God Bless these United States...


*Opens the immigration Gates*

(echo)
We need more peo-ple. Come on in!

*realizes the ethnic shift is caused by birth rates not new immigration.

Maybe that's why there was an echo...

Ya, this black/white thing is getting old, we have to vary it up.

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yes, don't scenes like this make us feel proud?

Where's Jesse Jackson?

Reverend! OooOoOOOooOoOOooo Reverend!

FUNERAL FOR THOMAS
Timothy Thomas, 19, who was shot while fleeing a police officer, will be buried Saturday following a church service in Over-the-Rhine, the neighborhood where most of the rioting occurred.

Thomas was killed last Saturday as he fled a white officer, Stephen Roach, who was trying to arrest him for failing to appear for misdemeanor charges and traffic violations. Roach, 27, has been placed on leave. Roach has not commented, but his union said he feared for his life during the encounter.

Four black men have been killed by police since November. Three were shot and one died of asphyxiation while being arrested, resulting in charges against two officers.
Hamilton County prosecutors plan to present evidence in Thomas' death to a grand jury next week. The U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. attorney's office in Cincinnati have joined the FBI in federal investigations.

Mfume, who met with Thomas' mother and visited the spot where he was killed, urged more than 300 people at a town meeting Thursday evening to use their anger constructively.

"We are all angry, but we've got to sit down and say, 'What do we do tomorrow?' If there's no plan, there's no progress," Mfume said.

Many of the speakers at the NAACP's town meeting demanded an overhaul of the police department. Luken told NBC's "Today" show that the rioting clearly shows "there are deep racial divisions in this city. It says there is a lack of trust. It says there is no context to deal with these issues."

Tell the whole story dude.




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Ain

*reflects*

what are those pictures from? yes, i have heard about the shooting and have followed the news (on the radio) but haven't seen a televised newscast (due to work) recently. so please don't bother to flame me, i know the situation, just wondering about the pics.

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...ever since, I've been The Champ.

Those are from a local television station in Cincinnati. But as pointed out before, they apparently don't tell the whole story.

Please disregard or discount them as you deem necessary.

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You're in a laundry room, You're in a laundry room, the clue just came to you? Oh.

(no offense Ain)