I wish I had the braveness/strength/resolve/means/etc that these BLM folks do. Make no mistake, those who are getting facefulls of pepper spray and cold nights in jail cells are the strong ones. They are fighting for their rights. I can only clap from my desk in Canada.
To paraphrase an old saying;
They locked up Mandela.
They locked up Thoreau.
They also locked up Dahmer.
Don’t be ridiculous, of course it takes away from a point when your example doesn’t show what you claim.
BLM isn’t black people as a group. They are a bunch of loud, disruptive bozos who pitch a tantrum whenever some other disruptive bozo gets his disruptive ass shot, providing it is a black disruptive ass.
If BLM wants to say that innocent black people are getting shot, then they need to wait until some innocent black guy gets shot before they block off the freeway.
Some dimwitted fuck beats up his woman and grabs for a cop’s gun, and gets his dumb ass shot. Like I’m gonna miss Wheel of Fortune for that.
Regards,
Shodan
It doesn’t take away from the point that black people are disproportionately mistreated by police.
Black people as a group pretty overwhelmingly assert that they are mistreated by police and the justice system in general. If BLM isn’t perfect that doesn’t matter to this point. Focusing on any possible mistakes of BLM, which are infinitely less important and less bad than mistakes and problems with the justice system, is just a way to ignore the issue – just like focusing on supposedly violent black activists in the 60s was a way to avoid the real Civil Rights problems.
For the record, I agree with you that some of the cases BLM has come forward to protest have been bullshit. That said, to dismiss them as a “bunch of loud, disruptive bozos” is a bit beyond the pale as is not supported by the evidence. The majority of African Americans in this country are upstanding citizens and the disparity in their treatment by the US justice system is an issue that we, as Americans, should resolve. I have no desire to defend “dimwitted fucks” as you call them (and we could probably reach agreement on a definition here), but only a moron could look at the statistics and deny that there is not a racial bias, or maybe a class bias, in our justice system. Recognizing this does not put me lock step with BLM, but you dismissing them as bozos makes you look like a moron. Just MHO.
Chicago cop charged with first degree murder of student
Video to be released today in year old shooting
Kid was armed with a knife and was shot 16 times.
The City Fathers were on tv last night begging people not to riot when the video is released. The city has been sitting on the video for a year, and the cop has kept his job during that time. Sounds like this one could be real bad.
I liked this quote"
That sums things up pretty well, I think.
5 Cops deleted 86 minutes of footage from a nearby Burger King that might have had footage leading up to the shooting (not the actual shooting).
Oh, those upstanding police officers. The fines of the finest. but I’m sure it was just the one murdering cop… and just the 5 accomplices willing to destroy evidence… I’m sure it’s just those few bad apples and no more!
BLM ought to protest the reasons police have a heavy hand in the so-called ‘hood.’ It’s quite often the violence of fellow blacks. Granted police need to be held to higher standard and not execute people. But the poor urban black neighborhoods are far from bastions of peace.
So what? Urban neighborhoods have crime. What does that have to do with police committing murder?
Ya think?
Black people have always been mistreated by police and the justice system throughout American history. Whether it was the brutalization of escaped slaves, the brutalization of black people who didn’t “know their place” during Jim Crow (or just were in the wrong place at the wrong time, like at a Civil Rights rally), or the brutalization of black people in modern times, this is nothing new.
It wasn’t about black-on-black crime 200 years ago, it wasn’t about black-on-black crime 100 years ago, it wasn’t about black-on-black crime 50 years ago, and I think it’s very unlikely that police misbehavior today has anything to do with black-on-black crime. What’s different now is cameras, and the general opinion that black people shouldn’t be mistreated.
Because the problem with stating blacklivesmatter but not attacking the greatest threat to black lives makes the movement seem a bit nutty. Yes police corruption and violence is out of control and inexcusable. Furthermore the support from the public for the police tactics as evidenced by how hard it is to get a trial much less a conviction is troubling. It’s still noteworthy that the greatest danger to a black life are other black lives. You can fight both enemies.
I can’t disagree with that. The police and justice system in America are shameful.
No credible evidence. None at all. Except that the cops had no business asking to see the video, were given the password to the system and were alone with it for 3 hours and only the time when the incident occurred is missing.
“We did a good job…a good job…”
Protesters are gathering. It could get ugly real fast.
The only reason it is noteworthy to some is to blame the victim and excuse police abuses. It’s my opinion that both enemies are being fought.
But you don’t have to. You can pick a cause. BLM’s is fair treatment by the police.
Dashcam Video of Officer Jason Van Dyke Shooting Laquan McDonald. I set it to start playing right before the vehicle rolls up to the scene, at 5:07 of the video; the shooting takes place at 5:33.