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I believe what the football players did falls under their first amendment rights of expression. Where I think they are wrong was they did not notify their coach according to sources that they were going to do what they did. Also football is a team sport and I wonder if they have the support of the rest of their teammates or if those on the team who did not partipate in the demonstration did not support what they did.
No matter, it is their right to express themselves as long as that expression violates no laws or harms anyone. |
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Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:52:56 -0500, Roger wrote: I just saw a vid in which a bunch of cops stopped a black teenager and had him on the ground because someone called in a complaint he had his hands in his pockets as he was leaving high school. It was cold and snowing. Other teens gathered around and started shooting videos. The cops backed off and let the kid go. You cut and paste daily and you omit that gem? === He heard about it from someone who though they knew somebody who might have heard it from someone else who wasn't there either. That happens all the time. Thanks for the reminder! |
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On 12/1/2014 8:54 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
Reacting to five members of the St. Louis Rams coming onto the field for Sunday’s game displaying the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ gesture, a St. Louis police officers fraternal organization is demanding the team discipline the players, and that the team and league issue a formal apology, reports KSDK. In a statement released Sunday evening, the St. Louis Police Officers Association condemned the display, calling it “tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.” Prior to player introductions before Sunday’s game, five players — Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens, and Kenny Britt — came out onto the field first with their hands in the air prior to being joined by their teammates. Responding to the display, the statement reads, “The St. Louis Police Officers Association is profoundly disappointed with the members of the St. Louis Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of evidence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week and engage in a display that police officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.” * * * * What is tasteless, offensive and inflammatory is the number of incidents in which police beat up, shoot, and kill unarmed civilians. Well, I think you should probably figure that a high percentage of those unarmed citizens are guilty of breaking some law, then when the police try to arrest them the fight. You can be sure the police kill in self defense a very low percentage of those that fight, and then of that low percentage a tiny percentage might have been killed and it was wrong. If you don't fight a policeman, your odds of being killed are very, very, very, very tiny. That's a big clue. The bigger problem, 13% of the population murder as many as the other 87%. That 13% is the black population, if you could fix that... Mikek |
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On 12/2/14 8:38 PM, amdx wrote:
On 12/1/2014 8:54 AM, F*O*A*D wrote: Reacting to five members of the St. Louis Rams coming onto the field for Sunday’s game displaying the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ gesture, a St. Louis police officers fraternal organization is demanding the team discipline the players, and that the team and league issue a formal apology, reports KSDK. In a statement released Sunday evening, the St. Louis Police Officers Association condemned the display, calling it “tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.” Prior to player introductions before Sunday’s game, five players — Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens, and Kenny Britt — came out onto the field first with their hands in the air prior to being joined by their teammates. Responding to the display, the statement reads, “The St. Louis Police Officers Association is profoundly disappointed with the members of the St. Louis Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of evidence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week and engage in a display that police officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.” * * * * What is tasteless, offensive and inflammatory is the number of incidents in which police beat up, shoot, and kill unarmed civilians. Well, I think you should probably figure that a high percentage of those unarmed citizens are guilty of breaking some law, then when the police try to arrest them the fight. You can be sure the police kill in self defense a very low percentage of those that fight, and then of that low percentage a tiny percentage might have been killed and it was wrong. If you don't fight a policeman, your odds of being killed are very, very, very, very tiny. That's a big clue. The bigger problem, 13% of the population murder as many as the other 87%. That 13% is the black population, if you could fix that... Mikek Interesting that in other modern nations like England, Germany, Japan, et cetera, the police there hardly ever kill anyone. -- I feel no need to explain my politics to stupid right-wingers. After all, I am *not* the Jackass Whisperer. |
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A bit of satire...
