1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

Featured Killed for selling cigarettes

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Crabtownboy, Dec 5, 2014.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
  1. Crabtownboy

    Crabtownboy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 12, 2008
    Messages:
    18,441
    Likes Received:
    259
    Faith:
    Baptist
    If we heard of a man in a third world country, race does not matter, who was choked to death while being arrested for selling cigarettes and the policeman was let off free ... what would our reaction be to that story?



     
  2. Revmitchell

    Revmitchell Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2006
    Messages:
    52,013
    Likes Received:
    3,649
    Faith:
    Baptist
    I would say it was probably a mischaracterization just as it is to describe it that way about recent events in NY.
     
  3. Crabtownboy

    Crabtownboy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 12, 2008
    Messages:
    18,441
    Likes Received:
    259
    Faith:
    Baptist
    #3 Crabtownboy, Dec 5, 2014
    Last edited by a moderator: Dec 5, 2014
  4. Revmitchell

    Revmitchell Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2006
    Messages:
    52,013
    Likes Received:
    3,649
    Faith:
    Baptist
    1. He was not killed for selling cigarettes.

    2. He was being arrested for illegally selling cigarettes.

    3. He created the situation by resisting arrest.


    To say he was killed for selling cigarettes is just plain dishonest.
     
  5. Jedi Knight

    Jedi Knight Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Mar 9, 2009
    Messages:
    5,135
    Likes Received:
    117
    Shallow Al follower identified.
     
  6. Revmitchell

    Revmitchell Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2006
    Messages:
    52,013
    Likes Received:
    3,649
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Yep................
     
  7. Zaac

    Zaac Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 12, 2012
    Messages:
    13,757
    Likes Received:
    222
    Race baiting Rush follower identified too.:thumbsup:
     
  8. Revmitchell

    Revmitchell Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2006
    Messages:
    52,013
    Likes Received:
    3,649
    Faith:
    Baptist
    However the law that this guy broke in selling cigarettes illegally was stupid.
     
  9. Crabtownboy

    Crabtownboy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 12, 2008
    Messages:
    18,441
    Likes Received:
    259
    Faith:
    Baptist
    This guy was trying to make a few pennies and ended up dead and yet bankers have taken millions from people [remember the disaster in 2008] and not one was arrested for malpractice ... much less killed.
     
  10. Zaac

    Zaac Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 12, 2012
    Messages:
    13,757
    Likes Received:
    222
    Yet the white privilege, GOP sponsored narrative is that everything would have been okay if he'd just complied with the officers. SMH.

    How many of those guys have they walked up to and placed in chokeholds?
     
  11. annsni

    annsni Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 30, 2006
    Messages:
    20,914
    Likes Received:
    706
    Let's add in #4 - He was not choked to death.
     
  12. Gib

    Gib Active Member

    Joined:
    Feb 24, 2003
    Messages:
    27,256
    Likes Received:
    14
    So you're okay with people doing illegal things to make extra money? I doubt he was only doing it for a few pennies.
     
  13. righteousdude2

    righteousdude2 Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Oct 14, 2007
    Messages:
    11,154
    Likes Received:
    242
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Good point ... everyone seems to forget that the man had nine prior arrests for selling cigarettes, so he KNEW he was breaking the law. This sounds vaguely familiar ... five million illegal immigrants will not worry about deportation for the next three years. They seem to think they did nothing wrong and that this is the least that was owed to them by their host country.

    Both the illegals and Garner knew the laws, BUT cried foul when law enforcement tried to hold them responsible. We live in a progressively lawless society. And no one is willing to enforce our laws, starting with the community organizer in the WH.

    If Garner would have followed the laws he grew to disrespect, and got a real job, he'd be alive today.IMHO.
     
  14. church mouse guy

    church mouse guy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 23, 2002
    Messages:
    22,050
    Likes Received:
    1,857
    Faith:
    Baptist
  15. carpro

    carpro Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Oct 14, 2004
    Messages:
    25,823
    Likes Received:
    1,167
    Faith:
    Baptist
    It would be terrible. But nobody was choked to death in this instance.

    Will the drama never end? :BangHead:
     
  16. Alcott

    Alcott Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Dec 17, 2002
    Messages:
    9,404
    Likes Received:
    353
    Faith:
    Baptist
    It must be true that cigarettes can kill you.
     
  17. church mouse guy

    church mouse guy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 23, 2002
    Messages:
    22,050
    Likes Received:
    1,857
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Alcott, you are always so funny!
     
  18. Crabtownboy

    Crabtownboy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 12, 2008
    Messages:
    18,441
    Likes Received:
    259
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Don't believe I said that ... but selling unpacked illegal cigarettes is not an offense that should bring about deatyh.

    To other who crow he died of a heart attack. Don't you think being taken down while being choked might have something to do with the onset of the heart attack. It is rather like saying, "That person didn't die of cancer, they died of infection", not mentioning that the infection was brought on by the cancer. Medically no one dies of cancer, they die of a side effect of the cancer, infection, bleeding to death, not being able to breath, pneumonia. God some folk with fuzzy logic on the board.
     
  19. Bro. Curtis

    Bro. Curtis <img src =/curtis.gif>
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Oct 25, 2001
    Messages:
    22,016
    Likes Received:
    487
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Let's go one better. If people didn't smoke, that guy would have to find another way to get himself killed.
     
  20. Gib

    Gib Active Member

    Joined:
    Feb 24, 2003
    Messages:
    27,256
    Likes Received:
    14
    Selling unpacked illegal cigarettes is illegal. He was selling cigarettes illegally. You said all he was trying to do was make some extra pennies doing so.

    I agree selling cigarettes or anything else illegally should not bring about death, but that was not the reason he died.
     
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
Loading...