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Aubrey shooting defendants come ITT

Should read SUPPORTERS of Aubery shooting defendants. W...
Sexy zippy gaming laptop
  11/25/21
If you’re black, why would them being white make you m...
Supple School Depressive
  11/25/21
Completely non-responsive. "Well, this episode of r...
razzle-dazzle idiotic keepsake machete
  11/25/21
"If two people with guns (especially if it's Georgia an...
federal shimmering giraffe station
  11/25/21
And the actual stats are that right wing terrorists are more...
honey-headed diverse abode
  11/25/21
You’re confusing the law with justice. The dindu deser...
Metal racy fortuitous meteor chad
  11/25/21
Cr. The crime here is the farce that we lost someone of any ...
excitant bronze temple
  11/25/21
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Metal racy fortuitous meteor chad
  11/25/21
I hope someone you love is hit and killed by a drunk driver.
razzle-dazzle idiotic keepsake machete
  11/25/21
I hope you get caught in a grease fire behind a locked door.
Thriller orchid voyeur
  11/25/21
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glassy greedy kitchen private investor
  11/25/21
Am I going crazy here? Why does this guy's personality matt...
Sexy zippy gaming laptop
  11/25/21
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Bateful deep ladyboy
  11/25/21
what was his record? is there any proof that he actually st...
Green nudist coffee pot range
  11/25/21
You guys think he was casing houses to rob them right? Yo...
Sexy zippy gaming laptop
  11/25/21
He deserved to die for trying to grab somebody else’s ...
glassy greedy kitchen private investor
  11/25/21
I would do the same if some non-police stranger approached m...
Sexy zippy gaming laptop
  11/25/21
yes, all felon dindus deserve to die
Metal racy fortuitous meteor chad
  11/25/21
fewer blacks is a good thing
Boyish public bath athletic conference
  11/25/21
there's a megathread about this where i autistically poasted...
Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria
  11/25/21
wow adderall is a hell of a drug
provocative dingle berry library
  11/25/21
Wow, you are a racist piece of shit to have typed all of tha...
razzle-dazzle idiotic keepsake machete
  11/25/21
(cum guzzler)
provocative dingle berry library
  11/25/21
(shitlib faggot making everything about race) this has no...
Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria
  11/25/21
You are a low iq black, ietp
glassy greedy kitchen private investor
  11/25/21
You are in a thread that asked for people's reasoning why th...
federal shimmering giraffe station
  11/25/21
Oh I am just speaking legally. Going off of the video. I d...
Sexy zippy gaming laptop
  11/25/21
no one is saying he deserved to die for committing non-viole...
Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria
  11/25/21
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Bateful deep ladyboy
  11/25/21
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bat shit crazy degenerate
  11/25/21
I have to admit I don't understand the rationale behind citi...
Sexy zippy gaming laptop
  11/25/21
It’s almost like there’s a reason we grant speci...
bat shit crazy degenerate
  11/25/21
let's say on one end of the spectrum there's a rape in progr...
Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria
  11/25/21
is it confirmed that arbery had actually been robbing the ne...
provocative dingle berry library
  11/25/21
if you read between the lines from what the media reports, y...
Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria
  11/25/21
got it, thx
provocative dingle berry library
  11/25/21
He was also caught in 2018 doing the same thing and used the...
federal shimmering giraffe station
  11/25/21
lmao, i've obviously researched this quite a bit and i didn'...
Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria
  11/25/21
arbery probably would have gotten off had he disarmed the sh...
Green nudist coffee pot range
  11/25/21
As I have said a million times if some non-police actor (esp...
Sexy zippy gaming laptop
  11/25/21
it wasn't random. arbery knew he had just trespassed (at a m...
Green nudist coffee pot range
  11/25/21
Assuming Arbery is the one who stole guns from that neighbor...
Turquoise fluffy meetinghouse windowlicker
  11/25/21
They were in the right because Arbery was a nigger and we ha...
glittery point water buffalo
  11/25/21
They shouldn't have even had that gun. Now 4 lives are ruine...
multi-colored menage karate
  11/25/21
How many guns should Arbery have been allowed to have?
Turquoise fluffy meetinghouse windowlicker
  11/25/21
None. The United States should implement a widespread and to...
multi-colored menage karate
  11/25/21
move to australia then. every other country on earth is beco...
Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria
  11/25/21
The tides are turning in the US. Wild west shootouts arent p...
multi-colored menage karate
  11/25/21
But cf: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/10/4/22709602/c...
Turquoise fluffy meetinghouse windowlicker
  11/25/21
Australians are cucked pussies. No thanks
provocative dingle berry library
  11/25/21
(guy who has to carry a gun to go to the grocery)
multi-colored menage karate
  11/25/21
(fag who wants to rely on daddy government for protection)
provocative dingle berry library
  11/25/21
Just call the police! (Shitlib cities burning to the grou...
Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria
  11/25/21
Police make quite a bit more than that here and are required...
multi-colored menage karate
  11/25/21
Oh, what credentials!
Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria
  11/25/21
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Bateful deep ladyboy
  11/25/21
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Bateful deep ladyboy
  11/25/21
You people are deranged. Cause and effect dingus. If you did...
multi-colored menage karate
  11/25/21
Lol good flame
provocative dingle berry library
  11/25/21
lolol
Bateful deep ladyboy
  11/25/21


