George Floyd Murder by Cop

[Meresgi]

It's probably one of the more difficult situations to put be in but you've either got to step up and say something if you're witnessing a murder before your eyes, or leave the force, else you've got to understand you'll become that exact same vet 20 years later. It's a real-time character check and that shit ain't ever gonna be easy to deal with that's for sure. Also it's significantly easier to say than actually do as well so I can understand if this view is callous.

You speaking up though alone isn't gonna fix the system and everyone knows it, so they would rather fall in line and get to that retirement end goal. Since the alternative might be getting blacklisted by the cops now that you're a civvie and harassed by them, beaten up by them and/or all of that plus not getting work now because who knows what strings they can pull on you during a background check or something. Not saying people aren't brave for standing up if they do...but I also understand why people dont do it

[BerenTebogo]

A twitter thread the other day said that cops only have a little over half the hours of training as someone who gets a cosmetology license.

Looking it up and most officers complete 840 hours in an academy, cosmetologists need 1500.

Dat nigga wanna do hair...wtf....

[Corrderio]

I have to do like several annual trainings for my work in regards to security and a lot of other crap. Granted it's all online and probably eats up a single day as well.

Ditto. I have around 3-5 courses every 4 months I have to complete. Think one step that needs to happen is procedure needs to be refined and hammered in again and again and again.

[Cail]

Civil liberties groups sue Trump, Barr for forcefully removing Lafayette Square protesters

The American Civil Liberties Union and Black Lives Matter on Thursday accused President Trump and his administration of authorizing an “unprovoked and frankly criminal attack” on demonstrators to enable a photo op of the president holding a Bible in front of the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church.

In a federal lawsuit, the groups asserted that U.S. and military police officers’ use of horses, batons, shields and riot control agents — including pepper spray, smoke canisters and rubber or plastic projectiles — violated largely peaceful protesters’ constitutional rights of free speech and assembly 30 minutes before a citywide curfew took effect Monday.

The suit — which also names Attorney General William P. Barr as a defendant — was brought by the ACLU of the District of Columbia, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. All plaintiffs said they were gathered peacefully to protest the death in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other similar deaths.

“We won’t be silenced by tear gas and rubber bullets,” said April Goggans, core organizer of Black Lives Matter D.C., the lead plaintiff in the case. “What happened to our members Monday evening, here in the nation’s capital, was an affront to all our rights.”

ACLU officials called the lawsuit the first of many it intends to file in response to violence by police against protesters and journalists in demonstrations that have erupted in all 50 states, saying the attorney general has become complicit in attacks on First Amendment rights.

“The president’s shameless, unconstitutional, unprovoked and frankly criminal attack on protesters because he disagreed with their views shakes the foundation of our nation’s constitutional order,” said Scott Michelman, legal director for ACLU of D.C.

A White House spokesman referred questions to the Justice Department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[Melena]

Before I transferred to a different county agency, I was good friends with the deputy who ran our academy. Even they felt six months was the absolute bare minimum time they needed to get the bare minimum training of the basics in, and secretly wished it was closer to 9 months to a year.

I also remember my dad telling me that our failure rate was so high (we also ran the academies for local city police as well, pretty much every neighboring jurisdiction except CHP), that other cities were bitching about the sunk cost and wanted us to tone it down. Now you pretty much have to do something pants on head retarded to get kicked out (which also happens way more often then you realized) and even then, they wished they could fail more people. Think the last academy I knew of before I left was somewhere around a 30% failure rate.

[kuronosan]

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.

You are not at all level headed, and my bill is now $700.

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[Tyrath]

Getting Stable genius vibes off that level headed comment

[Meresgi]

Wait a second..is Trump fucking posting on this forum???

[Draylo]

I wonder how much more level headed someone can get. I'm willing to listen to opinions of others and not bully them into silence. I've been reading all the snippets back and forth and keep up on the situation. I simply said I don't think violence is the way, that seems to be the fundamental disagreement most have with me. Everything else we seem to agree on besides the "ACAB" thing. I'm also a registered Democrat, not Trump, he wouldn't say that.

[Vaspinne]

I'm willing to listen to opinions of others

Doode, I haven't engaged with you at all this last week, but having read the exchanges and the back and forth, this bit right here has so emphatically not been the case for you.

