors and shapes. In my opinion

 

[Wisher1000]

Okay, everyone, we should let our opinions rest a while. The discussion is steering toward being heated and I don't want us to lose our beloved Home. You and I all know that we care about each other, but someone else reading might think we are getting angry. A change of subject is in order......

I have two hens with 21 chicks between them! They are not raising them together, each has her own brood, but they are cohabitating in the same 8x8 pen!