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Date: November 25th, 2021 7:25 AM
Author: Sexy zippy gaming laptop

Should read SUPPORTERS of Aubery shooting defendants.

What am I not underatanding? What makes you think these guys were in the right?

Am I wrong that two white guys with guns chased down a black guy and tried to restrain him and put him in a truck, he reached for their gun to try to defend himself and they shot him?

How can you argue that the black guy deserved death? If two people with guns (especially if it's Georgia and I'm black and they're white) tried to restrain me I would be terrified and attempt to defend myself in any way possible.

This wasn't a citizens arrest as they didn't observe any crime; this was a lynching.

Where does my analysis fall apart? Thanks.

Serious discussion only ITT please.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505656)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 7:34 AM
Author: Supple School Depressive

If you’re black, why would them being white make you more afraid? The vast majority of black homicide victims are killed by their fellow blacks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505665)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 8:55 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle idiotic keepsake machete

Completely non-responsive.

"Well, this episode of racism isn't so bad because black homicide is higher!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505819)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:38 PM
Author: federal shimmering giraffe station

"If two people with guns (especially if it's Georgia and I'm black and they're white) tried to restrain me I would be terrified"

If the actual stats are that, as a black man, you should be more scared of another black, then this sentence from your OP is dead wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506653)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 9:20 PM
Author: honey-headed diverse abode

And the actual stats are that right wing terrorists are more likely to harm you than Muslims, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be ready to kick some ass when you get on a plane with a man whose wife is wearing a niqab.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43509078)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 8:00 AM
Author: Metal racy fortuitous meteor chad

You’re confusing the law with justice. The dindu deserved to die because he’s a worthless piece of shit and these rednecks did what the cops should have done but refused to do. Under the law, they’re guilty. As a matter of justice and morality, he is better dead.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505712)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 8:05 AM
Author: excitant bronze temple

Cr. The crime here is the farce that we lost someone of any consequence here. Maud was a piece of shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505721)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 8:41 AM
Author: Metal racy fortuitous meteor chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505789)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 8:55 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle idiotic keepsake machete

I hope someone you love is hit and killed by a drunk driver.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505821)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 3:00 PM
Author: Thriller orchid voyeur

I hope you get caught in a grease fire behind a locked door.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507334)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:18 AM
Author: glassy greedy kitchen private investor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506382)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:21 AM
Author: Sexy zippy gaming laptop

Am I going crazy here? Why does this guy's personality matter? People don't deserve to be summarily executed for being bad people. There is rule of law and it is more important than any of this bullshit. Anyone who does not come down strongly on the side of the law wants to live in the wild wild west.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506392)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:08 PM
Author: Bateful deep ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507073)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:11 PM
Author: Green nudist coffee pot range

what was his record?

is there any proof that he actually stole anything in the past?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507083)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:17 AM
Author: Sexy zippy gaming laptop

You guys think he was casing houses to rob them right?

You think someone deserves to DIE for that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506374)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:19 AM
Author: glassy greedy kitchen private investor

He deserved to die for trying to grab somebody else’s gun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506384)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:24 AM
Author: Sexy zippy gaming laptop

I would do the same if some non-police stranger approached me and tried to take away my freedom.

