Far-right militia groups are now protecting statues of Spanish Conquistadors?
Well, yeah. Them’s was the good…well, you know.
We didn’t even give the police department a proper opportunity to investigate itself, and put the guy on paid leave. We’re treating them like animals. Animals, I tell you!
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Oh wow, I didn’t realize that after shooting him the cops refused to give aid for two minutes while he bled out. I didn’t notice any of the people defending police procedure mention that ‘once the person is no longer a threat, you keep your foot on him and let him bleed out rather than give medical attention’ was part of the standard.
Apparently it was worse than that: the DA is saying that once Brooks was down, one of the officers kicked him.
Well sure. He was clearly not respecting that officer’s authority. He was probably ORDERED to stop bleeding, but would not obey.
Atlanta police have walked off the job after the two killer cops were charged.
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But Spaniards are white… much more nuanced that I can distill into beyond this quote:
Juan Pedro Sánchez, 25, who lives in Madrid and weighed in on the Twitter discussion, criticized those who responded negatively, saying the concept of race and ethnicity varies according to where you are. He said Spaniards were all too quick to point out that they’re white.
“A lot of people in Spain are bothered if others confuse them for Latin American because Spaniards see Latinos as people of color, and they don’t want to be associated with that,” Sánchez tells NPR."
The whole mixed races thing… is still a thing.
The Spanish Conquistadors were imperialistic racist slavers and looters; exactly the sort of people the militias admire. The Conquistadors basically represent what they and the Right in general would like to have for a foreign policy;* conquer, loot, enslave, kill.*
The most important revelation to me was about the taser. According to the DA, not only was Brooks too far away for the taser to reach the cops when he pointed it at them, but it had already been discharged, and the cops knew it. So they were not only not in a life-threatening situation, they were in no danger at all.
Basically, he shot him because he didn’t feel like running.
Portland police union has authorized their members to cover up their name tags and badge numbers during protests.
The union, or the chief?
Yeah, thanks for the correction, it was the former chief, who is no longer the chief.
But he gave it while he was still chief. It’s a shitty decision, but at least the chain of command is still being followed.
For some odd reason, I really do not believe the union has the authority to authorize a police officer to do that. Now they certainly may encourage it, but I think the only person who has the authority to do that would be someone in the superivision chain, say the chief of the department.
Yeay, my original comment was wrong, it was the then-police chief.
They “quit” the SWAT team they were assigned to (refusal to do their job, insubordination, mutiny) but are still drawing paychecks? Oh hell no. Fire their asses.