OT: Cops kill George Floyd

[Clyde_Style]

Which of you are up in the Bronx now?

I just watched reports on how local people are thieving hard in areas of the Bronx. I'm not singling out the Bronx. It is merely what I just watched and it isn't pretty. Not just hardened criminal types, but local people joining in on the mayhem, wiping out every kind of store.

Not like I haven't seen this before, but it is important to also not lose sight of the truth that these looters are destroying their local shopkeepers lives and hurting their neighborhood. People can't get their heart and cancer medication, because these pieces of chit destroyed their local pharmacy and stole it all.

That's not protest. As long as that goes on Trump and the cops will point to the looting for justification of what they do even when they're bashing innocent protestors.

Looters could still get Trump re-elected.

And if this keeps up it will lead to more dead civilians

[Zenzibar]

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**** them, they support the other officers no matter how grotesque their actions. We need to be rid of them as well

Where are the “good cops” when you need them?

For years, the ignorant and the willfully ignorant kept saying there's just a few bad apples? Now everyone else gets to see all the rotten apples that Black and Brown people are intimately familiar with.

I hope somehow this abhorrent, life-altering experience for this innocent man turns into some form of a blessing after he sues the city for this egregious and negligent assault.

Absolutely.

If there were some doubters, they've been woke..

[Zenzibar]

Which of you are up in the Bronx now?

I just watched reports on how local people are thieving hard in areas of the Bronx. I'm not singling out the Bronx. It is merely what I just watched and it isn't pretty. Not just hardened criminal types, but local people joining in on the mayhem, wiping out every kind of store.

Not like I haven't seen this before, but it is important to also not lose sight of the truth that these looters are destroying their local shopkeepers lives and hurting their neighborhood. People can't get their heart and cancer medication, because these pieces of chit destroyed their local pharmacy and stole it all.

That's not protest. As long as that goes on Trump and the cops will point to the looting for justification of what they do even when they're bashing innocent protestors.

Looters could still get Trump re-elected.

And if this keeps up it will lead to more dead civilians

I'm up here and so far myt block is quiet. Must be around shopping centers, Fordham got got hit alittle but for the most part not many, and importantly nor burned.

But again this looting is not about our consciousness rising, but just meaninglessness. Sometimes we have to handle ourselves and not let young brothers miss the point by not talking to them directly.

My only wish is that a dude like Lebron buy a $5,000,000 slot on ESPN and tell the young to chill.
Take out a fkn commerical with a bunch of Athletes, reminding the young how to act under these circumstances and how important it is.

Step up. Where the stars @?

[Clyde_Style]

Which of you are up in the Bronx now?

I just watched reports on how local people are thieving hard in areas of the Bronx. I'm not singling out the Bronx. It is merely what I just watched and it isn't pretty. Not just hardened criminal types, but local people joining in on the mayhem, wiping out every kind of store.

Not like I haven't seen this before, but it is important to also not lose sight of the truth that these looters are destroying their local shopkeepers lives and hurting their neighborhood. People can't get their heart and cancer medication, because these pieces of chit destroyed their local pharmacy and stole it all.

That's not protest. As long as that goes on Trump and the cops will point to the looting for justification of what they do even when they're bashing innocent protestors.

Looters could still get Trump re-elected.

And if this keeps up it will lead to more dead civilians

I'm up here and so far myt block is quiet. Must be around shopping centers, Fordham got got hit alittle but for the most part not many, and importantly nor burned.

But again this looting is not about our consciousness rising, but just meaninglessness. Sometimes we have to handle ourselves and not let young brothers miss the point by not talking to them directly.

My only wish is that a dude like Lebron buy a $5,000,000 slot on ESPN and tell the young to chill.
Take out a fkn commerical with a bunch of Athletes, reminding the young how to act under these circumstances and how important it is.

Step up. Where the stars @?

Cancel Culture has made most celebrities risk adverse. These days nobody is perfect enough for some people and no matter how well-intentioned you may be you could lose your livelihood because some Instagrammer is madddddd at you for not saying things the way they would say it.

And people spread conspiracies about you. Bill Gates is in on the virus scam according to some schmucks. He's basically retired and made his fortune so it probably doesn't affect him as much, but in general the world is incredibly toxic because we've got a general population incapable of handling paradox and complexity. You're either for or against something and there's no inbetween.