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:02:39 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 12/2/14 8:38 PM, amdx wrote: On 12/1/2014 8:54 AM, F*O*A*D wrote: Reacting to five members of the St. Louis Rams coming onto the field for Sundays game displaying the hands up, dont shoot gesture, a St. Louis police officers fraternal organization is demanding the team discipline the players, and that the team and league issue a formal apology, reports KSDK. In a statement released Sunday evening, the St. Louis Police Officers Association condemned the display, calling it tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. Prior to player introductions before Sundays game, five players Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens, and Kenny Britt came out onto the field first with their hands in the air prior to being joined by their teammates. Responding to the display, the statement reads, The St. Louis Police Officers Association is profoundly disappointed with the members of the St. Louis Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of evidence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week and engage in a display that police officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. * * * * What is tasteless, offensive and inflammatory is the number of incidents in which police beat up, shoot, and kill unarmed civilians. Well, I think you should probably figure that a high percentage of those unarmed citizens are guilty of breaking some law, then when the police try to arrest them the fight. You can be sure the police kill in self defense a very low percentage of those that fight, and then of that low percentage a tiny percentage might have been killed and it was wrong. If you don't fight a policeman, your odds of being killed are very, very, very, very tiny. That's a big clue. The bigger problem, 13% of the population murder as many as the other 87%. That 13% is the black population, if you could fix that... Mikek Interesting that in other modern nations like England, Germany, Japan, et cetera, the police there hardly ever kill anyone. They don't have the inner city problems we have to deal with. Go watch Luddite's video. Whoops, that's probably racist. -- "The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who's winning an argument with a liberal." ....Peter Brimelow (Author) (Thanks, Luddite!) |
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On 12/3/14 7:38 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:02:39 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote: On 12/2/14 8:38 PM, amdx wrote: On 12/1/2014 8:54 AM, F*O*A*D wrote: Reacting to five members of the St. Louis Rams coming onto the field for Sundays game displaying the hands up, dont shoot gesture, a St. Louis police officers fraternal organization is demanding the team discipline the players, and that the team and league issue a formal apology, reports KSDK. In a statement released Sunday evening, the St. Louis Police Officers Association condemned the display, calling it tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. Prior to player introductions before Sundays game, five players Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens, and Kenny Britt came out onto the field first with their hands in the air prior to being joined by their teammates. Responding to the display, the statement reads, The St. Louis Police Officers Association is profoundly disappointed with the members of the St. Louis Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of evidence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week and engage in a display that police officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. * * * * What is tasteless, offensive and inflammatory is the number of incidents in which police beat up, shoot, and kill unarmed civilians. Well, I think you should probably figure that a high percentage of those unarmed citizens are guilty of breaking some law, then when the police try to arrest them the fight. You can be sure the police kill in self defense a very low percentage of those that fight, and then of that low percentage a tiny percentage might have been killed and it was wrong. If you don't fight a policeman, your odds of being killed are very, very, very, very tiny. That's a big clue. The bigger problem, 13% of the population murder as many as the other 87%. That 13% is the black population, if you could fix that... Mikek Interesting that in other modern nations like England, Germany, Japan, et cetera, the police there hardly ever kill anyone. They don't have the inner city problems we have to deal with. Johnny Herring the racist has a new "code phrase": inner city problems. -- I feel no need to explain my politics to stupid right-wingers. After all, I am *not* the Jackass Whisperer. |
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:00:45 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 12/3/14 7:38 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:02:39 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote: On 12/2/14 8:38 PM, amdx wrote: On 12/1/2014 8:54 AM, F*O*A*D wrote: Reacting to five members of the St. Louis Rams coming onto the field for Sundays game displaying the hands up, dont shoot gesture, a St. Louis police officers fraternal organization is demanding the team discipline the players, and that the team and league issue a formal apology, reports KSDK. In a statement released Sunday evening, the St. Louis Police Officers Association condemned the display, calling it tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. Prior to player introductions before Sundays game, five players Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens, and Kenny Britt came out onto the field first with their hands in the air prior to being joined by their teammates. Responding to the display, the statement reads, The St. Louis Police Officers Association is profoundly disappointed with the members of the St. Louis Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of evidence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week and engage in a display that police officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. * * * * What is tasteless, offensive and inflammatory is the number of incidents in which police beat up, shoot, and kill unarmed civilians. Well, I think you should probably figure that a high percentage of those unarmed citizens are guilty of breaking some law, then when the police try to arrest them the fight. You can be sure the police kill in self defense a very low percentage of those that fight, and then of that low percentage a tiny percentage might have been killed and it was wrong. If you don't fight a policeman, your odds of being killed are very, very, very, very tiny. That's a big clue. The bigger problem, 13% of the population murder as many as the other 87%. That 13% is the black population, if you could fix that... Mikek Interesting that in other modern nations like England, Germany, Japan, et cetera, the police there hardly ever kill anyone. They don't have the inner city problems we have to deal with. Johnny Herring the racist has a new "code phrase": inner city problems. Go watch Luddite's video. -- "The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who's winning an argument with a liberal." ....Peter Brimelow (Author) (Thanks, Luddite!) |
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