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General Discussion => WHATEVER => Topic started by: shpongle on May 28, 2020, 12:48:36 PM
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might be the saddest of the police brutalities we've seen. all filmed on a smartphone. RIP George Floyd.
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RIP George Floyd. Hopefully this death and the resulting riots gets the MPD to wake the fuck up, but honestly how often has that been said before.
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might be the saddest of the police brutalities we've seen. all filmed on a smartphone. RIP George Floyd.
nearly identical to Eric Garner‘s murder though. RIP both.
Burn it down.
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Although not racially motivated, it reminded me a little of Tony Timpa. Only they were mocking Tony’s disability the whole time they killed him.
https://youtu.be/_c-E_i8Q5G0
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If I was black and in America the police would have 100% killed my dumbass by now but because I'm a white Canadian you guys gotta read my shitty posts.
For real this kinda thing is so fucked up I saw some insta video of all the cops surrounding the murderers house to protect them. If they want to protect him why don't they throw his ass in jail?
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For real this kinda thing is so fucked up I saw some insta video of all the cops surrounding the murderers house to protect them. If they want to protect him why don't they throw his ass in jail?
Yeah i saw that too. I don't see how they can use resources to project a private citizens house since he was fired. Not to mention, I'm not sure that's gonna help bridge the gap between the community and the police that they're protecting a suspected murderer. Tho if he does have a family, he should probably think about relocating.
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For real this kinda thing is so fucked up I saw some insta video of all the cops surrounding the murderers house to protect them. If they want to protect him why don't they throw his ass in jail?
Yeah i saw that too. I don't see how they can use resources to project a private citizens house since he was fired. Not to mention, I'm not sure that's gonna help bridge the gap between the community and the police that they're protecting a suspected murderer. Tho if he does have a family, he should probably think about relocating.
That footage is gnarly! Fuck the Police!
I've cried a couple times over this murder. It's so horrific.
Hopefully the protests and justice will bring change to the police and legal system.
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For real this kinda thing is so fucked up I saw some insta video of all the cops surrounding the murderers house to protect them. If they want to protect him why don't they throw his ass in jail?
Yeah i saw that too. I don't see how they can use resources to project a private citizens house since he was fired. Not to mention, I'm not sure that's gonna help bridge the gap between the community and the police that they're protecting a suspected murderer. Tho if he does have a family, he should probably think about relocating.
That footage is gnarly! Fuck the Police!
I've cried a couple times over this murder. It's so horrific.
Hopefully the protests and justice will bring change to the police and legal system.
That's what's so sad about every one of these killings. They have yet to bring any real systemic change. Look at how brutal the Rodney King beating was and the resulting LA riots. Nothing has changed since then and that was nearly 30 years ago.
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This may sound like tinfoil-hat shit but so did Operation Paperclip until the light was shed on that.
I fully believe that white supremacists are systematically infiltrating police forces around the US and have been for probably over a century:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
“In the 2006 bulletin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nationalists and skinheads infiltrating police in order to disrupt investigations against fellow members and recruit other supremacists. The bulletin was released during a period of scandal for many law enforcement agencies throughout the country, including a neo-Nazi gang formed by members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who harassed black and Latino communities. Similar investigations revealed officers and entire agencies with hate group ties in Illinois, Ohio and Texas.”
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(https://i.imgur.com/vvtMPhx.jpg)
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I can't believe I watched people storm a police station and burn it to the ground on a live stream. Watching the chaos unfold in real-time is so surreal. Protests are popping off all across the country right now. If they don't arrest those fucking pigs in the next couple days then it's going to get deadly all across the country this weekend.
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This is the perfect storm.
Schools is out, Covid lockdown, unemployment through the roof, combined with a turbulent history between the Minneapolis community and MPD, the Amaud Aubrey and Breonna Taylor shootings, and now a completely indefensible murder in such a horrific and barbaric way caught on camera.
This is a mess.
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might be the saddest of the police brutalities we've seen. all filmed on a smartphone. RIP George Floyd.
https://youtu.be/dDpJ5FtG6Ac
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oh great, now trump is pouring gasoline on the fire.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704
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oh great, now trump is pouring gasoline on the fire.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704
We might be witnessing the beginning of a true revolution or at worst a civil war. Things are progressing so rapidly and under all the circumstances you said earlier, I don't see an end to any of this.
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R.I.P fallen brother. Unbelievable that this type of behavior is still happening in 2020.
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oh great, now trump is pouring gasoline on the fire.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704
Saw that. Guy has been so busy all day tweeting about regulating twitter because they don't treat him fair.
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(https://i.imgur.com/vvtMPhx.jpg)
I actually read that this shit happens with those shooters because they want an airtight case. The trials will have an insane amount of public focus and you don't want a lawyer to find any kind of technicality or something to fuck up charges in how they were arrested or some shit. It might sound like bullshit, and I can't speak for the minds of the officers arresting the shooters but I was actually listening to a podcast today about the Tylenol Cyanide murders and how a prime suspect who was also caught almost dead to rights for a different murder had charges dismissed because the original arrest wasn't done properly and he wasn't read his miranda rights. He had charges dismissed, went home, booked it and then they were searching for him forever and eventually found him across the country after a ton of crazy ass searching.
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When George Floyd started crying out for his deceased mother ("...momma...i can't breathe...), that got me pretty emotional. Very sad. Hope these officers get arrested, charged and convicted...
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Donald Trump is a complete scumbag in way over his head in this role. Worse than Nixon and the Bushes. Total scumbag creep. After he leaves office, it's gonna take years to clean up his mess.
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oh great, now trump is pouring gasoline on the fire.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704
I seriously fear that this is a recipe for civil war! Stay safe my American friends!
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I personally doubt the protestors/rioters have it in them to do a full scale revolution. This is a bunch of frustrated people taking justified anger out in the most immediate way possible. Once the military starts shooting people things will probably quiet down real fast.
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oh great, now trump is pouring gasoline on the fire.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704
I seriously fear that this is a recipe for civil war! Stay safe my American friends!
Jesus. This is terrifying. A bunch of people got poisoned after he told them to drink bleach, so I can only imagine how this will end.
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(https://i.imgur.com/vvtMPhx.jpg)
What’s really messed up is what happened to the filmer of Eric Garner’s murder. Ramsey Orta got harassed and locked up for exposing this.
www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety
*I have nothing to do with Dead Baby Lynx
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RIP
i couldn't watch that video. horrible.
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(https://i.imgur.com/vvtMPhx.jpg)
this comparison goes nowhere considering we can easily find abusive arrests of white men and proper arrests of black men (i know it's unbalanced though). It makes no sense to put different cases side by side without any context. Even with context...
Of course i am not denying the double standard at stake and the sadness of all that, but if people want to change things, it starts with avoiding fallacious reasoning.
Facts / Videos about George Floyd case are more than enough
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Word, leave the mom and pop shops alone, burn down a police station or a government building. I was unaware that Minneapolis was so about that action. ✊🏾
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That Verge article is so fucked.
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Word, leave the mom and pop shops alone, burn down a police station or a government building. I was unaware that Minneapolis was so about that action. ✊🏾
Mom and pops are being tore through as well. Cal Surf and Familia were cleaned out, amongst many other places. At this point most of the rioting has devolved into indiscriminate looting
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I am definitely losing faith in humanity.
