Is America burning? (Black Lives Matter protests, civil unrest and riots 2020)

[Dogsauce]

It’s not just the police that needs to change, society needs to change as a whole. Poverty, racism, injustice, availability of firearms have all fed into the evolution of the US police as they are. Brutality is normalised because of wider brutality in society. Power has to be maintained under their system and that requires overwhelming force when anybody can own lethal weaponry. The need for power is what has to be taken away.

i just think their entire culture is fucked, hard not to be defeatist about it. Not sure they ever had the ‘friendly bobby’ over there, and tbh it’s probably a bit of a myth here too. Seems to be thugs all the way down. Seen it when I lived there in a fairly tame college town. They don’t like to be challenged.

 

[Clair De Lune]

I'm honestly amazed that someone hasn't taken Trump out yet. I wonder how many threats he's had on his life recently? It would be a nice pandemic pick me up to find out.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm honestly amazed that someone hasn't taken Trump out yet. I wonder how many threats he's had on his life recently? It would be a nice pandemic pick me up to find out.

I want one of his own to slip the dagger in, Caesar-style

 

[Pickman's model]

I want one of his own to slip the dagger in, Caesar-style

If you remember, it wasn't one person who killed Caesar but many

 

[Orang Utan]

If you remember, it wasn't one person who killed Caesar but many

I’m not that old
Just needs one to do the deed

 

[Pickman's model]

I’m not that old
Just needs one to do the deed

You don't need to be that old, it's in carry on cleo and widely depicted elsewhere in film and theatre

 

[Clair De Lune]

I want one of his own to slip the dagger in, Caesar-style

I hope it's his daughter. And not for anything veering on an awakening but something like Daddy I've lost so many Instagram followers lately.

 

[Orang Utan]

I hope it's his daughter. And not for anything veering on an awakening but something like Daddy I've lost so many Instagram followers lately.

She probably hates him anyway. He said he’d fuck her if she wasn’t his daughter

 

[Clair De Lune]

She probably hates him anyway. He said he’d fuck her if she wasn’t his daughter

Yeah. That was a particularly low point which he has continuously surfed ever since.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

So, the regime doubling down on the “its all down to Anteeefa” angle. This time, with the unsubtle addition of “and people with Antifa-like views” a catch all like “fellow traveller” for either a new McCarthyism, stochastic terror or both. Meanwhile grifter Andy Ngo has rolled out his 900,000 dollar law suit against “Rose City Antifa” and a number of people he has named and lined up for his latest bit of stochastic terror targeting.

Barr denies systemic problem with law enforcement, claims the problem is with African Americans

On Thursday afternoon, Attorney General William Barr came out for the cameras, dragging FBI director Christopher Wray behind him along with officials from the DEA, ATF, and Bureau of Prisons. And while every one of these fine officials was careful to...

www.dailykos.com

 

[teqniq]

Seriously? Really?

 

[Part-timah]

Hopefully this wanker will be found...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Sign of things to come on the legal side of things, going to be a long year of ridiculous sentances and dodgy convictions on the back of not much is my guess.

Giving Queens and Staten Island a pass?

Queens, which contains approximately 27% of the population of NYC; Staten Island 5.7%.

Of all cops in the NYPD, around 17% live in the former, 10% in the latter.

More than a quarter of them ‘bluelive’ on Long Island (excluding Queens & Brooklyn), which is around three-quarters white, with black people comprising less than 10% of the population. Approximately 13% of New York's Finest™ reside in Upstate NY. Just 4% live on Manhattan, the third most populous, and the most densely populated, of the Boroughs. Queens is around 20% black and 25% white, Staten Island 12% and 60%; together they are the most suburban and least densely populated of the Boroughs.

 

[SovietArmy]

Vow so many people lot lifes for shit cops.
The Counted: people killed by police in the United States – interactive

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s not just the police that needs to change, society needs to change as a whole. Poverty, racism, injustice, availability of firearms have all fed into the evolution of the US police as they are. Brutality is normalised because of wider brutality in society. Power has to be maintained under their system and that requires overwhelming force when anybody can own lethal weaponry. The need for power is what has to be taken away.

i just think their entire culture is fucked, hard not to be defeatist about it. Not sure they ever had the ‘friendly bobby’ over there, and tbh it’s probably a bit of a myth here too. Seems to be thugs all the way down. Seen it when I lived there in a fairly tame college town. They don’t like to be challenged.

yup, it's well overpoliced - they have park police, university police, sheriffs, air marshalls, game wardens, BPAs, fucking school police. I only found out today that the reason George Floyd was detained before being murdered, was because a gas station employee called 911 cos they suspected Floyd was trying to pay for some cigarettes with a fake $20 bill. WTF. Hope that gas station worker feels fucking guilty for such a petty act. 911! Imagine a pub pver here calling 999 cos someone tried to pay for a round with a hooky £50

 

[two sheds]

yup, it's well overpoliced - they have park police, university police, sheriffs, air marshalls, game wardens, BPAs, fucking school police. I only found out today that the reason George Floyd was detained before being murdered, was because a gas station employee called 911 cos they suspected Floyd was trying to pay for some cigarettes with a fake $20 bill. WTF. Hope that gas station worker feels fucking guilty for such a petty act. 911! Imagine a pub pver here calling 999 cos someone tried to pay for a round with a hooky £50

Nearer a fake tenner

 

[Orang Utan]

Nearer a fake tenner

pardon?