Frankly, I don't blame most stars for keeping their mouths shut. I do appreciate the messages from those that do speak up, but mostly there could be some actual coordinated efforts if they band together.

For example, former Republican operatives that oppose Trump are making ads for the Lincoln Project that are effective take-downs of Trump. They could hide in shame, but they're stepping up.

But a good portion of the American left wing has shown itself to be vengeful, spiteful and determined to throw you under the bus if you don't serve them up their precise brand of revolutionary fervor. Any celebrity can be attacked or misconstrued now no matter how well-intentioned they may be.

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[GONYK]

Seems like Brees will now kneel

I know some may see it as self-serving. I know Trump will call him weak, but Brees seems to have actually listened and realized that clinging to his associations were blocking him from taking in the point being made. I respect him for making an effort to work through that.

At the very least, him kneeling (if he does) takes a major pawn away from the "RESPECT THE FLAG MORE THAN BLACK LIVES" crowd.

[HarthorneWingo]

Seems like Brees will now kneel

I know some may see it as self-serving. I know Trump will call him weak, but Brees seems to have actually listened and realized that clinging to his associations were blocking him from taking in the point being made. I respect him for making an effort to work through that.

Um, too late.

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[Fat Kat]

Which of you are up in the Bronx now?

I just watched reports on how local people are thieving hard in areas of the Bronx. I'm not singling out the Bronx. It is merely what I just watched and it isn't pretty. Not just hardened criminal types, but local people joining in on the mayhem, wiping out every kind of store.

Not like I haven't seen this before, but it is important to also not lose sight of the truth that these looters are destroying their local shopkeepers lives and hurting their neighborhood. People can't get their heart and cancer medication, because these pieces of chit destroyed their local pharmacy and stole it all.

That's not protest. As long as that goes on Trump and the cops will point to the looting for justification of what they do even when they're bashing innocent protestors.

Looters could still get Trump re-elected.

And if this keeps up it will lead to more dead civilians

I'm up here and so far myt block is quiet. Must be around shopping centers, Fordham got got hit alittle but for the most part not many, and importantly nor burned.

But again this looting is not about our consciousness rising, but just meaninglessness. Sometimes we have to handle ourselves and not let young brothers miss the point by not talking to them directly.

My only wish is that a dude like Lebron buy a $5,000,000 slot on ESPN and tell the young to chill.
Take out a fkn commerical with a bunch of Athletes, reminding the young how to act under these circumstances and how important it is.

Step up. Where the stars @?

This woman eloquently expressed the feelings of many of the people that you’re talking down to. I urge you to listen, as I urged folks to pay attention to the message Kaepernick was trying to convey. I’m also saying that the sanitation of MLK and the civil rights movement have dulled folk’s revolutionary spirit and it’s purposeful. The cops weren’t arrested because of peaceful protest.

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https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-protester-undergoes-multiple-surgeries-after-being-shot-with-rubber-bullet/2382882/

I think this is the 4th or 5th person they've taken an eye from

[robillionaire]

This woman eloquently expressed the feelings of many of the people that you’re talking down to. I urge you to listen, as I urged folks to pay attention to the message Kaepernick was trying to convey. I’m also saying that the sanitation of MLK and the civil rights movement have dulled folk’s revolutionary spirit and it’s purposeful. The cops weren’t arrested because of peaceful protest.

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That full video was really good, the monopoly analogy really puts it in perspective

[thebuzzardman]

Which of you are up in the Bronx now?

I just watched reports on how local people are thieving hard in areas of the Bronx. I'm not singling out the Bronx. It is merely what I just watched and it isn't pretty. Not just hardened criminal types, but local people joining in on the mayhem, wiping out every kind of store.

Not like I haven't seen this before, but it is important to also not lose sight of the truth that these looters are destroying their local shopkeepers lives and hurting their neighborhood. People can't get their heart and cancer medication, because these pieces of chit destroyed their local pharmacy and stole it all.

That's not protest. As long as that goes on Trump and the cops will point to the looting for justification of what they do even when they're bashing innocent protestors.

Looters could still get Trump re-elected.

And if this keeps up it will lead to more dead civilians

I get all the implicit and explicit racism in how people react to the rioting that goes on around the protests. I get the anger behind the rioting, but also understand some is just opportunism\outsiders.