RIP
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oh great, now trump is pouring gasoline on the fire.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704
We might be witnessing the beginning of a true revolution or at worst a civil war. Things are progressing so rapidly and under all the circumstances you said earlier, I don't see an end to any of this.
I don't think this rioting and looting will lead to anything systemically positive. At this point, it's become mostly random looting and destruction, and that's all the media is going to (understandably) focus on. Look at how chaotic the LA riots were. Did any long lasting systemic positive change come from that?
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Well they burned down five precincts so that's a start.
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I get the protesting, I get the desire to lash out physically and to bring down the institutions of oppression. I'm not a fan of seeing the places around me being looted and burned to the ground, but if I was a racial minority, I can't say I wouldn't have the same or similar reaction after seeing yet another black man killed by a cop. So many of the looters are not even members of the the community that was hurt, they're just taking advantage of the situation. Everything feels so fucked up in the metro area right now. Driving to work and seeing a plume of black smoke in the sky is really shitty to see.
Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Minnesota will get through this and hopefully become a little bit better. But I get the feeling that it's going to be a long road to recovery. My heart goes out to the Minneapolis community.
RIP George Floyd
RIP Philando Castile
RIP every person who's been a victim of police brutality
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvFxZJlJ86/
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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1266432998653800449
Arrested and charged with 3rd degree murder.
Not thrilled with the charge. I personally think it was 2nd degree murder, but I guess it's better than nothing. :-\
Now time for the other cops to also be charged as accessories.
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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1266432998653800449
Arrested and charged with 3rd degree murder.
Not thrilled with the charge. I personally think it was 2nd degree murder, but I guess it's better than nothing. :-\
Now time for the other cops to also be charged as accessories.
That third-degree murder charge is such bullshit. That means that he didn't intend to kill George Floyd. I'd say choking a guy to death in the span of 8 minutes as he pleads for his life shows his intent. Such bullshit.
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this shits got me so fucked up
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https://twitter.com/TheKingCenter/status/1266008254984982529
"Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. ... But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again."
MLK, 43 fuckin' years ago.
As of last night, in big block letters, I have "Riot is the language of the unheard" written on my car's rear window
I live in a conservative community so hopefully my fucking windows don't get smashed
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this shits got me so fucked up
Can’t stop thinking about the recording. Maelstrom of emotions, but I’m not gonna lie, I mostly just feel like crying...
Rest in power, George.
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https://twitter.com/TheKingCenter/status/1266008254984982529
"Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. ... But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again."
MLK, 43 fuckin' years ago.
As of last night, in big block letters, I have "Riot is the language of the unheard" written on my car's rear window
I live in a conservative community so hopefully my fucking windows don't get smashed
If it does, start a go fund me, my liberal lefty ass will shoot you $25 to help get your window fixed !
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theres a ton of awful videos on the internet that ive seen...but that one...im man enough to admit it, i fucking cried watching that video. and i get choked up every time i think about it
been clenching the fuck out of my jaw trying to stay tough at work.
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My first job at 16 was as a lifeguard, when we got hired, we had to watch a video where a guard fails to jump in the pool and save a drowning kid right in front of him. The kid is in the pool for like 10 minutes in front of a big group before anyone notices. The whole point of the video is to warn about negligence.
This is fucked. Its the lifeguard equivalent of going up to a kid that is running, dunking their head and holding it underwater until they drown. Far beyond negligence, this was cold blooded murder. Makes me sad and mad. Imagine standing there and watching, I would like to think I would tackle the cop to get him off, but you never know until you are there.
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R.I.P fallen brother. Unbelievable that this type of behavior is still happening in 2020.
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smh here they go
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/1266469379757109248
https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1266496814837981184
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smh here they go
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/1266469379757109248
https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1266496814837981184
yep and jeffery epstein killed himself
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How many police stations will burn down tonight ? They already trying to light two up right now in Brooklyn. Fuck the police.
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I'm stuck at work all weekend, otherwise I would probably drive up to Minneapolis to watch this unfold. This whole situation is fucked.
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I saw a video of a black guy laughing at this Chinese guy because his restaurant got destroyed. Everybody has lost their minds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gt64yj/aftermath_of_riot_in_mn_local_business_owner/
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hatred of the Chinese is the only thing that's going to bind Americans together what
My mental health worker is Chinese and the dude's damn near regular telling me something is a "different whole game ball"
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Kayal=flyest azn
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I could not bring myself to watch that video. RIP George Floyd.
now as a European guy, 2 things stood out to me when staying in the US for a few months in the 90's:
- American police are scary. I got put into cuffs in San Diego just for skating and I was really surprised.
- race relations in the US are fucked. it was a shock to me to see people grouping by color on campus: black people there, white people there, latinos over here and so on.
the combination of those 2 factors makes the whole situation a very complex mess. Now I'm not saying everything is rosy in Europe, far from it, but it seemed to me the US were on a whole other level of fucked-up. the overabundance of firearms probably is a big factor too.
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hatred of the Chinese is the only thing that's going to bind Americans together what
My mental health worker is Chinese and the dude's damn near regular telling me something is a "different whole game ball"
bro you’re trash
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nigga fuck you
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smh here they go
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/1266469379757109248
https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1266496814837981184
Man, fuck... hopefully just a speed bump. So what's that doctor trying to say, he would have died at that time anyway without someone crushing their neck for 8 minutes? Such bullshit.
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Protestors bring surveiled by customs and border patrol, despite this having nothing to do with border.
https://gizmodo.com/customs-and-border-protection-flew-a-predator-surveilla-1843758034
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/george-floyd-protests-surveillance-technology
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I could not bring myself to watch that video. RIP George Floyd.
now as a European guy, 2 things stood out to me when staying in the US for a few months in the 90's:
- American police are scary. I got put into cuffs in San Diego just for skating and I was really surprised.
- race relations in the US are fucked. it was a shock to me to see people grouping by color on campus: black people there, white people there, latinos over here and so on.
the combination of those 2 factors makes the whole situation a very complex mess. Now I'm not saying everything is rosy in Europe, far from it, but it seemed to me the US were on a whole other level of fucked-up. the overabundance of firearms probably is a big factor too.
Yeah, got the same experience from living in Texas for some time too. Although I'd say that where I lived, race relationships didn't seem bad, but just non-existent for the most part. Visiting New York last year I took a cheap hotel in Jamaica, Queens and the three days I spent there I literally saw a total of 4 white people. Two were obvious tourists and the other two were crackheads. Just bizarre considering black people aren't like immigrants or anything, and coming from europe, even though I knew it was like that I couldn't really believe it before actually seeing it.
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I could not bring myself to watch that video. RIP George Floyd.
now as a European guy, 2 things stood out to me when staying in the US for a few months in the 90's:
- American police are scary. I got put into cuffs in San Diego just for skating and I was really surprised.
- race relations in the US are fucked. it was a shock to me to see people grouping by color on campus: black people there, white people there, latinos over here and so on.
the combination of those 2 factors makes the whole situation a very complex mess. Now I'm not saying everything is rosy in Europe, far from it, but it seemed to me the US were on a whole other level of fucked-up. the overabundance of firearms probably is a big factor too.
