big kahuna wrote:
TimeIsUp wrote:
big kahuna wrote:
As far as that poor woman being run over by that idiot white nationalist, James Fields, in Charlottesville, had the police on the scene done their jobs and kept the protesters and counter-protesters separated, as the state police and other crowd control experts strongly advised they do, she'd still be alive today. Instead, the attitude among the cops was that whatever happened when the counter-protesters and white nationalists began fighting with each other was on their heads, not on the cops'.Sorry for the thread hijack, but did you seriously just blame the cops for someone killing someone else? It sure sounds like you are relieving James Fields from responsibility for his actions. Sad.
Please don't put words in my mouth. Plenty of others here have that task already. ;-)
My point regarding Charlottesville is this. Abrogation of responsibility on the part of the police allowed that woman to be killed by that white nationalist. Had they simply done what they were supposed to do, she'd be alive today. In that regard, they're culpable in her death.
There's plenty of blame to go around when it comes to that poor woman's demise. Fields surely killed her, probably in a fit of rage, at minimum, though maybe it was even premeditated.
The police and local authorities share some degree of responsibility for her death, however, something that was created when the stand-down order to police at the scene of the protest was instituted. The protest then turned into a deadly riot once they got out of the way. That's squarely on their shoulders for Not. Doing. Their. Job.
I didn’t need to put words in your mouth. Read what you wrote the first time. You in no way insinuated it was Field’s fault and instead, opted to throw the cops under the bus.
