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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 03:12 PM
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Cobb County, Georgia man dies in police custody.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 03:20 PM
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1. Anymore details?
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 03:25 PM
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Police say the officers got into a struggle with Fleming and were forced to use pepper spray. A short time later, Fleming became unresponsive and was taken to Cobb Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Edward Dubose, NAACP: "I stand here today and tell you there is no reason why a man who is handcuffed, pepper-sprayed and already subdued, should have died in police custody."
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 05:18 PM
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8. This is very sad
even before I clicked on this link I thought "must have been african-american". Racial tension is alive and well in this country, we just hide it better now.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 05:21 PM
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10. And to take it a step further
let us not forget that old man in New Orleans who went out for a pack of smokes and got beat to a bloody pulp by 4 chickenshit barney fifes.
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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 03:28 PM
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3. Same jail tazered a guy to death last year.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 03:47 PM
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7. Yes it was.
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 03:31 PM
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4. I suppose he was reading Harry Potter.
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 03:36 PM
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5. Perhaps he refused to make a contribution to the 'Opelousas Charity Ball'
Those Georgia police are very civic minded, I hear.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 03:38 PM
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6. There's absolutely no reason for anyone to think race played any factor.
Just thought I'd get the "good white" perspective out there a lil early.
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Terran1212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 05:19 PM
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9. Screw my County
A bunch of far-right Yuppies sitting in their 700,000 dollar homes cheering to FOX NEWS, telling the poor, criminals, and foreigners that they deserve whatver the hell the government does to them.

SCREW THEM.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 09:03 PM
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11. Right wing country "music" "singer" Travis Tritt lives there.
His family owns a good amount of the county. Their ownership goes back to the days of slavery, if you get my drift.
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