Ahmaud Arbery; racist killing and attempted cover up.

[Cow Poke]

Interesting. The part I saw yesterday was the "red-haired guy" testifying under the questioning of the defense attorney. I didn't see any of the questioning by the prosecution.

The impression I got was much different from what I'm reading in this thread now.

Prov. 18:17

I should use that verse as my signature!!!

[firstfloor]

Closing arguments are in progress.

Members of Black gun-rights groups circled the courthouse Monday, saying they there to protect demonstrators and exercise their Second Amendment rights. Musician and activist Darrell Kelley and members of the New Black Panther Party brought a casket with a fiberglass mannequin, which contained the names of Black Americans killed by police or in confrontations with allegedly racist motives.

“America right now … their justice system is on trial,” said Nasiy Nasir X, a leader of the Minnesota-based Lion of Judah Armed Forces, who walked around the courthouse with an AR-15 assault rifle. “And the reason why it’s on trial is our beloved brother Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead in the streets, like he was an animal, by three White vigilantes.”

[tabibito]

They should have followed and maintained contact with the police. Period. There was no need for a confrontation.

Line-ball for outright murder I think, but a lesser charge (manslaughter or whatever the equivalent is) would be a slam-dunk. (or am I mixing metaphors?)

[Mountain Man]

I'm surprised this case isn't being plastered across mainstream media headlines like the Rittenhouse trial, because this case aligns more closely with the liberal narrative than a white kid defending himself from other white people.

[tabibito]

I'm surprised this case isn't being plastered across mainstream media headlines like the Rittenhouse trial, because this case aligns more closely with the liberal narrative than a white kid defending himself from other white people.

After the kind of drubbing they got with Rittenhouse ... playing it safe maybe.

[seanD]

I'm surprised this case isn't being plastered across mainstream media headlines like the Rittenhouse trial, because this case aligns more closely with the liberal narrative than a white kid defending himself from other white people.

Different situations.

In the case of Rittenhouse, they probably knew it was self-defense and that he'd get acquitted. So the strategy was to frame a false narrative that he's a white supremacist beforehand (maybe get a lot of folks even believing the people shot were black), that way they'd get a violent reaction by their deluded audience in the aftermath when he was acquitted.

They can't do that with this case. Though I imagine they'll definitely cover it if there's an acquittal, which seems unlikely.

[firstfloor]

After the kind of drubbing they got with Rittenhouse ... playing it safe maybe.

“they” being the State of Wisconsin.

[Cow Poke]

“they” being the State of Wisconsin.

Are you just trying to be a ?

[firstfloor]

Are you just trying to be a ?

No, are you being thick?

[Cow Poke]

No, are you being thick?

I'm a little thicker than I want to be, but I plan on focusing on that better after Thanksgiving. But thanks for asking.

[rogue06]

Closing arguments are in progress.

Musician and activist Darrell Kelley and members of the New Black Panther Party brought a casket with a fiberglass mannequin, which contained the names of Black Americans killed by police or in confrontations with allegedly racist motives.

I wonder which number is larger, the number of blacks killed by police for any motive, or police killed by blacks.

[Cow Poke]

I wonder which number is larger, the number of blacks killed by police for any motive, or police killed by blacks.

Or blacks killed by blacks.

[tabibito]

Or blacks killed by blacks.

On raw numbers, the number of blacks committing murder in the US exceeds the number of whites committing murder in the US. I haven't found statistics relating to your question, nor to Rogue's.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ta-table-3.xls

[NorrinRadd]

On raw numbers, the number of blacks committing murder in the US exceeds the number of whites committing murder in the US. I haven't found statistics relating to your question, nor to Rogue's.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ta-table-3.xls

Well, there's this.

[tabibito]

Well, there's this.

Brief as it is, that report evidences a particularly scholarly approach. Whether white or black, people have more cause for concern about being attacked by members of their own race than by the opposite.