Am I crazy or are you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506410)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:24 PM
Author: Metal racy fortuitous meteor chad

yes, all felon dindus deserve to die

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506610)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:36 PM
Author: Boyish public bath athletic conference

fewer blacks is a good thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507229)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 8:43 AM
Author: Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria

there's a megathread about this where i autistically poasted my thoughts on why they should (morally) get off about 1000x

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4968031&mc=177&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505797)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 8:50 AM
Author: provocative dingle berry library

wow adderall is a hell of a drug

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505810)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 8:59 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle idiotic keepsake machete

Wow, you are a racist piece of shit to have typed all of that to defend a bunch of murderers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505832)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 8:59 AM
Author: provocative dingle berry library

(cum guzzler)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505834)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 9:03 AM
Author: Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria

(shitlib faggot making everything about race)

this has nothing to do with race. i've been outspoken about how breona taylor's black boyfriend was completely in the right to open fire on police executing a no-knock warrant. i know thinking of people as individuals rather than tokens, and being ideologically consistent, comes difficult to you libpedos.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43505846)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:19 AM
Author: glassy greedy kitchen private investor

You are a low iq black, ietp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506385)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: federal shimmering giraffe station

You are in a thread that asked for people's reasoning why they think the three guys should not go to jail and then you call someone racist for typing up a lengthy reasoning for that position.

Your clearly both retarded and a bad faith actor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506660)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:15 AM
Author: Sexy zippy gaming laptop

Oh I am just speaking legally. Going off of the video. I don't know anything about him as a person. However even if he was casing houses I don't think he deserved to die. He deserved to be arrested and stand trial in front of a jury of his peers. It's weird that this is considered a "shitlib" notion on xoxo these days.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506361)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:39 AM
Author: Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria

no one is saying he deserved to die for committing non-violent property crimes. if the hicks shot him as he was running away i would say they deserve to fry. however, he was fleeing from a crime and attacked a man wielding a gun, trying to take it from him. at that point, the hicks had no choice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506469)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:08 PM
Author: Bateful deep ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507075)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:20 AM
Author: bat shit crazy degenerate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506389)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:23 AM
Author: Sexy zippy gaming laptop

I have to admit I don't understand the rationale behind citizen's arrest. If any person not wearing a police uniform approached me and tried to restrain me I would be terrified and use lethal force to attempt to free myself. Are we supposed to just submit to random people who claim we have done something illegal? Who would actually do this irl?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506402)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:41 AM
Author: bat shit crazy degenerate

It’s almost like there’s a reason we grant special authority to uniformed police

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506472)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:43 AM
Author: Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria

let's say on one end of the spectrum there's a rape in progress on a philly subway. and at the other end of the spectrum you have a hick restraining you with a gun based on nothing. i think we can both agree that a citizen should be allowed to stop a violent crime in progress, and that a citizen should not be allowed to restrain another based on nothing.

so, our point of contention boils down to the degree of certainty required for a citizen take the law into their own hands and restrain someone. there's a big chasm and a lot of gray between a violent crime in progress and baseless speculation. in arbery's case, he had been robbing the neighborhood for weeks, there was video of that and they had a description of him, and he had been casing houses that morning and was fleeing after getting caught. to me, that's sufficient evidence for a citizen to restrain him until the police came. if you disagree with that, that's fine, i accept that reasonable minds can differ on this. but it's disingenuous to say that they were restraining him on mere speculation. they had the right guy. he was fleeing a crime.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506481)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:58 AM
Author: provocative dingle berry library

is it confirmed that arbery had actually been robbing the neighborhood for weeks?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506519)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:02 PM
Author: Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria

if you read between the lines from what the media reports, yes. i don't think we can ever confirm it because arbery is det. however, someone "fitting his description" was caught on video several times. multiple witnesses. arbery's mother admitted it was him in the video from that morning casing the house. the crimes stopped after arbery got got. it would be a wild coincidence if there is some one-armed man type 2nd jogger out there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506540)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:06 PM
Author: provocative dingle berry library

got it, thx

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506547)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:42 PM
Author: federal shimmering giraffe station

He was also caught in 2018 doing the same thing and used the "jogging" excuse. Like literally the same excuse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506668)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:59 PM
Author: Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria

lmao, i've obviously researched this quite a bit and i didn't even know about this. lmfao @ msm.

