Un-fucking believable. But absolutely believable given what this place has turned into.
While my business hasn’t been looted, I know people’s businesses that have.
I doubt that makes any difference though, I’m just a troll, sock, asshole that needs to fuck off so you can have your far left echo chamber unsullied and unchallenged, because you’re a fucking coward and a weasel.
One of the interesting things about his place is when a poster who has been here a while but rarely posts, decides to post.
No, that’s not why you need to fuck off.
Yeah? Well I know more than one person who was killed by a cop.
…said the internet tough guy.
I don’t have answers for what’s going on; I had hoped someone here might.
I admit that this isn’t the only board I sometimes post to (and no one here did this but…) would you believe some people called me a liar on Wednesday morning about the rioting and the fire happening?
Crazy world.
I still remember the young girls voice saying, “This doesn’t honor George… I don’t know who these people are… looks like the Autozone is on fire again” on the Livestream. It was Haunting.
I remember hearing about 60s fires and how parts of Newark never came back. The same with Watts… the same with the ‘Rodney King’ riots in LA.
That’s all old history though and long before the NRA shoved so many guns up America’s ass (like a sausage skin being over-stuffed with sausage). I guess I should be glad that we aren’t sniping at each other from rooftops. I’m sadly not surprised that our Great and Powerful toxic waste blimp of a president would threaten to shoot people; he’s Wise like that. /s
Well, presidential bone-spurring on of more murder aside, this is a national disgrace. A better president would have locked those four cops up, pending trial (with no bail for their own protection) and would have had the chief of police and a member of George’s family all over to the White House to talk about this and work on fixing this over a beer.
We don’t have a better president.
I want a better president. I think that most of you do too. Fixing this will take a better president, that’s for sure.
As a guy with social studies and history background it really makes me go all Casandra and think that the police and the guys that control the deployment of the national guard already knew what was likely to happen, they did not preemptively show forces in place earlier because they really do like to see protests go out of controll, because then there is more of a chance that the “law and order people” will conveniently ignore the original reason for the rioting and the underlying festering social injustices going on.
Of course incompetency will remain the most likely explanation for higher authorities not acting sooner or preventively (Based on well known past experiences) to keep the peace. But seeing these constant “lather, rinse, repeat” moves by the powerful are getting too predictable. And one very predictable thing is needed to be pointed here: I understand why a riot like this takes place, it does not follow that me or most socially conscious people approve of it. That needed to be said as many peabrained right wingers just assume that liberals or moderates support the violence.
What I find un-fucking believable is that when you decide to jump in and opine on this issue, it’s not to condemn the police for murdering a handcuffed black guy, but instead to condemn anonymous message board posters for understanding why people might be looting.
It’s telling. Real telling.
You’ve got to wonder why this guy felt any need to speak up on the matter, huh?
Ironically I’m reading a book on racial trauma written by a well-credentialed African-American mental health professional, who’s been working for YEARS with the Minneapolis police department. I was on page 229 of the chapter on “Mending the Police Heart and Body” when this news story broke.
Ironically I’m reading a book on racial trauma written by a well-credentialed African-American mental health professional, who’s been working for YEARS with the Minneapolis police department. I was on page 229 of the chapter on “Mending the Police Heart and Body” when this news story broke.
Do you believe that it was their intention from the outset to kill him?
That was 1967 in the Motor City; this is 2020 in the Twin Cities.
Why do you bother looking for an excuse, any excuse, for what they did? Have the guts to proudly proclaim “I approve of what they did.”
How would I know? Perhaps that fact could come out in a trial when he is asked “What was your intent while having a knee on the neck of a handcuffed man while he yelled he couldn’t breathe?”
FTR, I do not approve of what they did. Not at all. Stop implying that’s what I’m saying. I have issue with the word “murder” being used, as that implies that they intended to kill him from the outset. There is no evidence of that. What really happened is that the police made poor choices that resulted in the death of an individual. Tragic, but really not “murder”.
It is a hell of a thing to watch a man beg for his life. To watch bystanders beg too. To watch a police officer kill the begging man. And to watch police indifference. It was Kafkaesque levels of power, torment, and sadism playing out as live theater with all but one actor walking away for dinner.
The police “made poor choices”? You’ve relegated the unlawful death of a man to the result of someone’s “poor choice”? That’s disgusting.
Also, quibbling about the specific legal term for this crime is disingenuous and not helpful. I don’t know if you’re an attorney but this sure isn’t a court of law. There was a gross abuse of power and a brutal death resulted. Is that terminology acceptable to you?
Eating a week-old tuna sandwich is a poor choice. Choking someone until he dies is murder.
You know there are different degrees of murder, right? Plus, the fact that they were co-workers at the same bar for a year makes you really wonder if there was a motive.
When the police arrest someone who “makes poor choices that result in the death of an individual”, what do you think they say they’re arresting him for?