@HumblePie why was he supposed to stop again?A black man being chased by a pickup truck with 2 white guys sporting a confederate flag doesn't have a reason to run? Under what law or rule is he obligated to stop?
A black man being chased by a pickup truck with 2 white guys sporting a confederate flag doesn't have a reason to run? Under what law or rule is he obligated to stop?
Only one reason why jury would infer guilt under those circumstances.
A black man being chased by a pickup truck with 2 white guys sporting a confederate flag doesn't have a reason to run? Under what law or rule is he obligated to stop?
Only one reason why jury would infer guilt under those circumstances.
A lot of Americans are consistent on one thing. If a black person is accused they must have done something and the white man is always justified.Slavery-era Georgia law is key defense argument in trial over Ahmaud Arbery's killing
Sensational headline, little more mundane in fact. Apparently Georgia had a citizens arrest law, that the State repealed in response to this murder. As is consistent with another thread, chasing someone down does not make you a hero. It makes you responsible for what follows. If you scare someone and they reasonably try to defend themselves, that is your fault. Any violence / death that follows is the fault of the attacker giving chase. Not the victim being chased. Ahmaud Arbery was murdered and his killers deserve a big fat sentence for it.
I wish our fellow Americans would be consistent on that point. You have no right to lynch someone, and they have every right to protect themselves.
What act of violence had Aubery committed that caused him to be chased vs Rittenhouse ?Slavery-era Georgia law is key defense argument in trial over Ahmaud Arbery's killing
Sensational headline, little more mundane in fact. Apparently Georgia had a citizens arrest law, that the State repealed in response to this murder. As is consistent with another thread, chasing someone down does not make you a hero. It makes you responsible for what follows. If you scare someone and they reasonably try to defend themselves, that is your fault. Any violence / death that follows is the fault of the attacker giving chase. Not the victim being chased. Ahmaud Arbery was murdered and his killers deserve a big fat sentence for it.
I wish our fellow Americans would be consistent on that point. You have no right to lynch someone, and they have every right to protect themselves.
2 different cases. Arbury was chased down the streets of GA. Jogging while black. White guys claimed he was stealingWhat act of violence had Aubery committed that caused him to be chased vs Rittenhouse ?
Slavery-era Georgia law is key defense argument in trial over Ahmaud Arbery's killing
Sensational headline, little more mundane in fact. Apparently Georgia had a citizens arrest law, that the State repealed in response to this murder. As is consistent with another thread, chasing someone down does not make you a hero. It makes you responsible for what follows. If you scare someone and they reasonably try to defend themselves, that is your fault. Any violence / death that follows is the fault of the attacker giving chase. Not the victim being chased. Ahmaud Arbery was murdered and his killers deserve a big fat sentence for it.
I wish our fellow Americans would be consistent on that point. You have no right to lynch someone, and they have every right to protect themselves.
Not just age. The law was created BECAUSE of slaveryI wish people would stop with the sensationalist headlines. I recognize their value from a business standpoint, but I see no way in which the citizen's arrest statute is tied to slavery apart from its age. It's reasonable to paint a picture of what life in GA was like at the time the statute was codified into law and its relative lack of application since in order to show a cultural contrast, but headlines like this to me just provide reasons for people who aren't already invested in movements to change how racism influences law enforcement to discount their well-founded efforts.
I wish people would stop with the sensationalist headlines. I recognize their value from a business standpoint, but I see no way in which the citizen's arrest statute is tied to slavery apart from its age. It's reasonable to paint a picture of what life in GA was like at the time the statute was codified into law and its relative lack of application since in order to show a cultural contrast, but headlines like this to me just provide reasons for people who aren't already invested in movements to change how racism influences law enforcement to discount their well-founded efforts.
A lot of Americans are consistent on one thing. If a black person is accused they must have done something and the white man is always justified.
We have about a dozen in this forum
This is the important part.Not just age. The law was created BECAUSE of slavery
Not just age. The law was created BECAUSE of slavery
Go back through this thread. Some of them are hereWho are they?
Go back through this thread. Some of them are here
So your answer is no, you will not name them.
OK
I do your work for you most of the time. Just don't feel like it now.So your answer is no, you will not name them.
OK
I do your work for you most of the time. Just don't feel like it now.
Not just this thread but there are others. Most of us already know this.
Since when is it my job to root out your claims?
You said we have a dozen or so on the forum...
I would assume it's anyone that doesn't espouse a progressive agenda. You and I are certainly on the list.Since when is it my job to root out your claims?
You said we have a dozen or so on the forum...
You go girl! Strawman that bitch!I would assume it's anyone that doesn't espouse a progressive agenda. You and I are certainly on the list.
I wish people would stop with the sensationalist headlines. I recognize their value from a business standpoint, but I see no way in which the citizen's arrest statute is tied to slavery apart from its age. It's reasonable to paint a picture of what life in GA was like at the time the statute was codified into law and its relative lack of application since in order to show a cultural contrast, but headlines like this to me just provide reasons for people who aren't already invested in movements to change how racism influences law enforcement to discount their well-founded efforts.
Georgia’s laws were formally codified in 1861 by Thomas Cobb, a lawyer and slaveholder who died at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862. It was the first formal codification of state common law in the United States. It was also racist. In the original code, African Americans were assumed to be enslaved unless they could prove free status. Georgia’s Citizen’s Arrest statues were first entered into the Law Code of Georgia in 1863.
Thomas Cobb was the author of An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America (1858). In the book, Cobb argued “[T]his inquiry into the physical, mental, and moral development of the negro race seems to point them clearly, as peculiarly fitted for a laborious class. The physical frame is capable of great and long-continued exertion. Their mental capacity renders them incapable of successful self-development, and yet adapts them for the direction of the wiser race. Their moral character renders them happy, peaceful, contented and cheerful in a status that would break the spirit and destroy the energies of the Caucasian or the native American” (46). Cobb’s views on race and slavery shaped the Georgia legal code.
The Code Law Code of Georgia was heavily revised after the 1865 passage of the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery in the United States, and has been revised and reenacted a number of times during the last 150 plus years. However, the Civil War era citizen’s arrest provision remains.
In 1863, when the citizen’s arrest provision was added to the Law Code, slavery and Georgia law enforcement were in serious disarray. Georgian units in the Confederate army were primarily stationed in Virginia. The Union army was preparing to invade the state from Tennessee. Enslaved Africans were fleeing plantations to join Union forces. Confederate deserters were hiding in inaccessible Appalachian counties in the north and swamp regions of the south. With its criminal justice system in a state of collapse, the 1863 code revision empowered white Georgians to replace law enforcement and slave patrols to keep the enslaved Black population under control.
I'd say it's your enthusiasm for wearing a "adorable deplorable" t-shirt that puts you in the category.I would assume it's anyone that doesn't espouse a progressive agenda. You and I are certainly on the list.
I would assume it's anyone that doesn't espouse a progressive agenda. You and I are certainly on the list.