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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers[/quote]

Yes, we're all aware of how  prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.  
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

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dude, they looked like dangerous gangbangers because they were rioting and tearing the store apart ... [/quote]

They looked like 12 year olds having a fight, like 12 year olds do. You people need to get a grip.[/quote]

You think it's normal for 12 year olds en masse to riot in a FroYo?  [/quote]

I think it's normal for 12 year olds to get in fights. I saw some kids pushing and shoving, throwing a couple punches. There's no riot there. Calling that a riot is a sign of a brain so diseased by racism that it can barely function.[/quote]

wow.  I know you think you're being some kind of anti-racism hero, but you're really not. [/quote]

I see now why we have kids doing such atrocities.  It's people/parents like PP who thinks these acts are normal, well, breaking news, they are not!  I'm sure you will continue to claim that it is and pull out the racism card, because it's easier to do that than to admit that something is wrong.[/quote]

Normal doesn't mean "acceptable" it means "don't lose your mind about it." Sure pushing and shoving and fighting are wrong. Depending on the severity of what happened, the kids age, etc. they're appropriate for either parental discipline or legal punishment, which spoiler alert, is what's happening (https://www.fox5dc.com/news/two-arrested-after-frozen-yogurt-shop-brawl-in-dc-police-say). Going on line to call this a "riot" or an "atrocity" or to call the kids "dangerous gangbangers" is what's crazy. They're kids being bad, like kids are sometimes; you don't have to think it's okay to realize it's not worth freaking out about. [/quote]

So what's your opinion of gangs of juveniles assaulting & stomping on people in DC? Because that's happening too. Is that just kids being kids? How about when they shoot each other? [/quote]

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