George Floyd protests

[laklak]

I used to live in Atlanta, went to uni there for a couple of years. Still have friends living there. It's one of the last places in the U.S. you'd want to "defund" the police. The very, very last place would probably be Detroit or Chicago. I'm SO fucking glad I don't live in a big city any longer.

Actually I can't wait till travel opens back up again and we can get back to civilized Africa.

[JimC]

Goodbye Wendys:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-14/ ... a/12353338

[Animavore]

Watch Fox News report a 'Monty Python' joke as Seattle's reality

https://mashable.com/article/fox-news-f ... TINtXxtRhg

[Brian Peacock]

He's not a FOX NEWS anchor, he's a very naughty boy!

[Tero]

Foxnews removes Photoshopped antifa gunman from Seattle street photo.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3185387001

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, we did that one already mate.

[JimC]

Faux-news indeed. They have no shame, of course, and it will not change anything about the way they do business...

[L'Emmerdeur]

They've been doing it for decades--it's their business model. They generally pass it off as 'error', and move on. We are expected to believe that though their 'errors' are always slanted in a way that advances their narrative, it's purely coincidence.

[laklak]

The Atlanta dude grabbed the cop's taser and pointed it at them. If you do that you're going to get shot. Might not be right, might not be fair, might be other ways to do things, might be racism, might be what-the-fuck-ever, it is what it is. You point a weapon at a fucking cop you are very, very, very likely deader than shit. Everybody knows this. This is why you sit really fucking still with your hands on the steering wheel, you make no sudden movements, you say "yes sir and no sir" and you do what you're told. They got the law on their side, they got guns, and the guns are locked, loaded, and pointed at YOU.

[JimC]

Pointing a taser at them may have been unwise (I gather the dude was a bit drunk...), but questions remain. How the hell did a competent cop let a drunk grab his taser? And, in the reports I've read, he was shot while running away, no longer a danger to the police. Is it reasonable for police to shoot a suspect who is running away? Perhaps if he was caught red-handed in a violent crime or murder, but otherwise?

[Woodbutcher]

The problem with law enforcement is that most of the people who want to get into it are cunts. They have an axe to grind or they want to get respect from people of all sorts, although it often stems from an inferiority complex. With the badge they have one up on others and can do things that ordinary folks can't. They should be given a psych test and an IQ test before admittance. I've met some great cops and some losers, and some wannabes that would have been total fucks had they been admitted. In this some of them can be compared to evangelical preachers, they get nuttier and nuttier as time goes by.

[laklak]

No, the guy should never have gotten hold of the taser in the first place. I don't know what happened when he got shot, if he was running away or not, that part isn't on camera (apparently). It's a shitshow for sure, but that's policing in the U.S.of A. Sometimes, anyway, and this shit seems far more prevalent in big cities. Almost all of which are run by Democrats for years and years. Why should any black (or anyone, actually) vote these people back in when they've had literally decades to fix these problems? Atlanta has had black, Democratic mayors almost exclusively since the early 70s. WTF have they been doing for the last 40 years? Minneapolis for 70 years, SEVEN decades of "progressive" politics and it's still a shitshow. But bring this up in polite company and you get.....crickets. You can't blame the GOP, you can't blame Trump, it's got nothing to do with them. Not for the actions of the cops, not for the racism in the police forces, not for the militarization of the forces - none if it, it's on the cities themselves. The Feds are not in charge, it's the mayors and city councils. I refuse to believe that the last 40, 50, 60, 70 years of police brutality are because Trump "enables" white supremacists via fucking Twitter. That's absolute bullshit. And yet somehow, magically, voting for Biden is going to fix this? Jesus. The vapid stupidity of the vast majority of ground apes is fucking breath taking.

[Hermit]

The Atlanta dude grabbed the cop's taser and pointed it at them. If you do that you're going to get shot. Might not be right, might not be fair, might be other ways to do things, might be racism, might be what-the-fuck-ever, it is what it is. You point a weapon at a fucking cop you are very, very, very likely deader than shit. Everybody knows this. This is why you sit really fucking still with your hands on the steering wheel, you make no sudden movements, you say "yes sir and no sir" and you do what you're told. They got the law on their side, they got guns, and the guns are locked, loaded, and pointed at YOU.

People don't think it be like it be,
but it do in the US fucking A.



Of course a greater percentage of cops are killed in the line of duty than in any other listed country as well. The USA is just a clusterfuck, and increasingly so from one year to the next.

[laklak]

Well yeah, I'm not talking about Swaziland here.

Oh good, the Atlanta cops shot the dude twice, in the back. The death has been ruled a homicide. There were three shots fired, so somebody missed.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/rayshard-bro ... ck-autopsy

Gird your loins, Atlanteans, shit 'bout to get real.

[JimC]

No, the guy should never have gotten hold of the taser in the first place. I don't know what happened when he got shot, if he was running away or not, that part isn't on camera (apparently). It's a shitshow for sure, but that's policing in the U.S.of A. Sometimes, anyway, and this shit seems far more prevalent in big cities. Almost all of which are run by Democrats for years and years. Why should any black (or anyone, actually) vote these people back in when they've had literally decades to fix these problems? Atlanta has had black, Democratic mayors almost exclusively since the early 70s. WTF have they been doing for the last 40 years? Minneapolis for 70 years, SEVEN decades of "progressive" politics and it's still a shitshow. But bring this up in polite company and you get.....crickets. You can't blame the GOP, you can't blame Trump, it's got nothing to do with them. Not for the actions of the cops, not for the racism in the police forces, not for the militarization of the forces - none if it, it's on the cities themselves. The Feds are not in charge, it's the mayors and city councils. I refuse to believe that the last 40, 50, 60, 70 years of police brutality are because Trump "enables" white supremacists via fucking Twitter. That's absolute bullshit. And yet somehow, magically, voting for Biden is going to fix this? Jesus. The vapid stupidity of the vast majority of ground apes is fucking breath taking.

I brought up this incredible splintering in US law enforcement in an earlier post. Here, policing is unified at a state level, with uniform policies etc. By no means perfect, particularly in terms of relations with aboriginal people, but as Hermit's graph shows, our police kill a hell of a lot less than yours, although more than the Europeans. Parochial policing is so 18th century...