Thursday, January 08, 2009

"I Like That Guy's SHOOT ME Pose"

Pictures from the aftermath of the BART shooting...

Figures the guy who made that comment has chosen a Nazi clown as his avatar. [More]

[Via Steven K]
Posted by David Codrea at 1/08/2009 10:44:00 AM

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just watched the video of the shooting. I am shaking and nauseated. Cop at the handcuffed man's head, one on his feet, he's not struggling, and the shooter take about THREE SECONDS struggling to get his gun out of the holster and then takes a couple of seconds aiming and then POP. my guess is he's shaking with rage himself. Out of control.
Resist and get killed, or cooperate and ... get killed.
One of two things should have happened. The other 4 officers on the scene should have disarmed he shooter cop, or the crowd on the train should have mobbed them all.
Nazi camp guards were able to control 200 prisoners each with a slung rifle with no round chambered. Are we going to see that mindset again?

1/08/2009 12:41 PM
Anonymous said...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/01/08/MN2N155CN1.DTL

I should also report that the "demonstration" turned into a regular riot, with demonstrators destroying nearby businesses and cars. So instead of hurting the police, they violated other citizens property and lively hoods.

"I feel like the night is going great," said Nia Sykes, 24, of San Francisco, one of the demonstrators. "I feel like Oakland should make some noise. This is how we need to fight back. It's for the murder of a black male."

Sykes, who is black, had little sympathy for the owner of Creative African Braids.

"She should be glad she just lost her business and not her life," Sykes said. She added that she did have one worry for the night: "I just hope nobody gets shot or killed."

Idiots all around, cops shoot innocent man, rioters destroy innocent businesses.

1/08/2009 1:09 PM
Anonymous said...

...and the BART Police Officer has a name:

"The protest had started calmly shortly after 3 p.m. at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland, where BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle shot 22-year-old Grant of Hayward a week ago. BART shut down the station well into the evening commute, although the demonstration there was peaceful."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/01/08/MN2N155CN1.DTL

1/08/2009 1:29 PM
Anonymous said...

The elected individuals should be forced to pay, not the city or BART. We need accountability back, and not out of citizens' wallets. We need to start demanding that, only then will there be any change.

1/08/2009 2:10 PM
Anonymous said...

Wow, that guy's shoot-me pose looks an awful lot like my don't-shoot-me-I'm-unarmed pose.

1/08/2009 2:20 PM
Kent McManigal said...

It's past time, people. It may even be too late.

1/08/2009 2:31 PM
closed said...

Ermm ... don't be dissing John Banner ( the actor who played Sergeant Schultz ).

He was a refugee jew ( enlisted in the Wehrmacht under a false name, finagled a border guard position, and then abandoned his post to escape to Spain ).

He made a point of making his character in that TV series not a nazi.

1/08/2009 3:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Schultz was not a Nazi.

Otherwise a good post.

1/08/2009 4:18 PM
Anonymous said...

Picture and comment aside, the guy has a great sig line:
“A well-crafted pepperoni pizza, being necessary to the preservation of a diverse menu, the right of the people to keep and cook tomatoes, shall not be infringed.” I would ask you to try to argue that this statement says that only pepperoni pizzas can keep and cook tomatoes, and only well-crafted ones at that. This is basically what the so-called states rights people argue with respect to the well-regulated militia, vs. the right to keep and bear arms. – Bruce Tiemann

1/08/2009 5:14 PM
Ken said...

Considering the sig line, the Schultz avatar, and the context, perhaps the gentleman was speaking ironically.

1/09/2009 11:00 AM
The Stoic American said...

Is this where the United States is headed? F*** that. You can count me out. I'll be in the woods with my chem kit, saving my lead from every kill to feed my family.

2/02/2009 6:37 AM

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