What a loss for the cultural enrichment another gay nightclub massacre would’ve brought.
It’s controversial in the current political climate, where some people advocate bringing more people like Omer Ismail Ali into our country, while other people advocate prohibiting people like Omer Ismail Ali from entering our country.
The article doesn’t even mention the word “Muslim”. You’re just assuming he is by his name?
That, and the fact that he’s from Sudan (where 97% of population are Muslim).
A cop pulls over an African-American woman.
Couple of observations:
- What is the relevance here of woman being a “Licensed clinician”? Are licensed clinicians exempt from traffic stops?
- Why is the woman asking 911 dispatcher to call 911?
Come on, you’re barely even trying now. Skillful trolling requires effort, and you’re just phoning it in.
King Yella is shot while filming BLM video. No word yet, but it’s possible this was another police shooting.
“I’m out here doing a Black Lives Matter video shoot and got shot. Tryna stop the violence and niggas still wanna be on that.”
“Y’all hit me twice grazed my bitch I’m good walked right out the hospital. God got me we good”
In other words, no controversial encounter between law-enforcement and civilians.
I am disturbed to discover that Oregon has annexed Cowlitz County. Why was that not in the news?
When the fuck did this thread derail so horribly? Trump supporters are the worst.
It’s almost as if they use racism to explain away their own lack of success.
NYPD tries to discredit a diversity-related event
On a personal note, it has gotten very tame in the last few years. This parade was good for at least a dozen shootings and stabbings (and 3 - 6 homicides) in its heyday. I’m not exaggerating. One year (200 I think) I was posted outside a Wendy’s on Eastern Parkway which was packed with human refuse when all of a sudden hundreds of people ran out all at once. The last guy in there stumbled out holding his eye which was squirting blood like a water pistol through his fingers. He was stabbed in the eye for cutting the line (allegedly). As I’m watching that, a cabbie approached me and told me a woman was having a baby in his cab down the block. While I was dealing with that lady huffing, puffing and writhing around in the backseat of a cab, Governor Pataki’s motorcade advance team pulled up in a panic and pestered me about the best way to get him to the parade route through the crowds. I just looked at the guy like ‘are you fucking kidding me?’ Every year it was a shit show. We were ordered to take no enforcement action year after year. All we did was call for ambulances to scoop up the bloody messes strewn all over the parade route.
It doesn’t look to me like they’re trying to discredit the event. They are exhorting people to keep the event free of violence, and to celebrate in a peaceful manner.
So you yourself say that the event has been violent in the past, and yet the same observation made by the NYPD is an effort to discredit the event?
Your contributions so far suggest that you have not really worked out the purpose of this thread.
Why do you think they need to issue this warning for this particular event, and not, say, for Columbus Day parade?
It is still violent, make no mistake about it, it’s just that instead of a guaranteed multiple homicides, you get one or two. Last year, a Cuomo aide was shot in the head.
The stabbings are also still occur in dozens, if not hundreds.
You don’t think NYPD implying that a whole parade is a violence-prone affair is an effort to discredit the strength of the diversity?
While you linked to the NYPD’s Twitter feed, the newspaper advertisement itself is not simply a product of the NYPD. If you look at the whole image, you’ll see that the NYPD is one of 8 different organizations who came together with this message.
Those organizations are, as far as i can tell from the ad:
Kings County District Attorney
The City of Brooklyn
67th Precinct Clergy Council
69th Precinct Clergy Council
J’Ouvert City International
Nostrand Avenue [I assume a community organization or business group]
Not Another Child [a Brooklyn anti-violence organization]
NYPD
Emphasis mine.
J’Ouvert City International is the group that organizes the event, and they have a video on their own website where:
The people who organize the festival are calling for it to be a peaceful celebration. Here’s a news story talking about the fact that event organizers want “to prevent the cultural event from being marred by gang violence and other crimes.” If you look at the video i’ve linked above, you’ll see that Yvette Rennie, the President of J’Ouvert City International, calls for the gangs who have marred prior parades to “put the gun down that night, and celebrate J’Ouvert with us.”
I understand the impetus to criticize the police in cases like this. It does sometimes seem that authority figures in the United States like to lecture black people and black communities in ways that they don’t lecture white people and white communities. But it’s worth remembering that millions of civilians in this country—black and otherwise—want their own neighborhoods and their own cultural celebrations to be free of violence, and if the police actually help with that goal, then they are doing their job. Part of my impetus in starting this thread in the first place was that we, as a society, should want the police to be keeping people and communities safe, and that in doing this job they should also respect the rights of the people they are charged with serving and protecting.
Never mind all that. I strongly suspect our new member is a troll, based on this thread, and on this one.
Trolling sock.
At the 5:30 mark in this YouTube, we hear a DOJ report on Baltimore Police describing a woman subjected to anal cavity search. The charge? Defective headlight while Black.
Do even the Smapti/Steophan bots defend the Baltimore Police?
As i said a bit earlier in the thread, i read the whole report, and there’s some ghastly stuff in there. The incident you mention in discussed on pp. 32-33:
That’s seriously fucked up. I hope she sues them for tens of thousands. A busted headlight stop and you get strip searched in public?