George Floyd Murder by Cop

[Corrderio]

I've heard so many arguments/counter arguments regarding this whole BLM/ALM thing. Though they all seem to be linked to police brutality.

[Gadritan]

Just heard a shot. Well that took all of 30min. Christ

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[kuronosan]

Latest I heard was it was a leftist conspiracy. I can't even.

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[mallister]

NFL issues reversal and BLM:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/roger-g...224540686.html

[archibaldcrane]

I'm sorry but lol

[Kanriel]

As for unions, my childhood best friend worked for UPS, and had a major drug problem. He got into an accident driving the truck, and they got him back on the road. He got into a second accident, and they kicked him out. So not all unions will defend you forever.

[Cail]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a knee with protesters at a demonstration against racism and police brutality in Ottawa on Friday, capping a week in which he came under pressure to more directly criticize President Trump’s rhetoric and specific reports of police violence in Canada.

The protest in Ottawa is one of several events organized in solidarity with similar demonstrations held in the United States and around the world. Trudeau attended with some of his cabinet ministers. He wore a cloth mask, nodding and clapping during some of the speeches.

The prime minister made international headlines this week after he took a 21-second pause before answering a question about Trump’s threat to unleash military troops against protesters. He said Canada was watching the events in “horror and consternation,” but avoided direct criticism of the president.

Analysts have debated whether the pause was a spontaneous delay or a calculated one designed to make a point without provoking the president. Jagmeet Singh, leader of the left-of-center New Democrats, said Trudeau’s “silence reveals hypocrisy.” Some protesters in Ottawa urged him to “stand up” to Trump.

Several incidents this week raised questions about violent police conduct closer to home.

On Monday, British Columbia’s civilian police watchdog recommended charges against five officers in the death in 2017 of an indigenous man. On Thursday, a 26-year-old indigenous woman was shot and killed in New Brunswick by an officer who was called to her house for a wellness check. The incident is being probed.

Trudeau faced criticism for not responding directly to a video that showed a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in Nunavut using the open door of a moving police vehicle to knock down an Inuk man before arresting him. The man was arrested for public intoxication, but was released without charges, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. He was placed in a cell with a man who beat him so severely that he had to be airlifted to hospital. The events are the subject of several investigations and the officer has been placed on administrative leave.

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

[Cail]

Two officers involved in a black woman’s violent on-camera arrest in Chicago have been stripped of their “police powers” pending an outside investigation, the Chicago Police Department said Friday evening.

Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown made the decision after reviewing a recommendation from the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the department said in a statement posted to Twitter. The Cook County State’s Attorney Office is also reviewing police conduct during the arrest.

Mia Wright said she was pulled from a car by the hair, thrown on the ground and then pinned by an officer who knelt on her neck on May 31. Video captured a group of officers beating on the car’s windows in a parking lot outside the Brickyard Mall, then yanking two women from the vehicle and holding them down on the ground.

Wright said officers pinned her to the asphalt for no reason. Police charged her with disorderly conduct.

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

[Cail]

Philly police commander videotaped beating protesters is linked to narcotics scandal, misconduct

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced Bologna was charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault, misdemeanor assault, possession of an instrument of a crime, and reckless endangerment.

“We are trying to be fair. Accountability has to be equal," Krasner said in a statement. “This moment demands a swift and evenhanded response to violent and criminal acts based on the facts and evidence."

[Cail]

A man who allegedly brandished a chain saw at protesters in Texas has been arrested, police said Friday.

Video posted to Twitter shows a man screaming “move” and revving a chain saw at a small group of protesters assembled on a sidewalk in the city of McAllen, Tex.

He can be seen shouting at the demonstrators to “go home” while waving the blade, screaming about “antifa” and hurling racist insults. The protesters swiftly moved out of the way. McAllen police described the demonstration as otherwise peaceful.

The man was detained and the “incident is being investigated,” an officer in the McAllen police department told The Washington Post. The officer declined to provide additional details.

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

https://twitter.com/TheHousePlug_/st...72107347701763 - video

[Kaisha]

I'm oblivious to a lot of this, but can someone inform me as to why people are doing this kneeling thing? I'd have figure doing a 'sign' of the thing that sparked all of this in the first place (a police officer using his knee to detain someone) would be frowned upon?


