I struggle to imagine how the MAGAts in the US would react to a Brown man stabbing a white man to death. Either full-scale riots, or … something else.
Where on the riot scale would you say Tuesday’s protests were?
It is legitimate, however, to protest against police violence and incompetence.
Don’t know, I wasn’t there, and what clips I’ve seen have been of peaceful protests.
Agreed. I participated in the George Floyd protests, in a red town in a red county in a red state. Even got some lip from the haters.
What was the motive for the murder, anyway?
It seems just escalation from a chance encounter, with Digwa moving rapidly through the gears of unpleasant, threatening, shoving, and all the way to stabbing on the basis of very little provocation. He claimed to have taken a blow to the face but there was no swelling, bruising etc. so it’s pretty clear he was the aggressor. Also claimed he was provoked by racial slurs but the judge rejected that entirety.
If it were the other way, they might cheer.
On another board, not saying where, I am very outnumbered in opposing Trump. Any time something happens, they blame it on illegal immigrants.
Two or three years of so ago, there was a typhus outbreak in Las Angeles. I repeatedly pointed out that typhus is endemic in Las Angeles and in a few other places like South Texas. Nobody needed to bring it in. There’s a typhus outbreak in Las Angeles pretty much every year including, I think, a fairly large one this year.
Also, if it were brought in by illegal immigrants, there would also be an outbreak in San Diego, which there wasn’t. That didn’t matter at all to them – they had their inane talking points and stuck by them.
I’m really fed up with MAGA and will never again vote for anyone again who is tied to MAGA. While I never voted for Trump because I have never trusted him at all, I still voted for a few Republicans who didn’t seem too MAGA. Now, any MAGA is too much.
Yeah though I’m baffled at the public reaction to this though. Seriously who sees that and goes “that’s anti-white racism, by these white police officers.” rather than “thats coppers being b_stards, and it just happened this particular instance they were caught on camera being a b__stards to a white kid”. How can your reaction be “the cops need to be more racist to brown people” not “the cops should stop being b__stards”!?!
You’re expecting a logical response? Have you met people?
Baffled not necessarily surprised. Especially not with that human sh_t stain Farage putting his oar in with the worst possible take.
I’ve had some MAGA Scum bumper stickers printed up to stick on campaign signs. My nephew calls it misdemeanor anarchy.
The Trinidad Police Chief has resigned, and has also clammed up.
This is from last year but the dashcam footage was just released. Quick warning, it’s semi-graphic. I mean, it was on the news, but you do still see a guy get shot in shoulder.
I didn’t dig into the story beyond a few videos, but I noticed they mentioned that the shooting officer was fired, but made no mention of the other two. IMO, the officer that was shot should also be fired given how he did exactly the same thing, other than not pulling the trigger. The third officer, at a minimum, deserves some sort of punishment for smirking when he should’ve been telling these two guys to put their guns away. Make an example out of him.
Notably, the DPS statement appears to acknowledge that police witnessed the presence of [one year-old] Kohen Wiley prior to the individuals entering their vehicle, and before the officer discharged the weapon…
Members of Kohen Wiley’s family have denied that any shoplifting took place. WREG reported that, before the shooting, a witness saw two women exit the store: one carrying a single box of diapers, and one carrying the infant child.
How about a controversial encounter between law-enforcement and dogs.
There’s a pair of loose dogs running around for a few hours in the middle of the night. Cops come out, get close enough to try and coax them with some food but they can’t catch them and decide to come back in the morning. A woman manages to snag one of them, but notice that it’s been shot. While trying to figure out why it appears to be hurt, she discovers that it, and the other, were shot by an off duty cop. And more than that, the dogs were shot while running away, posing zero threat to the officer…who, at one point, actually reloaded his gun.
This cop resigned during the investigation (which I hope is still ongoing). He resigned from another city while also under investigation.
Here’s a better article. It’ll probably be paywalled (but there are unpaywalled archives of it if you want to read it)
No one asked for Richard McCormick’s help.
Not a 911 caller, not a passerby, not another police officer.
Body camera footage obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel showed the dogs bounding toward him, then running away as he first fired his gun. McCormick continued to shoot across the road, even after one of the dogs collapsed on the ground and howled
“If the dogs are moving away from him, what was the perceived threat?” he [retired cop that teaches other cops how to interact with dogs] said. “Once the dog flops down, again, he’s no longer a threat.”
McCormick resigned while under investigation for the shooting, marking the second time he has done so in his career
They [person that called police when he saw them] seemed “friendly,” he said, according to dispatch audio.
Brown and Toeller [officers than tried catching the dogs earlier] decided to contact the humane society when it opened the next morning.
“The dogs did not pose a current threat to ourselves or to others,” Toeller wrote.
Hey, that pacifier could have been loaded.
What a horrific thing to happen. Why are they shooting suspected shoplifters in the first place?
Because they were also suspected of being brown.
Exactly right.
The standard excuse, unsupported by evidence: They were in fear for their lives because the scary brown people were speeding their car in the same zip code where they were standing.
Look, what if the kid pulled out a pacifier and chucked it at them?
Yeah, they’re claiming the van was headed right towards them, the only video shows the van driving away from them (but doesn’t include the shooting).