Dame's night on Twitter

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  1. The Professional Fan

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    He's probably pissed. Big name players don't want to play in Portland!
     
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    Bad timing for your poor attempt at humor.
     
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    ...he was speaking out in regards to the trigger happy cops from Baton Rogue and Falcon Heights :sigh:
     
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    Reports claim that Sterling was armed. Hard to tell if he reaches for a weapon with his right hand, it doesn't necessarily look like he did. His left hand is laid on the ground, showing no attempt to fight the two police officers pinning him to the ground. My preliminary opinion is that it is a case of the cops fearing the suspect, because the suspect is dead we will never know whether or not they had any reason to.

    A few questions come to mind:

    Why didn't Sterling state he had no ill intentions, and choose not to fight the officers pinning him at all.

    Did that one cop smack him in the face?

    Was lethal force absolutely required here? Shouldn't their training have taught them how to disarm an armed suspect when pinned to the ground like this?
     
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    They knew he had a gun. If he reaches for it or if a cop thinks he's reaching for it, its standard practice to shoot them.

    It was a real time decision, not any kind of racism or ill intent or illuminati mumbo jumbo.
     
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    Honestly, keep the arguing about this to the OT thread of the same topic. This isn't about guilty or innocent, for Sterling or the police. It's about the heartache that Dame was expressing in his tweets, and the community of people everywhere including Portland, who feel torn apart every time this news story repeats.
     
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    ok. go Lillard go.
     
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    Dame is right though, before white American Culture can "trust" the black community, they need to stop being so abrasive and combative. This whole "Black Lives Matter" sets Black America back, all people see are a bunch of uneducated mobs shouting and complaining without any solutions other than kill whitey.

    What happened to integration?

    Someone integrates, they get called a sell out.
     
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    I saw an interesting video on facebook basically saying that cops won't be held accountable until other cops step up and start holding them accountable.

    The thin blue line is bullshit. It just promotes the "us vs them" mentality that many cops have.
     
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    Dame's roar
     
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    This has been going on for a century, only difference is now there is video to prove it. Shitbird cops need to take their medicine.
     
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    Dame apparently had to apologize for whatever reason. Damn this society has gotten so sensitive. I look at his tweets and don't know what he said that pissed people off

     
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    I imagine that his tweets may have been perceived as victim blaming.
     
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