Columbus teen shot by police

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Grand Vol said:
I'm not a fan of his basketball either. I was raised during the Jordan years and nobody will ever elevate the game like that man did.
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Dammit... I have to agree with you and now I feel bad that I called you Cosplay Grandpa the other day because I was raised in the Jordan era. (Not about the cosplay part, just the grandpa part).
 
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clarksvol00 said:
He' an idiot, but I've always thought this is interesting. Do regular people have to stick to "regional manager of logistics" or whatever their job is? Who doesn't have to "stick to" their job?
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It's my opinion and obviously means **** in the big scheme of things. However I doubt the Lakers hired him to run his mouth on his star platform.
Just as my employer didn't hire me to call out police officers in a public forum.
 
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clarksvol00 said:
He' an idiot, but I've always thought this is interesting. Do regular people have to stick to "regional manager of logistics" or whatever their job is? Who doesn't have to "stick to" their job?
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People with tens of millions of followers ought to take great care when crafting public statements. If they don't, it isn't unfair for a contingency of his followers to tell him to stfu and stick to dribbling (or rather, mostly traveling).
 
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Jxn Vol said:
1st Amendment. It’s a free county. He can say whatever stupid things he wants. Likewise we can call him an idiot and say he should shut up. It like we are on the playground again.
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I get the first amendment thing. I get the we can call him out thing. But the shut up and dribble stuff just makes me think contextually that people who say that think he shouldn't have an opinion or his opinion is less valid because of his job.
 
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Zues1 said:
It's my opinion and obviously means **** in the big scheme of things. However I doubt the Lakers hired him to run his mouth on his star platform.
Just as my employer didn't hire me to call out police officers in a public forum.
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Your employer didn't hire to post your opinions on a message board but here you are. Its not his fault his platform is bigger than yours.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
All the usual suspects already protesting but video going to save the officer on this one because it was clearly a justified shooting


check out from 950-1010 in slow mo
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This was clearly justified. Don't know what people think the cop should have done. He could have let her stab the woman (who appeared defenseless when attacked), tried to intervene without using the (putting his own life at risk), or fired his gun. Seems like #3 was best option.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
People with tens of millions of followers ought to take great care when crafting public statements. If they don't, it isn't unfair for a contingency of his followers to tell him to stfu and stick to dribbling (or rather, mostly traveling).
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Are you his follower? People make stupid statements all the time. They have a right to do so. You have a right to do so. I'm curious why his job is so relevant.
 
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evillawyer said:
This was clearly justified. Don't know what people think the cop should have done. He could have let her stab the woman (who appeared defenseless when attacked), tried to intervene without using the (putting his own life at risk), or fired his gun. Seems like #3 was best option.
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Attempting to intervene would have also resulted in the young woman being stuck with a knife cause he was too far back.
 
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clarksvol00 said:
I get the first amendment thing. I get the we can call him out thing. But the shut up and dribble stuff just makes me think contextually that people who say that think he shouldn't have an opinion or his opinion is less valid because of his job.
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I'd say it's more about how much larger his megaphone is than the average person. His opinion is as valuable as anyone else's but it has more reach due to his job/fame
 
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clarksvol00 said:
He' an idiot, but I've always thought this is interesting. Do regular people have to stick to "regional manager of logistics" or whatever their job is? Who doesn't have to "stick to" their job?
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If those guys make comments on the level of buffoonery Lebron just did I'd tell them to stick to their day job too.
 
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clarksvol00 said:
Are you his follower? People make stupid statements all the time. They have a right to do so. You have a right to do so. I'm curious why his job is so relevant.
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His dribbling is relevant because that is the only reason he has a platform. If the only thing he's going to do with his platform is cry and threaten non-wokesters, then he should stfu and dribble, imo.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Wonder how long until him and his boys stage another fake hate crime?
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That story fading out of the news was one of the quickest disappearing acts of all time.

Think about it - an international superstar athlete allegedly had racist graffiti spray painted on his property in broad daylight, in the middle of a super exclusive area in a large city. Sounds like a massive story, especially in this day and age, right?

It was a story for like 2 hours, then it was supposedly painted over and nobody ever talked about it again (except LeBron critics, none of whom are in the major media). Absolutely zilch follow-up. It's so weird. Even on his Wikipedia page, the incident has a one-sentence mention buried in the middle of the article ("following a racist incident at his home...").
 
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