George Floyd Murder by Cop

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The Senate Democratic caucus gathered Thursday morning at the Capitol for a moment of silence that lasted 8 minutes 46 seconds, the exact time that a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on George Floyd’s neck before he died May 25.

Gathering in Emancipation Hall, the ceremony was led by the Rev. Barry Black, the Senate chaplain, and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), the longest-serving black Democratic senator, as they stood next to the statue of abolitionist hero Frederick Douglass. Standing next to Booker was Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.).

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” Black said as he prayed at the start of the ceremony, which comes before a memorial service in Minneapolis later Thursday.

A handful of Democrats — Sens. Michael F. Bennet (Colo.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Martin Heinrich (N.M.), Tim Kaine (Va.) and Chris Van Hollen (Md.) — knelt on one or both knees, a symbolic protest that started with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick against police brutality but now takes on double significance after Floyd died as a result of a white officer kneeling on his neck.

It marked the first time Senate Democrats have gathered in the same physical space in more than 2½ months, since the covid pandemic disrupted daily activities, even in Congress. Afterward, Booker said that Thursday’s event came from the now-daily conference calls the caucus holds, rather than in-person luncheons, as senators expressed a need to show solidarity with peaceful protesters, beyond working on legislative proposals that might not win approval.

“We need to do more,” Booker said. “And in some ways from our conference calls, we knew that for all of us this would be a moment of solidarity and sort of sharing common spirited grief.”

The hall, in the Capitol Visitor Center, is about 20,000 square feet and usually serves as a main gathering point for the roughly 15,000 tourists a day who visit Congress — but has been shuttered since mid-March because of the pandemic.

While the vast room allowed for social distancing, Booker said its importance was about social justice, including Douglass’s words that are engraved into his statue.

“As I stood there in silence, looking down,” Booker said, “in my eyesight was the words: If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-live-updates/

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President Trump’s former chief of staff John F. Kelly defended former defense secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday over Mattis’s criticism of the president’s handling of nationwide protests. Kelly also dismissed Trump’s assertion that the president fired the retired general in 2018.

“The president did not fire him. He did not ask for his resignation,” Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, said in an interview. “The president has clearly forgotten how it actually happened or is confused. The president tweeted a very positive tweet about Jim until he started to see on Fox News their interpretation of his letter. Then he got nasty. Jim Mattis is a honorable man.”

Mattis tendered his resignation in 2018, citing his disagreement with Trump’s decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria.

same link as the others

[Kaslo]

being 1/8th indian can get you a native status card. maybe there's something to it.

blood quantum does not make you indian.

[Cail]

Americans' views shift on racial discrimination - CBS News poll\

As thousands protest, their message is getting across. Comparing views at this moment to decades of CBS News polling, today we see more people — both white and black — saying racial discrimination affects both treatment by police and chances of getting ahead. And a declining number see progress in getting rid of it.

Where Americans had once shown increasing optimism about ending discrimination against blacks, those sentiments have turned downward lately, back toward levels we saw in the 1990s.

lots of charts in the article

[Cail]

Multiple photos from the memorial service for George Floyd in Minneapolis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ine_manual_105

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The three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding the killing of George Floyd appeared in court for the first time Thursday.

At the afternoon hearing, Hennepin County District Judge Paul R. Scoggin set bail at $750,000 apiece with conditions, or $1,000,000 without, for Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng. Conditions of bail include signing an extradition waiver as well as surrendering firearms and concealed carry permits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-live-updates/

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said Thursday that the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the city’s police watchdog agency, has received 258 complaints since Friday, most related to protests.

The accountability complaints involve issues such as use of force, denial of the right to counsel, failure to activate police-worn body cameras and concealed police name tags.

“To the community, we hear you,” Lightfoot said at a news conference. “We are listening to you and take your complaints seriously and will investigate.”

Lightfoot asked Chicagoans to report and file complaints to 311 if they have been mistreated.

