Graphic video appears to show Ahmaud Arbery, 25 of GA., whose family says he was out for a run, confronted by 2 men who shot him dead

The media definitely tells a lot of stories about potential racism. Each side runs with their own truth. "They were definitely racist!" or "You don't know the whole situation!". There are a ton of nuance in these situations but you can't ignore the fact that there would be less innocent black people dead if there weren't so many racists out there.

I'm going to try and point some things out to you that you say, and why i come to the conclusion I do about you. It might give you some insight.

I asked you what situation would you take the white guys side and you said: "if the people in the truck were KKK members". You shouldn't have to be a KKK member to be considered racist.

"gunned down a local black jogger on one random day out of the blue" - how do you think the jogger felt? running along and then guys with guns show up?

"but then I would have to believe that people who have apparently lived peacefully for decades just randomly decided to park in the street and shoot a jogger" - people living peacefully for decades? what?

"you want to polarize this so badly. you all do. you cannot let this just be complicated as it obviously is" - Na, this isn't the middle of who did what. This is clearly people taking it WAY to far to the point where Ahmaud felt threatened and reacted. His reaction to this is not uncommon and he fucking died for it.

"did they catch this guy robbing places - we both know, ya probably." - He could have easily just been out exploring places while he runs. There's no indication that he robbed anyone.

"did they intend to just detain the guy - we both know, ya probably." - you know i agree with you on this. I bet they did intend to just detain the guy. Not worth the bullshit to kill a guy. But what they did do was irresponsible. They aren't trained for arresting someone and surely aren't trained to use weapons. Isn't one of the rules of owning a gun to not point at something you don't want to shoot?

"the problem occurred when he did the unexpected and just came around the back of the truck and went right for a guy" - uhhhh why is that when the problem occurred. I'd think the problem wouldn't have even happened if two people were stopped on the road pointing guns at him.

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