No mass protests after Honolulu police shoot, kill Black man

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    This is interesting. Why do you think there hasn't been much interest? Will this piece generate more interest:
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He broke into someone else's house and then attacked police leaving one with a concussion?

    I will 100% call out police when they shoot someone lying in a hallway or shoot someone that pose no threat but this seems like a threat.

    “Simply by being Black, he was seen as an “immediate threat,” that the Asian woman who called 911 needed to be protected from, she said.

    Such BS, you break into someones house and you are a threat, doesn’t matter if you are green with purple polkadots.
     
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    Agreed. Although it doesn't make sense that the police would announce their prescense after three gun shots, his behavior toward police sounds very threatening. He may well have mistaken the house when he entered, but it doesn't explain his attacking the officers.
     
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    Don't give them any ideas please. For the sake of store front businesses everywhere. Well not everywhere...
     
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  5. Steve N

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    Hawaii is probably the most racist state in the country, that’s why there’s little interest. Plus the police probably weren’t white.
     
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    Shooting a criminal isn’t racist. God, some people can only think of one thing.
     
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    He didn't break in. He supposedly just walked in, mistaking it for another house that was a place of worship. He talked to the husband while the wife was on the phone and had walked out when the police arrived.

    I do find it odd that the police didn't announce themselves until after they shot him. Doesn't sound like there was much interaction before.
     
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    Perhaps, the OP said the homeowner (wife) was upset. Looks like he would have simply left — which leads to believe an intoxicant was involved.
     
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    Seems a bit late:
     
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    he fought the police and put one in the hospital. Hardly an innocent victim.
     
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    We still don't have good video and he wasn't violent at all in the house. Makes you wonder if the cops made an attempt to talk to him.

    ETA: I see there is some new video out, but I haven't seen it yet. Will review and post.
     
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    Here is the video from the time he entered the house until he was shot. Narrative from his family's lawyers, to just be aware of.

     
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    Good shoot. That idiot attacked the police officers and put one in the hospital. Why can't some people act right?
     
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    Police never identified and started a physical confrontation. He accidentally went to the wrong house and the wife acted hysterical for 911 and the cops. He was outside the house and calm before the cops came in and tried to wrestle him.
     
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    you don’t have to announce yourself in uniform. The cops had every right to tell him to stop, he had no right to start a fight with them. He was an idiot, and he found out why you don’t fight the police.
    Clean shoot, had he complied like he’s legally obliged he wouldn’t have been shot.
     
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    It was night, very dark, and they were shining a flashlight at him. He repeatedly asked "Who are you?"

    He hadn't committed any crime. The police made no attempt to simply talk to him.
     
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    he was intoxicated and entered a home without permission. He asked that because he was intoxicated, if you’re too smashed to know what red and blue lights mean and guys in uniform, that’s on him.
     
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    Where did you get that he was intoxicated?
     
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    Race. Racists. Racism. The lines have been blurred. The term way overworked. They’ve over used, overworked, misused and abused the term. It’s a last ditch effort for those losing the argument, but it never works and actually back fires.
     
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    Waiting on toxicology report. He appeared disoriented and confused while screwing around in the wrong house. Maybe he was just such a dumbass that behavior was normal.
     
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    You don't actually break in, if you don't break a thing. You are just tress passing.
    And apparently the clip shows that cops shot first, and then told a dead guy they were the police.
    Dunno how that concussion fits in. Thanks to the cops, we just don't know.
     
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    Is it?
    Maybe it's true a heck of a lot of time. Would Chauvin have killed a Jewish kid like he killed a black guy? Nobody doubts such an event would happen.
     
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    Melb_muser Well-Known Member Donor

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    Can't tell if you're being serious or not.
     
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    Very serious. I had a guy transfer out there and came back after 2 years. He said it’s pretty racist towards mainlanders and people who aren’t their kind. He told me that changes in the tourist areas where they want our money.
     
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    That's old hat, we're on to critical race theory now.
     

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