 

[two sheds]

a fake $20 bill is nearer a fake £10 than a fake £50

 

[Orang Utan]

a fake $20 bill is nearer a fake £10 than a fake £50

you can't buy a round for a tenner

 

[two sheds]

price of petrol in the US you were probably closer on second thoughts, probably fill up an SUV for $20

 

[editor]

Seriously? Really?

Here's the other angle. The cops are out of fucking control

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

yup, it's well overpoliced - they have park police, university police, sheriffs, air marshalls, game wardens, BPAs, fucking school police. I only found out today that the reason George Floyd was detained before being murdered, was because a gas station employee called 911 cos they suspected Floyd was trying to pay for some cigarettes with a fake $20 bill. WTF. Hope that gas station worker feels fucking guilty for such a petty act. 911! Imagine a pub pver here calling 999 cos someone tried to pay for a round with a hooky £50

I'm pretty sure that the gas station attendant has said he made a mistake and probably wouldn't ever all the cops again because "he never saw calling the cops improve anything."

In other news, some guardsmen and active duty troops are refusing to deploy:

As Trump Threatens to Send Military Into Cities, Some GIs Refuse to Comply

Two National Guardsmen spoke to Truthout on the condition of anonymity about why they’re refusing orders.

truthout.org

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'm pretty sure that the gas station attendant has said he made a mistake and probably wouldn't ever all the cops again because "he never saw calling the cops improve anything."

In other news, some guardsmen and active duty troops are refusing to deploy:

As Trump Threatens to Send Military Into Cities, Some GIs Refuse to Comply

Two National Guardsmen spoke to Truthout on the condition of anonymity about why they’re refusing orders.

truthout.org

It was a grocery store, Cup Foods. The owner has vowed “to make sure cops won’t be called to Cup Foods again” for non-violent issues:

“Black people in urban communities are targeted,” he said. “This is a step towards fixing the issue.”

“Until the police stop killing innocent people, we will handle incidents like this one using non-violent tactics that do not involve police.” He will tell staff not to call the cops unless there’s an extreme situation. And Abumayyaleh will no longer pay for off-duty officers to patrol the business on Friday and Saturday nights.

‘If I Would Have Been Here, George Floyd May Still Be Alive’

Mahmoud Abumayyaleh on the murder that happened outside of his store.

www.thecut.com

People Are Applauding How The Owner Of The Store That Called The Police On George Floyd Reacted

Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, the owner of the Cup Foods store that called the police when George Floyd allegedly used a fake 20 dollar bill, has condemned police brutality and says that he wishes the call to the officers was never made.

www.boredpanda.com

MSN

thegrio.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

The editorial page editor who defended the New York Times publishing the inflammatory op-ed by Senator ‘Plantation’ Cotton has admitted he didn't read it before publication. The Times has now announced that the process leading up to its publication was ‘rushed” and “Did Not Meet Standards”, that the editing process will be reviewed, and fewer op-ed pieces published.

New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards (Published 2020)

After a staff uproar, The Times says the editing process was “rushed.” Senator Tom Cotton’s “Send In the Troops” essay is now under review.

www.nytimes.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

The editorial page editor who defended the New York Times publishing the inflammatory op-ed by Senator ‘Plantation’ Cotton has admitted he didn't read it before publication. The Times has now announced that the process leading up to its publication was ‘rushed” and “Did Not Meet Standards”, that the editing process will be reviewed, and fewer op-ed pieces published.

New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards (Published 2020)

After a staff uproar, The Times says the editing process was “rushed.” Senator Tom Cotton’s “Send In the Troops” essay is now under review.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Pickman's model]

yup, it's well overpoliced - they have park police, university police, sheriffs, air marshalls, game wardens, BPAs, fucking school police. I only found out today that the reason George Floyd was detained before being murdered, was because a gas station employee called 911 cos they suspected Floyd was trying to pay for some cigarettes with a fake $20 bill. WTF. Hope that gas station worker feels fucking guilty for such a petty act. 911! Imagine a pub pver here calling 999 cos someone tried to pay for a round with a hooky £50

Imagine calling the cops on someone carrying a chair leg

 

[Celyn]

Ha! I was remembering the chair/table leg bloke just the other day.

 

[N_igma]

It was a grocery store, Cup Foods. The owner has vowed “to make sure cops won’t be called to Cup Foods again” for non-violent issues:

‘If I Would Have Been Here, George Floyd May Still Be Alive’

Mahmoud Abumayyaleh on the murder that happened outside of his store.

www.thecut.com

People Are Applauding How The Owner Of The Store That Called The Police On George Floyd Reacted

Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, the owner of the Cup Foods store that called the police when George Floyd allegedly used a fake 20 dollar bill, has condemned police brutality and says that he wishes the call to the officers was never made.

www.boredpanda.com

MSN

thegrio.com

That book that was posted upthread, about police brutality in the States. There’s a chapter in it about how black people can resist and one of the things they talk about is not phoning the police to report crimes, setting up their own community groups to deal with issues etc. Seems poignant reading it now in light of all this.

 

[bimble]

The videos of more and more police brutality at the protests just keep coming. This morning, in buffalo new york an older guy standing on the pavement is casually shoved by advancing line of police and falls and cracks his head on the concrete, starts bleeding from his skull. He's stable in hospital now apparently. The police obviously well aware that they are constantly being filmed (as they police these demonstrations against police brutality) but it seems to make no difference at all. You see the morning's crop of videos and it really does look like the police are rioting .

 

[MrSki]

It gets worse & worse. Just leaving him lying there! WTF.