State of society. One of the escaped hostages put his hands up and dropped to the floor.

He obviously was worried that being mixed race meant the police would shoot at him

That's a sad state of 2014 that this is still something that is inherent

Posted By: pants on December 15th 2014 at 15:26:55

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State of society. One of the escaped hostages put his hands up and dropped to the floor. (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:26:55
- Thats a little naughty pants... (n/m) (General Chat) - Goalmusic, Dec 15, 18:35:01
- hands up and dropping to the floor is quite a good way of not getting shot by the police (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Dec 15, 18:12:51
- Funny thing is as an Iranian i'd assume he was Shia, and they are no friends of IS. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Dec 15, 17:47:11
  - Converted to Sunni apparently. I didn't know one could do that (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Dec 15, 18:01:36
- Command and control (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Dec 15, 16:55:52
- oh no (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Dec 15, 16:03:46
- the sad state of society is that people jump to conclusions like yours (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Dec 15, 15:51:22
  - You mean like a jogger in Leeds? (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 16:00:07
    - the flag with arabic writing on probably had something to do with the IS assumption (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 15, 16:13:31
      - and the flag is actually for an offshoot of ISIS anyway so is linked to ISIS (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Dec 15, 17:25:05
        
        so people jump to conclusions... This is the era of 24/7 news (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Dec 15, 18:07:19
    - in hostage situations, hostages are treated as potential terrorists until proven otherwise (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Dec 15, 16:07:54
- that is utter fuckwittery from you pants and fuck all to do with race (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 15, 15:28:20
  - why did he not run to safety then? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:29:45
    - anyone running towards armed police woulkd do the same if they had any sense (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Dec 15, 15:34:12
    - what makes you think a white man would've done any different? (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 15, 15:33:34
      - Because of history I suppose (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:35:00
        
        so that's your reading of history leading to a massive assumption about someone's thoughts (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 15, 15:38:42
        
        No it was an observation of someone's reaction (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:54:30
        
        I mean, you had the opportunity to disagree with me rationally (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:55:19
        
        absolute bollocks. (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Dec 15, 15:38:01
        
        You disagree, I understand (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 15:39:19
        
        you need to have a word.... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Dec 15, 15:45:53
        
        Well if they did do this (General Chat) - pants, Dec 15, 17:39:42

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