Just this morning I'm watching a 'news' program and even though the evidence and the warrant has been released the person talking was just straight out saying the opposite of that. Literally just looking at the camera "she was a heroic first responder who was gunned down like an animal on a no-knock warrant" etc etc
Yeah, it's gotten pretty bad. Used to be there would be different interpretations of facts, now they just toss the facts out the window and say whatever they want.
My kids believe this stuff too. You can try to reason with them but then they point to media stories like the one you describe and say that we believe in conspiracy theory.
Your kids are taking the word of a guy who attempted to murder a police officer over the words of our AG, coroner, forensics, LMPD at the scene, the LMPD supervisors who approved the raid, and witnesses from the apartment building.
... For the record, usually "conspiracy theories" require a "conspiracy." 2 or more people working together outside of public scrutiny for a singular cause. You know, like thinking that every level of law enforcement is working in tandem to promote a false narrative motivated by racism.
Thinking one drug dealer who shot a cop is probably a liar too isn't a "conspiracy" by any fucking definition of the word.
Lolbertarians. They like to forget things like "other laws." Those are the ones I figure we'll have to deal with when the dust settles. (Like how the fuck are we going to have fire departments if you are allowed to shoot at people that you even heard knock because you "didn't hear them identify"? What the fuck kind of standard of use of force is that?)
That didn't sound like your kids' argument though, from the above comments. It sounded more like the "dindu nuffin" argument that the legacy media in general is running with.
That argument is straight up retarded, and it's causing my own home state to be burned down. I think we should go over it right the fuck now.
this is third world banana republic journalism ... and the worst thing about is how they paint themselves as the heroes of truth with their "fact checks" and "experts" (as if those couldnt be manipulative or highly selected) ... I vividly remember Trump coining the term fake news in regards to CNN and the likes, and when that term got too popular to be ignored by them, they reported about "fake news" as related to russian (wtf?) facebook campaigns (what??)...
Just this morning I'm watching a 'news' program and even though the evidence and the warrant has been released the person talking was just straight out saying the opposite of that. Literally just looking at the camera "she was a heroic first responder who was gunned down like an animal on a no-knock warrant" etc etc
Yeah, it's gotten pretty bad. Used to be there would be different interpretations of facts, now they just toss the facts out the window and say whatever they want.
My kids believe this stuff too. You can try to reason with them but then they point to media stories like the one you describe and say that we believe in conspiracy theory.
The. Only. Person. Arguing. That. Shot. A. Cop.
Your kids are taking the word of a guy who attempted to murder a police officer over the words of our AG, coroner, forensics, LMPD at the scene, the LMPD supervisors who approved the raid, and witnesses from the apartment building.
... For the record, usually "conspiracy theories" require a "conspiracy." 2 or more people working together outside of public scrutiny for a singular cause. You know, like thinking that every level of law enforcement is working in tandem to promote a false narrative motivated by racism.
Thinking one drug dealer who shot a cop is probably a liar too isn't a "conspiracy" by any fucking definition of the word.
Yep. I completely agree. When the dust settles we will go over that.
But even here at TD we have all kinds of people making 2A home invasion arguments in favor of Walker/Taylor.
Lolbertarians. They like to forget things like "other laws." Those are the ones I figure we'll have to deal with when the dust settles. (Like how the fuck are we going to have fire departments if you are allowed to shoot at people that you even heard knock because you "didn't hear them identify"? What the fuck kind of standard of use of force is that?)
That didn't sound like your kids' argument though, from the above comments. It sounded more like the "dindu nuffin" argument that the legacy media in general is running with.
That argument is straight up retarded, and it's causing my own home state to be burned down. I think we should go over it right the fuck now.
this is third world banana republic journalism ... and the worst thing about is how they paint themselves as the heroes of truth with their "fact checks" and "experts" (as if those couldnt be manipulative or highly selected) ... I vividly remember Trump coining the term fake news in regards to CNN and the likes, and when that term got too popular to be ignored by them, they reported about "fake news" as related to russian (wtf?) facebook campaigns (what??)...