Your Trayvon Martin opinions...

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  1. asignupe99

    asignupe99 Founding Member

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    I gotcha. I had an interesting conversation with a lady who owns properties in the N.O. area. She said she encounters people in her properties who are literally afraid to get off government assistance, even though they know they can, because if they do, they're afraid they won't be able to maintain. They're afraid that if they have to depend on their own income, with no food stamps, no rent subsidies, no assistance period, that they'll end up homeless. Unfortunately, they perpetuate that same attitude into their offspring instead of positioning them to break that cycle even if they, as the parent, cannot.

    Well hopefully it's just a phase and that bitterness isn't eating away at you. Nothing wrong with being bitter if you can harness it, LOL!
     
  2. mancha

    mancha Alabama morghulis

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    And in the Duke lacrosse rape case the results were disastrous. They come into a situation and set it on fire and leave. The damage they cause people is not mentioned.
     
  3. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    why is "bringing attention" good? whipping people into a frenzy doesnt make justice happen.

    hitler gets results. you have to be more specific about what sort of results.

    wrong, everything he does is self promotion, nothing more.
     
  4. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    truth
     
  5. stevescookin

    stevescookin Certified Who Dat

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    I'm still not interested...I'm more interested in the cops that shot that kid that was an athlete in Gentilly.
     
  6. Bud Lee

    Bud Lee Call me buttercup

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    wait...what?
     
  7. stevescookin

    stevescookin Certified Who Dat

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    http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/03/unarmed_man_shot_by_new_orlean.html

    NOPD officer who shot unarmed pot suspect in Gentilly is identified


    New Orleans police officials confirmed Thursday that the 20-year-old man who was fatally shot by a plain-clothed narcotics officer during a drug raid at a Gentilly house a day earlier was unarmed. New Orleans police officer Joshua Colclough, 28, fired a single shot Wednesday evening that killed Wendell Allen, 20. Police officials were guarded in their comments about the shooting Thursday, citing the ongoing investigation.

    "We have not been able to yet completely understand what exactly occurred," Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said Thursday.
    The shooting took place inside a red-brick, two-story home at 2651 Prentiss Ave. in Gentilly. Officers were executing a search warrant at the home following a days-old probe of marijuana dealing. Serpas said officers later found drug paraphernalia and 138 grams of marijuana -- about four and a half ounces -- inside the residence.
    It was the second fatal shooting of a suspect by police within a week in the NOPD's 3rd District, a relatively sleepy swath of residential neighborhoods that stretch from Lakeview through Gentilly. In last week's incident, in Mid-City, two officers were badly injured in a gunfight before the alleged gunman, 20-year-old Justin Sipp, was killed by police gunfire.
    The response of city leaders to the two incidents, not surprisingly, has been markedly different. After last week's shooting, city and police leaders gathered at a news conference. They called the the officers heroic, making clear that they believed the cops were provoked by civilian gunfire and that the officers' actions appeared justified.

    Officers are permitted to use deadly force, such as firing a gun, when they have a reasonable belief that they or somebody else is in imminent danger of death or bodily harm.
    But on Thursday, NOPD officials offered no real narrative to explain what, if anything, prompted Colclough to fire on Allen, a former standout high school basketball player. Police officials repeatedly offered condolences to Allen's family, while vowing to conduct a thorough, transparent investigation.
    Serpas acknowledged that Allen was unarmed, that he was shot in the chest by a police officer, that narcotics officers were searching for drugs.
    "We still have very many questions to answer," Serpas said. "We will ensure and commit to our community that we will do so in the utmost of transparency and in the collaboration with our partners in the federal government, our partners in state government, and our supportive relationship with the independent police monitor."
    The investigation that led officers to the Prentiss Avenue home began earlier this week. A confidential informant for a Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputy tipped off police that a man named "Troy" was dealing marijuana from inside the home, according to NOPD's application for a search warrant. Police identified the alleged pot dealer as Troy Deemer, 19.
    The warrant states that Jefferson Parish Sgt. John Pacaccio and NOPD Officer Michael Voltolina watched the house for a 48-hour period and saw several "hand-to-hand" drug transactions in the driveway.
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    On Wednesday, the officers allegedly spotted Deemer leave the home carrying a white package. They followed him to Jefferson Parish and stopped the pick-up truck after he failed to signal a lane change, according to Serpas. The JPSO deputies allegedly noticed a marijuana scent inside the truck. They called for a K-9 unit, and shortly later recovered a one-pound package of marijuana inside the truck, the warrant states.
     
  8. stevescookin

    stevescookin Certified Who Dat

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    and they're off and running in the seventh and feature race...attorneys jockeying for position in before the first turn.
    Attorney: Wendell Allen shot in back by police


    NEW ORLEANS -- An attorney representing the family of Wendell Allen says that the 20-year-old man was shot in the back by police during a drug raid at his family's home.
    Attorney Lionel Lon Burns made the allegation at a press conference at the home on Prentiss Avenue, where Allen, who was unarmed, was killed by single bullet during a raid by police on Mar. 7. The revelation by Burns comes a day after police held a re-enactment of the shooting at the home.
    The Allen family said they learned Wednesday from the funeral home that Wendell Allen was shot in the back.

    According to a release from Burns, an embalming report “shows Wendell was shot in the back. He was shot while unarmed by NOPD Officer Joshua Colclough during the execution of a search warrant resulting in misdemeanor marijuana charges being brought by the State.”
    The statement by Burns goes on to say that NOPD has knowledge of the information surrounding Allen’s death but has not acted on it, neither has the NOPD’s Public Integrity Bureau nor has the city’s independent police monitor.
    At the press conference, there was a call for Colclough to resign and for Superindendent Ronal Serpas to end investigation and forward the information on to District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, so the case can go to trial.
    According to Burns, police are still maintaining that Allen was shot.
    Supporters for Wendell Allen also want Colclough to admit he is wrong and that he shot an innocent man in the back.
    Additionally, there was a call for a federal investigation and for U.S. Attorney Jim Letten to get involved in the case.
     
  9. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Misdemeanor marijuana charges? Why in the hell to police run into a house armed like they are going into a battle zone, for a misdemeanor marijuana charge? This is out of control.
     
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    martin Banned Forever

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