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jacob asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 7 years ago

if there was a black officer that shot an innocent whit teen would ther have been the same reaction?

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  • 7 years ago

    Of course not. You wouldn't have had Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Attorney General Eric Holder show up in Ferguson, Missouri. You wouldn't have had rioting in the streets along with looting and arson. The folks who are part of the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam wouldn't have been demonstrating. And you wouldn't have had Obama sending three (3) representatives from his administration to the White teen's funeral. This whole Michael Brown mess has been racist since the moment the shooting happened.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    its not only white officers shooting black men but as the article in the ft smith arkansas it is the privileged vs the under privileged. only they didnt realize the police shoot innocent white young men and women in the rural areas of eastern oklahoma all the time. and they never find out who did it. just another drug deal gone bad. check it out the unsovled murders in se okla since 1987. or how how about one a little more recent,aug 21 2014 gore oklahoma police officer shoots a man in the woods and leaves him for dead. doesnt even report that his service revolver had been fired. but what a surprise when a railroad conductor notices a man laying next to the tracks waving for help and calls 911. then on 8-29-14 an article appears in the sequoyah county times with a different story.

  • 7 years ago

    There was a black officer in Utah who killed an unarmed white 20 year old, cops have been covering it up and no prominent person has called for justice to be done. There were peaceful protests but no rioting or looting and the media has done their best to avoid reporting on the incident.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I think there would be more hate towards black people then. I am sure the results would be worse, especially if the white kid's family was racist.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    It would obviously be the teen's fault.

    Wrong neighbourhood,wrong haircut,wrong jacket,or hat.

    Or maybe just bad spelling ?

  • 7 years ago

    Civilized people wait for due process of the law.

  • 7 years ago

    Of course not, happens frequently

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