They should be protesting school shootings.

No there is a well thought out quality post.

Yes and he went to jail for doing it. Now the state has put him in jail for 25 years for stealing a pair of socks.

that is feudal pre French revolution (NOT) justice.

It also criminalises the poorest and weakest in society who have failed schools, no jobs and no hope...

But I suppose it is just a bit better than the Cops executing people on the spot

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A California police officer has posted threatening messages on social media to people protesting against police brutality and discrimination in the US.

"Threaten me or my family and I will use my God-given and law appointed right and duty to kill you," Phillip White wrote on Twitter, adding the hashtag#CopsLivesMatter, making fun of the protestors? slogan "Black Lives Matter."

I don't disagree that 25 years is too much for stealing socks, but it is too much to ask citizens of this country to not commit to felonies and then commit a third crime?

I'm 43 years old and I have had some very hard times in my life and yet I have never stolen from a store or committed a felony. When do we say enough is enough? How many crimes to we let a person commit before we are done dealing with them?

How many bankers do we allow to break the economy?

How many white people do we arrest for cocaine?

How many black people for crack?

Peoples behaviour is conditioned by the institutions they grow up in. Put a child in a loving family with a good school and interesting career ahead of him and most will flourish.

Put a child in a broken society with a family failing, crap schooling and the cops stopping you every 5 minutes and you will get crime.

If America spent the money it wastes on Wars and prisons and spent it on good jobs and schools you would have a fraction of the crime. Plus some civil rights.

I don't disagree, but at some point you have to take responsibility for your own actions. If someone is young and does something dumb because they feel helpless or lost or held down by the man and they are punished from it, they should learn from that and realize that what they are doing is wrong and they need to change their ways.

The jail system needs to be reformed so that when these people come out of jail they have some kind of skill or at least some kind of direction and can get a job and join society instead of just going back to being a criminal.

At the same time, I as a law abiding citizen, shouldn't have to worry about having my shit stolen, my house broken into or getting mugged simply because these people are "victims of society" and don't know any better.

LeBron James joins US protests, wears 'I can't breathe' shirt

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Protest could shut down U.S. 280 on Friday afternoon at Summit entrance

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I agree too, that people have the right to live free from crime, but societies with low crime and few people in prison prove that it is possible.

He seems to be jumping rope. Seems he is breathing.

If I remember correctly the guy with the gun and the top dude on the ground are under covers.

Police clash with angry US protesters..

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