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Like I said, it was reported. I've known about this since at least last week.
I think most people's issue is less on where he was and more about the knee in the back of his neck that killed him.
If they'd just been a little rough with him, we probably wouldn't even be having this conversation. The issue is that they killed the man with an unncesscary use of force. You can speculate, you can guess, you can suppose all you want, but none of it changes one, salient fact:
He didn't deserve to die.
You can't get around that. Smear him all you like, bring up all the crimes, harp on every single thing the man did, and it won't change a single thing about this. It won't make what happened to him anything less of an injustice. And since it won't, bringing it up can be clearly seen for what it is - a smear tactic. A lazy attempt to someone how make what happened to him justified. Maybe you don't mean to do it, but that's exactly what you're doing.
I'm sorry if you don't like negative facts to be known about the guy that people are rioting over. But fairness and equality dictates that people know just as much about this guy as is known about the cops--be it about their past, or the events of the day in question.
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