Also not why people are pushing Trudeau for comments at Trump. Trump's idiot actions speak for itself, you don't need someone from another country saying the obvious, and Trudeau already given him shit in the past for trying to redirect Covid-19 related PPE away from Canada.

[Kanriel]

I'm oblivious to a lot of this, but can someone inform me as to why people are doing this kneeling thing? I'd have figure doing a 'sign' of the thing that sparked all of this in the first place (a police officer using his knee to detain someone) would be frowned upon?


Also not why people are pushing Trudeau for comments at Trump. Trump's idiot actions speak for itself, you don't need someone from another country saying the obvious, and Trudeau already given him shit in the past for trying to redirect Covid-19 related PPE away from Canada.

The kneeling is likely in reference to Kaepernick and him kneeling during the national anthem at NFL games, which made this a huge national issue and got him blacklisted from the league. It was an entirely peaceful, victimless protest that the racists considered unnecessary and offensive, and now when there's violence attached, that too is unnecessary and offensive. So basically no matter what the racists are going to call blacks getting rights "unnecessary and offensive".

[BerenTebogo]

NFL issues reversal and BLM:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/roger-g...224540686.html

JAGS

[Salodin]

JAGS

He ain't wrong

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[Cail]

The Manhattan District Attorney said Friday his office would not prosecute those arrested on charges of unlawful assembly or disorderly conduct amid protests against excessive police force and the death of George Floyd.

“The prosecution of protestors charged with these low-level offenses undermines critical bonds between law enforcement and the communities we serve,” District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement, joining a growing group of officials who have declined to move forward with charges for many demonstrators.

Previously, Vance said, the DA’s Office offered people the chance to get those kinds of charges dismissed within six months.

The Brooklyn DA’s office also told Forbes it has been declining to prosecute charges of disorderly conduct or unlawful assembly arising from the demonstrations. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin -- a progressive elected on vows to combat mass incarceration and police misconduct -- tweeted Thursday, “We will not prosecute peaceful protest.”

In Dallas, police said they would not pursue charges against hundreds of protesters arrested Monday, the Dallas Morning News reported. Chief Reneé Hall continued to defend the arrests -- denounced by many as escalating a peaceful gathering -- as necessary to protect people on an open road.

The announcement in Manhattan came a day after a New York judge said he will not free protesters who have waited for more than a day in jail. New York’s Legal Aid Society had filed a lawsuit against the New York Police Department on behalf of more than 100 protesters who were detained beyond the state’s standard for release.

New York County Supreme Court Justice James M. Burke called the situation a “crisis within a crisis,” attributing the delay to the increased volume of arrests as well as the need to hold arraignment virtually due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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

[Psion]

You fool, now you're a part of the echo chamber

Oh no

[Anoat]

JAGS

The irony with Jax and DUVAAAAAAAL county being one of the most racist places in Florida

[Kanriel]

So update on my hometown protest:

There was initially one, that was embraced by the mayor and police. A separate one of "black leaders" said they didn't want to be in that one and around police. So today comes and...there are now protesters that have marched onto the interstate, and now riot police are loaded into a bus to get them off. So the assumption here is the second group is intentionally starting shit to provoke a police response. Not good.

Edit: They're off the highway. So hopefully they have some sense.

[Cail]

A 60-year-old Maryland man was arrested on three counts of misdemeanor assault Friday night amid allegations he attacked three people who were trying to post anti-police brutality fliers along a bicycle trail in Bethesda.

Anthony B. Brennan, of Kensington, came across the trio — ages 18, 19 and 19 — while riding his bike Monday along the Capital Crescent Trail just before 1 p.m., authorities said.

One of the three recorded part of the ensuing encounter, which exploded across the Internet on Thursday as social media users spent two days trying to learn the man’s identity.

It was not until after 9 p.m. Friday that police announced the arrest of, Brennan, shortly after he turned himself in at the Montgomery County Detention Center in Rockville. Based on the nature of the charges, he was expected to be released from custody on little or no bond.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...y.html?adk;fhe

pics/video in the link

[Roranora]

You fool, now you're a part of the echo chamber

Nice.

Seriously though Psion, props on growth. I think many of us white people thought All Lives Matter when first hearing Black Lives Matter in 2014 or whenever exactly.

And I guess credit to the Roger's NFL for finally saying something, even if it is late and save-facey.