same thing happened in floyd's case when he was pulled over, resisted arrest, and kept shouting "i can't breath" as he struggled with officers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506759)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:07 PM
Author: Green nudist coffee pot range

arbery probably would have gotten off had he disarmed the shooter and shot him because, ironically, he's black and they are white

why arbery didn't just run into the yards and try to escape that way is the sad unfortunate part. that's what most would have done, not try to disarm the guy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507069)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:19 PM
Author: Sexy zippy gaming laptop

As I have said a million times if some non-police actor (especially one with a gun) approached me and tried to deprive me of my liberty I would be terrified (Who is this person? Are they a drunk? Psycho? Where are they going to take me? What are they going to do to me?) and I would certainly use lethal force to defend myself. If you try to do that to me you have surrendered your right to keep breathing. It's funny that xoxo is usually so pro-self defense (Rittenhouse, Trayvon) yet when a black guy defends in self against what he had every reason to believe were Deliverance-style whacko rednecks he "should have run away."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507127)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:21 PM
Author: Green nudist coffee pot range

it wasn't random. arbery knew he had just trespassed (at a minimum). you are adding an unlikely variable to the hypo-that arbery thought this was a random bunch of people coming at him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507148)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:49 AM
Author: Turquoise fluffy meetinghouse windowlicker

Assuming Arbery is the one who stole guns from that neighborhood the shooters did a huge service to the black community by keeping more guns off the street. The mostly white jury was demonstrating their white privilege by signaling that black criminals should be allowed to terrorize their communities by putting stolen guns on the street and killing one another.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506501)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 11:52 AM
Author: glittery point water buffalo

They were in the right because Arbery was a nigger and we hate niggers. Anytime someone kills a ghetto nigger they are automatically in the right. Anytime a nigger enters the boundary of a white neighborhood, they better well have a legit reason for being there (service worker or whatever), be on alert to be on their best behavior and preferably be uniformed in their service attire to make it clear why they are there. Arbery clearly violated this longheld social contract and got what he deserved. At the same time, I don't mind that the defendants got fucked since they were stupid enough to film themselves taking out the trash.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506508)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:03 PM
Author: multi-colored menage karate

They shouldn't have even had that gun. Now 4 lives are ruined because of it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506542)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:10 PM
Author: Turquoise fluffy meetinghouse windowlicker

How many guns should Arbery have been allowed to have?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506557)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:15 PM
Author: multi-colored menage karate

None. The United States should implement a widespread and total gun buyback program with a 1 year amnesty period to sell your guns back to the Government or else face the consequences of the decision not to.

The Australian Government in cooperation with the Federal Police implemented a buyback program following the Port Arthur Massacre that has all but eliminated violent crime. This program was fully supported by both sides.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506576)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria

move to australia then. every other country on earth is becoming cucked authoritarian hellworlds. why can't the us remain the land of the free and home of the brave? you can go anywhere else on earth and live in the nerf dream world you envision.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506583)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:25 PM
Author: multi-colored menage karate

The tides are turning in the US. Wild west shootouts arent popular regardless of what your online right wing echo chamber would have you believe.

It's going to be hilarious when gun nuts start seeing their fellow gun nut friends handing over their entire arsenals to the Government.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506617)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:32 PM
Author: Turquoise fluffy meetinghouse windowlicker

But cf:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/10/4/22709602/chicago-austin-shooting-gangs-no-charges-aldermen-editorial

A Wild West shootout terrorizes Austin in broad daylight and not one suspect is charged?

Aldermen are furious, as well they should be. One person was killed. Two were wounded. More than 70 shell casings were found.

Many aldermen are furious over the handling of a brazen gunfight in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood on Friday in which the suspects walked away without a single criminal charge being filed.

We entirely understand. In a city where authorities should be doing everything to quell a surge in violence, there’s a shoot-out like at the OK Corral, an entire block is endangered and several obvious suspects are detained.

And then nothing.

This was a shocking incident, even in a city that seems increasingly inured to daily violence, caught on video and described by one source as “just like the Wild West.” More than 70 shell casings were found, and many more shots likely were fired. Police apparently arrived in time to witness at least part of the shootout.

Editorials

Who can blame anybody for asking: “If charges can’t be filed in a case like this, when can they?”

Who can blame anybody for thinking that the handling of this case will embolden thugs to shoot and kill with even greater abandon?