I’ve been harassed by cops and profiled and I can’t watch any of them, just hearing the news brings up a bunch of bs. It’s weird because police don’t fear the over abundance of guns...it’s more their assertion of power they don’t really have, and they get upset when it’s challenged.
I don’t know if skaters have the same issues with cops and security in EU like we do here
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I could not bring myself to watch that video. RIP George Floyd.
now as a European guy, 2 things stood out to me when staying in the US for a few months in the 90's:
- American police are scary. I got put into cuffs in San Diego just for skating and I was really surprised.
- race relations in the US are fucked. it was a shock to me to see people grouping by color on campus: black people there, white people there, latinos over here and so on.
the combination of those 2 factors makes the whole situation a very complex mess. Now I'm not saying everything is rosy in Europe, far from it, but it seemed to me the US were on a whole other level of fucked-up. the overabundance of firearms probably is a big factor too.
Shock? Its pretty normal, even in many highly "multicultural" EU countries.
Read "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind".
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I expected riots at some point during the pandemic but thought it would be related to severe economic conditions.
Be safe if any of you do go out and go with provisions, first aid kit, etc.
This November is going to be a real nightmare.
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The Point skateshop near downtown Dallas got vandalized and looted, along with a sneaker store nearby... a lot of idiots abusing the protest to carry out their criminal behavior. Hearing about how people are trying to storm the White House and seeing videos of people ganging up on cops is really just making me feel like a lot of people are about to get shot
On a side note in damn near every single clip I've seen of protests there is someone with a skateboard
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I know this isn’t the best time for jokes, but it would be a little funny if mannequin Dill got looted.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gtmama/woman_asks_police_to_move_after_they_park_their/
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/05/15/woman-says-jacksonville-police-entered-home-without-warrant-used-excessive-force/
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I could not bring myself to watch that video. RIP George Floyd.
now as a European guy, 2 things stood out to me when staying in the US for a few months in the 90's:
- American police are scary. I got put into cuffs in San Diego just for skating and I was really surprised.
- race relations in the US are fucked. it was a shock to me to see people grouping by color on campus: black people there, white people there, latinos over here and so on.
the combination of those 2 factors makes the whole situation a very complex mess. Now I'm not saying everything is rosy in Europe, far from it, but it seemed to me the US were on a whole other level of fucked-up. the overabundance of firearms probably is a big factor too.
Shock? Its pretty normal, even in many highly "multicultural" EU countries.
Read "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind".
Considering violent protests in French banlieues and the UK, it's hard to deny that you have a point. Yet, I would claim that the situation in the US is more extreme. Segregation in Europe is real, but it's on a different level in the US in my opinion. I'm saying this as a German who used to live in the States.
I'm sorry to hear about George Floyd's death and the situation in the US right now. It's a shame that Trump is trying to benefit from an escalation by adding fuel to the fire.
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The Point skateshop near downtown Dallas got vandalized
Is that the one with the wood bowl in the back? Deep Ellum? Bummer. I swing through there when I go to Oni.
I usually skate to work from a parking garage and back. Hope no one tries to run me over tomorrow.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvFxZJlJ86/
Dude I'm so sick of seeing people say "it's not a race issue, it happens to white people too, it's a police brutality issue". Racism is alive and well in the United States and it's alive and well within the American police.
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Did the HUF shop in LA get looted?
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I could not bring myself to watch that video. RIP George Floyd.
now as a European guy, 2 things stood out to me when staying in the US for a few months in the 90's:
- American police are scary. I got put into cuffs in San Diego just for skating and I was really surprised.
- race relations in the US are fucked. it was a shock to me to see people grouping by color on campus: black people there, white people there, latinos over here and so on.
the combination of those 2 factors makes the whole situation a very complex mess. Now I'm not saying everything is rosy in Europe, far from it, but it seemed to me the US were on a whole other level of fucked-up. the overabundance of firearms probably is a big factor too.
Shock? Its pretty normal, even in many highly "multicultural" EU countries.
Read "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind".
all I can tell you is I had not seen that before in french schools or universities. and I grew up in the banlieues of Paris, the schools were very mixed : arabs, whites, blacks, asians, etc. What was even more of a shock in the US is seeing that on some official university forms, you had to state your ethnicity (which would actually be illegal in France). and the uni always put blacks kids with other black kids in the dorm rooms, whites with whites and so on. how are people supposed to get to know each other that way?
(btw I did intend to read that Sapiens book! thanks for reminding me)
->Abyss 1 : euro cops usually just kick skaters out, at the worst. I never once had a ticket. American cops seemed so much more intense to me.
and yes, France and Europe also have problems with police violence/racism, and riots/protests, but it does seem a lot more extreme in the US. Trump has to be the worst guy to deal with a situation like this. I hope it does not get too out of control.
anyways I'd love to give a more detailed answer but I'm in a cast right now and typing is a bitch....
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anyone want to explain Black Lives Matter to Jef Hartsel on instagram. maybe Shiloh, Kareem, and Jovontae can help him figure it out
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all I can tell you is I had not seen that before in french schools or universities. and I grew up in the banlieues of Paris, the schools were very mixed : arabs, whites, blacks, asians, etc. What was even more of a shock in the US is seeing that on some official university forms, you had to state your ethnicity (which would actually be illegal in France). and the uni always put blacks kids with other black kids in the dorm rooms, whites with whites and so on. how are people supposed to get to know each other that way?
(btw I did intend to read that Sapiens book! thanks for reminding me)
RE:bolded section. waitwut? i have never seen or heard of that. as far as i know college kids only get placed in dorms randomly their first year. from personal experience, one can even request roommates first year if they know someone beforehand. after that they all usually get to choose where and whom to live with, often with some lottery system tho. that being said, without really trying i ended up as part of an 8 person suite with 3 african-americans, another latino, a palestinian-american, my asian-american roommate, and one white local new yorker. First time we realized it we all had a laugh about making the white guy a minority in his own home hahah. I did go to a "small" school though so this all might be skewed.
I think ethnicity on university forms is mostly related to affirmative action and equity in access to education, but still somewhat sus, especially after the whole "curbing of asian admissions scandal" at a bunch of high profile schools. Does France do equitable access/affirmative action?
When I was in college in the US as a "non-resident alien" (still am, except for tax purposes of course... ¬¬) I was more upset how most of the international students would only hang out with each other... so I hung out with americans, which were a diverse bunch as well. There seemed to be more of a wealth divide there though, as plenty within the intl' crew would take almost monthly vacations all over the world...
There's a lot to be said about the concept of a "safe space" as well, not uncommon for minorities to seek peer support in student organizations that make them feel "at home" (e.g. Men of Color Alliance or Student Organization of Latinxs). At the same time there is a lot of diversity within one's own ethnic and cultural diaspora, and college can provide a broader look at that, maybe even a first look for some. I enjoyed being part of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund e-board as most members were US citizens, but from very different cultures from all over latin america. Are "spaces" like that common French universities? As an aside, is it common for kids in France/Europe to leave their hometown for uni?
This (long ass) post isn't to say that segregation in the US doesn't exist anymore, just thought about sharing a little since I enjoyed discussing stuff with you in your Israel thread. The overpolicing of minorities in the US is undeniable, and police brutality is almost a given. ACAB just rings more and more true every day that goes by.
