Current Events > Glad there was video this time.

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https://www.facebook.com/YourBlackReality/videos/1909026429363639/?hc_ref=ART_K3J6jsTo8fdAWsth83aFyfve0d3NsWS3yZm6iUKcLD4uC5JCDHPJGYUZDFziVas

If this guy would have defend himself with the crazy man with a gun. People would have called him a thug.
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Don't expect any comments. They can't defend the white man as easy as they feel they can in the Zimmerman topic going on
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can he get arrested for that?
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bump
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Called it :3. CEs predictability
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maybe it's also because of the topic title.

like, if it was more descriptive, there would have been more activity in the thread.
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GregShmedley posted...

As for the video, the guy was an idiot and should be charged. However I don't believe race had a thing to do with it. If it was a white guy in a hoody in the middle of August, itchy trigger fingers would have done the same thing.

Do you really believe that? Black man in hoodie looking at his phone looks mighty intimidating to the lower-middle class white man with a gun. If that were a white dude in a hoodie, I bet the other guy wouldn't have felt threatened at all.
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GregShmedley posted...

Alucard188 posted...

GregShmedley posted...

As for the video, the guy was an idiot and should be charged. However I don't believe race had a thing to do with it. If it was a white guy in a hoody in the middle of August, itchy trigger fingers would have done the same thing.

Do you really believe that? Black man in hoodie looking at his phone looks mighty intimidating to the lower-middle class white man with a gun. If that were a white dude in a hoodie, I bet the other guy wouldn't have felt threatened at all.

I'm actually disappointed in your post. I mean really?

Concealed carriers are taught (assuming they train with actual instructors) to be aware of their situation. Black or white, if I am in a restaurant and see some dude in a hoody and sunglasses indoors in the middle of the summer, you're damn right I will be watching him. That is just sketchy behavior.

This is why paranoid people don't need guns. Also I like how in your 1st post here you hurry up and found something that would let you defend white peoe even though it was completely irrelevant to what TCs topic was about
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GregShmedley posted...

I'm actually disappointed in your post. 1)I mean really?

Concealed carriers are taught (assuming they train with actual instructors) to be aware of their situation. 2) Black or white, if I am in a restaurant and see some dude in a hoody and sunglasses indoors in the middle of the summer, you're damn right I will be watching him. That is just sketchy behavior.

1) Yes, really. It's quite well documented how racism is alive and well in the US (or anywhere else, for that matter). I don't see anything in that video that would sway that opinion.

2) To the point where you draw the pistol and aim it at the person who's just standing in queue behind you? There's being aware of your surroundings, and then there's this. The black guy made no threatening moves towards the other dude prior to the gun being drawn. There's no audio, so we can't hear what's being said or if that had an effect on the circumstances leading up to the unholstering of the weapon, but it looks like the guy made a preemptive move and failed badly.
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Alucard188 posted...

There's no audio, so we can't hear what's being said or if that had an effect on the circumstances leading up to the unholstering of the weapon, but it looks like the guy made a preemptive move and failed badly.

He very well could have. But as you said, there is no audio of what was being said. I'd also like to point out that the hooded individual moved his arm and pointed his cell phone toward them---which indicates a verbal, likely hostile, exchange between the two.

We also don't know if this is the full video and if it was the very first time he walked into Subway. This could very well have been a lengthy affair. The source of the video can also present some bias.

Without further examination, it's hard to really comprehend the full scope of the situation.
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