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Musk & Shapiro push to pardon George Floyd’s murderer

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  1. VAg8r1

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    Unless you provide a link for context, the photo is meaningless.
     
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  2. BLING

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    Egregious is the key word. By definition, one should agree with most if not all of the “egregious” cases.

    The Arbery case is perhaps the clearest of all of them. You are suggesting the guy was a burglar, despite a complete lack of evidence. But even if we entertain that or pretend he was caught with something, what they did is *still* murder. At best all it might question is the “hate crime” aspect.
     
  3. GatorTheo

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    Arbery, who had a criminal history of stealing, was snooping around in a construction area. When he was discovered, he ran. He was only shot when he attacked the guy and they wrestled for the gun.

    Were the 3 guys stupid for chasing him? Yeah.

    Was it murder? I don't see it.
     
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  4. GatorTheo

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    See if you can guess who that guy is and where the picture was taken.
     
  5. orangeblue_coop

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    3 white men chasing and shooting an unarmed black man and calling him the n-word as he takes his last breaths doesn’t sound like a racial hate crime?

    More of that brilliant MAGA logic.
     
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  6. coleg

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    Open and shut case of murder..... but you don't see it? Tell us you know nothing about the law without telling us. OMG. Regardless of that, it really doesn't bother you that an unarmed man was chased and killed in broad daylight because three people suspected he might be a burglar?
     
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  7. GatorTheo

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    The story that you seem to be seeing is some guy innocently out for a jog and people run up and shoot him.

    I think you may be missing a few steps.
     
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  8. vegasfox

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    Chasing Arbery down was legal under Georgia law. One of the McMichaels allegedly asked Arbery to stop 3 times so they could ask him some questions. Arbery allegedly said nothing and kept runníng. When he did stop the McMichaels got out of the truck and if I'm remembering correctly Arbety charged Travis McMichael and tried to take his gun. Did Arbery grab and pull the gun barrel while Michael had his finger on the trigger (that,'s my recollection). Even after being shot Arbery continued to attack McMichael. What would Arbery have done if he got control of the gun? Did McMichael have a right to defend himself?

    Arbery had a history of being confrontational with police. He was a criminal who didn't want to get caught.

    The neighborhood was already on edge from several recent burglaries. The cops had been called 90 times in recent months.

    Did McMichael use the n-word sfter being attacked by Arbery. I don:t think that matters.

    If Arbery was white there would probably have been no prosecution.If the McMichaels had been police officers, no prosecution imo. If the McMichaels had been black, no prosecution imo.

    The jury was lazy and did not take time to properly consider the evidence. They wanted to get home for Thanksgiving. The judge sucked and so did the prosecutors as Robert Barnes explained in the video I linked to on page 6.

    Democrats are fine with the verdict because they are soft on crime and anti-gun and because Arnery was black and the McMichaels are white.
     
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  9. coleg

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    Let's see. We see the following happened: three men committed felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. The men responsible were finally arrested, charged with those crimes, tried and convicted of those crimes, one was also convicted for malice murder, then sentenced for those crimes. They are serving the sentences. What other steps do you think I'm missing?
     
  10. orangeblue_coop

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    He used the n-word after shooting Arbery dead. Of course you don’t think that matters, since you agree with his actions. Thankfully the state of Georgia didn’t and your MAGA heroes are now going to die in prison.
     
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  11. vegasfox

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    McMichael seemed to be acting in self defense when Arbery attacked him. Shouldn't matter if he liked blacks or not. If you got attacked by a Trump supporter and shot him when he grabbed your gun, would it matter if you said "F-ing MAGA" as he lay dying? Would that make you guilty of a hate crime?

    Pretty obvious that your team will throw people in jail for political crimes or for just being white if the injured party is black and he can be portrayed as a victim. Welcome to the USSR
     
  12. orangeblue_coop

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    Nah he, his racist daddy and their racist friend were in the mood to lynch a black man that day, Arbery was an easy target. They would’ve gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for the meddling media. Racist white men in Georgia used to lynch innocent black men for sport back in the day, I guess that was these guys’ way of “making America great again”
     
  13. vegasfox

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    Arbery was a career criminal.
     
  14. GatorTheo

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    I'm surprised they didn't give him a statue.
     
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  15. orangeblue_coop

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    Your hero McMichael had no idea about Arbery’s criminal record when he murdered him and called him the n-word
     
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    Libs give black career criminals statues, MAGAs give white career criminals presidential nominations. America baby!
     
  17. vegasfox

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    Arbery was running away. What happened was not murder imo. Under Georgia law at the time the McMichaels had the right to detain Arbery
     
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    And how did detaining him work out for them? Let that be a lesson to racists who like to take matters into their own hands: mind your business.
     
  19. GatorTheo

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    Well, let that be a lesson to criminals who snoop in other people's houses, yaknowwhatimean, Verne? ;)
     
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  20. orangeblue_coop

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    Also a lesson to black people to take caution in areas infested with racist white men like your beloved McMichaels.