I go back and forth between recommending people to watch or not watch the video. It is haunting, and saying it is a painful video is a massive understatement. Yet I think we should face things like this without burying our head in the sand. We should face the reality George Floyd and so many others have had to live through, and die from... My only hope is we are never desensitized to them.
TL;DR: Mostly talking with Frenchie. I don't think college admins actively segregate dorms, and there are plenty reasons for perceived segregation on US american campuses imo. However, that definitely does not mean segregation doesn't exist anymore.
PS. I have that Sapiens book in my bookshelf... but books can be very much like skate gear, you hoard them and then realize you might never get around to them...
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and you think I should be IP banned, lmao
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvFxZJlJ86/
This might not be as brutal as the George Floyd incident, but as a skater, watching this hit pretty close to home.
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all I can tell you is I had not seen that before in french schools or universities. and I grew up in the banlieues of Paris, the schools were very mixed : arabs, whites, blacks, asians, etc. What was even more of a shock in the US is seeing that on some official university forms, you had to state your ethnicity (which would actually be illegal in France). and the uni always put blacks kids with other black kids in the dorm rooms, whites with whites and so on. how are people supposed to get to know each other that way?
(btw I did intend to read that Sapiens book! thanks for reminding me)
I think ethnicity on university forms is mostly related to affirmative action and equity in access to education, but still somewhat sus, especially after the whole "curbing of asian admissions scandal" at a bunch of high profile schools. Does France do equitable access/affirmative action?
When I was in college in the US as a "non-resident alien" (still am, except for tax purposes of course... ¬¬) I was more upset how most of the international students would only hang out with each other... so I hung out with americans, which were a diverse bunch as well. There seemed to be more of a wealth divide there though, as plenty within the intl' crew would take almost monthly vacations all over the world...
There's a lot to be said about the concept of a "safe space" as well, not uncommon for minorities to seek peer support in student organizations that make them feel "at home" (e.g. Men of Color Alliance or Student Organization of Latinxs). At the same time there is a lot of diversity within one's own ethnic and cultural diaspora, and college can provide a broader look at that, maybe even a first look for some. I enjoyed being part of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund e-board as most members were US citizens, but from very different cultures from all over latin america. Are "spaces" like that common French universities? As an aside, is it common for kids in France/Europe to leave their hometown for uni?
This (long ass) post isn't to say that segregation in the US doesn't exist anymore, just thought about sharing a little since I enjoyed discussing stuff with you in your Israel thread. The overpolicing of minorities in the US is undeniable, and police brutality is almost a given. ACAB just rings more and more true every day that goes by.
I go back and forth between recommending people to watch or not watch the video. It is haunting, and saying it is a painful video is a massive understatement. Yet I think we should face things like this without burying our head in the sand. We should face the reality George Floyd and so many others have had to live through, and die from... My only hope is we are never desensitized to them.
TL;DR: Mostly talking with Frenchie. I don't think college admins actively segregate dorms, and there are plenty reasons for perceived segregation on US american campuses imo. However, that definitely does not mean segregation doesn't exist anymore.
PS. I have that Sapiens book in my bookshelf... but books can be very much like skate gear, you hoard them and then realize you might never get around to them...
I second all of your observations. Race relations in the US are similar, yet different from race relations in European countries. There's institutionalised racism, there's overpolicing of minorities, there's underrepresentation of these groups in important positions on both sides of the Atlantic, but I feel like underprivileged groups have a stronger, more coherent voice in the US (which can be seen in the current protests). I think many Europeans mistake the "civility" of underprivileged groups in their societies for a sign of equality. However, I think it has a lot to do with a lack of representation. There just hasn't been something comparable to the Civil Rights Movement in France, Britain or Germany.
That being said, as I've claimed earlier, I still feel like race relations are worse in the US than in many European countries (even if I can only speak for Germany). I remember being surprised by that when I moved to California.
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https://twitter.com/NTerryEllis/status/1267530485691035664
" Independent autopsy finds that George Floyd's death "was homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain.""
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https://twitter.com/NTerryEllis/status/1267530485691035664
" Independent autopsy finds that George Floyd's death "was homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain.""
What's fucked is there was a report that came out before saying the opposite, that he had no trauma to the neck or chest, and that he had been suffering from hypertension and had underlying heart problems... which would have been a possible valid excuse if someone was really panicking. Obviously the footage says otherwise.
I also read about how they were saying that 80% of the rioters and looters arrested in Minnesota were from out of state, then another report came out saying that 80% WERE from Minnesota which actually makes a lot more sense.
Like what the fuck are you even supposed to believe other than your common sense, which who knows how often that would be right unless you're there
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honestly I don't know! I was at San Diego State, it was 2 guys to a room and none of the rooms in my dorm were "mixed". It was always 2 black guys or 2 white guys and so on. So I just assumed it was official policy and it was like that everywhere? is it a west coast thing? anyways I only stayed a semester, so I really don't have much experience (college is expensive as fuck in the US! fun fact: If I remember right, one semester at SDSU cost maybe 20 times the tuition for one year of French public university)
also, France does not do affirmative action. Scholarships and things like that are based on your parents'income, where you come from but not your ethnicity. I don't think other European countries do affirmative action either but I might be wrong?
(sorry for the short answer but typing with one hand sucks :-X )
to get back to the subject, I came upon this on facebook, it's pretty fucked. some of these cops' actions is just adding oil to the fire.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=601780133757728 (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=601780133757728)
also, just unbelievable the cop who killed Floyd had like 18 previous brutality complaints on his record.
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afaik, there's no such thing as affirmative action in germany either.
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https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=601780133757728 (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=601780133757728)
That was just gruesome to watch.
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If you want to donate money to help George Floyd's family, help the ongoing fight for racial justice, or help Minneapolis businesses recover from the rioting:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd?link_id=1&can_id=599db189fa92c621f6238d2bc39804d6&source=email-volunteerdonate-to-help-our-communities&email_referrer=email_818833&email_subject=our-communities-need-your-help
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https://www.welovelakestreet.com/
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If you want to donate money to help George Floyd's family, help the ongoing fight for racial justice, or help Minneapolis businesses recover from the rioting:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd?link_id=1&can_id=599db189fa92c621f6238d2bc39804d6&source=email-volunteerdonate-to-help-our-communities&email_referrer=email_818833&email_subject=our-communities-need-your-help
https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate?link_id=3&can_id=599db189fa92c621f6238d2bc39804d6&source=email-volunteerdonate-to-help-our-communities&email_referrer=email_818833&email_subject=our-communities-need-your-help
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https://www.welovelakestreet.com/
BLM
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https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1268238841749606400
"Attorney General Keith Ellison to elevate charges against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to second-degree murder; three other officers to be charged with aiding and abetting murder, sources say."
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the other officers apparently facing charges now as well
http://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/george-floyd-officers-charges/index.html
EDIT: whoops beat me to it with the last post
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd?link_id=1&can_id=599db189fa92c621f6238d2bc39804d6&source=email-volunteerdonate-to-help-our-communities&email_referrer=email_818833&email_subject=our-communities-need-your-help
https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate?link_id=3&can_id=599db189fa92c621f6238d2bc39804d6&source=email-volunteerdonate-to-help-our-communities&email_referrer=email_818833&email_subject=our-communities-need-your-help
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https://www.welovelakestreet.com/
BLM
Thank you for the headsup
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#donate
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iron lung records is making a bail out sale tomorrow all money from sales going to blm bail funds.
http://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/community
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iron lung records is making a bail out sale tomorrow all money from sales going to blm bail funds.
http://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/community
Did you know Method Man calls himself "The Iron Lung"?
