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Originally Posted by cheapseats
Irrespective of our feelings about the acquittal, are we all feeling hunky dory equality-for-all confident that the verdict...complete exoneration...would have been no different if it had been a handful of mainly black Enforcers who fired 50 rounds into a white groom?
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Originally Posted by julia
Most likely, yes.
This is an issue of Human Rights violations.
But hell, what can one expect of a govt that has disregard of soldiers' lives to throw them in to police a civil war.
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Originally Posted by cheapseats
For real? You think that if black officers had unleashed a hail of bullets on a white man on the day of his wedding, those black officers would most likely also have been acquitted?
I stridently disagree.
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I misunderstood your question.
Thought you were speaking of the
reaction.
There were African-American officiers involved in the Sean Bell shooting.