Mike Brown: Trayvon Part 2

Bassem Masri - a pseudo-celebrity journalist - was on the scene. He was one of the live feeds offering his pseudo-intellectual commentary on everything, trying to portray how there were peaceful protests with a few knuckleheads.

Then this happened:

The action starts at about 2:30. But it's annoying to get through, so here's the tl;dw: Masri has his phone stolen by a knucklehead. Knucklehead runs off with the phone. Someone along the way asks him what he has. He responds with, "iPhone 6 off some nigga."

Masri later claims the thief was an undercover police "agitator" hired by law enforcement to incite more violent protests and rioting.

That's the type of celebrity that has a voice now. You should have seen Twitter last night. Couldn't believe it. One guy on my feed - and confirmed by how many times he's posted since last night - said he stayed up all night and he's still going off on the fact that Wilson described Brown as a demon and the incredible hulk, which is racist somehow. I guess black = green?

All I saw & heard in that video was the Police asking politely to please clear the streets, some woman screamed FUCK YOU (probably a bammer and probably shooting double birdies at the officers), then apparently a random Tornado dropped down on top of the new age "journalist" and started flinging him around.

Tiger Wench · « **Reply #446 on:** November 25, 2014, 09:39:56 PM »

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/25/legal-scholars-praise-ferguson-grand-jury-fairness/?page=all#pagebreak

Click the link. Lawyers on both sides of the bar say the grand jury process was beyond fair and completely transparent, moreso than usual.

This quote pissed me off to the extreme.

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The Brown family and their supporters argue that if the prosecutor had championed harder for an indictment, a full trial could have led to a conviction. But lawyers say in this case, a strong push to indict Officer Wilson merely based on the easier legal standard of â€œprobable causeâ€ would have merely set up a trial where the prosecution likely would have failed to get a guilty verdict based on the much stiffer â€œbeyond a reasonable doubtâ€ standard.

Forget that the officer has constitutional rights too. They wanted and expected the prosecutor to push the grand jury to gin up an indictment. Never mind that a full jury wouldn't have been able to find him guilty based on the same evidence, but tens of thousands of dollars would have spent and the amount of stress on Wilson would have been tremendous. And with the same verdict, the riots would have still happened.

Such bullshit.

bgreene · « **Reply #447 on:** November 25, 2014, 10:06:56 PM »

I have watched exactly 0% of any coverage of this "event", and will continue to do so.

smooth_operator · « **Reply #448 on:** November 25, 2014, 10:12:43 PM »

Quote from: bgreene on November 25, 2014, 10:06:56 PM

I have watched exactly 0% of any coverage of this "event", and will continue to do so.

I usually don't watch things like this, and I'm sure that the masses not watching is the best way to curb the media's "create and cover a disaster" strategy but it was hard to look away.

Token · « **Reply #449 on:** November 25, 2014, 11:16:53 PM »

Quote from: smooth_operator on November 25, 2014, 10:12:43 PM

I usually don't watch things like this, and I'm sure that the masses not watching is the best way to curb the media's "create and cover a disaster" strategy but it was hard to look away.

The mayor of Anniston was an extreme asshole today. Thought you should know that.

smooth_operator · « **Reply #450 on:** November 25, 2014, 11:48:48 PM »

The city of Anniston hasn't done anything in my lifetime that wasn't a complete disaster, so... Go figure. That's why I ain't there.

The Prowler · « **Reply #451 on:** November 26, 2014, 01:44:21 AM »

Another isolated incident...this time in Denver, CO.

Kaos · « **Reply #452 on:** November 26, 2014, 05:54:22 AM »

Hose the protesters down with bullets and that shit will stop in a hurry.

GH2001 · « **Reply #453 on:** November 26, 2014, 08:57:20 AM »

Quote from: Kaos on November 26, 2014, 05:54:22 AM

Hose the protesters down with bullets and that shit will stop in a hurry.

Oh yea....I'm sure all the civil rights agitators and liberal media would let that fly no questions asked. I liked Jarhead's idea of using fine quality H20.

AUJarhead · « **Reply #454 on:** November 26, 2014, 09:29:48 AM »

Quote from: GH2001 on November 26, 2014, 08:57:20 AM

Oh yea....I'm sure all the civil rights agitators and liberal media would let that fly no questions asked. I liked Jarhead's idea of using fine quality H20.

Supposed to be snowing tonight. And 28 degrees. Hose 'em down.

Token · « **Reply #455 on:** November 26, 2014, 09:38:45 AM »

Quote from: AUJarhead on November 26, 2014, 09:29:48 AM

Supposed to be snowing tonight. And 28 degrees. Hose 'em down.

I say just issue a statement that as long as riots are ongoing, in fear for the lives of the postal workers, no mail will be delivered. Promise that shit would stop today.

Kaos · « **Reply #456 on:** November 26, 2014, 09:52:28 AM »

Quote from: GH2001 on November 26, 2014, 08:57:20 AM

Oh yea....I'm sure all the civil rights agitators and liberal media would let that fly no questions asked. I liked Jarhead's idea of using fine quality H20.

Hose them with bullets too. I'd pay to see 100 people dressed in Reagan masks walk onto an msnbc set and leave no one standing.

WiregrassTiger · « **Reply #457 on:** November 26, 2014, 09:56:54 AM »

Quote from: The Prowler on November 26, 2014, 01:44:21 AM

Another isolated incident...this time in Denver, CO.

^^Prime example of why you shouldn't do drugs. At first it's all fun and games.

"Dude, where's my car?", and everyone laughs at the funny stoner.

Then, the next thing you know, one loses ambition, becomes an atheist, maybe even a nihilist at times. Many long term users begin to exhibit delusions of grandeur. Ex: Believing that you are actually an insider re: AU football and know more about AU football and/or AU athletics than the next guy with a Rivals account.

Next, one resorts to joining cop watch and posting videos of drug dealers getting the shit kicked out of them and encouraging others to care.

It's a terrible decline, I tell you.

GH2001 · « **Reply #458 on:** November 26, 2014, 10:01:06 AM »

Quote from: AUJarhead on November 26, 2014, 09:29:48 AM

Supposed to be snowing tonight. And 28 degrees. Hose 'em down.

Just call it "annual fire hydrant testing" and tell them theyve been warned ahead of time. Probably wouldn't take MSNBC 5 mins to start comparing it to Birmingham and Montgomery from the 60s. They might even CGI a few German Shepherds into the footage too.

WiregrassTiger · « **Reply #459 on:** November 26, 2014, 10:05:34 AM »

Minus kids, elderly and the truly mental cases that don't know any better, I hope any mofo (black, white, green, Hispanic, Egyptian, Alien, etc.) that purposely tries to impede the flow of traffic in order to "protest" any mofo'n thing under the sun--get's run over with skid marks left on their face and left beside the road like an armadillo.

I'm sorry. This isn't very Christian of me. But I do feel this way.