It started as: you state an opinion, and people countered with facts and figures to back up their counter opinion, and you going 'yeah but I don't believe that to be the case', and then others adding more and more and more facts and figures and examples to back up their opinion, and you constantly standing your ground refusing to get over the fact that someone on the internet disagreed with you to the point that everyone else (like, practically everyone else) got sick of trying to be reasonable with you, so they started berating you because anything else was a waste of time.

[Seraph]

I wonder how much more level headed someone can get. I'm willing to listen to opinions of others and not bully them into silence.

You have done nothing but bitch for days now.

When you smell shit everywhere you go, check your own shoes.

[Draylo]

Everyone has been bitching, where have you been? Just stop the trolling and shitting up the thread. If you dislike my opinion then block me or ignore it. No reason to constantly bring this dumb debate up about who is posting. Youre not going to bully me into not posting my opinion like everyone else, i don't care if you dislike it.

[BerenTebogo]

We got people who post in YCS like once a year coming in here to tell Draylo to shut the fuck up

You love to see it.

[Draylo]

I feel so hurt and cornered, I just want some friends who share my opinion to end violence of all kinds. ;o(

Do i have to go to fox news comment section

[Vaspinne]

I feel so hurt and cornered, I just want some friends who share my opinion to end violence of all kinds. ;o(

Do i have to go to fox news comment section

You post about not getting bullied or attacked on here, but jesus fucking christ, you are not doing yourself any favours posting shit like this.

[Draylo]

It's just a joke, jeeze. Like I made one of Carl Winslow earlier and got the same type of response, no need to be so on edge. Anyhow, I don't wanna keep derailing the thread so if you care to have that discussion you're always welcome to PM me.

[Kanriel]

You post about not getting bullied or attacked on here, but jesus fucking christ, you are not doing yourself any favours posting shit like this.

Exactly. What he's actually going to do is go to ffxiah and decry everyone here as being a far left hivemind that wants to kill all small business owners, and leave out the part where he's calling for sending the army in to brutally put this shit down in all major cities of the USA and starting Civil War 2: White Supremacist Boogaloo.

[Cail]

Chicago officers under investigation after women say they were pulled from car, thrown to ground in videotaped incident

A family involved in a violent arrest by Chicago police officers in the Brickyard Mall on the city's Northwest Side is speaking out about the incident which was captured on video.

The officers involved are now under investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. The arrest took place on May 31, the day after widespread violence and looting in Chicago. It also happened less than one week after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis.

The family involved in the police stop plan shared their story at a press conference Thursday morning.

Tnika Tate was with her family members attempting to shop at a store here at Brickyard Mall when they said out of nowhere police started busting out their car windows and yanked them out of the car. As they made their way out of the mall, police yelled at them to pull over.

What happened next still baffles them. Video shows the officers trying to break the windows of Tate's car which is pulled over. Then one officer pulls Tate's cousin Mia Wright out of the car, throws her to the ground and puts his knee in her back.

"I have anxiety now. I can't sleep. I had to go to a doctor. I had to go to the emergency room. The officer had his knee on my neck. All I thought about was George Floyd and it could have been another situation like that. I'm hurt. I didn't do anything.

Wright was then taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct.

Video in the link

[Kanriel]

Found Draylo: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...k-george-floyd

[Cail]

Man who drew bow and arrow on Salt Lake City protesters charged with three felonies

Brandon E. McCormick has said he showed up at Saturday’s downtown protest, armed with a bow and arrow, to protect police from unruly demonstrators.

Now the 57-year-old Taylorsville man, who has spent nearly two decades of his life behind bars in California and once was convicted of battery against a public safety officer, faces three felony counts for, widely shared video has shown, aiming his weapon at protesters.

All three counts are Utah’s lowest grade of felony. Each is punishable by up to five years in prison. McCormick was also charged with a misdemeanor count of threatening or using a weapon in a fight. That count carries up to a year in jail.

The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office, which filed the charges, also asked that a warrant be issued for McCormick’s arrest with bail set at $100,000. There was no record of McCormick being booked into the county jail as of 4 p.m.