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said all complaints of any misconduct will be thoroughly investigated and officers will be held accountable.

“Ethics is doing what’s right when no one is looking,” Brown said. “God help us if we miss this seminal moment.”

sorry for the multi-posts, each story I think deserves its own post. Also, sorry for the spam from the same link as its a daily news tracker that I find has good information

[Roranora]

fuckin hell, he's awake again

[Rhyis.]

Can confirm. I got my card. (Inuit btw though nobody cares / will ask)

i'm 1/32nd. i missed out

[kuronosan]

I just posted an interesting video, do any of us do a follow up on every video snippet posted?

Uh, yes. We do that pretty frequently.

In fact:

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06...-george-floyd/

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo instructed officers Friday not to use tear gas or rubber bullets to disperse growing crowds in Floyd's hometown. During days of protests, however, his officers used pepper spray and arrested protesters, and video captured a protester trampled by an officer on horseback.

SOLIDARITY!!

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[Draylo]

Uh, yes. We do that pretty frequently.

In fact:

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06...-george-floyd/



SOLIDARITY!!

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They don't do it to every single twitter or video snippet posted, stop being ridiculous.

fuckin hell, he's awake again

Shit posts like this are whats clogging up the thread. You had people posting videos and information and you come in with this garbage, just stop already. We get you have a hard on for dismissing my posts, hit the damn block button if you're gonna be a bitch about it.

[Roranora]

bitch count our posts in the last 24 hours before you spout some more inane jibberish

[Roranora]

or don't

it's you cloggin' the thread mate

[Roranora]

i can do a few more and still trail by quite the deficit

[Draylo]

The difference is you don't see me harassing everyone I disagree with trying to force them to stop posting. You keep posting dumb shit like "GOLLY hes here again" "Go away", idk what you're hoping to contribute when you can simply block me and the boogey man disappears. I came into the thread with videos and information, you didn't.

[Meresgi]

The difference is you don't see me harassing everyone I disagree with trying to force them to stop posting. You keep posting dumb shit like "GOLLY hes here again" "Go away", idk what you're hoping to contribute when you can simply block me and the boogey man disappears. I came into the thread with videos and information, you didn't.

No you harass the fuck outta people just by posting stupid nonsense troll shit, though you don't think you're trolling because you'r legit that stupid.

They don't do it to every single twitter or video snippet posted, stop being ridiculous.

So you asked if we do, it was proven we do...then you went to "Well not EVERY post is commented on".

[Draylo]

"Do any of us do a follow up on EVERY video snippet posted"

-POSTS one example, oh that is all video snippets then. The issue I was highlighting is that simply because I posted it he somehow expected me to follow up on every case. Even in his posted follow up the chief himself cautioned his team to not use that, he can't physically control every person.

I don't harass anyone, its people like you that are the trolling harasser. I'll make a post and out of spite someone will just have to start some shit, if you can't handle it I don't know what to tell ya. You aren't going to bully me off posting.

[Roranora]

The difference is you don't see me harassing everyone I disagree with trying to force them to stop posting. You keep posting dumb shit like "GOLLY hes here again" "Go away", idk what you're hoping to contribute when you can simply block me and the boogey man disappears. I came into the thread with videos and information, you didn't.

listen maggot, the idea isn't that you're going to like people calling out your glaring incapacities

fuckin lol, you want us to block you? no one blocks anyone. you're full of perpetual cognitive bias and frankly a psychological wonder, and we cannot do you (or ourselves) the disservice of forgoing occasional titillation

[Draylo]

Then shut up and quit bitching and read my constructive posts, maggot.

I am quite level headed, anyone who wishes to engage without personal attacks and bias, is welcome to and I'll explain my point of view clearly. The issue comes when you feel an opposing opinion is a front to your very being, to the point you want to silence my posts. You even have people willing to pay 200+ dollars to do it, insanity and more of a psychological wonder than me.

[Roranora]

in all my life, it is indeed the most level-headed who boast about their level-headedness