"It's Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you"

[Meresgi]

http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/25/ri...es-away-in-dc/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...afa_story.html

So this is going on now. Baltimore marching/riots over death of 25yr old in police custody. Glad I went up to the city last weekend and not this weekend.

[notorious bum]

Yeah, it was a thrill seeing a slightly-restrained, yet overall repeat behavior of exaggerated and provocative police presence on the livestreams again. Same shit, different city backdrop. Hundreds of police for a few dozen protestors, with a roaming group of ten who went rouge and trashed a bunch of convenience stores. The banging of billy clubs and marching down streets happened in unison with the White House Schmooze Dinner. America in a nutshell.

[FNH]

Yeah, it was a thrill seeing a slightly-restrained, yet overall repeat behavior of exaggerated and provocative police presence on the livestreams again. Same shit, different city backdrop. Hundreds of police for a few dozen protestors, with a roaming group of ten who went rouge and trashed a bunch of convenience stores. The banging of billy clubs and marching down streets happened in unison with the White House Schmooze Dinner. America in a nutshell.

It was more than that. Check out some of the videos from around Camden Yards, the entire ball park got locked down until the crowds went away. Should be the first one.
www.facebook.com/bmorearoundtown/videos_by

[notorious bum]

A common tactic to propagate fear, division within communities. These crooked cops that are calling the shots are overwhelmingly out-of-towners, aka "outside agitators" You're afraid of black folk trashing a few windows and police cars? I call bullshit on anyone who agrees with being locked inside that stadium. Rioting is white people's culture. The only folks in danger yesterday were the ones protesting out in the streets.

[notorious bum]

Tell'em how you really feel: Fox host to cops: ‘Fire a shotgun in the air’ because Freddie Gray protest is ‘the end of civilization’

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/fox-...-civilization/

[chazzyphizzle]

rioting is white people's culture? cmon man

[notorious bum]

When you literally riot for fun and in celebration? 'Now That's What I Call Culture: Vol. 3'

[chazzyphizzle]

swing and a miss

[Melena]

Well this went exactly as I assumed it would.

[notorious bum]

Anything to deflect from the real issue: Police Brutality.

Shit, look at ol' Bette Midler going at it:
@BetteMidler

Two other men emerged from police vans in Baltimore paralyzed from the neck down. WTF goes on in those vans? The cruelty of a "rough ride".

@BetteMidler Apr 25

In this day and age it is criminal that there is no national data base of police involved killings.

[notorious bum]

Another oops by police:

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Look, blacks can do no wrong according to him. Rioting? Only the white man can. Racism? Only the white man can. Gang culture? Invented and propagated by the white man.

[notorious bum]

My bad, we living in that post-racial society. Please resume playing the vidya.


I'm not about to play Talib Kweli's body double in here, that man deserves all the Twitter awards.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Din.

Du.

Nuffin.

[Spicyryan]

I don't know what seems more plausible.

That a black guys neck was broken from excessive force during an arrest or a lone prisoner in the wagon witnessed a guy break his own spinal chord to delay an arrest?

Yeah, going to have to with that people care so much about delaying an arrest that they snap their own spinal chords! How stupid can a cover-up get?

[Xantavia]

I don't know what seems more plausible.

That a black guys neck was broken from excessive force during an arrest or a lone prisoner in the wagon witnessed a guy break his own spinal chord to delay an arrest?

Yeah, going to have to with that people care so much about delaying an arrest that they snap their own spinal chords! How stupid can a cover-up get?

Or to play devil's advocate, he was smashing his head against the wall to make himself bruised and bloody so they would have to get medical help, and hit the wall at the wrong angle.

[Spicyryan]

Or to play devil's advocate, he was smashing his head against the wall to make himself bruised and bloody so they would have to get medical help, and hit the wall at the wrong angle.

How many licks does it take to get the center of a police brutality mystery?

The world may never know.

[notorious bum]

Kinda hard to blame the victim with the smashed voice box and 80% of his vertebrae. I'm no doctor, but that's a helluva feat for a black kid with no previous head-banging exp.

A tactic so common, they gave it a cute name: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...423-story.html

[notorious bum]

Cash-strapped Chicago has paid half a billion dollars in police brutality settlements since 2004

Current estimates are that the United States has paid over $10 billion in police misconduct settlements since 2004 w/ over 10,000 killed. (need confirmation on this)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...nts-since-2004

SC police officers to mentally ill woman: I'll let you go if you let me Taser you in the forehead

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...n-the-forehead

[notorious bum]

Police withheld video of officers laughing, mocking, re-enacting brutal beating of Floyd Dent

Watch the police laughing, fist-bumping and re-enacting the beating, all while Floyd Dent sits just off-frame, with several broken ribs and bleeding everywhere, pleading with them to call for medical attention.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...-of-Floyd-Dent