I just want to point out, as someone who knows a LOT of conservatives (starting to feel like TOO many), that even the smallest amount of rioting almost immediately puts them firmly back into their "law and order" ways (yes, I know the racial subtext that most of that represents). The more there is, the firmer they go there.

The hardened types? Biden wasn't getting their vote anyway, so who cares. Other than maybe some that would've sat this election out will vote. But I'm concerned about squishy suburban conservative independents, the kind that can swing the election.

I get the points that some violence of action works. I think people just need to be clear how it plays with votes who will probably decide the election. And if that calculation works for people, I could see that, though if you think sh*t is bad right now, wait until you get 4 more years of Trump, but unleashed. With Bill Barr with a mandate to turn American into his vision. Which is white, highly conservative, highly religiously conservative, STRONG "law and order". And all that all those imply.

[thebuzzardman]

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Damn. Violent Paul Blart really was just itching to bust some heads. That guy needs to be suspended. Actually, he needs to be brought up on charges.

[thebuzzardman]

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Sometimes when I’m stuck on something that doesn’t make sense, I imagine that thing in a context that *would* make it make sense, and then I step back and look at that.
I would understand Derek Chauvin taking George Floyd around the back of the car and kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes nonstop, even after he’d lost consciousness, like the Hillside Strangler, *if* they had just arrested Floyd for murdering Chauvin’s entire family. Like, if Chauvin had come home for lunch and walked in his house to find George Floyd covered in blood holding a huge knife and Chauvin’s entire family slaughtered. Like if at first his duty kicked in and he cuffed Floyd and called it in but at some point Derek Chauvin the father and husband overwhelmed Derek Chauvin the cop and at some point during the arrest process he said, “You know what? Naw” and changed his mind and slowly killed the man that he knew for a fact had just taken away everything he cared about for no reason at all. I would totally get that. And I would understand his buddies letting him do it. I know intellectually that in theory even that would be wrong, I guess, but we’re all only human. If I were on his jury I would be very interested in learning about the “heat of passion” defense.
Similarly, if Breonna Taylor had not been an EMT but rather, say, a cartel boss, who had acquired billions by poisoning our children and killing (or worse) anyone who got in her way, and used those billions to place herself above the law, such that it was a certainty that she would never do a day in jail no matter how much death and suffering you could prove she had personally ordered, then, frankly, I can sort of understand busting into her place without knocking and letting off 20 shots and killing her dead in her bed. I’m just saying, in context, that is a viable reaction, even if you might react differently. Ditto re Botham Jean and Atatiana Jefferson. It’s like the “would you kill Hitler” hypothetical. If I went back in time to 1935 and I was outside Adolph’s cottage and I looked in his window and he looked back at me I would not hesitate to shoot him dead, immediately, through the window. It is what it is.
If I were in my neighborhood and I suddenly laid eyes on the man who had molested my child - like, I had seen Ahmaud Arbery raping my child with my own eyes and I tried to get him but he got away, and then like a year later I saw him wandering around my neighborhood, I just might grab my shotgun and hop in my pickup truck and chase him down and hit him with my truck and jump out and shoot him with my shotgun and kill him. And I’d go to jail if I had to and I would keep my head up and I would do it all again.
Where I get stuck is that none of those people were doing any of those things. Not George Floyd. Not Breonna Taylor. Not Botham Jean. Not Atatiana Jefferson. Not Ahmaud Arbery. Not Sandra Bland. Not Eric Garner. Not Oscar Grant. Not Trayvon Martin. They weren’t serial killers or cartel kingpins or child molesters. They just existed.
This is a helpful exercise for me. It helps me find the words for a feeling I’ve had since I was a child.
They hate us like we murdered their entire family. On sight. We’re just standing there. Or walking. Or sleeping. We’re minding our own business. And the sight of us triggers this murderous rage that would give 28 Days Later a run for its money. We don’t talk about this. We talk about ignorance and microaggressions. But they hate us like we’re Hitler when we’re babies.
I just found these particular words, but I have been acutely aware of this for decades. This tracks. This describes my life experience. It’s common. Let’s talk about that.

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[Fat Kat]

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They are just trolling at this point

[Zenzibar]

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Let the purge continue. These extremist cops are too stupid to hide their hateful activities.

[ccvle]

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Let the purge continue. These extremist cops are too stupid to hide their hateful activities.

Damn, look at his waistline. The standards to be a cop is really low.