as pandora sez ; you can't shoot someone dead (or otherwise) just for running away from you!

dr crippen,cops are not allowed to shot people dead because"they find something about them"

Pandora you utter dope. That bloke was shot dead by the police whether he was allowed to or not.

It's happened, read your own thread you berk.

Along with reason and decency.

Along with reason and decency.

What's that, self assessment included?

I'd forgotten quite how gloriously bonkers this place is! Laugh

and yet orioles you seem completely unable to bring any logic or reason to it, just infantile moaning.

Not the unjustified shooting dead of a fleeing man, it's merely a 'political talking point'.

Obviously, I never said anything like this, but you find reality difficult. It's a method which would only fool an idiot, and possibly you have convinced yourself so i'll explain what you did to alter reality to fit your therapeutic narrative. Firstly you change the fact that I was referring to the media coverage of the event, not the death itself. Then you insert the word "merely" to doctor the point, but to invent a whole new fiction. And bingo, you've created for yourself a story with a fictional villain and more importantly you as the hero, or saviour. And this makes you feel a bit better.
Notice how this approach is similar to your use of the Scott killing.


I can hear the sub now. 'Let's bump this for the village fete story ...'

so let's look at what THIS story bumped, the thousands of murders in america including a seriously disproportionate rate within the black community. The horrific situation in Mexico and much of central and south america. The spiralling killings and genocide right across the middle east and africa with hundreds of thousands dead in horrific circumstances, but no in depth or personal coverage. Maybe brown people in sandy countries mean much less to you than an exploitation of a narrative that makes you feel good.

The racism,

Where exactly? Or do guilty uptight liberals like yourself hallucinate it in everything to make yourself feel better, maybe to ease the guilt? A little fantasy in your head where you point out everyone else as racist, and you've come to "save"the black man, just as long as you don't have to live in one of their neighbourhoods.

a splash splash of homophobia,

Seriously? How about you throw in Sexism, Rape Culture, Transgender-bathroom-denier. I guess you can't form an argument it still leaves you with throwing prefabricated chants around at random.
Then tell me, was the supervising officer in the Garner case racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobic, or all of the above?

This story you seem to revel in was a personal tragedy, and as a member of the family said, was made worse by the lurid use of it by the media and political opportunists.