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iron lung records is making a bail out sale tomorrow all money from sales going to blm bail funds.
http://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/community
Did you know Method Man calls himself "The Iron Lung"?
yeah when i was young i wondered if this was actually a thing like can you coat your lungs and then smoke as much as you want. i tried a few things but it just made me cough a lot more.
i was obsessed with this music video when i was a kid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F4kTIFsg_M
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"T-2000/Keep bouncin'/T-Minus 30 seconds and countin'"
That song goes off (whole album does really). But I know folks who can't stand that song. He bangs it out live too.
https://youtu.be/km3dH0ILH0Q
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https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.pdf
Jesus fucking christ. Fentanyl and meth. This guy knew how to party.
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https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.pdf
Jesus fucking christ. Fentanyl and meth. This guy knew how to party.
The police murdered him by asphyxiation.
No amount of drug use, sexual deviancy, parking tickets, library fines, etc. justify that murder.
I love the conservatives & liberals alike who will decry the distortions of state sponsored media-the US has no designated state run media because it doesn’t need any; so- called independent journalists fall over each other in the rush to manufacture consent for police/state violence, before and after the fact.
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Jesus fucking christ. Fentanyl and meth. This guy knew how to party.
No amount of drug use, sexual deviancy, parking tickets, library fines, etc. justify that murder.
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Jesus fucking christ. Fentanyl and meth. This guy knew how to party.
No amount of drug use, sexual deviancy, parking tickets, library fines, etc. justify that murder.
He had Corona virus, too. I hear that makes it hard to breathe. Do you think him and the cop really knew each other? Is there a chance they were both in on a chinese counterfeit money laundering system...??? Nah. Right. That sounds too crazy.
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Jesus fucking christ. Fentanyl and meth. This guy knew how to party.
No amount of drug use, sexual deviancy, parking tickets, library fines, etc. justify that murder.
He had Corona virus, too. I hear that makes it hard to breathe. Do you think him and the cop really knew each other? Is there a chance they were both in on a chinese counterfeit money laundering system...??? Nah. Right. That sounds too crazy.
Ah yes, of course, the flavor of the moment, “Chinese” disruption of an otherwise stable, thriving, definitely not homicidally racist, republic.
Come on big brain, I’m sure you can implicate Putin & Maduro in this too.
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Black Lives Matter Hamburg, Germany
14.000 people attended the protest according to police.
there was a little clash of autonomous groups and police afterwards that went for an hour, but the protest itself was peaceful all the way. we left before the clashes after all the speakers were done. this is the best press pic i could find. we all took a kneel a few minutes before, there must be some picture of that. cops here were seen kneeling, too. and we have our own cases of police brutality against blacks. lots of things moving in germany rn due to the protests. berlin passed anti-discrimination laws effective immediately. before that, racial profiling was basically a legal thing for police. on this pic you see only 30 percent of protesters. to the left would be townhall square, which was also packed. whole downtown was packed to the brim with protesters. it was just massive.
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Anyone been watching the trial? Just saw the full video properly for the first time. As if that isn't enough to convict by itself. If this scumbag gets acquitted then I hope people take to the streets and fuck shit up.
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The testimony of the fire-person and the police dispatcher create some hope this dude is going to get punished for murder.
But, I'm doubtful.
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1.)Dude swallowed a couple of percs that actually turned out to be fent/meth speedballs.
2.)Was narced out in the so hard his buddies couldn't even wake him up.
3.)Repeatedly said "I cant breathe" while sitting in the back of the squad car, long before the cops knee was on his neck
4.) The ME said there were no signs of conjunctival petechiae (which pretty much rules out mechanical asphyxiation) and that he had extremely elevated levels of C02 in his blood (a result of decreased respiratory drive caused by...... you guessed it opioid intoxication!)
Can someone explain to me again, in which alternate universe does this constitute murder?
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^Are you fucking kidding me?
https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf
Line III: NO LIFE THREATENING INJURIES IDENTIFIED.
You want to actually refute my argument , or make another joke belittling homosexuals?
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^Are you fucking kidding me?
https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf
Line III: NO LIFE THREATENING INJURIES IDENTIFIED.
You want to actually refute my argument , or make another joke belittling homosexuals?
So you're the new Edgelord?
The video is pretty undeniable, and if you're backing these fucking pigs on a skateboard message board, you should reconsider.
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^Are you fucking kidding me?
https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf
Line III: NO LIFE THREATENING INJURIES IDENTIFIED.
You want to actually refute my argument , or make another joke belittling homosexuals?
I probably shouldn't bite but here goes. It's in the very title. "Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression." Then there is also the second autopsy, which is more damning still. Neither of the autopsies conclude he overdosed. Both say his Covid was most likely asymptomatic. Lungs in any case showed no signs of impairment. Both autopsies ruled it a homicide. So there you go, refuted.
Yet somehow I could see a scenario unfolding where Chauvin retires with a handsome payout.
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if you’re that zooted then the cops DEF don’t need to kneel on your neck to restrain you so idk how that would absolve your hero officers of any guilt
also i hope you get hit by a bus
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https://youtu.be/bDmB-ILyuVA
RIP Big Floyd
https://youtu.be/tG_Egs9qbew
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I guess it doesn’t matter because he’s banned now, but here’s the medical examiner’s press release summary that states George Floyd’s death was judged to be a homicide.
https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MNHENNE/2020/06/01/file_attachments/1464238/2020-3700%20Floyd,%20George%20Perry%20Update%206.1.2020.pdf?referringSource=articleShare (https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MNHENNE/2020/06/01/file_attachments/1464238/2020-3700%20Floyd,%20George%20Perry%20Update%206.1.2020.pdf?referringSource=articleShare)
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Also, the police don't kneel on the throats of white men who murder buildings full of innocent people, they restrain them peacefully without injury...so fuck these cops just for that.
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Also, the police don't kneel on the throats of white men who murder buildings full of innocent people, they restrain them peacefully without injury...so fuck these cops just for that.
Not to mention, in the case of Dylan Roof, they took him through a fast food drive thru so he could eat before being processed.
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I wonder what this dude's original name was... or if this was some edgy made up backstory... either way fuck this dude.
The mod's have been way too itchy to pull the ban trigger lately. After 7 years of being a loyal slap contributor, I got permabanned out of nowhere. Sad part is there is was no warning, no "watching" period, and no explanation of what I did wrong.
Watch out guys, you are most certainly next. This place is gonna be so sick once everyone is banned.
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I wonder what this dude's original name was... or if this was some edgy made up backstory... either way fuck this dude.
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The mod's have been way too itchy to pull the ban trigger lately. After 7 years of being a loyal slap contributor, I got permabanned out of nowhere. Sad part is there is was no warning, no "watching" period, and no explanation of what I did wrong.
Watch out guys, you are most certainly next. This place is gonna be so sick once everyone is banned.
kinda made me think of that covid denier uncle buck, who I don't know if they got banned or not because I blocked them
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Also, the police don't kneel on the throats of white men who murder buildings full of innocent people, they restrain them peacefully without injury...so fuck these cops just for that.
