Sad, but true....

Quote:A Manhattan judge on Tuesday lashed into a Harlem man convicted of attempted murder — telling him that “black lives don’t matter to black people with guns” before tossing him in prison for 24 to 26 years.

“Black lives matter,” Justice Edward McLaughlin told defendant Tareek Arnold, 24, as he sentenced him in Manhattan Supreme Court.

“I have heard it, I know it, but the sad fact is in this courtroom, so often what happens is manifestations of the fact that black lives don’t matter to black people with guns.”

Arnold, who is black, shot rival Jamal McCaskill, also black, four times at close range in the summer of 2015. He also has a prior gun possession conviction.

Prosecutor Meghan Hast asked for the maximum, arguing that “but for extreme luck, this would have been a homicide.”

Bizarrely, McCaskill, 39, testified for the defense and insisted that Arnold wasn’t the culprit even though the Harlem shooting was caught on surveillance video.

That spurred McLaughlin to lash into the victim, as well, who was in court Tuesday sitting with Arnold’s family.

“The video shows that Mr. McCaskill is an abject liar,” said the judge who has presided over hundreds of gun cases and often rails against the city’s endemic gang violence.

After cops nabbed Arnold for the shooting, he escaped with his hands cuffed behind his back, using his shoulder to shove an officer to the ground. He was on the lam for almost a month. The jury also convicted him of escape, gun possession and assault.

Defense lawyer Mark Jankowitz requested the minimum sentence of ten years, arguing that Arnold’s one-year-old son would be without a father.

McLaughlin balked: “Do not ask a judge in this room, in this building, or in this system to somehow make amends for the people who commit violent acts and who by their violent acts wind up leaving people orphaned, abandoned, fatherless, et cetera.”

The judge then handed down the stiff sentence.

http://nypost.com/2016/03/29/judge-rips-...with-guns/

while the bolded may offend some.....his point was to offend the sum of the negative to begin 'thinking'.....

I fk'n love it....

So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

So does your misinterpretation of what the judge said.

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

To YOU... not to us.

(03-30-2016 10:20 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

So does your misinterpretation of what the judge said.

Not all black people with guns kill people.

(03-30-2016 12:18 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:20 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

So does your misinterpretation of what the judge said.

Not all black people with guns kill people.

Well the gangs tried knives but they were unable to accidently kill innocent bystanders that way. So they had to switch to guns.

(03-30-2016 12:18 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:20 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

So does your misinterpretation of what the judge said.

Not all black people with guns kill people.

Nobody with a freaking brain actually believes that anyway, so.........

(03-30-2016 10:24 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

To YOU... not to us.

and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

(03-31-2016 07:26 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:24 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

To YOU... not to us.

and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

No, "us" refers to people with common sense.

(03-31-2016 07:28 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:26 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:24 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

To YOU... not to us.

and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

No, "us" refers to people with common sense.

why don't you let him speak for himself? #IdiotLivesMatter

(03-31-2016 07:31 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:28 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:26 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:24 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

To YOU... not to us.

and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

No, "us" refers to people with common sense.

why don't you let him speak for himself? #IdiotLivesMatter

I am on board. Knock off the name calling.

(03-31-2016 07:31 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:28 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:26 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:24 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

To YOU... not to us.

and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

No, "us" refers to people with common sense.

why don't you let him speak for himself? #IdiotLivesMatter

You see, that's the problem today, folks on both sides speak in absolutes when the truth lies somewhere far away in the middle. Saying "us" refers to racist is just another example of talking in absolutes when the reality is so much different.

(03-31-2016 07:34 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:31 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:28 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:26 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:24 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  To YOU... not to us.

and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

No, "us" refers to people with common sense.

why don't you let him speak for himself? #IdiotLivesMatter

I am on board. Knock off the name calling.

this coming from someone who's party is about to nominate Trump...king of name calling...un-freaking-real

(03-31-2016 07:36 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:31 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:28 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:26 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:24 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  To YOU... not to us.

and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

No, "us" refers to people with common sense.

why don't you let him speak for himself? #IdiotLivesMatter

You see, that's the problem today, folks on both sides speak in absolutes when the truth lies somewhere far away in the middle. Saying "us" refers to racist is just another example of talking in absolutes when the reality is so much different.

I'm just being sarcastic...but what does worry me, is that some of you actually believe the stuff you're posting

(03-31-2016 07:26 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:24 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

To YOU... not to us.

and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

So I am racist now?

(03-31-2016 07:37 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:34 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:31 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:28 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:26 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

No, "us" refers to people with common sense.

why don't you let him speak for himself? #IdiotLivesMatter

I am on board. Knock off the name calling.

this coming from someone who's party is about to nominate Trump...king of name calling...un-freaking-real

Dems are the kings of name calling because you don't win the debate. But why would you want to engage in behavior that you say is similar to Trump?

(03-31-2016 07:31 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:28 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:26 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:24 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(03-30-2016 10:13 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  So black people with guns kill people? Sounds like a sweeping generalization to me.

To YOU... not to us.

and by 'us' you mean you and your fellow racists...I'm not shocked by that.

No, "us" refers to people with common sense.

why don't you let him speak for himself? #IdiotLivesMatter

Name calling from one of the village idiots, why am I not surprised? Did you forget your helmet this morning?

(03-31-2016 07:40 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:37 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:34 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:31 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-31-2016 07:28 AM)VA49er Wrote:  No, "us" refers to people with common sense.

why don't you let him speak for himself? #IdiotLivesMatter

I am on board. Knock off the name calling.

this coming from someone who's party is about to nominate Trump...king of name calling...un-freaking-real

Dems are the kings of name calling because you don't win the debate. But why would you want to engage in behavior that you say is similar to Trump?

we seem to keep winning Presidential elections...Trump is just a loud, reality TV version of Romney...and it'll end the exact same, in a GOP defeat.

If you're itching to paint the judge a racist, then you interpret the bolded part to mean him saying that all black people who own guns do this.

It's far more likely the judge is referring to only those 'black people with guns' he sees coming through his courtroom as defendants; that is, that smaller percentage of gun owners using their guns for murdering and gangbanging other black people, a.k.a., guys who appear not to feel that black lives matter.

Deep down, I think everyone knows what he meant. But ideology is ideology.

Quote:"Black lives matter," Justice Edward McLaughlin told defendant Tareek Arnold, 24, as he sentenced him in Manhattan Supreme Court.

"I have heard it, I know it, but the sad fact is in this courtroom, so often what happens is manifestations of the fact that black lives don't matter to black people with guns."