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Authorities said Brown, who had experienced homelessness for several years, was shot during a shoplifting incident, but Brown’s friends said he was not shoplifting.

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  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Shot by a rental cop in a fucking Walgreens. You could burn every Walgreens in this country to the fucking ground and it would still be less of a loss than a single person's life.

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      "It’s insane that Walgreens has armed security — there’s nothing in that store worth a human life,” Jessica Nowlan, an activist with the Young Women’s Freedom Center, told KGO.

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Only a bootlicker who dreamed of being a cop but failed the academy would overcompensate this hard as a security guard.

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Good to know if you're a minority suspected of shoplifting that a rent a cop can just murder you and not be charged with anything

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Murdering minorities is legal as long as you’re not that person every 5 years who gets sent to prison to pretend it isn’t

      • Changeling [it/its]
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        1 year ago

        I have a better chance of being jailed for an unpaid parking ticket than any cop has of being jailed for murder.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Imagine the reactions if people started getting murdered in China for trivial reasons after multiple years of Chinese news demonizing them.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      cue articles on the death of retail and "nobody wants to shop anymore"

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Officer related firearm discharge at suspected shoplifter :pigmask-off:

  • Weedian [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    This country is deeply sick and beyond redemption. There is absolutely nothing in a fucking walgreens that justifies murdering someone

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    $14 worth of candy

    i fucking hate everything on this planet. I try to be optimistic but it's much more likely that humanity, especially in this country, is irredeemable.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      Humans are not ontologically evil, we're fucking animals the same as any other organism. We've been educated stupid and we can be re-educated otherwise.

  • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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    1 year ago

    Cool hope this security fucker gets shot in the face with a high caliber weapon that absolutely ensures there is no survival. Holes in the head are worth it for shits like this

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Your honor, the guard was trying to make small talk with me when I didn’t feel like talking, so he deserved to die

      That works these days, right? Supposedly it’s enough justification to not even go to court

      • Lurker123 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Small talk violates the NAP. Summary judgment granted.

  • prismaTK
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    11 months ago

    deleted by creator

    • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      This literally happened in LA to like a 14 year old, and the cop is still out there coaching youth teams and shit like it's totally normal.

    • Changeling [it/its]
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      1 year ago

      Black trans man: exists

      Walgreens Rent-a-Cop: And I took that personally

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Brown’s friends said he was enthusiastic about his work as a community organizing intern with the Young Women’s Freedom Center, which assists young women and trans youth who have experienced poverty and other difficulties, providing them with training and mentoring and helping them find employment.

    :shrek-pixel-despair:

  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    It’s basically a convenience store for old people. The fuck are you going to steal that amounts to the value of a human life? A million billion eyeglass repair kits???