Not to mention, in the case of Dylan Roof, they took him through a fast food drive thru so he could eat before being processed.
And don't forget that kid in Atlanta that just had a bad day.
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Also, the police don't kneel on the throats of white men who murder buildings full of innocent people, they restrain them peacefully without injury...so fuck these cops just for that.
Not to mention, in the case of Dylan Roof, they took him through a fast food drive thru so he could eat before being processed.
I'm not trying to be contrarian, or really disagree with your point, but private investigators will pretend to be compassionate towards the suspect as a way to gain their trust and get them to divulge info that shouldn't be divulged without a lawyer present.
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Also, the police don't kneel on the throats of white men who murder buildings full of innocent people, they restrain them peacefully without injury...so fuck these cops just for that.
Not to mention, in the case of Dylan Roof, they took him through a fast food drive thru so he could eat before being processed.
They also didn't actually take him to the drive thru. Law enforcement is required to feed suspects lest they later claim maltreatment. Obviously the point still stands: white school shooters somehow always make it to their mugshot, intact and grinning.
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Also, the police don't kneel on the throats of white men who murder buildings full of innocent people, they restrain them peacefully without injury...so fuck these cops just for that.
Not to mention, in the case of Dylan Roof, they took him through a fast food drive thru so he could eat before being processed.
Except in this case there is no conspiracy or coconspirator for him to have dropped a dime on. Nor are the cops bringing a perp in PI. Seems like they torture the shit out of folks with a shade of skin darker than white, rather than play that game, forcing them to make shit up so that the torture stops
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It is so weird that America's criminal justice system was built upon the notion of smart punishment rather than excessive punishment, and, here we are, in a moment when the idea that a police officer, a low level government bureaucrat could possibly be convicted for murder is so out of the norm, the whole world is on pins and needles to see if an obvious murder is in fact deemed a "murder" by the US criminal justice system.
I love the "don't commit a crime if you don't want to get killed by the police" argument some throw out there. The idea of living a country where the police are judge, jury, and executioner is terrifying or supporting the notion that we could/should be executed for misdemeanors is absurd.
Looking back, the most amazing thing about the Rodney King beating isn't the beating or the cops getting off without punishment, it is the fact the public actually gave a shit.
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I agree with the points stated directly above me. ACAB and that dude boy with a chill just can't stop kooking himself. It's always so funny when dudes get banned for being an obvious goon and instead of changing their behavior or at least doing a better job cloaking it, they create a new account and immediately get banned again for their shitty recycled takes
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Also, the police don't kneel on the throats of white men who murder buildings full of innocent people, they restrain them peacefully without injury...so fuck these cops just for that.
Not to mention, in the case of Dylan Roof, they took him through a fast food drive thru so he could eat before being processed.
He was also a sex addict.
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He was also a sex addict.
Well shit, that changes everything
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Bumping because.
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20 year old black male shot by police in Minneapolis today. I'm unaware of the circumstances of the shooting, but this is not going to be good.
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This site went fully regular.
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This site went fully regular.
This implies that at some point it wasn't?
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This site went fully regular.
It’s always been but it’s gone full throttle
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Minneapolis lookin like it’s under military occupation already. If they let Chauvin off, last summer will look mellow in comparison.
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Anyone watching the closing arguments?
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I’m no conspiracy nut but I don’t see how he won’t be charged with at least manslaughter. You’re a cop and a man is dying whether you’re the one killing him or these drugs the defense are saying that did it. You’re supposed to help them regardless.
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The Use of Force Expert who said Chauvin "was acting with objective reasonableness." had his previous house/neighborhood vandalized with pig blood/head.
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/210418160752-01-barry-brodd-pigs-blood-santa-rosa-exlarge-169.jpg)
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/18/us/chauvin-witness-barry-brodd-pigs-blood-santa-rosa/index.html
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His lawyer really just entertained the idea that space aliens took over Chauvin’s body! This is hilariously painful.
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The Use of Force Expert who said Chauvin "was acting with objective reasonableness." had his previous house/neighborhood vandalized with pig blood/head.
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/210418160752-01-barry-brodd-pigs-blood-santa-rosa-exlarge-169.jpg)
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/18/us/chauvin-witness-barry-brodd-pigs-blood-santa-rosa/index.html
It's not that hard to clean or paint over for the people who got caught in the crossfire but light vandalism is seriously the low end of things that could happen to someone doing murder apologia. I mean Alan Dershowitz gets to freely walk around and people don't hiss or spit on the ground instinctively to dispel the dark energy that just passed by
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I'm not going to be surprised at how this trial pans out, either way. In that light, if Chauvin is convicted of anything, he's a sort of sacrificial lamb rather than such an outcome setting precedent. 1312
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Barry Brodd has made a living being an "expert" for cases like this (on top of the pension he is probably getting from California). He was paid nearly 12K for his testimony here.
I would guess dude takes his paycheck and says whatever the police union wants him to say.
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I would guess dude takes his paycheck and says whatever the police union wants him to say.
Especially when every other expert they called said Chauvin's actions were excessive.
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The Use of Force Expert who said Chauvin "was acting with objective reasonableness." had his previous house/neighborhood vandalized with pig blood/head.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/18/us/chauvin-witness-barry-brodd-pigs-blood-santa-rosa/index.html
It's not that hard to clean or paint over for the people who got caught in the crossfire but light vandalism is seriously the low end of things that could happen to someone doing murder apologia. I mean Alan Dershowitz gets to freely walk around and people don't hiss or spit on the ground instinctively to dispel the dark energy that just passed by
Fuck Brodd, but I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of this case for my own personal safety. He’s retired now, but my dad was a homicide investigator for the state. Anytime he was involved in a big case, our house would get vandalized and people would threaten to kill my sister and me.
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The Use of Force Expert who said Chauvin "was acting with objective reasonableness." had his previous house/neighborhood vandalized with pig blood/head.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/18/us/chauvin-witness-barry-brodd-pigs-blood-santa-rosa/index.html
It's not that hard to clean or paint over for the people who got caught in the crossfire but light vandalism is seriously the low end of things that could happen to someone doing murder apologia. I mean Alan Dershowitz gets to freely walk around and people don't hiss or spit on the ground instinctively to dispel the dark energy that just passed by
That's totally fair. I just wish they had gotten that guys actual house.
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He kind of has to be either way. This is way beyond this one case. Something has to give. If this pig going down is the beginning of any semblance of justice and some hint of change, so be it.
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Man I hate to make it all about me but yeah that white privilege is some real shit
I was drunk out of my mind the other night and I had enough green on me for it to become a proper issue and I thought I’d get some hungry jacks on way home
My bag split out the door my shit went everywhere and I lost it when they wouldn’t replace my shit
I ordered so much I shoulda got two bags
Motherfuckers tried to stitch me up
They called the cops on me and the cops didn’t even take my name. I thought I was fucked for about thirty seconds but the copper listened to my drunk arse, saw all my spilled food and said ‘that’s a shit go, did you get their details for complaint later’
Cause that was dinner and I had cash but ain’t paying twice fuck them man
My fault for going to a fucking Burger King yeah?
