Sadly Jim, for far too many people, your injuries would be irrelevant and overshadowed by your response. For many people the issue would be your gun and the fact that you had one (clearly "looking and eager to use it") the fact that you fired, the outcome of that shooting (such as a body on the deck) and why you (as the misinformed strongly believe) "chose to shoot 6 times" and/or "why didn't you just shoot once to wound?". Even more telling and discouraging? Each of those other aspects would be a multiplier if the person who attacked you first was of a different skin color. I know you, and I know that race wouldn't be a factor if someone were to attack you. The fact that you were attacked and responded in order to stop the threat would be your only motivations.
Except you can't remove the implications. They're there whether you like it or not.
Why do so many threads on this offsite turn into stupid bickering?You got a personal problem? Take that shit to PMs.
http://nypost.com/2014/08/19/witnesses-say-ferguson-teen-attacked-cop-before-shooting/There's plenty of other witnesses who are coming out and even changing their stories that replicate to the one told by the police department. Let's also not forget that the guy that was killed had just performed a robbery at a convenience store. When that came over the radio, the guy was trying to push the cop back into his car and attempt to take his gun.Oh, and I love how challenged is trying to make the comparison of Chicago and Houston into racism. Nobody is making racist, only you are. You're the real racist
You should look at my other thread with the video. The cops had no idea he had just committed a crime, they approached him with their sidearms drawn and Brown never laid a finger on one of the police officers.Not to mention the racism that seems to circulate in that PD.
Ya, people are motivated by fear. You think they changed their stories to match that of the police department because they thought that was what actually happened? No, it was because they do not want to be killed as well.
There was racism in Recon's post, as well as right winger dogma. Don't even talk when you couldn't provide a rebuttal for my posts in Recon's subthread. As for the shooting in Missouri, that was pure racism.