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Title: Troy Davis
Post by: K'niep Tang on September 21, 2011, 03:30:03 PM

What do you guys know/ think about this situation? I started seeing tweets about it a few days ago. Then last night / this morning American twitter started going bezerk and that's when I finally read up on the dude.

As far as I know he's sentenced to an execution that will be happening tonight (19:30 in one of the American timezones) for a crime (shooting a police officer in 1989) where there isn't conclusive evidence to support his conviction. Only eyewitness testimonies, some of which have since been recanted or changed. Smells like a bullshit situation but I'm only working with a few reports I read during the course of the day.

Anybody know anything more?

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: Last of the old AG Hittaz on September 22, 2011, 01:36:45 AM

Reminds me of Tookie, one of the founders of the Crips
and what he was accused of. I think most of us know how
his trial went.......

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: K'niep Tang on September 22, 2011, 01:12:36 PM

Yeah I was thinking about Tookie last night when this was on my mind. Really f***ed up. And the question on whether Twitter blocked Troy Davis from trending yesterday is still out there too

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: MrC The Rap God Almighty on September 22, 2011, 01:51:06 PM

Mumia Abu-Jamal is next. No one is gonna stop this shit.

R.I.P. to the brother (Tookie as well).

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: Naturelle on September 22, 2011, 04:52:52 PM

It was too little and too late for Troy Davis.
Thing is there was even less evidence against him than say Mumia but he still died first.
That greying thinning man Obama said anything yet?

T.R.O.Y They'll Remensice Over You...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WZUhITejfI

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: RearrangedReality on September 22, 2011, 06:09:45 PM

Don't even know how to comment on Obama anymore.

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: Last of the old AG Hittaz on September 22, 2011, 10:31:50 PM

I'm starting think that maybe it isn't the average
citizens that has that certain racism, but also within
the Supreme Court ! When Casey Anthony, 
a white mother who was accused of killing her
own daughter was declared innocent, white people
as a whole were pissed. It seemed like black people,
(except Jamaicans) didn't give a shit because we knew
what would happen if the accused was black.

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: fahfee on September 23, 2011, 10:06:53 AM

I didnt know about the Troy Davis Story until I saw Uncle Rush's article over the weekend. This makes one sick to the stomach. Reform!

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: General Ratzinger van Stilzkin on September 23, 2011, 11:53:13 AM

its interesting the expectations black people have of Obama, like he HAS to ride in and save when ever blacks call, you must understand the man leads a nation with a political system that has very complex undercurrents.

i feel sorry for him more than anything.


with that said i dont know much about the Troy Davis situation, ive tried to find out but not nearly enough to form an opinion. May he rest in peace, and if he wasnt supposed to die, the universe will correct itself.

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: fahfee on September 28, 2011, 05:04:39 PM

Quote from: General Ratzinger van Stilzkin on September 23, 2011, 11:53:13 AM

May he rest in peace, and if he wasnt supposed to die, the universe will correct itself.

Wow. How?

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: Koli qha on October 13, 2011, 02:42:19 PM

I'm more interested in Chris Mahlangu not goin to prison. Save Chris Mahlangu

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: The Angry Hand of God on October 14, 2011, 10:32:57 AM

You serious?

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: K'niep Tang on October 14, 2011, 10:51:42 AM

Chris Mahlangu is the ET murder accused right?

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: The Angry Hand of God on October 14, 2011, 11:19:06 AM

yep

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: K'niep Tang on October 14, 2011, 11:42:31 AM

So...why would we want him not to be imprisoned? a**uming he did the deed...

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: The Angry Hand of God on October 16, 2011, 12:16:41 AM

Why I asked if he's serious. Is murder cool, because it was Eugene?

Title: Re: Troy Davis
Post by: Last of the old AG Hittaz on July 14, 2013, 04:53:39 PM

Quote from: M-Point on September 22, 2011, 10:31:50 PM

I'm starting think that maybe it isn't the average
citizens that has that certain racism, but also within
the Supreme Court ! When Casey Anthony, 
a white mother who was accused of killing her
own daughter was declared innocent, white people
as a whole were pissed. It seemed like black people,
(except Jamaicans) didn't give a shit because we knew
what would happen if the accused was black.

Well, 2 years after the Casey Anthony trial, the state of Florida does it again when they declare
George Zimmerman a 29 year old Latino male accused of murdering a 17 year old Black teenager, innocent under the "Stand by your ground law" (self-defense). He was said to have been stalking the teenager but he claimed that he was under suspicion of the teen, as Zimmerman was part of a neighborhood watch program. He called the police and they told him to leave the teen alone, but refused and went to attack the kid....the rest is history. The sad part is that a Black woman was trying to defend herself under the same law and got 20 years in prison :

Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in controversial warning shot case

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/11/justice/florida-stand-ground-sentencing


Gotta love the state of Florida's justice system!!! SMDH  >:( >:( >:( >:(