Discussion: Erick Erickson: We Shouldn't Need A 'Dead White Kid' To De-Militarize Police

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With the rise of terrorism in the United States…

Virtually all of it being carried out by RWNJ’s, one should note.

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“Just because Michael Brown may not look like you should not immediately serve as an excuse to ignore the issues involved.”
He sure knows his readership. Normal people should not have to be told this.

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“we should not need to have a young white man shot and killed for the rest of the nation to pay attention to the issue.”

Like this one: Mentally ill teen killed by cop. “We don’t have time for this” Bang, bang.

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Pro-tip, asshole: we shouldn’t need a dead BLACK kid either. That’s really what you’re saying, right Erick? Dead black kid is less of a tragedy than a hypothetical dead white kid, right?

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Does Erickson think we should take the military weapons away from the police and give them to god-fearing “militias” instead?

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Hey, Erick, Son of Erick, how many white kids got shot dead in Ferguson?

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Actually, what he’s tap-dancing around is “Why is everybody so upset? It’s not llke people got hurt or anything?”

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Crikey. It’s unfortunate that his usual mix of smoke and barely disguised racism bury the truths about police state militarization.

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Since Michael Brown was killed with the standard issued side arm of the Ferguson PD the de- militarizing of the police wouldn’t have prevented his death.

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Very white of him.

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White kids are being murdered by cops…that’s the thing, the media has been ignoring a growing problem, like they do with every major issue.

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Police Officer beats mentally challenged young man who had committed no crime to death

http://www.khq.com/category/239591/otto-zehm-archives

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That anyone takes this creationist fundie preacher wannbe, and what comes out of his mouth, seriously is beyond me.

May the ghost of Charles Darwin and his Galapagos Finch “familiars”; an entire annoying cheep-chirping flock of them; haunt this man and make his nights miserable for the rest of his days.

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Okay, calm down everybody. Erik Erikson makes statements from time to time which seem out of character for the same man who tweeted:

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What Erik is really saying, is this:

We Shouldn’t Need A ‘Dead White Kid’ To De-Militarize Police…but because of Obama, we do.

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Here’s a pig beating the crap out of a teenage white girl:

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Dear Erick
once again speaking out of both side of your mouth will be your standard operating procedure.
You cannot vociferously defend the right to bear military assault weaponry by individual citizens and then rail on the militarization of the police. I abhor the police abuses but recognize the rationale that led them to mistakenly believe that the answer to the reckless policies you promoted that allow police to go into situations where they are outgunned because of your continuing failure to be willing to impose some common sense gun control regulations on the public!

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Cops kill white teenagers w/ Downs Syndrome too:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/syndrome-man-movies-ends-morgue/story?id=20046376

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lio. that’s hardly the point. there are two issues here.

  1. the cop shot an unarmed black man.

  2. the police responding to public demonstrations using military tactics and equipment.

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And none of Erikson’s readers agree with him…