Man if I was a black North American they woulda shot my arse years ago
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I mean no disrespect I just mean I wouldn’t feel comfortable getting drunk in the states
I saw that video but I seen heaps of others and there’s a problem with your system and I reckon it’s got something to do with the availability of weapons
Some of you guys should get into the force fuck me it definitely appears they need decent blokes and it’d be a decent career I seen this seppo cop do a mad fakie bigflip. Seen heaps of good USA cop videos just a poor situation ay
Maybe it is the guns, lads
Sorry I’m not trying to kick shit off just, I dunno I’m just drunk and typing no filter
Who cares what drugs he was on, mans got choked out on camera
Taliban shit
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I saw that video but I seen heaps of others and there’s a problem with your system and I reckon it’s got something to do with the availability of weapons
I'm not trying to be snide here, but the problem isn't the availability of weapons. The problem is our country is Literally and not figuratively built on the enslavement & extermination of Black people.
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If Chauvin is convicted of anything, he's a sort of sacrificial lamb rather than such an outcome setting precedent. 1312
He kind of has to be either way. This is way beyond this one case. Something has to give. If this pig going down is the beginning of any semblance of justice and some hint of change, so be it.
Nothing is going to change. Police unions won’t allow change. If there’s going to be ANY change, you start with their union.
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I saw that video but I seen heaps of others and there’s a problem with your system and I reckon it’s got something to do with the availability of weapons
Some of you guys should get into the force fuck me it definitely appears they need decent blokes and it’d be a decent career I seen this seppo cop do a mad fakie bigflip. Seen heaps of good USA cop videos just a poor situation ay
Maybe it is the guns, lads
Sorry I’m not trying to kick shit off just, I dunno I’m just drunk and typing no filter
Who cares what drugs he was on, mans got choked out on camera
Taliban shit
Guns certainly are a problem but it's reached the point that there are so many that have proliferated throughout the country that any kind of buy back or mass confiscation is practically impossible. The other side of that is that many people are hesitant to disarm because the police who are obviously structurally racist as well as having members who are personally racist are armed and act like soldiers. And because our country is so vast and there are so many different police departments, there's very little hope of reform from within by having a few good cops join, because those good cops tend to get worn down by how fucked up and brutal the job is or if they do try and report bad behavior they face severe retaliation because our cop culture is a giant gang that puts emphasis on never ever turning on one another and having each other's back no matter what they did. Lowering the temperature of our country would probably require a complete overhaul of our police system, disarming most officers, mass hiring of new members to try and change the culture, get rid of most of their swat looking gear and maybe less people will have violent fantasies about overthrowing the government via violent revolution. But then again our country was built on violent revolution followed by violent settler colonialism, genocide of indigenous people and brutal slavery, a civil war fight over that slavery, and then fighting as hard as possible to keep those former slaves from being full citizens. But no one wants to admit that or teach that in schools. It's much more comfortable for our collective psyche to say that a bunch of pseudo god men in powdered wigs made a perfect document that floated down from heaven and everything was pretty good until we made the sacred scroll more perfect after the Civil War, and then MLK reminded everyone that racism is bad and cops just keep killing black people in this country but gosh darn, if only they were polite to the police and didn't resist arrest maybe they would still be here with us to enjoy our perfect country.
Sorry for going to the rant zone but shits fucked up here. Not meant to be aggression towards you @matty_c, just started going and couldn't stop writing
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verdict is being announced today 4:30pm est, they said it took the jury 11 hours to come to one. hope that pig gets it. acab.
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I saw that video but I seen heaps of others and there’s a problem with your system and I reckon it’s got something to do with the availability of weapons
I'm not trying to be snide here, but the problem isn't the availability of weapons. The problem is our country is Literally and not figuratively built on the enslavement & extermination of Black people.
In this case (and other cases involving excessive use of force by police officers), yes, not so much the availability of weapons but the enslavement & extermination of Black people.
In cases of mass shootings carried out by civilians, it's availability of weapons (actually, sometimes both issues, like in the case Dylann Roof, who shot up the black churches).
Praying justice is served for George Floyd and Chauvin gets convicted on the most severe charges with the most severe punishment.
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I saw that video but I seen heaps of others and there’s a problem with your system and I reckon it’s got something to do with the availability of weapons
I'm not trying to be snide here, but the problem isn't the availability of weapons. The problem is our country is Literally and not figuratively built on the enslavement & extermination of Black people.
In this case (and other cases involving excessive use of force by police officers), yes, not so much the availability of weapons but the enslavement & extermination of Black people.
In cases of mass shootings carried out by civilians, it's availability of weapons (actually, sometimes both issues, like in the case Dylann Roof, who shot up the black churches).
Praying justice is served for George Floyd and Chauvin gets convicted on the most severe charges with the most severe punishment.
Even if found guilty, Chauvin waived his sentencing by jury. The judge will do it. And I have this odd feeling they'll find redeeming qualities in him that will affect his sentencing the way redeeming qualities in Brock Turner affected his sentencing.
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Smokin that Derek Chauvin pack.
Rest in piss bozo
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Guilty on all charges
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Night Night, keep your butthole tight.
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Maybe the judge goes soft on him during sentencing, maybe not. But either way, a cop being found guilty of murder for a killing committed "in the line of duty" is frankly nothing short of incredible at this point. Hope he has even less to be happy about after being sentenced.
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Whew my heart started racing as soon as the judge sat down, that shit was intense.
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Let's keep the ball rolling. Let's end qualified immunity for police officers.
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Interesting how to conversation before the verdict was about how would black people react to not guilty verdict, and not how will the police react to a guilty verdict.
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Probably because the police will just carry on doing what they were doing already
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Probably because the police will just carry on doing what they were doing already
This.
They have no incentive to change. And there's barely any consequences when they don't change their ways.
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Guilty on all 3 charges. Sentencing is gonna be fun. Don’t drop the soap mother fucker!
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https://twitter.com/rightwingwatch/status/1384619964812910594?s=21
https://twitter.com/rightwingwatch/status/1384622360469377025?s=21
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Good to see that at least one cop was actually held accountable for his actions.
I wonder what life will be like in prison for him. There is no way they are putting him anywhere near gen population.
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Good to see that at least one cop was actually held accountable for his actions.
I wonder what life will be like in prison for him. There is no way they are putting him anywhere near gen population.
Van Dyke (Chicago PD) was sent to a Jewish Federal Prison in New York. I'm fairly certain Chauvin will be in a similar cushy/safe prison.
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Good to see that at least one cop was actually held accountable for his actions.
I wonder what life will be like in prison for him. There is no way they are putting him anywhere near gen population.
Nowhere will be safe.
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If they put Derek Chauvin in the gen pop prison yard for 9 minutes and 45 seconds, do you think he'll reverse his argument of that duration of time not really being that long?
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Some welcome news, but still so much work to be done.
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nvm not trying to derail the thread
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A 15 year old girl in Ohio was shot and killed by police (that she called for help) as people were celebrating the verdict
still so much work to be done.
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https://twitter.com/rightwingwatch/status/1384619964812910594?s=21
https://twitter.com/rightwingwatch/status/1384622360469377025?s=21
I find it absolutely hilarious that the right wing small government, 2A, don’t tread on me people suck cops’ dicks so hard. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
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Just saw a clip of George Floyd's brother thanking Portland for going so hard for justice in the wake of his brother's death. I know there are many complicated and varied opinions on the protests and their impact but its hard to deny they had impact on this verdict. Nice to know those lungfuls of tear gas meant something... Now about Ma'Khia Bryan and Daunte Wright....
