Ahmaud Arbery; racist killing and attempted cover up.

[Cow Poke]

I didn't figure you could hold back (you didn't 'quote me', but you are CLEARLY replying to my post).

It's your hypocrisy, Jim, in pitching a crying hissy about being demeaned, and me demeaning others, while you blatantly call those who disagree with you "yahoos".

1 I'll resume my truce with you after this post, if you will continue from this point as well.

How bout toning down the rhetoric and reigning in the hypocrisy?

One post each.

I'll post what I want to post where I want to post it, Jim. When I see this hypocrisy, I'll call it out. What was it you said in the other thread? Something about friends don't let friends drive drunk?

[Cow Poke]

He wasn't running toward them,

Well, no, unless you watch the video, and see that he actually was.

he avoided their pursuit twice and they kept coming.

Plenty of stupid to go around that day - if he were afraid for his life, he could have run to a house and asked them to call the police. Running AT people with guns is not the smartest thing a man can do.

[oxmixmudd]

It's your hypocrisy, Jim, in pitching a crying hissy about being demeaned, and me demeaning others, while you blatantly call those who disagree with you "yahoos".



How bout toning down the rhetoric and reigning in the hypocrisy?



I'll post what I want to post where I want to post it, Jim. When I see this hypocrisy, I'll call it out. What was it you said in the other thread? Something about friends don't let friends drive drunk?

You're the one that contacted me more than once thinking I've somehow not 'kept' the truce when I had in fact kept it. So now you want to chastise me for trying to keep it when you overtly initiated breaking it?

One post each is not a 'command' CP, it's just being fair. You had to say something, so all I'm saying is, ok, but I'll respond and say no more in the interest of keeping the peace.

Yet here you are throwing around the insults to boot!

[Mountain Man]

Arbery had no obligation to stop, any more than you would had two black men threatened you.

He also had no obligation to continue running straight at them.

And McMichaels had no authority to stop him with threat of shooting him.

So you keep saying. What laws did they break?

[Leonhard]

Plenty of stupid to go around that day - if he were afraid for his life, he could have run to a house and asked them to call the police. Running AT people with guns is not the smartest thing a man can do.

I will agree with you that he shouldn't have turned at the front of the car and headed towards the younger McMichael.

It's a weird situation.

[Cow Poke]

I will agree with you that he shouldn't have turned at the front of the car and headed towards the younger McMichael.

It's a weird situation.

It really is.

[Cow Poke]

You're the one ...!

ALWAYS "the other guy".

[JimL]

Well, no, unless you watch the video, and see that he actually was.

Too funny, CP. The armed men chasing him becomes him running at them.

Plenty of stupid to go around that day - if he were afraid for his life, he could have run to a house and asked them to call the police. Running AT people with guns is not the smartest thing a man can do.

Did you ever think that maybe he got tired of running? He could have tried something else, but he had no obligation to stop, to continue running forever and fear being shot in the back. Interesting though that you read the police report that Leonard cited and then you continue to try and defend the vigilantes.

[Watermelon]

He also had no obligation to continue running straight at them.


So you keep saying. What laws did they break?

Unlawful detainment?

[Cow Poke]

Too funny, CP. The armed men chasing him becomes him running at them.

I wasn't paying attention - I was just wrapping up a funeral, and was thinking about a total different case. I'll watch the video again, Jim.

[oxmixmudd]

ALWAYS "the other guy".

In this case it's all you CP.

[Mountain Man]

Unlawful detainment?

Was it?

[oxmixmudd]

Too funny, CP. The armed men chasing him becomes him running at them.


Did you ever think that maybe he got tired of running? He could have tried something else, but he had no obligation to stop, to continue running forever and fear being shot in the back. Interesting though that you read the police report that Leonard cited and then you continue to try and defend the vigilantes.

Most of the folks here arguing for the shooters will never ask themselves what it would have been like to have been in Arbery's shoes.

[Mountain Man]

Most of the folks here arguing for the shooters will never ask themselves what it would have been like to have been in Arbery's shoes.

Frankly, I have trouble imaging what it would have been like to be in either party's shoes.

[oxmixmudd]

Frankly, I have trouble imaging what it would have been like to be in either party's shoes.

Truly lame MM, truly lame. You can, if you want to. You just have to imagine yourself out for a run. Stopping for a break. And then three men in two cars, at least two armed. Come after you.

If you can't empathise with the fear and terror and confusion that would bring, then that explains a lot.