Irrelevant. He was stoned and he was driving while stoned.
And last time I checked, that wasn't a death penalty offense.
Bullshit. The veteran should have minded his own business.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Phillips is a douchebag liar, just like you, and I don't give two shits if he's a veteran or not. As far as that goes, he can take his veteran status and shove it up his toothless bunghole.
Well, nice to see you disrespect veterans, but that's to be expected. You whine about the constitution all day, but you never put up to defend it.
The Black Hebrew Israelites were the ones taunting people all day, including Phillips' group. Phillips knew full ******* well that it was the BHI that started shit with the Covington group and the kids were merely responding with school fight songs to drown out the BHI's racist shit.
And they just happened to be wearing Racist MAGA hats calling attention to themselves.
He then chose on his own to walk right past the BHIs, who were yelling at people all day, to the Covington group who were waiting for their bus. The Covington kids had no idea what Phillips was doing there since all the ruckus was between them and the BHIs. Phillips lies and says in interviews later that he was trying to get to the memorial but couldn't get through. This lie was twofold: 1.) He approached the Covington group directly to specifically stand there and bang his drum. 2.) Video shows that there was a clear path to the memorial.
"Mommy, Mommy, the mean old man banged a tamborine at me.. MOOOOOOOMMMMMMMYYYYY!"
Seriously, this kid needed a good *****-slapping.
Phillips is also a *****. He chose to approach the kids for three reasons: 1.) He wasn't about to go bang his drum in the faces of a bunch of burly black men, even if they were the ones spouting racist shit all day. 2.) The kids being kids, they seemed relatively harmless. 3.) Some of the kids were wearing MAGA hats. The MAGA hats were the catalyst that drew him to them, in spite of the fact they never said a racist thing the whole time.
The point was, the BHI were there all day, as you say. They weren't starting any violence, they were just there. Until the LECB's showed up and started taunting them.
You go into a mostly minority area wearing a MAGA hat, you are looking for a fight.
Irrelevant. His pro-life stance is still immaterial to the events.
You know what's funny enough to make you laugh until you puke? Your stupid lying ass didn't even know Sandmann was there for a March For Life rally until I told you. Why did I have to tell you this? Because your stupid lying ass thought they were assembling at the memorial for a mini Trump rally without a permit.
Actually, I read other reports about the incident... and he was still a punk ass little *****.
The left doesn't want to fix poverty, racism, mental illness, drug addiction or gun proliferation either. They're good at virtue signaling but not so much at virtue. I have witnessed colossal hypocrisy from the left over the last few years and I finally came to a realization: The left behaves just like the right wing religious nuts they can't stand.
Um, okay. Not sure how believing in policies that have been proven to work in other countries is virtue signalling, but whatever.
You see, the funny thing is, the Great Society and the New Deal worked. But Republicans have spent the last 50 years trying to roll them back.
There's a saying within the atheist/secularist community that they use to describe some believers and how they act on their beliefs: Belief in belief. It doesn't matter that these social problems are never fixed as long as you believe they should be. As long as you believe we should, say, distribute wealth and make enough noise about it, you will surely be welcomed with open arms and become one of the Anointed Chosen. Stand on a soapbox or before a crowd in the street or before Congress and preach that we should distribute wealth by government mandate. But for God's sake, don't distribute your own wealth!
Let's get real here. Most of the money the government redistributes is to white people in the form of "entitlements". We spend 2.5 TRILLION on Middle Class entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment) and only about 800 Billion on poverty relief if you include Medicaid.
As far as why we don't fix the social problems, you can thank Republicans for that. They keep selling the Supply Side Bullshit that if you give tax cuts to rich people we are going to all be prosperous. Been 40 years since Reagan sold that shit.
How about just doing something about the crime? If we did that then there would be fewer officer-involved shootings and as a plus, there would be fewer crime victims.
Guy, we've been locking up millions of people (disproportionately people of color) for years. We lock up 2 million people while the Europeans lock up less than 100,000. If Guns and Prisons and Thugs cops made us safer, we'd have the lowest crime rates in the industrialized world, not the highest.
You don't know that. Besides, the point is not what crimes he committed but that he has a juvenile record at all.
Yes, we know this is the common tactic of the racist. That shiftless negro must have done something bad some time, so it was okay to shoot him.
He wasn't shot for shoplifting, he was shot for assaulting an officer, trying to take the officer's weapon and then not complying to commands from the officer to back off.
Or he was shot because a cop was pissed at him
It's not the DA's job to consider testimony that is doubtful or demonstrably false.
Right, all those people were lying, but Wilson's multiple contradictory stories were the truth.
A document filed in a civil lawsuit over former officer Darren Wilson's fatal shooting of Michael Brown may show contradictions to previous accounts of what happened on August 9, 2014.
www.kmov.com
In the Department of Justice investigation of Brown's death, investigators concluded witness accounts that Wilson reached out of his vehicle and grabbed Brown by the neck were inconsistent with physical and forensic evidence. However, Wilson admits in the document to reaching out and grabbing Brown by the forearm.
In the document below, Wilson admits Brown never tried to remove his gun from the holster. In grand jury testimony, Wilson said Brown grabbed his gun and that he feared for his life.
McCormick said attorneys ask very specific questions in a "request for admissions" and that the document doesn't tell the full story of what happened that day. But if Wilson's admissions contradict his previous testimony, it could undermine the credibility of his entire version of events.
Rehired to the same precinct they had just shut down?
The whole police department was fired. Good cops were rehired. Wilson wasn't. there was probably a good reason for that.
What did the investigation find? That's right, self defense.
Yes, the racist DA whose father was shot by a black man found shooting a black child was okay..