Reporter Tom Schuba wrote in Monday’s Sun-Times that the firefight, which left one shooter dead and two suspects wounded, grew out of an internal dispute between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, according to an internal police report and a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation.

At least three individuals reportedly jumped out of two cars and began to shoot into a brick house. Those inside the house fired back. When the shooting stopped, those in the house refused to come out until a SWAT team arrived.

Schuba’s source said police sought to charge all five suspects with murder and aggravated battery. But instead, after discussion with prosecutors, the suspects were released without charges. On Monday, police said an investigation is continuing.

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This page has long argued that criminal charges should be brought by police and prosecutors only when there is sufficient evidence to support a case. Too often in the past, cases have been built using torture, false confessions and the strangest stretching of the evidence. But the pendulum can’t be allowed to swing so far in the opposite direction that obvious suspects walk away from crime scenes with impunity.

On Monday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and five West Side aldermen sent a letter to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx asking her to reconsider the decision not to bring felony charges. “Giving these kinds of violent offenders a pass when their crime is fully captured on video and with police on the scene is simply unacceptable,” they wrote.

Amen to that.

The police and state’s attorney office must work together on this one to achieve justice. Friday’s shooting is sure to spread terror into the heart of every Austin resident, and throughout a city traumatized by gun violence. For the suspects to be at large — not even on electronic monitoring — can make no one feel safe.

At Monday’s City Council budget hearing, Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th), chairman of the Public Safety Committee, promptly asked Chicago Police Supt. David Brown, who recently on CNN decried “violent people in possession of weapons,” about the case. Brown said the police department is committed to holding any guilty parties accountable.

Taliaferro, who signed the letter with Lightfoot and the four other aldermen, told us, “When I first heard people were taken into custody and that no one was charged, I was floored, frustrated and furious all at the same time. I could understand why our community is very concerned about the violence that is prevalent in Chicago and why there is such an appearance that nothing significant is being done about it.”

Late in the evening on Monday, Foxx responded with a statement that read in part: “The detectives reached out to our office on Friday and acknowledged at the outset that given the chaotic nature at the scene they were unable to determine how the events unfolded. We reviewed the evidence that was presented to us in consultation with the detectives and they agreed we were unable to approve charges based on the evidence presented.”

Nothing? No charges? Of any sort? Though the cops arrived at the scene before the shoot-out ended? Yes, let’s hope this is not the end on this case.

A police report reportedly stated Foxx’s office cited “mutual combatants” as a reason not to press charges. “Mutual combatants” is a phrase cops use to describe, for example, two people who agree to go outside a bar and fight. Police infamously used the concept as an excuse not to investigate the case of David Koschman, the young man who died in 2004 after being punched by a nephew of a former mayor.

But on Monday, lawyers with both defense and prosecutorial backgrounds told us the idea of “mutual combatants” simply does not apply here. Not when there’s a lethal firefight in broad daylight.

Kim Foxx had better review every aspect of this case: How the arrests were made, how the evidence was assessed and the curious legal rationale and policies that led to not one charge being filed against anybody.

In this case and every case like it.

Send letters to letters@suntimes.com.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506641)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:36 PM
Author: provocative dingle berry library

Australians are cucked pussies. No thanks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506649)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:39 PM
Author: multi-colored menage karate

(guy who has to carry a gun to go to the grocery)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506657)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 12:48 PM
Author: provocative dingle berry library

(fag who wants to rely on daddy government for protection)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43506696)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:00 PM
Author: Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria

Just call the police!

(Shitlib cities burning to the ground with mass lawlessness, violence, looting, homelessness)

Daddy governments 34k/yr enforcers will surely fix this!

(Libs defund and vilify police)

Well, you shouldn't have been there anyway!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507034)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:02 PM
Author: multi-colored menage karate

Police make quite a bit more than that here and are required to attain a Bachelor's Degree or higher in Police Science

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507047)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:31 PM
Author: Curious Hilarious School Cafeteria

Oh, what credentials!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507197)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: Bateful deep ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507680)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: Bateful deep ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507682)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:01 PM
Author: multi-colored menage karate

You people are deranged. Cause and effect dingus. If you didn't have to worry about guns, you wouldn't need to call the authorities anyway.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507043)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 2:14 PM
Author: provocative dingle berry library

Lol good flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507098)



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Date: November 25th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: Bateful deep ladyboy

lolol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4972187&forum_id=2#43507679)