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Good to see some justice was served today. Proud to be a Minnesotan and happy they didn't destroy the government center as it's pretty much one of the best skate spots you could imagine. Lot's of positive vibes floating around this evening as many were fearful the verdict wouldn't be favorable, in which case the city would've most likely been destroyed.
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https://twitter.com/rightwingwatch/status/1384619964812910594?s=21
https://twitter.com/rightwingwatch/status/1384622360469377025?s=21
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzcodQuXMAYXMr8?format=jpg&name=small)
This guy has done the math wrong and come to the right answer anyway
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so good to see this scumbag sentenced
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https://twitter.com/rightwingwatch/status/1384622360469377025?s=21
I find it absolutely hilarious that the right wing small government, 2A, don’t tread on me people suck cops’ dicks so hard. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
fascinating isn't it?? i don't trust the state, also i love the apparatus of the state having free reign
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Good to see some justice was served today. Proud to be a Minnesotan and happy they didn't destroy the government center as it's pretty much one of the best skate spots you could imagine. Lot's of positive vibes floating around this evening as many were fearful the verdict wouldn't be favorable, in which case the city would've most likely been destroyed.
It felt like the city/metro had let out a huge collective sigh of relief
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i hope he doesn’t make it out of lockup
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ACAB all day but this man was a domestic terrorist so nah
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A 15 year old girl in Ohio was shot and killed by police (that she called for help) as people were celebrating the verdict
I don't know much about this case, but I saw the video and it looked like they shot her mid-stabbing attempt. I really don't know what best case scenario would be here. If you tackle, you'd probably get stabbed. I know tasers aren't super accurate, but she was a pretty easy target here, right?
(https://cms.thepostmillennial.com/content/images/2021/04/Untitled-design---2021-04-20T205749.599.jpg)
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did you guys know if you say fentanyl floyd in the mirror three times he appears?
This isn't even clever enough to be offensive--it's just lame. You're lame.
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you know what's lame? burning down cities over a degenerate criminal who held a gun to a pregnant woman's chest. literally every one of these saints who died in the BLM propaganda/racist movement is a thug criminal.
You're still lame. Getting lamer, even, while you double down on talking like a boomer scared of a future where being openly racist is no longer tolerated.
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nice argument, loser
Nothing you've said merits an argument. You're just saying "BLM TORCHES CITIES" or whatever. Who cares. You sound like someone's scared 82 year old aunt.
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you know what's lame? burning down cities over a degenerate criminal who held a gun to a pregnant woman's chest. literally every one of these saints who died in the BLM propaganda/racist movement is a thug criminal.
None of the things you are mentioning are capital offenses, even IF they were awarded due process, which these people weren't when police officers killed them.
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mr stinky is mad trying so hard he's going back and editing posts. funny how calling something for what it is, is somehow racist. you're literally defending a criminal who POINTED A GUN AT A PREGNANT WOMAN'S STOMACH so you can get a dopamine rush on the internet and feel validated by other self-hating losers. keep drinking the kool aid.
I edited the post to call you a racist--yes, it's true. I think that's probably okay, since you sound like someone who seems to think it's alright for people of color to be summarily executed by the police.
Anyway, you're a bootlicker and you should probably cry some more.
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i dont think any person of any color deserves to be executed for no reason. i do however, think someone who has a criminal record, repeatedly refuses to obey orders, and points a gun at a pregnant woman's stomach is a piece of shit who deserves whatever comes to them. but yeah, keep removing/inserting words to my posts in your infected kool aid brain to fit your hivemind delusional narrative. and for the record i'm the farthest thing from a bootlicker, i just don't live a life of illegal activity to give them a reason to interact with me on a daily/monthly/yearly basis.
commending the murder of a man by a police officer is bootlicking in spades. it does not matter in which direction you think your moral compass points.
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I love how this bootlicking dumbass doesn't even deny being racist, he just resents having attention called to that fact.
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i know dave witte and jon chang and both would tell you to get fucked
edit oh he's gone
fucker made me associate legendary grind with that bullshit
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Every couple of weeks another one of these goons comes in here just to be a racist shit bag. I hope they all sack on infinite rails
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These trolls don't skate. You can tell.
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Im more interesting in seeing what happens to those other cops and their trial outcomes
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Im more interesting in seeing what happens to those other cops and their trial outcomes
Hopefully they nab the guys who killed Ahmad, who knows with all the other cops. It depends on if there's enough pressure on them to fight for the conviction
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Im more interesting in seeing what happens to those other cops and their trial outcomes
Hopefully they nab the guys who killed Ahmad, who knows with all the other cops. It depends on if there's enough pressure on them to fight for the conviction
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no mercy for the fucking redneck cowards involved with the murder of this young man or for anyone in Georgia's criminal justice system who is proven to have intentionally failed to do their duty.
those fucking redneck cowards' tactic of one driving and another in the back of the pickup truck is steeped in the murderous racial history of the south...fucking infuriating, and i regret ever watching that shit. i swear, my gun safe and ammo supply are stocked and fortified exactly because of these kinds of redneck motherfuckers...
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Im more interesting in seeing what happens to those other cops and their trial outcomes
Hopefully they nab the guys who killed Ahmad, who knows with all the other cops. It depends on if there's enough pressure on them to fight for the conviction
(https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/9ed/36f/1f095d2be9a91dd626fc04899fe9997314--Ahmaud-Arbery.rsquare.w1200.jpg)
no mercy for the fucking redneck cowards involved with the murder of this young man or for anyone in Georgia's criminal justice system who is proven to have intentionally failed to do their duty.
those fucking redneck cowards' tactic of one driving and another in the back of the pickup truck is steeped in the murderous racial history of the south...fucking infuriating, and i regret ever watching that shit. i swear, my gun safe and ammo supply are stocked and fortified exactly because of these kinds of redneck motherfuckers...
I agree, completely infuriating. That shit boils my blood to this day
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If George Zimmerman got away with murder, they probably will too.
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Does the fact that Chauvin got convicted on any/all counts make it more or less likely that the other cops involved in Floyd's murder will be convicted at their upcoming trial(s)?
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Shit that is a good question... Will he be the sacrificial lamb protecting his peers or does this mean they're fucked as well? No clue.
But, I think it certain means the citizens are going to be completely fucked and on the hook for the civil lawsuits to follow.
Unbelievable we pick up the tab for this shit. I've read stories about small towns basically being bankrupted because of the police doing fucked up shit to its own citizens.
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Shit that is a good question... Will he be the sacrificial lamb protecting his peers or does this mean they're fucked as well? No clue.
But, I think it certain means the citizens are going to be completely fucked and on the hook for the civil lawsuits to follow.
Unbelievable we pick up the tab for this shit. I've read stories about small towns basically being bankrupted because of the police doing fucked up shit to its own citizens.
fraternal brotherhood of police BS, man. cop unions are what keep these fools protected behind a "thin blue line" and hold the public responsible for members actions. I'm a union fellow, true and blue, but police unions gotta go before we'll see any change.