Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/09

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Subject: [Leica] Fwd: Times-Picayune Photojournalist Arrested After Chase
From: wooderson at gmail.com (Matt Powell)
Date: Wed Aug 9 15:43:10 2006
References: <10881035.1155156472798.JavaMail.root@centrmwml05.mgt.cox.net> <C0FFD509.1399B%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>

On 8/9/06, B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:
> Right...allow me to leap to conclusion - white guy who all the cops know
> isn't shot; black guy who they didn't, under precisely same circumstances,
> would have been so filled with lead the EPA would have declared him a Super
> Fund site. Am I right, or have I leapt to a Harvardian Knee Jerk Liberal
> Yankee Conclusion?

OTOH that the photographer "has not been charged with any of the more
serious possible offenses that could have been filed for pinning the
officer down with his car" is absurd and does raise the race/Good Ol
Boy flag.


-- 
MP
wooderson@gmail.com

In reply to: Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Fwd: Times-Picayune Photojournalist Arrested After Chase)
Message from bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Fwd: Times-Picayune Photojournalist Arrested After Chase)